Not entirely sure where you got that inclination from my comment?
I’m disagreeing with you and providing my opinion in it being a bad idea.
The forums are a cesspit of complaining and very rarely provide any sort of positive feedback outside of personal opinions. I’ve frequented them for a number of years and can’t think of a single thread I’ve read which was an “ah-ha!” moment for me I’m thinking the game could become better.
This isn’t to say there aren’t any, but I’m drawing blanks in any recently.
All I see are doom and gloom with a dose of “the sky is falling!” and no source to back it up.
Edit: why are you making multiple threads on this?
You don’t have to read every topic. Only skim and take ideas from topics with good ideas.
Players are posting daily for years and years, hoping to get their wishes fulfilled by Blizzard.
All you have to do is every so often scroll down the forum and pick a few ideas and make them happen. Players would love that. The game would be so much better.
There’s a long dark ranger thread. People are begging Blizzard for red eyes and pale skin for blood elves. That’s literally two (2) tiny features you could add and people would totally love it. I would just let undead pick any race though. That would fix better it and make more sense really.
There are thousands of people posting on the forums (and keep in mind that General Discussion is not the only forum that is active).
And the opinions of the people in general discussion vary wildly. Also the post quality is seriously lacking, with a lot of posters neglecting pretty much all the rules when it comes to posting valuable feedback.
One hundred people is far easier to listen to than thousands.
You skim the forum and zero in on ideas you like, ideas that could improve the game.
Blizzard could do the same.
Also, what might really be cool is… every so often Blizzard posts a reply in one of the idea topics. It could be like “this is pretty good so we’re going to put it in on Tuesday.”
GD on Mage Tower : “It’s mathematically proven that the tuning is way off from even 7.2, here’s proof that the Twins challenge is significantly altered”
And they can easily do that with 100 people talking, which is exactly what they’re going to be doing.
It’s not easy with thousands of people posting. Hell, I’m a regular here (if the number of posts wasn’t obvious enough) and I can’t even keep up with the majority of the threads here. I don’t read 90% of them because there are just too many, and in the threads that I do click on, sometimes they are 300 to 500 posts long (sometimes longer) with a lot of varied opinions (not to mention the toxicity). Chances are I read the first few posts, skip the rest, then go to where the conversation is at currently, which, to be blunt, isn’t always where the conversation started. I’ve seen posts that start talking about the game, then switch over to political discussions about things like abortion, gun laws and voting rights.
This forum is a fustercluck to sort through.
From what I’ve read the folks talking in the CC forums are fully aware of the privilege they’ve got and they’re respecting it, leaving out most of the toxicity and the trolling and focusing on the issues, which is what’s needed.
It’s not hard to glance at GD and see a workable idea, a problem that needs fixed, whatever.
Topics that don’t have easy fixes, leave alone, or maybe post a reply to help steer the conversation or help clarify a direction.
Threads about character customization, or just anything with a simple fix… if we’re not getting it, like never never… maybe post a reply to stop players from asking for it endlessly.
I feel bad for players asking for things in GD. I really do. It’s like they’re sending prayers and there’s no response or nothing from Blizzard.
Oh, they do regularly. Do you really think that stops them from being flooded? I mean, you’ve basically made two threads on the same thing within 10 minutes of each other.
All of which happen every day. I’m assuming you’re new here? People get forum vacations for some pretty petty things. People use the flag option in place of a downvote too.
I’m done here though, going back to watching a movie.
I’m pretty sure they have some low paid worker or intern keeping track of what is being discussed on the forums.
I’m not sure what kind of ideas you’re looking for. If you think everything posted is just a whiny complaint, stop looking through those smoked goggles.
Everything has been discussed endlessly right here in this forum.
