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World of Warcraft Team Announces A Community Council To Help Gather Diverse Player Feedback | MMORPG
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World of Warcraft Team Announces A Community Council To Help Gather Diverse Player Feedback | MMORPG.com
Blizzard has announced today that they are forming the World of Warcraft Community Council, a player council to help the Warcraft team gather feedback from its community.
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Asmongold will probably go back to FFXIV for Endwalker in few weeks, so.
And since we cannot comment on the other ...News which includes Ion ( for ... literally unknown reasons ), I still want to ask myself, how on earth is he still at Blizzard, or at least the Director of WoW ?!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
mmorpg junkie since 1999
It's hard to say what Asmongold will do. I'm sure he isn't doing well as you say, but people cope with loss in very different ways. Perhaps a bit of gaming distraction could provide him with some momentary solace during this time. Hopefully something will, anyway.
That has worked so well for so many things.. like.. uhmm..... uhmmmmmm..
yeah.. no.. it never works..
https://ashesofcreation.com/r/Y4U3PQCASUPJ5SED
Lol..
It's a damn shame when people consider multi-millionaire streamers to be the main representatives of a game rather than, you know, the majority of players that don't watch streamers.
The day that an influencer starts making game-impacting decisions is the day WoW dies.
The only way to do this properly is to survey the active playerbase. I would much rather have a dude that doesn't stream but plays the game constantly be on the council than a guy that streams, gets money from third parties and some of their weird ass fans be on it.
Two main differences between them:
1) One makes money to entertain you while playing a game.
2) The other is a dedicated WoW player that most likely is just playing cause they love it.
The entertainer is going to do what gets them the most money. The player is going to make decisions/give feedback based on what they consider good for the game.
If you think an influencer is going to be like the player, they are already lost to the fanboism that is the streamer crowd.
The only diverse group a developer needs to hear from, are the players. I am pretty f'ing sure I didn't get to vote for who represents my views in this community council.
What I expect, and only from the many recent examples, is that I'm about to be preached to and interests of the people in the council are only addressed.
So is it just about you, or everyone? I'm confused.
I do! YOU alone are not everyone. Everyone including you makes up everyone. If the majority of everyone doesn't align with your views, that doesn't mean its unfair or wrong, it just means you don't represent the majority of everyone else. Being louder doesn't make you the majority, it just makes you part of the vocal minority. How hard is that to understand?
Asmongold has the reach he does because he resonates with a large number of players. You won't find a better conduit to a large audience of WOW players.
Preach and Bellular don't have the same reach but they've consistently predicted and explained the major issues and proposed many solutions that ended up being implemented. Imagine that.
A council that ignores those people is likely to be just for show.
Oh and good luck surveying the playerbase as a whole lol. They've tried before and are incapable of handling that amount of feedback.