Simply because there is little to no communication from blizz devs in that forum. They say pretty much nothing relevant and there is no discussion going back and forth.
The average is like 2-3 replies a week at best and those are “thx for feedback” and the most recent one that baffled me was about how to wargame solo shuffle ignoring how many bugs there are in solo shuffle rn.
Obviously it was just a marketing move and I respect very much the players who spend their own time to formulate ideas on how to improve the game but I think this is pointless and blizzard devs are just mocking on your free time.
Edit: as some of you may not know where to find it:
The visible forum isn’t their only means of communication though, there is also a discord where they talk to the devs.
To me it does seem to be a what we see isn’t the whole story and isn’t quite what we were told it was going to be but I’m still willing to give it longer than 4 months to call it an outright failure. Let it run it’s first year and swap over to the new players and see what happens over that span of time.
Sometimes I think people forget that devs have an actual job to do that doesn’t involve sitting on the forums chatting and any/all changes they decide on will take time to implement anyway.
I think that would be kinda dull as it defeats the purpose of having transparency and also it would be a lost of time as someone would have to aggregate discord and forum discussions.
Anyone I don’t believe even if they have a discord that is better than what we see on the forum
I forgot the community council existed. Realised a couple of months back that Blizz weren’t going to actually pay any attention to it and just stopped reading the forum. Guess no news ever came out of it, hence buried like a lost memory.
Shame, was a good idea, but they have to respond to more than 5% of threads for it to be seen as useful. Would have loved to see a developer Q&A video with the CC members putting questions to them for an hour each week!
Yup. Community Council only works if communication is two-way. If Blizz try to cherrypick topics they want to talk about and won’t engage with the things that players want to discuss, we’re no better off than we were.
Community Council was never actually serious. It was simply a quick and cheap attempt to distract people from the lawsuit drama since people always complained that Blizzard does not listen. By 10.0 they will most likely get rid of it and say that they decided to listen to the entire community and not only a selected few.
