Hallo there CM team.
Why are we not able to see the community council on our forums and only on the US forums?
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Because you don’t matter. While you’re at it, ask them why there isn’t a bug report forum for any of their games on EU as well. In the end they don’t read or listen to any of the feedback so what difference does it make?
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DE / EU Forums are a relikt from old time.
Blizzard only interest was Winnie Poh and Murica thinks
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Well Blizzard are based in the US. So it’s fair to assume that most of the Blizzard employees are English-speaking and it’s most convenient to just have it on the US forums.
And the EU forums don’t just consist of the English-speaking forum here. There’s also the German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian forums that are part of the EU playerbase. And those are localized, to some degree to account for the fact that not everyone speaks English.
And the same could be said for the Korean forum, the Taiwanese forum, the Latin American forum, and so on.
If Blizzard had to make a Community Council forum for every localized playerbase, then they’d need a dozen Community Council forums. That’s not really sensible or feasible and kind of defeats the point of having it in the first place.
So it’s on the US forums and you go there if you want to participate. That shouldn’t be a hurdle too big if you’ve already gone through the application process.
well yeah i get it that. But why not just give us the link to the community council from the community tab on our forums. having to go to the US site manually when i am on the EU forum is quite annoying.
Like i dont need our own just a copy or something for easier acces. And there is a decent change people from the EU dont even know it exist becouse there is no option to click on it.
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With all important matters, from low skill meta to rated PvP soloQ…i guess this councill will spend 99% of their time discusing, pets, recolors of mounts and transmogs, and option to gief people more loot with less efford… prove me diferent please i lost faith…
Given the people already introducing themselves on the US forums, it seems that the opposite is the case, looks like most things are going to be thrown under the bus in favour of glorified whinges about FOTM classes, Raiding and Arena…
So no different from the forums already. I don’t even know why they bothered asking people if their playstyle involved anything not already whinged about.
Perhaps I will be proven wrong, but it doesn’t look great so far.
I haven’t even bothered looking, I know that it’s just a publicity exercise and therefore useless.
I can see it now “We have let customers have direct access to one of our staff.” Notice nothing in that about fixing any problems they find. I found a good bug in TBCC today, after you kill a Mannoroc Lasher they stand up. They are the succubus type things in the south east of Ashenvale
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They said they wanted to have all the information centered in 1 spot instead of splitting it
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Why would you spread your council out over every region forum instead of having feedback in one place? What purpose would it service if discussions were splintered or separate. The council need to discuss things together, not in pockets on various region forums. There are forums in various languages as well as regions, do you really think it would be better to say right council, we shall be based on the Italian EU forum.
I can undestand that they chose the US forums as the place to base the Council, after all it’s where Blizzard are actually based.
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because we are all a sack of gold for blizzard, (sack of cash). nothing more or less.
get back in line and keep giving ur money, all is fine
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because EU guys are abit more: all for one and one for all. while US is winner takes it all.
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Sorry puny but this could be misinterpreted as: “US forum count. nothin else”. We already joke about blizz never care about EU forum at all (and seein the latest threads closed after DAYS i think is true): now we have another brick in the wall of detachment between US and EU playerbase.
Was so difficult to implement the possibility to crosswriting EU and US forum just for the community council forum?
Imho they should have show the community in every forum. Italian excluded. “our” forum is empty almost like my brain.
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I think the EU is always over sensitive when it comes to things like this. I also like how other regions don’t even count to the people here.
Instead of being happy that there is an initiative involving the playerbase we are going to obsess over the location of the forum. Becuase it’s not on the EU forum. It so petty.
You can’t have it on every region, or in every language section. It would be useless then. There is no council then, it’s just a few select people from each region/language talk to each other and nothing is discussed with a council.
I am honestly astounded at the lack of common sense.
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But im happy about community council. I trust this could help blizz to understand the actual playerbase filling the enourmous gap we have now.
It would be a common sense thing with 0 effort. I guess we could live without it - forgetting his existence.
I’m glad it’s open for all to see, full transparency.
And they seem to be prepared to top up as and when participation drops.
US is known to be more selfish than EU, in every aspect, not just wow, its how they are. if we had ppl from EU we could balance things out abit more.
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The people are from everywhere, all regions.
Out of all the people that applied, everyone who got invited is taking part in one place.
Kretias for example is from EU and is taking part.
Because Puny doesn’t want to be called shill in one more forum.
Besides, we have enough “Slap in the face” even without it.
Look at it logically, if you had to arrange a meeting with people all over the world, you would all get them to join one conference call, or arrange for them all to meet up in one location.
If the EU complainers had their way they would have everyone in their own country only conference calls, broken down by what language each spoke. So no one in this meeting would be talking to each other unless they happened to match in region and language.
You would achieve nothing having all those separate conversations. This is essentially how the forums already work. We all have our own regions and language divisions and we can discuss all the things separately to each other.
However the Council are all in one place so it’s like one conference call/meeting location, it is on the US forums and held in English.
I do think Emje made a valid point yesterday as we only heard about the US Community Council forum via word of mouth. It would have been nice if they had announced it’s location via a blue post and/or pinned it.