Blizzard looking for WoW player input on community Q&A series on classes
by James Egan 
May 30th 2009 at 4:00PM
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Classes, MMO industry
Massively's sister site WoW.com pointed out a community initiative underway at Blizzard. The company has attracted the subscription dollars of millions of World of Warcraft players over the years, so much so that the company is pretty much at the top of the MMO world. Despite this popularity, the game does have its issues, and the collective din of 11.5 million players can get pretty loud when players feel their classes are in need of some improvements, or simply when they don't understand why class changes are (or aren't being) made.
Nethaera from Blizzard has posted that they want to communicate with the playerbase better. To that end, Blizzard is seeking questions from World of Warcraft players about the game's classes, to be used in a community question and answer series for each WoW class. They're presently looking for your feedback on the game's classes in their respective class forums, so this would be an ideal time to make your voice heard.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
crsh said on 4:49PM 5-30-2009
This is ironic at best; they have 10 class forums, as well as 3 role forums, with tons of questions, feedback and suggestions that Blizzard has been systematically ignoring unless it fits with whatever they've already planned.
There's of course a lot of the biased/pointless stuff (ie. the classic "buff class A and nerf class B" from people who play class A). In the couple of years that I played WoW though, I have seen a lot of thought-out feedback and suggestions that have fallen on deaf ears.
My tinfoil hat theory is that Blizzard is finally realizing many of their players are feeling like they're not being heard, and they're fed up of it. This could be your typical PR stunt to smooth things out.
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Wjowski said on 8:06PM 5-30-2009
You must be seeing some bizarro-world version of the official boards because all I've ever seen on there is the slow decay of civilization.
Dude said on 7:55PM 5-30-2009
Except the EU forums. Who are obviously second class. Doh!
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