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Rill_of_WE  Title: WoW Vault Site Manager
Posts: 557
Registered: 2002-8-6 09:16:33
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Trigeminal  Title: Drill, Fill, Bill
Posts: 365
Registered: 2002-3-17 20:10:56
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1/1/00 12:00am
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I don't know if they can read.
The real question is "Should or Shouldn't Devs Have Their Forums Read to Them?"
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Yes, they should, and they should make an honest attempt to engage their community as often as possible. It's alarming that developers of non-MMO's do this so often, and yet Blizzard doesn't. IMO they would be even more amazingly successful if they did.
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Cryme  Title: iMUD
Posts: 245
Registered: 2002-1-24 13:21:35
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1/1/00 12:00am
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Isn't it a loud minority that posts in the forums though? Is it really representative of the population?
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"Is it really representative of the population?"
What is?
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Ayadread Posts: 66
Registered: 2006-3-15 11:24:05
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Given the off the wall knee jerk reactions on this forum (and worse on the game forums), I'm glad they don't listen to the vocal minority. And point in fact, Blizz devs to read their forums, albeit specific ones. I've received responses on more than one occassion because I post more than a, "qq whyz u be nerfin my abilties!"
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Cryme Title: iMUD
Posts: 245
Registered: 2002-1-24 13:21:35
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-Spacelord- posted:
"Is it really representative of the population?"
What is?
The data Blizzard is capable of acquiring across all of the servers regarding how many people are playing what classes and how they're using them.
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GrimTempest Title: Board Manager
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Posts: 977
Registered: 2001-12-21 01:36:49
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1/1/00 12:00am
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the best way to deal with this, at least if your part of a big game project like wow, is to have community reps who filter out the vitriol and pass on the concerns, bugs, and complaints from forums in a filtered format to the devs. devs should always have an idea of how the players are feeling about things but they shouldn't have to deal with the pure crap that gets thrown around on forums.
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PallyDog Title: WoW Vault Staff
Teh Pyckles!
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Registered: 2003-3-4 07:09:21
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Well the second question would be, why don't solid gamers use their forums? Becaues they're populated by awful, annoying, QQing, loudmouths with littel o no moderation. It's not conducive to community building. And yes I think they should read forums. As part of personal development if not game development. When you're selling to the public, you go out to see what the public thinks of your product. You don't just say, "I have the best ideas and that's all there is to it." At least not if you really want to provide your audience with a game they'll enjoy and continue to come back to.
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-Mithan-  Title: VNBoard Admin
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Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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1/1/00 12:00am
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They should read the forums, but they shouldn't act on everything on the forums.
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