 | CMs to be posting more often.(1) | Category: GeneralMarch-8-2013 1:18 AM PST (10 years ago)  |
| That all said, the main focus of our developers is and will always be developing the game, so you're going to see CMs posting far more often. We hope to continue this trend of increased communication, though -- not only because it's something you've asked for, but also because we know it's important Source http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/8088619793 Now does that mean we will see good old Van more than once a month or will other CMs / Devs actually start posting over here? Or Are they only talking about the US forums like usual? | ||
 | CMs to be posting more often.(4) | March-8-2013 1:59 AM PST (10 years ago) |
Posted by: Fean Now does that mean we will see good old Van more than once a month or will other CMs / Devs actually start posting over here? We will try our best to show our presence as much as we can, and this goes for all my blue colleagues as well. We have many forums though we must keep an eye on though, so it is hard to be equally present in all of them at all times. It should also be said that I am not in a position where I can dictate on which forum the developers must post, but they do read the forums often, including this one, so it can definitely happen that they pop in to post from time to time. Their primary focus is of course to develop the game, so the developers do not post that frequently :-) Posted by: Meteorblade I read that last line as meaning you'd see CMs posting far more often than the game designers will, not that the posting frequency of the CMs is going to increase. That is correct. In general you should expect to see blue posts from CMs much more frequently then blue posts from developers. | ||
| CMs to be posting more often.(8) | March-8-2013 4:36 AM PST (10 years ago) |
Posted by: Fean Will the Class forums see any input at any point? We gather feedback from the class forums all the time, which is forwarded to the developers. But we tend not to post there so often because the primary purpose of the class forums is to be a place where players come together to discuss their class and ask each other for advice and such. In general it causes a lot of disruption when we post in the class forums, and the topics being discussed then tends to get derailed with accusations of favouritism and comparisons of how many posts we did in any given class forum. This then results in players from the class forum with the least blue posts invading other class forums with more blue posts, where they then disrupt those other class forums with all kinds of off-topic posts about where we ought to be posting, and if we don't, then how that is just "proof" that we do not care, etc. As you can maybe imagine, we get better and more useful feedback from the class forums when we do not post there. | ||
| CMs to be posting more often.(10) | March-8-2013 5:04 AM PST (10 years ago) |
Posted by: Fean Obviously I'm not asking you to answer all this I just wanted to explain some of the issues we are having and what we are discussing / have discussed. I totally understand that :-) Please rest assured that the feedback you guys have posted in the class forums as well as general forums have been seen, and that even though we do not post much all the time, we do read the things you post... we spend time every day on the forums reading and forwarding feedback. We will of course reply to those threads whenever we have some information we can share with you, but in many cases the developers like to share their thoughts and their feedback on things posted on the forums via our blog updates, and now also the "Ask the Devs" sessions, because they are generally seen by more people and not just those who visit the forums. | ||
| CMs to be posting more often.(13) | March-8-2013 6:23 AM PST (10 years ago) |
| The interest in the first Ask the Devs session was enormous after we announced it, and the expectations were super high as well, and this resulted in a ton of questions... many on topic, and many off-topic. Naturally we were not able to get answers to all those questions that were submitted, so some will therefore have to be answered at a later time. We of course understand that this sucks when the question you personally wanted to see answered the most didn't get answered. The plan is to have these Ask the Devs sessions on a regular basis, so if you guys were disappointed with the first one, then hopefully you will be more satisfied with the future ones. These Ask the Devs sessions are intended to be an extra source of developer feedback, and as such they are of course not meant to replace or diminish forum interaction and blog updates, so please don't stop posting your feedback and concerns on the forums. :-) | ||
