Developer Feedback & The Lack There of

#1 - Feb. 21, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
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Since I started actively participating in this forum I have seen one official blue post.
The one I saw was a joke about no blue posts being made for the year on January 1st.
Hilarious… The only problem is it shows you can respond and choose not to.

That’s probably what’s causing the disconnect between your companies design ideologies and what your players actually want to see.
Zero public collaboration of ideas.
Certainly none on the forum.

The lack of any official responses to pretty much any substantive conversations on the forum has become a problem. You listen, you read the comments, then your response will be the campfire chats.
Great… Still zero interaction with players.

There are obviously wolves in sheeps clothing roaming around the forums hidden under guise of regular forum posters. As useful as that is, it does not give any sense of official acknowledgement or interaction with the forums.

Maybe one of you guys can tell us who actually makes decisions around here though.

Who can we talk to?
Who is someone here on the forum that can actually have influence?
Who is a real person openly involved with Microsoft?
Anyone? No one?

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#4 - Feb. 21, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
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Broadly speaking, we aren’t able to post to every thread, so to post to only some feedback threads would be viewed as endorsement of the contents, and in many cases, would fuel rumors that changes, ideas, etc. were being implemented when they may not be. We do read and report on the content of forum threads regularly, and that information goes to the team.

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#19 - Feb. 21, 2024, 4:13 p.m.
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The blog posts are what populate to the forums, so when the announcement blog hits it will come through. I pin them when they’re posted, but I’d be happy to start making them global pins instead of General Discussion ones. :slight_smile: