So Blizzard - do US Devs even care about EU?

#0 - Oct. 9, 2009, 12:31 p.m.

While we all understand that you might need to translate 4 lines of words into German, Spanish and Russian and start the(see here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20140813511&pageNo=1#0 ) discussion initiated by the American CMs - the question arises:
Do you even care to take EU opinions into the design process or should we just lean back, let whatever our MINORITY of american players comes up with happen and complain hopelessly(like usual) afterwards?

The last time I checked an Armory-crawled statistics page(right now), EU(as its whole) had 20% more guilds aka 20% more players than the US - and yet, do we get any posts on our forums by american devs asking for feedback?

Take this as appropriate feedback for the current circumstances, a rant and flame post would have had way more sarcastic parts in it.

Ancilorn

#3 - Oct. 9, 2009, 12:38 p.m.

Thanks for not posting a rant/flame post, it serves to not get your post locked or deleted.

4 lines of words? There is substantially more content that requires translation, so please remain patient whilst it's translated and you will find similar threads here in Europe too.

Also a one liner from Ghostcrawler about the European forums.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20136595059&sid=1&pageNo=15#298

Ancilorn

#31 - Oct. 9, 2009, 3:36 p.m.

Q u o t e:
I find it horribly arrogant honstly that Ghostcrawler won't even read EU posts because he only speaks English... Come on, Europe is apparently 100% non-English right?

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Sorry to say this but that one liner actually did more harm then good. He specifically states that he doesnt read them, but then kind of dodges the incoming comments by saying 'but WE do'. By 'we' i bet he means only the posts that the EU blue's see and compile then send out every X amount of time, whereas GC checks the US forums nearly every day.

I feel the need to ask those quoted to read what Ghostcrawler has said once more, namely the bit you have both omitted:

Q u o t e:
We read them. I don't read them all personally because my non English is sadly lacking.

Forums that can be understood by developers will be read by developers. It would be a complete waste of resources if they were not, right? No where has he said they do not read the English forums, since all developers are 'au fait' with the language, it would be insane for them to ignore them.

Ancilorn

#34 - Oct. 9, 2009, 4:06 p.m.

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Then why do they not reply and post comments - like they do on the U.S forums?

Surely if they can read and understand the comments, why not respond?

http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=7701050350&pageNo=1&sid=1#6