Forcing public opinion on priest?

#0 - Jan. 9, 2009, 2:49 p.m.

I received a two week forum ban for asking a question about when priest will be fixed. I also noticed several other posters who made post about the problems that the community sees with priest disappear as well along with their post.

I have seen GC make statements like, "although there are some vocal critics of the priest changes, we believe the silent majority agree with these changes." Well yeah the silent majority agree because you silence the people that are pointing out what is wrong with the priest class. So the more people that disagree with you that you silence, the more people that seem to suddenly agree.

Priests are broken. We are the worst PvP class. We bring the least utility of all of the healers. And after the patch, we will be replaced in 25 man raids by shammies. This has happened before in BC.

Another class that this happened to was mages. In early BC they were nerfed into the ground. They tried to warn the devs that they would be replaced in raids by warlocks and that is exactly what happened for the next 6 months.

Listen to the people who have played their classes for years. We are more qualified to judge the impact a given change will make because we have lived through them in the past. You guys have put your hands over your ears on these priest changes saying, "nahahnahanhanhanha can't hear you we are right."

Ghostcrawler

#4 - Jan. 9, 2009, 4:31 p.m.

We don't ban players for disagreeing with our designs or even asking for buffs.

When you start to cross over into the "Blizzard hates our class", "None of our ideas ever get implemented" , "You guys are stupid" stuff, then that is not constructive feedback. That is nothing the designers can sit down and discuss. It's QQ and it's not the purposes of these forums. We have said that several times now, so I suspect players still facing bans are either hoping they don't get caught or so angry that they don't care.

A decent rule of thumb should be: would you use the language you used in your forum post when sending an email to a coworker, professor or family member? If not then it's probably not professional and therefore has no place on our public forums. Even at a place as chill and happy as Blizzard, if I sent an email flame out about how QA or marketing or the programmers were stupid or hated us or ignored us, I would most likely be fired. That's not the right way to behave in society, and really do you need me to tell you that?

These are not the angry forums for unleashing your wrath on Blizzard. Find somewhere else for that. Turn your private guild forums into the a place for ranting if you desire. These forums are for discussions of class mechanics.