We demand answers to ATD #9, please.

Do you see this? Bashiok clearly has this thread bookmark'd and is constantly refreshing it to feed upon the community's emotional pain, yet feels compelled not to answer until he has some solid information to go on because he believes that real information is better than false hopes.

I hope he's happy with himself.

I dunno. He holds himself in shockingly high esteem.

06/03/2011 01:44 PMPosted by Andrealock

I dunno. He holds himself in shockingly high esteem.

Hiya Big Z! Do you know what happened to all the stickies?

We did some house cleaning.

Zarhym, may I inquire as to the answers to the Ask the Dev's #9 thread, and when it is due to go up? If it's delayed, that's both understandable as well as possible.

It's the waiting that's making us call for the answers.

Next week. The primary focus of our developers is on developing the game, so we need to work within their time frame to get answers, then allow time for those answers to be translated into our supported languages. Most of the information we release goes out around the world, so there's a lot of work behind the scenes to coordinate things globally. :)

06/03/2011 02:43 PMPosted by Mypali

I'm sorry, nothing against YOU, but for gods sake, you'd think something this absurdly easy wouldn't take more than an hour, tops, after deciding what questions you're going to answer. The time schedule you want to release information on is your business. But to tell us it's "a lot of work" to ask a developer "Do you think it was stupid to get rid of the Defense stat?", write down the 2-3 sentence reply, and get someone to translate the answer into other languages (INTERNATIONAL Corporation. You have people who do this!), the to post it on a couple different forums at once? I don't know if you're just insulting us, or if you guys REALLY REALLY need someone to show you how to accomplish simple tasks. I'm quite afraid that it's as difficult as you say, meaning you work in what has to be the most inefficient work environment ever devised.

For your post to make any sense, we have to entertain the assumption that the members of my team, the developers, and those who localize all World of Warcraft text do nothing but wait for community Q&A. That... is absurd.

What does our team have to do other than collect and send your questions along to the developers? We have to work with several different departments to learn and write about a good portion of the information being shared on our websites and forums for all of our games, while also maintaining a presence on the forums.

What do the developers have to do other than answer some questions about their plans for development? They have to actually develop the game.

What do our localization teams have to do other than translate the answers to the questions you asked? They have to translate every piece of information on each of our websites, and in each of our games (a new patch = a lot of information to translate). Also consider the fact that these localization teams are in their representative regions, so employees in Korea are not working on translating the answers to Ask the Devs #9 right now. It's Saturday morning there.

When I said it's a lot of work, I was referring to the full gamut of information flow from our company, not just the dev Q&As. There are always plenty of tasks on everyone's plates, and those tasks must be prioritized by project managers and producers.

06/03/2011 02:43 PMPosted by Mypali

On a related note, I can relate to being unable to do simple tasks simply. My occupation generally involves doing simple tasks as difficultly as possible. I can feel your pain :(

I appreciate that you acknowledge you understand how much more complicated things can actually be behind the scenes, after taking a few paragraphs to tear us apart for something you don't really have a scope on. :)