This is just ridiculous Blizzard

#0 - Oct. 2, 2010, 3:58 a.m.

I decided to do an experiment, I went through 150 pages on the Suggestions forum to count how many times a Blizzard poster replied to a thread on there (excluding the one sticky at the top made by a Blizzard poster). The results were just astounding.

Zero. Absolutely zero posts by Blizzard there in 150 pages. Frankly I would not be surprised if there were also zero even after checking the 300+ pages of threads available.

That is just crazy Blizzard, really. You could atleast reply to one, yes, just ONE thread saying how their suggestion is not possible or just acknowledge that the forum even EXISTS. What is the point of even suggesting anything even more if we have no idea if you will even read it or if Blizzard even checks it? Every 10 or so pages I would see 1 thread that was moved somewhere else, so obviously atleast one person from Blizzard looks at it.

And don't tell me about how you are *so* busy, because if you are so busy like you say you would not have time to reply with silly comments to threads on the General Discussion forums that I see so often.

Honestly, I would just like a reasonable answer to why you never post anything on the Suggestions forums. Maybe you should actually acknowledge the people who are trying to suggest ideas to make the game they love even better instead of completely ignoring them all together.

Zarhym

#7 - Oct. 2, 2010, 4:07 a.m.

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I decided to do an experiment, I went through 150 pages on the Suggestions forum to count how many times a Blizzard poster replied to a thread on there (excluding the one sticky at the top made by a Blizzard poster). The results were just astounding.

Zero. Absolutely zero posts by Blizzard there in 150 pages. Frankly I would not be surprised if there were also zero even after checking the 300+ pages of threads available.

That is just crazy Blizzard, really. You could atleast reply to one, yes, just ONE thread saying how their suggestion is not possible or just acknowledge that the forum even EXISTS. What is the point of even suggesting anything even more if we have no idea if you will even read it or if Blizzard even checks it? Every 10 or so pages I would see 1 thread that was moved somewhere else, so obviously atleast one person from Blizzard looks at it.

And don't tell me about how you are *so* busy, because if you are so busy like you say you would not have time to reply with silly comments to threads on the General Discussion forums that I see so often.

Honestly, I would just like a reasonable answer to why you never post anything on the Suggestions forums. Maybe you should actually acknowledge the people who are trying to suggest ideas to make the game they love even better instead of completely ignoring them all together.

You really scanned through the entire forum, but didn't read the first sentence of the only blue post there?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=10021066&sid=1

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Zarhym

#22 - Oct. 2, 2010, 4:16 a.m.

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Thank you for explaining why you cannot respond to threads. Now, refer to my post above about people losing hope and whatnot.

We enjoy reading new suggestions from players and they sometimes give us good ideas. That said, there are potential legal ramifications if we acknowledge that we've read player suggestions. This system makes it possible for us to allow for a steady stream of suggestions. :)