Since they burned all the bridges till now, they can keep the forums active and fish for those threads that are level-minded. There is still some worth in listening to disgruntled players. That’s what CM’s are for and, even if some people think the toxicity is extreme here, it’s quite tame to compare it to other CM jobs in other communities.
While doing this, they should actually improve delivery and satisfaction of the product, and engage more and with fewer NPC responses on level-minded threads (to incentivize people to post that way if they wish a response). What they are doing by removing forums is burning more bridges, because there is no way people will not take it as an attempt to curate feedback.
I’ve mentioned this in other posts, but forum feedback might not correlate exactly with the player base, but if the letter and player numbers serve as any reference, it definitely rhymes.
Hope to see you all in Discord!!! We’ve already had some great conversations and feedback provided. Also helpful to have more points of view and thoughts in there.
Yeah, next step: Sunsetting the game … would be best for everyone.
Absolute shitfest of a game with a HORRIBLE community and bunch of positionally dependent classes (back attacking / front attacking) but ALL the bosses move around constantly like they are on crack…
Question: How do you plan to handle feedback there with thousands of players all talking about different subjects? How do we know that our feedback won’t be missed when 50+ people all talk at once? Do you have plans to expand on the functionality of the server?
Absolutely! We have alot of plans to add, adjust, move, and use threads! Alot of feedback tends to be verys similar in topic so even though with so many talking, its helpful to see which topics are more of a priority to players then others.
The current discord layout is to just currently handle and be able to safely moderate moving everyone there. Lots of of fun plans for the future with it!
I am disappointed on the Aero issue but meh, I got over it. I am not FOMOing on the coming raids and will play at my own pace.
Honestly I am glad the forums are closing, the doomsayers and ppl who quit long time ago that still linger gives such a negative vibe here. They are like a toxic ex, have nothing positive to say and bring everyone down.
I hope Discord forums will be more constructive on criticism and feedback.
Forums are toxic af, and that’s a fact.
You can give constructive criticism without being toxic, and good feedback too.
Amazon is smart to do this because the very vocal minority in the forums have nothing better to do but complain.
if they banned people that constantly spread negativity and toxicity the forum would be fine, instead you can be toxic and insult people and you get like 1-4 day ban (if you are unlucky) and you return and keep doing it. Instead of removing flagged posts just ban people that are reported multiple times for 30 days and more, but I guess that’s too much work for them.
If you let people be toxic, they will be toxic.
