Is forum traffic dying?

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@SnowcaTT

Exactly raisinbman, it’s a huge bummer - and difficult to understand (or parse) with forum traffic and event excitement about some of these things.

Nonce had it dead on (as usual):

@Nonce Equitaur 2

I lost most of my interest in stages. The worst was the developer’s “awesomeness” post, which was basically …

If a fix isn’t incredibly super-duper awesome, we won’t bother with it.

When you’re dealing with that sort of mentality, what’s the point of discussing anything? I could certainly spend a lot of time making suggestions, but it seems like a waste of time now.

This is another reason I don’t bother much - suggestions seem to be rarely even heard, much less taken up on. It was nice to have a good community response to last Q&A. The devs continue to say (sometimes with updates rather than words) that what the forum-going folk have pointed to as a problem or suggestions for solutions are not what will help fund the game. We all understand, there is a bottom line to keep it going! But some metrics and explanations would be wonderful to help (me at least) understand that - rather than vague guesses based on updates. I’d much rather be SHOWN something (like numbers), than told about it.

I dunno…I think the most shocking to me was when phantron left…he made a post actually AFTER he left. Alot of folks THREATEN to leave, very few actually seem to IMHO. I mean, lots of people were leaving due to the myriad changes, forefront being X-force/Jane Foster changes.

I think they do listen…I just wish they’d communicate. And I know they’re a small company etc. etc. but if I could see a daily post from a
even as simple as “we’re aware of this issue” or “hmmm interesting” I’d be satisfied.

The biggest example of them listening would probably be nerfing Iron Fist. They (unfortunately) did end up releasing Iron Fist 1.0 but in record time toned him down to Iron Fist 2.0.

Then there’s the fact they said they had no plans to work on any 3* or 4* when they say they wanted to fix older characters, citing 3*Stark as their prime example. Who hasn’t been touched.

I think they need more Quality Control for character releases/event rebalancings: most of the events they’ve “streamlined” have become better. Some, like Prodigal Sun and First subevent of Juggernaut Heroic/Welcome to earth are strangely still hard. Even characters who initially sucked when they got rebalanced(with the exception of Ragnarok) were HELLA better.

It just frustrates me that D3 has the tools to suceed, yet won’t utilize them for whatever reason.

[dider152]

To me, what makes the forums worthwhile is the notion that what we say is being heard. The best way to communicate that is by having more than one video a month (if that) to spew in a one way conversation what is coming up. That means by having someone from the dev team on the forums as a dedicated poster. I haven’t seen a new post by a red color in a long time, and when they do post its about a minor update. A more dedicated presence would be nice. In the interim, it feels like I’m just shouting into the vacuum, which I don’t like.

[Various38]

It does seem a bit slow around here lately, but probably due to the reasons already stated. I still like playing the game, but it gets frustrating at times. I do like to see what type of advice people have and the debates about different topics from the game. Where do people post nowadays, if they post at all?