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2008-10-30 10:47:36
GC: The Class Forum change was your idea
Wasn't it? So that's what the cryptic hints about 'being better able to get player feedback' meant?

With Beta winding down, the Class forums have become (and will be) so large and inundated that you would need a full team just to analyze the information. So instead the Class forums are being gutted, homogenized and useless for players on a practical level.

From the player's perspective, it is a horrible, horrible decision. From a Dev/moderator standpoint I see the utility, but i'm sad it came to this.

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2008-10-30 21:44:18
Re: GC: The Class Forum change was your idea
We're still evaluating what we like and don't like about the new structure. We did think it was time to change the forums though. It was becoming clear even players didn't hold the content on them in high regard.

There is definitely a benefit in having players communicate with each other, particularly on broad topics and particularly on issues of class balance. We had way, way too many (even on the beta forums) threads that turned into pity parties about who was the worst class.

I don't think uninformed players of other classes will need to chime in on topics of no interest or concern to them (such as how to maximize warlock dps) any more than they do now. On the other hand, players do stand to learn something about other classes.

We don't think there was anything magical about the way the forums were structured before. There are dozens of other ways you could set them up. It's the quality of the individual threads that ultimately matters.

WoW is several years old and just as with the game itself, we don't want the forums to stagnate.
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