Alpha is almost here, so remember: give feedback early and give feedback often. Never go “It’s only Alpha/Beta, it’s gonna get fixed”. /u/Caua539 World of Warcraft

With a new expansion testing period comes the usual people saying “Oh, it’s only alpha/beta/PTR, why are you complaining so much, it’s still unfinished, they are obviously gonna change it before launch”. Friendly reminder: always ignore these people.

Never assume something is gonna be changed without any feedback, never assume Blizzard QA is gonna catch something themselves, never assume someone else is obviously going to point this out and it’s gonna get fixed. Yes, chances are most of the obviously unfinished things are gonna get finished, but most often the not, lots of things slip through and get pushed to a later patch or are never touched upon again (for example, story beats).

Also, not all feedback is complaining. All complaining is feedback (even the most useless complaints are still feedback that Blizzard folk can look at and decide if it’s valid or not), yes, but not all feedback is complaining. So if you’re giving honest, calm and collected feedback and someone tries to call you out saying “WoW players are never happy!!!”, again, just ignore them.

Blizzard was never really that good at giving us public information about known issues or feedback they intend to act upon, which makes sense, as a software dev myself, I always never make promises about what I’m gonna work on and given their size, I don’t expect them to either. So since we can’t ever know what Blizzard is aware of, every feedback, no matter how obvious, is important.

And lastly, I know Blizzard takes feedback from many places, like reddit or twitter, but I imagine it’s always best to give feedback directly to them on the forums and/or feedback forms and such.

With a new expansion testing period comes the usual people saying “Oh, it’s only alpha/beta/PTR, why are you complaining so much, it’s still unfinished, they are obviously gonna change it before launch”. Friendly reminder: always ignore these people.

Never assume something is gonna be changed without any feedback, never assume Blizzard QA is gonna catch something themselves, never assume someone else is obviously going to point this out and it’s gonna get fixed. Yes, chances are most of the obviously unfinished things are gonna get finished, but most often the not, lots of things slip through and get pushed to a later patch or are never touched upon again (for example, story beats).

Also, not all feedback is complaining. All complaining is feedback (even the most useless complaints are still feedback that Blizzard folk can look at and decide if it’s valid or not), yes, but not all feedback is complaining. So if you’re giving honest, calm and collected feedback and someone tries to call you out saying “WoW players are never happy!!!”, again, just ignore them.

Blizzard was never really that good at giving us public information about known issues or feedback they intend to act upon, which makes sense, as a software dev myself, I always never make promises about what I’m gonna work on and given their size, I don’t expect them to either. So since we can’t ever know what Blizzard is aware of, every feedback, no matter how obvious, is important.

And lastly, I know Blizzard takes feedback from many places, like reddit or twitter, but I imagine it’s always best to give feedback directly to them on the forums and/or feedback forms and such.