“Ask the Devs” Diablo 3 Q&A Series Coming Soon
Posted 24 January 2013 by EllyIn a move to answer the most burning questions from the community Blizzard are to hold monthly Diablo 3 Q&A sessions on the official forums.
Each month they will start a thread in their forums identifying a particular topic. The thread will then open and questions can be submitted. Others will vote up the questions they want answered. Once the thread hits 500 questions it will be locked. The questions with the most votes will be passed on to the development team to answer and those answers will be published around a week later.
The first round of questions will open on Tuesday January 29th 10:00am PST and the topic is 
Patch 1.0.7 and you will be able to submit your questions to this thread when that time comes.
Although the CM team do an admirable job fielding questions it should prove even more informative if the developers themselves can answer questions directly (well directly via the PR team, but still).
So get your thinking caps on and come up with questions that are likely to garner the most votes from your fellow community members.
I just hope they don’t fill this Q+A up with the junk like “what’s your favorite dye color?” and “who is your favorite follower?”.
Well, if the most important questions are not going to be answered (like itemization) then this means that I can´t ask why isn´t Leah/Sheablo any hotter? This Q&A sux
There’s a high risk of them avoiding the big questions. Will be quite easy as the questions should only concern 1.0.7, and imo this patch doesn’t address that many important issues.
how are they going to count 500 questions ?
it’s going to be one question followed by several posts of “that’s a stupid question”,
then a question along the lines of “Path of Exile does it this way, have you considered doing that way?”, followed by many, many posts of
“POE SUX”;
“POE is AWESOME and they did it with a team 1/4 the size of the D3 team”;
“then go play POE if you like it so much !”
then an entire page of “When is the expansion being released?” followed by numerous arguments
I don’t see this working out well at all
If people can vote on questions the dumb ones won’t get votes and therefore won’t be asked to the devs
yeah, but the point is they’re letting all questions be posted and then closing the thread once 500 questions have been posted
I pity the CM who has to sit there and count “1 question, 2 questions, garbage post, crap post, spam, 3 questions, 4 questions, junk, argument, spam, 5 questions”
They’d be wise to monitor it throughout the day and nuke all the OT posts as they appear.
Within the 500 questions many will be repeated as people probably won’t read all the previous questions or if they do see a similar one will think their wording will be better. There can’t be 500 questions to ask on 1.0.7 anyway, can there?
It’s a good method though. Leave it to the community to determine the most pressing questions. Hopefully it’ll encourage the community to think their questions through so we get better than “I no youv hurd this befor but fix the itemz!”
I’m not sure it really is a good method, at least from a fan perspective. Sure, it weeds out the idiotic outliers, like the guy who blows the last question at BlizzCon with “Is the necromancer coming back?” But with popularity-based questions what happens is the broadest topics rise to the top. This is great from the PR standpoint – it gives the appearance of a completely open dialogue while in reality ensuring the questions are very broad and open. But I’ve found that Q&A’s are only interesting when very specific, unique questions can be asked and answered. Even if it’s not a topic that’s near and dear to your heart, that’s when you can really get a sense of the underlying factors. Otherwise it’s just another boring puff piece.
PoE is awesome.
Eh …!?
They’ve got an army of pr people swinging the ban hammer non-stop against complaints on their forums and can’t identify which issues their costumers would like to see addressed?
I think this is a great idea, the thing im worried about is that if something that gets a crapload of upvotes is something I don’t even like, or alot of other people don’t like aswell. But I guess its not like they have much room to screw up with so many ideas from the community that people agree with atleast some of the good ones have to get the most upvotes.
How about fix the AH so that I can sort by skill bonus that appears on the item (mara’s, soj) but not on AH menu (multishot, tempest rush are prime examples). Btw, can the crit damage on the witching hour be sorted?
How about remove the AH so they can fix items?
Why are there no full set bonuses???
Vot ies Leah doink so far out of kitch-un?..
Why are there around 160 completely unused legendaries in the game, and what do you want to do to make us try to get them?
This is a good question, but sadly it has to be related to patch 1.07. If the questions were related to the game in it’s entirety, the thread would have to allow 2000 questions I think.
whaaaaaat i has to be related to patch 1.07… God even when trying to promote a little transparency and interaction they fail.
Well, they mention that itemisation will be a future topic. So then we’ll have a lot of interesting questions for them
Quick, someone ask why the game is still in beta!
“Why do you guys suck so bad!?”