Now, this is a fan forum so I guess they would rather have feedback posted on their own site. They have no obligation to post or to be active on this site. I think we all would like them to do it more, but face it, there is no contract that says they have to. Coming with comments like "respond to this relic!" is a good idea, but as we have seen rarely works.
Parts of this community seems to want to drive a wedge in between themselves and relic, which i sad in my eyes. Think about it for a second yourself. If you are called an asshole and a greedy bastard over and over, would you go to that person and ask for advice? Would you feel the need to visit a whole place of ppl who call you names?
Which brings me to my next point. This is a fan forum. I have little or no understanding why alot of users keep posting "I stopped playing this game 3 months ago, it sucks, relic are greedy demons from hell". I do however understand that there are alot of players who are dissapointed of the direction of the game. Some wanted a new coh1, some dont. What makes me wondering is why dissapointed players keep coming back and spreading their hatered here. It is quite obvious if you are posting stuff like that you are not a fan but want the game and relic to crash and burn. I dont like everything relic does. But calling them names is never going to help your/our/any cause.
This is really bad for the community overall. Now I know I cannot make ppl stop posting. And banning them is not an option either, everyone has the right to post. Still, I can really understand if Relic has a grudge against this site and or community. However I dont want them to. I want them to go here and look for ideas, drop a comment here and there in our discussions. However that would require a diffrent tone towards them. Otherwise they just wont look here.
Lastly, the multiplayer community is the smaller portion of their income. But the multiplayer community will also be this games deciding factor in the how long lifespan this game has.
When they ve told you that the dlc will have no impact on multiplayer and then they do a 180 turn and make the game pay to win , when some very basic features are missing from the game yet all effort goes to making new dlc and what we get is some 90s chat , when they make empty promises they have no intent at fullfilling , when they absolutely refuse to take in well constructed feedback and believe me there was tons of it especially during the beta in this site , when they change things for the sake of changing them . Yeah when they do all that then IMO hard language is justified in the same way harder language should be justified for EA .
ALSO where have you seen any members of this community trying to put a wedge between us and the devs . In order for a meaningful dialogue to exist there needs to be mutual respect . From the moment relic sees us as whining walking wallets and we see them as moneygrubbers who did a bad job and who couldnt care less about our opinion . How on earth do you think we can have any meaningful conversation ?? The wedge has been there for some time it started at the open beta and its been growing ever since . Personally when i hear relic saying "we vallue the community" i always say to myself "yeah sure thing "
Hard language will always exist where emotions exist and that is always prevalent in an RTS . The job of a community manager and the communication with the public department is to filter and separate the useless from the useful and the wellspirited from the meanspirited . If you think soft language in posts will make things better by all means keep believing it i ll have you know its already failed opn countless occasions .
And dont you dare brand me as someone who wants to break communications with relic because i habe devoted significant ammount of my time defending them pre release and proving feedback in this site all along . I even took the time to provide altrnative designs for the p2w commanders just to be ignored .