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Coming up tomorrow at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST is the next Blizzard Twitter (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/13/second-twitter-developer-chat-on-january-15th/) chat with J. Allen Brack and Greg Street. Both of these guys have done plenty of panels before and are veterans in community interaction. They can easily answer and dodge any question they like; and if Ghostcrawler sees fit I'm sure he's got a few quips to hand out to the attempted troll as well.
But despite the two figureheads at the top answering questions in the Twitter chat, it's important that we look back at the last chat (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/22/twitter-wow-developer-chat-liveblog/) and make a few critical, yet fair, observations:
Target Audience and New Information
The people following Blizzard on Twitter and paying attention enough to participate in a developer chat are going to be well informed individuals. There might be details here and there that they don't yet fully understand -- but that's the nature of a game as huge as WoW. Nearly every questioned answered in the previous Twitter chat was also previously answered at BlizzCon in one way or another. All of that information is widely accessible on sites like WoW.com and through the forums. The targeted audience of the Twitter chat, by the very nature of its medium and community involvement therein, should have been people already aware of the basics of upcoming changes; not people who want to know if Goblins (http://wow.com/goblins) are going to come with a new dance.Continue reading How Blizzard can improve the next Twitter chat (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/how-blizzard-can-improve-the-next-twitter-chat/)
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Coming up tomorrow at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST is the next Blizzard Twitter (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/13/second-twitter-developer-chat-on-january-15th/) chat with J. Allen Brack and Greg Street. Both of these guys have done plenty of panels before and are veterans in community interaction. They can easily answer and dodge any question they like; and if Ghostcrawler sees fit I'm sure he's got a few quips to hand out to the attempted troll as well.
But despite the two figureheads at the top answering questions in the Twitter chat, it's important that we look back at the last chat (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/22/twitter-wow-developer-chat-liveblog/) and make a few critical, yet fair, observations:
Target Audience and New Information
The people following Blizzard on Twitter and paying attention enough to participate in a developer chat are going to be well informed individuals. There might be details here and there that they don't yet fully understand -- but that's the nature of a game as huge as WoW. Nearly every questioned answered in the previous Twitter chat was also previously answered at BlizzCon in one way or another. All of that information is widely accessible on sites like WoW.com and through the forums. The targeted audience of the Twitter chat, by the very nature of its medium and community involvement therein, should have been people already aware of the basics of upcoming changes; not people who want to know if Goblins (http://wow.com/goblins) are going to come with a new dance.Continue reading How Blizzard can improve the next Twitter chat (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/how-blizzard-can-improve-the-next-twitter-chat/)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/)
How Blizzard can improve the next Twitter chat (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/14/how-blizzard-can-improve-the-next-twitter-chat/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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