For the second time in less than two weeks Blizzard's RTS Community Manager Karune has responded to fan concerns about the lack of StarCraft II development updates.

The last message to fans was about quality, in which Karune stated that Blizzard usually holds back information until it's "up to par".

This time, he addressed the issue of fan feedback itself, explaining just how Blizzard handles content updates. He explained that Blizzard tries to consolidate its responses into the Q&A Batches and also translate them into all of Blizzard's supported languages. Newer batches also include chats with the developers, with over 400 fan questions answered so far and finished by encouraging us fans to bring them good questions!

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	We do listen to all of these and we do take a lot of feedback as well. Though at the end of the day, trust that we know what we are doing For those who may be new, or may not have known, many of our blue posts are consolidated into our Q&A Batches. We originally started the StarCraft II forums with random replies but have found that consolidated posts with several questions made it easier for the community as whole to follow (including international where all Q&As are translated and launched simultaneous). Additionally, we started adding specialty features like chats with devs or insights into art development etc in these Q&A batches. Nonetheless, we still like to jump in on the forums to answer some impromptu questions, though much of this depends on the quality of threads on the forums. In total, we've answered over 400 fan questions since launch spread over the Q&As and fan site interviews and will continue to answer more questions as things heat up towards StarCraft II beta. But again, we need your help in getting those solid questions. UPDATE 2009-04-15: Maybe there hasn't been that great of a question pool, but I think the general consensus is that we don't have a lot to ask or talk about. We're pretty much at the point where we need to actually play the game to give you real feedback. Models and theories are easy, but we can't talk about actual gameplay without playing the game. A lot of this is true - our development process has been more transparent than any other game at this stage (pre-beta). There is a lot of information out there and the general community knowledge base of a game that hasn't entered beta is pretty high. When beta starts, the conversations will change and become more complex.

They're just dangling that beta right in front of our noses aren't they? Karune also responded to the fact that Blizzard.com was down yesterday...

	Blizzard Quote: (Source)
	We do a lot of our web maintenance on Tuesdays, so often these are the days you may experience some connection issues. Gotta clean out the junk sometime.

...and a little humour to finish off the day!

	Blizzard Quote: (Source)
	Give the Crucio Siege tank a flamethrower AND siege mode. Imagine that thing shooting flames everywhere, epic. Sounds like something I saw on a WWII tank somewhere... The Crucio Siege Tank is by no means a WWII tank...

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