Developer and Player relationships

We have had conversations like these in the past with players who approached us directly and we accepted this invitation to connect with players and get insights that were not shared on the forum. This has happened after the WCS 2015 and in the recent past when the post combat lockdown mechanic was subject to exploitation strategies. We have gained some valuable intelligence by this and therefore we acted in good faith.

I find this a bit hard to believe to be honest. The subject of 'locking' was a pretty prominent talking point in the forum and in game for quite some time. If Developers only learned of this through a Teamspeak conversation recently, then they are simply not reading the forum or paying attention to input from 'average players'.