Generally the whales are not the same ones that want to hold the game hostage, because whales usually accept buffs (as this would be) happily. It’s rarely the case that people would look at an improvement to something they purchased being given out for free and protest against it. The people who want the game to remain in stasis with no changes are not the majority or a relevant paying minority. Their opinion should not be considered when their only response to anything is “don’t do it”.
Also a good number of the things you listed had nothing to do with the monetization aspects of the game. APHE, map design and SPAA/CAS balance are all quite separate from monetization.
It’s arguable if it’s a buff. Getting more mobility certainly is, but taking a vehicle that’s utterly reliant on it’s strong armor and pushing it up in BR would be a nerf.
I’d need concrete figures on how much of an armor buff it would be recieving, as well as getting a feel for how much more mobile it is, before I’d be confident calling this a buff.
But they were as a result of people holding the community hostage. They want their game to remain the same (or, in some cases, to go back to the way they were used to playing/not have to adapt to new ways of playing).
They aren’t thicker? Just cast different with a different hardening procedure? its still the same 152mm of armor.
But it was more effective due to Improved methods of casting and hardening the steel.
as is the Black Prince’s Turret in game has about 140mm of protection, despite being 152mm thick, due to the Subpar (and innacurate) armor modifiers gaijin puts on WW2 era Cast armor.
Post war vehicles get a different armor modifier in game due to the improved casting and hardening methods invented in the late stages of the war, and into the Post war Periods.
Proving in 2025 someone can put x engine in y tank… I bet you could bolt kornets on a T-34… we gunna add that too?
Someone doing something 80 years after the fact proves nothing
