I know, and this is why I make a request to have a different gamemode more suited to my need (and hopefully other people needs).
If anything the positive engagement on this post shows that there is a least, on the forum, a positive enough opinion for the trial of a tank only gamemode
When there is a vehicle complety over or undertiered, don’t you complain about it? you ask for it to balanced no? You don’t simply “accept what you sign up for”.
And for the record I don’t play much ground RB nowadays.
Nah, you already cried so much that they heavily nerfed ability to bring CAS. You are stuck here and i enjoy raging people after i bombed them even more now.
Obivously you play the game anyway.
They sell premiums through frustration. They probably sell more premium Aircraft now as they would with a 90% of people in a TO mode.
So you pretty much give them every argument to not do it.
As I said, I don’t play Ground RB often for this specific reason.
This is just silly, I know gaijin is a business and need to make money, but why should players try to maximize their profits?
Like what you are saying is that I’m right but it would be more profitable for gaijin to not do so, so end of discution?
And It’s not like I believe this would make less money. I believe gaijin sell most of it’s premium through 2 things:
Skip/better grind. By purchasing a higher tier premium, you speed up your grind by at least 3 folds.
I bough most of my premiums for this very reason. I hate playing biplanes and I will do anything to skip it.
And I am interested in ww2 stuff, I don’t buy high tier premiums. I can’t imagine how many people by a top tier VII plane or tank just to grind to modern vehicles. Actually I don’t need to imagine, just check the lineup of people at top tier: at least 5/12 player have a single and only 1 premium tank.
Op-ness. Stuff like the F2G, Su-11, even the BI sells because they are OP and this is common knowledge. You can see on statshark a significant increase of player in whatever Defyn decide to show as a OP aircraft (In ARB).
I remenber when the Su-11 was 7.0. The following week after Defyn made this video, there was at least 2 more people playing it in the USSR team.
I know it because I had a significant increase in full uptier when I was playing the He-162 at the time.
I don’t believe for a second that frustration account for more than 5% of the sales. After all, if you don’t like a game, you don’t play it. and 1 thing for sure, you don’t spend 40$+ into it.
Why would someone who wants to play TANK spend like 70$ for a A-10 or Frogfoot
If anything (and of course I have no way to prove it until gaijin tries) I believe than a tank only gamemode would increase player count AND tank sales.
No im not saying you are right, rather pretend you are right for the argument.
Yes, which translates not beeing frustrated by the endless grind.
And if you have a TO mode, people could skip the entire SPAA line, not really in Gaijins interest i would assume.
Obviously nobody has a number, but i bet that number is way higher.
Thanks for making my point.
He at least has the potential to buy an A10 or Frogfoot.
Why would somebody who plays tank only buy any plane ?
I’m not making your point. Again, If I want to play a tank, I’ll never by a A-10, it doesn’t make sense.
Gaijn doesn’t “lose” this sale with a Tank Only mode.
Again, you are paying to skip the grind, not to play the grind:
Let’s give you an example:
I’m a fan of the M1 Abrams. I do not care in the slightest about planes, interwar, ww2, cold war tanks.
Let’s just assume no premium abrams for a moment.
Because I want to get the abram the fastest possible, I will buy the closest tank there is it too it. Probably a premium account to speed up the RB gain.
I would not waste my time buying and using a A-10, especially considering that the RP you gaijn in the A-10 will go in the AIR TREE, something I don’t care about in the slightest.
What sense does it make for me to waste my time in and money in a A-10?
I really don’t think so, there is almost no premium SPAA (I think there is none but I could miss one).
Like, gaijin doesn’t really care about you grinding the SPAA line. There is like no benefit for them.
I guess you could to play some of the Tank Destroyers pretending to be SPAA, like the ZSU-57-2.
** And all of this is assuming NO ONE KEEPS PLAYING GRB**. How you are you ready to believe that GRB is so bad that no one would stay if the option to play without plane was added".
Adding a mode that completely goes against the whole point of a combined arms game, is infact changing the design core. That’s like adding official prop hunt to TF2.
The idea that this game is “combined arm” is false. Ground RB is, Naval is, Air is not.
From the Steam page:
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
War thunder core is simply to put “realistic” vehicles and have them fight in big battles.
Ground Only would be just like Air RB, it wouldn’t change anything about the “core design of the game”