I don’t even know how to approach this without immediately making accusations toward Gaijin the publisher and executive suites.
But isn’t it wild that for the same price of 70 USD there is little to no good premium other than F4S and Mirage F1C-200?
Flogger-G has been flogged in terms of FM, F-4J UK is just the worst version of F-4J derivatives that is, F-104S is… yeah. F-4EJ ADTW is F-4E without the thing that makes F-4E bearable (Agile Eagle+Sparrow E2), J-7D is an Overtiered SMT with AIM-9J that pulls slightly tigher, fly slightly faster and Magic 1, draken is dead, Kfir Gderot is dead.
F4S and F1C-200 is so good by miles it’s such a braindead choice to just hover your mouse to both of those and clicked buy, other just fall shorts when seeing these two and it’s so far down below it feels like a trolling session.
Are they still expecting us to pay 70 or 35 discounted for those sad pieces of equipment? do they even want us to buy a grinder? even rank 6 premiums look better these days and half of them are attackers that are either good because of their weapon suites or the virtue of being lower BR.
And only Britain and US get rank 8 premium so PLEASE do not start with that.
Either just slash their price or sell us a new rank 7 idc, the grind situation is dire, premium account alone really doesn’t add up much, and the vehicles provided are just straight up shameful.
Some, maybe. Most probably not. usually I just wait for the sales. But if something like a Harrier Gr5 dropped as a premium. Id buy it instantly. I was tempted by the AV-8B(NA) but decided to hold off for now.
Though quite often its not even that the vehicle is bad, but rather sits in a bad place or has a stupidly considered BR
Like the F4J(UK). If it was the same BR as the FGR2/FG1 in sim. It might, just might be tempting to pick up. At least in a sale. Those Phantoms, especially during events, gen me a nice amount of SLs, in a premium, huge farm potential. But nope. Its at 12.0 for “reasons” despite being worse than the FGR2 and FG1 at 11.3.
J-35XS, Kfir Canard and AMX are all the same. Stupid BRs for their performance that destroy their value.
You also have older premiums that have been well and truly forgotten by gaijin, like the Harrier Gr1. Was great, Could still be great aircraft, if the SRAAMs worked.
Then, you have aircraft like the F4S, F-20, Mig-23ML and Mirage F1C-200 which all seem great value for the money (well. Maybe £40-£50). There is no consistancy
Thing is, looking at weapon suites and BR of all the premium, F1C-200 and F-4S beats them to mile it’s not even funny.
If your “some” include F-104S, remember that plane FM has been butchered recently, the game just can’t hate premium buyer any further at this point. and the other 2 you mentioned (F-4S and F1C-200) i specifically mentioned as “the only plane worth your money”.
Also, I said don’t use Rank 8 for your argument since not everyone has those.
I mean, 6 7F with HMD vs 4 skyflash no HMD at the same BR? seriously?
2 Magic 2 and Gripen worth of CM at 12.0?
braindead if you choose anything else.
And I think Flogger-G values has gone down, the plane suffer from bad end of the line planes. worth their money when it was MiG-29 but SU-27 is so shit that ML just loses all of it’s value. the reverse happened to italian and Swedish tree, bad grinder, amazing tree.
Well see the issue is that not every plane in WT is going to be good at dog fighting. I have spent more money on premiums than i would care to admit, but the thing is ive never bought a premium at full price. I’ve always waited for the sale to happen.
I have 0 planes in the Italian tree but i bought the AMX bundle since i got two planes for one… i have a bit of buyers remorse over it but the amx seems like it will be a great SL grinder in Sim.
I have the premium tornado and i absolutely love that thing ( also bought the one with the anti ship missiles and well just dont with that one ) Since trying out sim to get away from the chaos of RB ive been really enjoying it. I made 850,000 SL and just over 100K in RP in once session ( almost 3 hours ) with it. I do get some air to air kills with it but its mainly a base killer and some ground targets but mainly base running.
got the A-6 on sale, got the su-25k on sale, and even though i have the av8b+ i will buy the premium one in a year or so as another SL grinder ( those jdams are really fun to use in sim )
You have to look at the premium and understands its strengths. I dont take the a-6 into air RB with missiles expecting it to be as good as figher. I do take it out in ground RB and Sim and have a great time with them.
Things always change in WT, good today is bad tomorrow, and vise versa. You can still use the F-4’s as bomb trucks to get through research and the have good sl/rp bonuses.
If those premiums dont sell they may see them get adjusted or removed and replaced. Just have to wait, and remember voting with your wallet is always the attention grabber.
I wanted to grind the French tree for when they get the Dassault Rafale but i cant grind another tree. got the us done almost russian done and a good part of germany done with a little bit of UK. just cant fathom trying to grind more out.