A bit of beating a dead and rotting horse here, however I feel like the continuous conformity of the playerbase on the subject and refusal to act or speak out against blatant disrespect and abuse of the customers leads to continuous repeating mistakes and breaking own set rules and boundaries. I desire not to be one of the quiet ones who ignore clear injustice and abuse.
It’s not secret that the past 4 years of updates have been pushing the boundaries of player compliance with lackluster balancing, money extraction and disregard of player feedback. Current top-tier is pretty much unplayable as NATO due to soviet infestation of immortal BMPTs, the only viable armor on vehicles, free pancsir-S1’s, among many other things that the community is very outspoken about, as well as selective balancing and realism when it comes to modeling non Red nations. For example the Merkava series armor bug report has been accepted over 3 years ago and the only thing we got since then is a nerf thanks to new turret basket, utter hypocrisy when it comes to SEP v3 armor, NATO APS not being fixed ever since it was added among many others. It became blatantly clear that one nation is more equal than others with very unthorough buff that come from very sketchy/non existent sources while NATO manuals are being scrutinized and at large ignored as it happened with recent SEP v3, The developers find it acceptable to question and disregard documents of NATO vehicles while accepting at times very blatant lies and “sales pitch” numbers of Soviet ones, the nation that after its collapse by itself revealed that almost everything about it was one big lie.
USSR has been artificially buffed at times through questionable documents and upwards approximation, while NATO has been artificially nerfed with rejection of official documentations and disregarded with “not enough information” excuse or backwards approximation which contradicts logic and common sense, like less than cold war armor protection on currently in service MBTs. Not even mentioning the abundant choice of top tier vehicles and armaments that USSR has compared to NATO.
To me it seems that the developers have never played or playtest the implementations that they do while disregarding their customers with actual experience and skill with “I can’t be wrong so they must be wrong”, tone-deaf is best way to put it. At the same time they get rewarded for that disrespect with astronomical amount of money coming from GE and premium sales, for no effort at all.
From all this arises a question, do developers even play their own game? From the point of view of many top tier players, it doesn’t seem that way, at times the balancing feels like a random dude with no experience running in to the brain surgery room and backsitting surgeon who has many years of experience. The most recent of these incidents is BMPT gun nerf, which not only changed nothing but is also not the reason why people hate the vehicle, It currently boasts the best armor in the game with a need of “pin-point” shot to it’s turret to take out just one of the three armaments. Or an older case of M901 ammo racking nerf(which it was literally designed to avoid such scenario) while BTR-82AT does the very same thing but better and yet have not received such nerf.
From psychological and social viewpoint this behavior lacks logic and reason, as it can only come from either sadistic tendencies and or being paid to do so. I’m not trying to point fingers or throw rocks but i genuinely can not find reason for such behavior that has been happening. Yet people still act like a sheep herd and buy the product from a company that hates them at times at personal level.
BTW I come from Russia, and i do not write this out of racial/nationalistic desire.
XD thread was locked without answering the questions except first, while giving most neutral statement.