[eSport] [Market] Introducing the Esports Trophy III

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Introducing the new Esports Trophy III, featuring camouflages created by authors from WT.Live! This new trophy includes 20 camouflages for various vehicles: 10 aircraft and 10 tanks. For this new trophy, we wanted to honor mid-tier vehicles with unique creations from our artists.

Aircraft

  • La-7 “Balthazar”
  • J-2 “Xiangqi”
  • SAAB-105G “The Eyes of the Father”
  • G.56 “L'Anima della Veloctia”
  • Fw 190 D-9 “Nachtblau”
  • P-51H “Timeless Racer”
  • F-86F-30 (Japan) “Tanchoudzuru”
  • F4U-7 “Corsair Demo”
  • P-47D-28 “Yellow Windrunner”
  • Spitfire LF Mk IX “Euler Defier”

Tank

  • Lorraine 40t “Le Serpent Magnifique”
  • M6A1 “Golem”
  • Maus “X-1”
  • IS-3 “Graffiti Bomb”
  • M26 Pershing “Aztec Warrior”
  • T-34-85 “Magenta Storm”
  • M18 Hellcat “Team Alfie”
  • Tiger II (H) “Asymmetry”
  • Fox “Natural Fox”
  • Panther G “Video Game Hero”

Like the previous Esports trophy, the new trophy can be obtained by simply playing regular War Thunder battles. In the future, it’ll also be possible to obtain by participating in Esports events in War Thunder tournaments with an increased chance! PlayStation and Xbox players can purchase the trophy in the Item Shop for Golden Eagles.

To open it, you’ll need to purchase a key on the Market (income is shared with the authors of the camouflages). You can either activate the coupon on your account, or trade it on the Market to get Gaijin Coins (GJN). A trophy can be sold as well!

To unlock the trophy, you'll need an “Esport” key that can be purchased on the Market for GJN.


Esports Trophy III Box


Esports Trophy III Key

Armored Apex FINAL

This weekend, from 16:00 GMT, Twitch Drops will once again be accompanying the final stages of the 3rd Major Eport event of the year! Here’s a sneak preview of the BO7 matches on Saturday 20th July.

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Watch the tournament and get Twitch Drops also on the official German, French and Russian War Thunder Esport channels!

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Meet the new “Armored Apex” pack

For War Thunder Esports fans, don’t forget about this small but very cute pack that contains a unique decal and title.

War Thunder - “Armored Apex” pack
In this pack:
  • “Apex Snail Abrams” decal
  • “Snail Enhanced Player” title
  • 300 Golden Eagles
  • 1.99
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They look really cool!

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THOSE ARE HOT! Too bad they’re kinda expansive…

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I need the maus camo, but I need the maus first!

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God damn those camouflages are nice.

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Veloctia? I just checked and it’s like this ingame aswell, i think it should be “Velocità” (speed).
But maybe it was on purpose , i dunno.

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I guess gambling is what it takes to make esports profitable. Cant wait to see the average 150 viewers on the esports streams turn into 4k when the drops become active.

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God damn, these skins are gorgeous, especially the Maus, Tiger 2, Saab 105 and F-86 ones

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Okay… I don’t like to be the one to complain about WT, but, HOW MANY BATTLES DO YOU HAVE TO PLAY TO GET ONE OF THESE DANG BOXES!!! WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THEM!!! I’VE PLAYED A COUPLE DOZEN MATCHES SINCE THEY WERE ANNOUCED BUT HAVEN’T GOTTEN 1! BUT PEOPLE WERE ALREADY SELLING THEM PLUS SKINS FROM THEM THE MOMENT IT WAS ANNOUCNED! HOW!!! HOW SNAIL!!! HOW!!! I BEG! GIVE ME THESE AWSEOME GAMES! PLEASE!!! I BEG!!!

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The current WT e-sports is a failure. I don’t know why gaijin holds onto it. If there weren’t any rewards noone would watch it.

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I see you’ve never taken a marketteering and advertising course before.

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when will you guys do another ban wave of the 20k hackers you have in game?

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Actually i have.

The problem isn’t the marketing, but the fact that current WT e-sports just doesn’t work as a spectatir sport.

Regardless of how much you push it. If you esports isn’t interesting it won’t gather a fanbase.

Everyone only cares about the drops noone about the sport itself. And WT e-sports exists for years now and sril hasn’t catched on.

The problem is the game itself. Not the Marketing.

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“Doing E-sports” is what “big game companies” do. So that is what Gaijin does.
I’m sure Gaijin would love it if video of their little competition took off and they got zillions of views and game d/ls from it. But they are probably realistic in their expectation.
I agree that they don’t really do a good job of it. They need to find a “cast” of charismatic players that are good at doing live stream games and have the focus on them, not talking heads.

Practically, they do it mainly because it drives existing user base “engagement”. They give out cheap tokens to players who then will play the game when they might do other things, play other games. They also probably get some promotion and maybe the occasional new persons stumbles upon WT from some e-sport vector.

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Sure that isn’t my point. I said the current WT e-sports suck.

That doesn’t mean WT e-sports couldn’t be good. But their current approach makes no sense.

It could if they had a proper approach. But the project was doomed from the start by the way it came to be.

Nope that isn’t the issue at all. It’s the gameplay first and foremost. It’s because the e-sports coordinators are former players that wanted to have their gameplay be esports and making that instead of looking at it from a spectator perspective and find what makes sense as an E-Sport. Again doomed to fail from the start.

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A question about how this works: is there a specific number of battles that must be played? Or is it RNG, with a chance of drop per every battle played? Are there any parameters in play like activity etc? How does it work? :D

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It is if we are talking about “why” Gaijin keeps supporting this.
And, that is just your subjective opinion. There are probably people who would disagree with you and like it just fine. Probably that 50 ppl who watch it with no drops running…

You aren’t very clear here. Gaijin’s approach is modelled on current e-sports, which are modelled on televised sports format. IDK how you think you can make WT content any more than how they are doing it right now. Somethings just don’t fit no matter how “good” it is. Watching tanks and planes do the same things everyone does all the time in game with no context or drama is never going to be engaging enough to hold most ppl’s attention. Not even WT players much less just random Twitch viewers.

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I think there’s some truth to this.

There’s also been a lot of effort to identify a specific small group of favoured squadrons as THE e-sports squadrons, to the exclusion of others, which I think hasn’t really produced much of a return for them, this trophy being the latest example. At the same time they’ve been reducing entry-level rewards by converting the starter tournaments from single-entry to Swiss Rounds and focussing the entry-level tournaments they run just on the EU server and run them at hours Non-EU countries can’t really play at and on work days instead of evenings and weekends, which also tends to exclude casual players to try it out or new teams to rise.

On the other side, this tournament this weekend did have a series of open qualifiers run at reasonable times, so good job there, that is the way to do this. They should do more of them like that.

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I wasn’t asking that though. I made a statement that the current esports in WT is a failure. I never asked why gaijin supports it… So this is irrelevant to my point.

Which makes it a failure as e spirts are spectator sports. If you don’t have an audience you went wrong somewhere… Sort of my point.

That’s not true. Their presentation of it may be
Bit the gameplay itself does not fit that description.

There are two kinds of spectator sports that actually get an audience.

Stuff like soccer, which is very easy to understand the basics (ball has to go into a goal) and very easy to replay for everyone. So you can relate to the players themselves. In e sports this would be league of legends, counterstrike and so on.

The second is something like formula 1. Very easy to understand the basics (car needs to finish the race first), but almost impossible to replay. These are the sports where you want to see exceptionalism. In e sports this is your iRacing.

Those are the two. That’s it.

WT fails at both. The mission structure and rules of the esports is different from regular WT matches (which isn’t the case for soccer, counterstrike or LoL… For a reason!). So there is the first disconnect to the first type of spectator sports. Then there is the mess with aircraft and tanks at the same time ruining the overview of what’s happening. Another disconnect from audience to the players. It’s also a mix of AB and RB rules, something you don’t have in regular matches.

So there is no connection between the spectators seeing themselves in the participants. Nor is it interesting to watch since it doesn’t have a good overview.

Then there is the second type of sports, the exceptionalism aspect. Well it is dumbed down RB… And RB itself isn’t even the hardest gamemode. If you want to watch exceptional gameplay on the highest skill level, you’d watch a air sim tournament, as that is the hardest most exceptional gameplay WT offers.

So you either go the accessible route, then the e sports should be just regular ground AB battles, so that at least the spectators that also play WT, can relate. Ground AB because it has markers and very good overview and is by far the most played gamemode.

Or you go full exceptionalism like iRacing, where professional race drivers compete and make it an Air SB Tournament. Where you can see the players putting in the most skill and effort that WT has to offer.

But the bad AB/RB mix that no regular player gets to play?
It’s it’s own ruleset, so you cannot even say that those players are the best AB/RB players since it is so much it’s own thing, that the regular player doesn’t get to play.

The issue from the beginning was that WT e sports was created by the ego of some RB players who thought they were awesome and the gotten to gaijin to ask for an e sports mode. It became an RB variant because that’s what those people did play, not because it made the most sense.
RB makes the least sense of all.

AB makes more sense because due to not having to have historic perfomance it is the easiest to balance.

SB makes more sense because that’s the highest complexity, it shows WT at the highest level.

RB is neither balancable nor is it high level play… It’s the worst of both worlds in terms of e sports.

The bare minimum needed is a ranked mode that uses the exact same mission design, the e-sports use. Again it wasn’t thought through as a spectator sport, it was what people who thought they were great wanted to play… But noone else gave a sh*t.

Not a recipe for success.

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Like I said before you don’t seem to understand the business reasons for the WT e-sports. You are all focused on the “are you not entertained” question.