It’s no secret that any company is focused on making a profit, but today I want to share a surprisingly sneaky and underhanded story about what the developers at Gaijin Entertainment are willing to do to avoid losing profit.
Last night, while playing this wonderful game, I decided to spin the Tourist Suitcases. Imagine my shock when, after opening 30 containers, I got a coupon for the IS-7, with a drop rate of about 0.001%!
Naturally, I rushed to the marketplace and, stunned by the price (a purchase request for 1400 GJN), I sold it, as this literally amounts to unlimited free in-game content (1 GJN = 1$). With the 1190 GJN I earned, I went on a shopping spree, buying various bundles.
And then the sneaky stuff began. After playing a bit in the evening and setting up my vehicles and crews, I went to bed. The next morning, after playing three terrible matches before heading to work, everything was fine with my account. But when I came home for lunch and logged into my beloved game, I was greeted with a full-screen message of joy:
For six months leading up to this day, I had been playing almost non-stop through dozens of both great and terrible matches, and no one ever banned me. If I were cheating, it would have happened much earlier, without such an incredible coincidence. Yet, in the game, there are hundreds of Chinese players and others who have been playing with cheats for years, destroying everything in sight, shooting down planes with tanks from 5-10 km away, and getting nukes every other match, and nothing happens to them. Why? Because when you check their profiles, you’ll see dozens of premium tanks worth $60-70 on their accounts. That’s the same reason they’re never moved off the CIS/EU servers.
But as soon as a player wins an ultra-rare coupon worth $1400 (Some people haven’t won anything worthwhile from containers in 6 years) – Gaijin immediately finds cheats/bots/mods on their account, because I’m no longer going to be profitable for them. And they chose an interesting reason for the ban too. There’s no review for bans under this reason; it’s a permanent ban, and good luck proving you’re an honest player. But do you really believe in such coincidences? Yesterday, you win $1400 out of thin air, and today, they block your access to it indefinitely.
Draw your own conclusions, dear players.
