I think the wishlist is primarly for yourself, or else why would they add the option to hide it from your friends?
That would be great but I really doubt they would do something like that(though I really wish they did). I would only add vehicle coupons to that, especially now that we have the SL lootboxes and may prefer to gift a coupon to a friend than use or sell it.
Because if you thought farming was bad now, you an’t seen nothing yet if MFers could harvest SL and GE from a legion of bot accounts!
Then ban bots, and let us legit player have fun.
Because Gaijin is so good at doing that…
if you, in that supporting link, click to the full list and not the shortened version you get this:
and:
Yeah I toyed with it on my guest account and it went “Nope”.
could you explain how you tried doing it?
Friended myself (lol) and then stuck things into both the wishlist, but nothing was showing up in either side, because a “guest account” by definition isn’t bound to an email or Steam acct.
Edit:
Oh, alright. Thanks for sharing.
It can’t receive any either. Which was my point.
Well… you didn’t say that…
but also, isn’t that kind of obvious as you have to accept the gift through the email before receiving it either way.
Unless they’ve changed it so that is all ingame as part of the wishlistiness mechanic now.
they do say in the main post:
How do you add things to wishlist that are not displayed/visible in tech tree?
Tried that. Don’t think you can because even if you can get to them from the wiki, there is no way wish/buy from the preview screen.
With the new Steam integration, it made me think of this, have you considered adding “rich presence” from Steam’s API for Steam’s actual friends list to show off what mode/nation/map you’re currently playing, to your friends? @Stona_WT
There is more information about this here for you/developers to look at. Enhanced Rich Presence (Steamworks Documentation)
Here’s an example image from the link above:
With War Thunder it just says that you’re playing the game and it’s not too exciting in my opinion.
This might not be a necessary addition but I think it’s one that a lot of people would appreciate and it has potential to increase interest in the game to new/old players by showcasing what their friends are doing on War Thunder, you could even display any ongoing events like Mad Thunder to “advertise” the events.
Surely this won’t be used by Gaijin to collect data on what vehicles are desired and adjust sales and prices because of it…
Maybe not quite as you thought:
a vehicle that sits on the wishlist of 1000 people but none of them buys it, means there is demand but the price is too high.
I reckon they might use this info to offer a sale on such a vehicle, to trigger a percentage of the people wanting it into buying it NOW (because it will be on sale only for so long… ) - instead of rising the price further, making it even less obtainable.
Say they offer a 30% off a vehicle that costs $30 to make it $20, and 20% of the people having it on the wishlist buy it, that means they generated 200x$20 revenue that way, compared to leaving price unchanged or even rising it, which would result in them not generating any revenue.
