Gaijin seems to have underestimated players' enthusiasm for WWII vehicles

Machinery of War Discussion
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I have waited for the B26 for 6 years before it comes, how many years should I need to wait for F4U5, Fury, is2m, USS Juneau, and other WWII or 1940s vehicles? I have no interest in paying for those C&P high-rank packs, but if one day Gaijin provide these as premium vehicles, I am sure I will pay for them

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But did you pay for the D-Day “specials”?

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the D day “specials” were old packs taken off sale, they were mostly skins or premiums with superior tech tree equivalents

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And if you happen to be a long time player, already owning all those vehicles is prolly not that uncommon.
It’s like waiting that 2 - 3 years to see something in the Warbond Shop that you don’t already have . . . lol

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As I said, I won’t pay for C&P packs, I have some same vehicles already, unless gaijin sells them not combined, maybe I will consider purchasing the P51d10

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Still waiting they bring back D.521 which was french plane in GB TT :/

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Only 5 of the 33 new vehicles being added in Major Update Seek & Destroy will be from World War II. Gaijin has no intention of listening to you, my friend.

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I hold my money but Gaijin doesn’t give me the chance, what a nice dealer.

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Speaking off, most battlepass stuff is ww2/coldwar most of these vehicles could be awesome TT vehicles or regular premiums. Instead they are locked behind a grindwall or a paywall with a steep price

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Im thinking of the J9 early lord that would have been awesome

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I’d prefer a large update focused on expanding rank 1-4 than another rank 8 only copypaste update.

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Ehh I would say around ten machines out of the thirty three of them, Although four of them are post war (surprisingly two captured machines for France if I have this right) but all four were started building or built during the war, And one immediately pre war (1939 refit) yet these are all close to WWII an can be counted as such.

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Hard even for gaijin to justify a 70$ price tag on wwii br vehicles so they stick to modern

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yeah, those are good little fighters . … could carry a bit more ammo, but since I play AB, just a matter of waiting . . .lol. But that’s also a skill you develop playing AB, learning how to time your reloads. Fun planes, good dogfighters . . . hope you can get the ones you want before too long.

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Meh, we don’t really know the player base’s spending habits, so hard to say really. It’s clear the marketing has been for the modern high tier stuff for about 3 years or so now. It’s a business, so “stocking the shelves” with the merchandise that sells better/faster is not an uncommon practice. It would seem there is a “niche’ market” for some of the older, more “vintage” vehicles, but we would need to convince Gaijin of this somehow. I play what I enjoy the most, and I have more vehicles than I can play anyway, so my “numbers” reflect the use of mid-tier & mid to late WW II vehicles more than anything. But I also already own almost all that kinda stuff, so I can’t buy anything to show that there is indeed interest still out there. Kind of a Catch-22 in my case. And as long as the majority of newer players are dead set on “speed grinding” their way to top tier, skipping over as many vehicles as they cant to get to the top &playing a lot less nations than was the norm in the past, the numbers may not justify many of our wishes shown here . . . just how it is . . .
Being a business, it’s always been a “numbers game” . . . C’est la Vie.

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Pretty much

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How many B26 have you seen in battle though?

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The B-26 (I’m assuming you’re talking about the bomber) is actually pretty good for its BR.

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It is but I’ve barely seen any of them flown out

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Because it’s BR is horrible, and Gaijin nerf these bombers over and over again.

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