Do you expect a Russian company that works in Hungary to care what other companies do? Aside from this War Thunder has no competition, please name me a game that has the sheer amount of vehicles this game has. Answer there is none and business has nothing to do with it.
If I have to bring up Enlisted, its main competition is Hell Let Loose, Red Orchestra/Rising Storm, WWII Online, Rising Storm II, and Post Scriptum(Squad 1944). Who oh my goodness ended up beating Enlisted at the game cause the devs and Gaijin got too greedy. So people left.
War Thunder however and I’ll repeat since you clearly do not understand it at all. Has no direct competition, its competition is games focused on specific game modes. However, once a direct competition has Air, Ground, and Naval in 1 game rather than 3 cough War Gaming comes into play then Gajin has competition other wise they do not for a long time. Also insulting people will not prove a point.
I just think new vehicles totally fresh or copy will get old after a week but game mechanics and features visual and sound details that they add after each update is what makes me want to play the game more which sadly they didn’t add much for this update and I just left the game after a short while
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I am very curious at what you had to say even if it was flagged. I wish I could still view it, but they had to make the flagging system even more abusable.
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Well came back after 2 month, played two days and i only want to quit.
I feel that half of the time, there’re cheaters.
Oh well, i gues that i’ll take another 3 month break.
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Veiled insults are obvious, and un-needed… The fact you write it off as that, is just you trying to sound smart, but being a dismissive non-contributive aggressor.
Like for like, there is no other game, and as they said, that ‘equivalent’ is a shit gamemode, with a crappier graphics engine.
The fact that AW went the way it did, shows that WT ain’t going anywhere… There’s no equivalent.
So the fact the company reacted to the review bombing doesn’t mean the review bombing had any real effect on player numbers at the time. I’ve replotted the Steam numbers for average players and peak players by month, normalized to the January of each year. I think this shows the lack of any real unusual impact last year directly attributable to the event you’re talking about, and also the challenge they’re facing with the new event system not giving them their annual April traffic boost.
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I do think the effect of the event system was meant more to “counteract the summer dip” by running continuous events pretty much all year, so lower peaks and higher troughs, and also how, coming out of a positive but still unremarkable year in 2023, as compared to 2022 or 2020, they could be more inclined to change things up now. So while the year isn’t starting well for them exactly, they could still turn this around.
Personally I think 2021 or 2023 are the more typical traffic pattern. 2020 was an outlier because of covid, and I suspect 2022 was an outlier as well because of a keen interest among young men worldwide in the tools of modern war that year, for some (rather obvious) reason…
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My personal theory is that Gaijin has shot themselves in the foot with excessive grind with their dumb “infinite event” scheme. To earn the rewards the average player either needs to put in too many hours or sweat too hard. Players used to get longer breaks between events but now it’s non stop. Other developers have known for years that your player retention gimmicks need to be easy to keep people hooked even if they have other games or IRL activities competing for player time. Gaijin is just excessively greedy when setting the bar for their events.
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It’s certainly the biggest change to their Steam audience pattern we’ve seen to date that didn’t involve any external non-game factors. But the point in doing it was to trade in their March-April peak and avoid the May-June trough. So it’s still too early to tell if that’ll work yet, or was the right move, I’d say.
“The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when a person’s lack of knowledge and skill in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence.”
Man’s trying to tell me this isn’t an insult when we all know it is. Cause it doesn’t take a person 15 years to figure how to look up a definition.
I know, but the issue is that the moderators here can’t see an insult to save themselves to be honest.
True. Good thing I put the definition so if one does appear. They can just read the definition.
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The real thing is probably due to the recent South East Asia to Middle East Undersea Cable being damaged causing High Ping from this region. I came from Indonesia, and it’s literally almost a week and there’s no solution to it. This make (maybe) most player from SEA dropping significantly due to this undersea cable being damaged.
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Sorry mate I do not agree with you. number of new accounts is not the same as number of accounts which reach rank7 and keep playing. I also understand that average joes like you do not see all the troubles the game has, you are fascinated by the game and maybe do not even have time and capacity to notice all the bugs, mistakes and other bad things in the game.
if average online is 150k , that can be arround 1 200 000 players per day. And the game has 10M accounts, that means 12% of all accounts created are active. If you call this success.
But most important is how the players feel, yes if the goal of Gajin is to provide frustration among players, it is successfull. But why they do not make research among active players, how happy are they with the current state of the game, MM, BR, maps. Why we do not see statistics gajin is using for the BR changes? Why they never ask, or test on which BR new vehicle belong?
So yes from your point of view which is very modest, everything may look ok. But from mine as 12+ years old account, I have different views, diferent question, diferent expectations and I have spent a lot of time with gajin to know, if they are doing well or bad.
This is a bizarrely top-tier-focused mindset; you’re assuming that every single person who starts playing wants to play top-tier, and using that assumption as the basis for a very flawed measure of success.
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Nope but every person who plays even rank3 will grind it, no matter if he play Top tier or not. This is just fact and not mindset. The only reason why he would not is only, he doesn not play so often, but in this case he also can not know the problems , because his time spend in the game is to low to notice anything. Not even mention, that most of the problems this game has are on the top tier and are also most visible. Player who plays only WW2, will never find out, what I am talking about.
But anyway, still the daily online is not even close to 10M accounts created, but maybe arround 1,5 - 1,8M, that is 80% drop.
But maybe my goals are biger then yours or Gajin.
And I do not know how much money is needed to play rank3, but I would say it is free to play, so how many players get to top tier and play top tier, says also how much money is in the game, because it is top tier which demands to sepnd money and not tiger 1 or tiger 2.
When you google xenophobia, it actually prompts the synonyms of xenophobe, which include racist.
When I was playing ARK I’d play with a name that was just boxes in ARK, and I’d constantly get assumed I was Chinese, and I’d commonly end up with people attacking me because they thought I was, or they’d all log off the server as soon as I came on to avoid me finding them
The company was founded in Moscow, which is in Russia. That makes it a Russian company no matter where the HQ is now located.
Xenophobes can be racist but it is not needed (take a look around the Orient and how much some people hate others even though they’re the same race). But not wanting to play with people in other regions doesn’t need to be either as I stated (latency is a legitimate concern).
I also didn’t say it was a fact that “chinese characters indicate cheating” I just said that was likely what he was basing that decision off of (I also said I didn’t agree).
It doesn’t matter that Gaijin is a Russian company other than that would explain any perceived bias in the design and performance (and I don’t believe there is actual purposeful bias but there could more attention by devs and management to get the vehicles they know love verses others. I Believe GJ tries their best to get the things working as closely as possible to reality).
And for your information, Yamanda, I’m married to a Vietnamese woman and her non-english speaking parents live with me in my house and have a mixed-race child. If I’m racist I’m not very good at it.
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Thing is you’re writting it off as ping… The person who posted it is about the generalisation of them having a chinese name, and they actually said it was chinese, not asian.
I think it’s because the updates are continually damaging the gameplay and restraining the mechanics.
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It’s the distinction and the assumption, making out the negative that is the racist part…
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