All these great decisions really worked.
Wonder what happened in 2020 to cause this growth, must have been something genius.
Oh boy, making Covid the only reason Warthunder made growth. Explain the doubling of the playerbase from Feb 2022 to Feb 2024. That wasn’t still Covid.
What explains the lack of growth from 2014 to 2020 but caused growth in 2020?
Dunno, perhaps the game wasn’t well known. I can’t make a determination about the game’s growth because I don’t have all of the information about the game/company that would make a determination possible. Neat thing is that you don’t have that information either. Regardless, Warthunder is successful.
I’m not the one who is implying it’s Gaijin’s business strategy and good decisions that created the success… those things didn’t cause any growth in the 7 years prior either until early 2020 there is a sudden spike that does not appear to have a different explanation.
Except perhaps
At best you can argue it was a good business decision to try and financially benefit from a global crisis.
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Or maybe it was this update that released 54 new vehicles along with the Isreali Ground tree, the A-10s, and high quality graphics updates.
Update “Wind of Change” - War Thunder Wiki
Covid did have something to do with it, but people don’t join a game and continue to play it if it isn’t a good game. If the game’s numbers fell around 12-18 months and then stayed lower, then Covid could be the ONLY reason player number went up, but it isn’t. Warthunder is a good, successful game.
lol That’s never been the primary focus of devs, just the primary focus of players.
Focus of devs has been the entire game. We got an entirely new replay feature that took far more dev time than any vehicle could.
AI overhaul requires far more labor than vehicles as well.
Players focus on vehicles cause they’re low-labor and thus faster to pump out than the more labor intensive features Gaijin’s working on.
You just missed one of the largest player revolts and wave of negative reviews in Steam’s history.
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That no one listened to cause devs clearly stated to use the special form before the review bombing even started.
You’d have to wonder how many of those accounts that did that ‘bomb’ were sub 100 hours…
That is 2 years later though
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Gaming in general saw a huge surge of new players during the kung-flu.
Oh bother, I did mix up the years didn’t I? Still works out though, cause around that time the playerbase started to shoot up again.
Viking fury got added in March 2020 and added the Swedish tree, flares, and CCIP mechanics. Pretty good update then too.
2024- New replay feature, one of the largest features of WT’s history.
2023- Fire effects.
Economy overhaul.
Missile flight physics.
2022- Scout & strike UAVs.
Fire extinguishers for aircraft.
Incendiary ordnance.
Replay rewind.
UHQ textures.
2021- Ship-launched aircraft.
Wimdy.
Terrain deformation.
Guided bombs.
Commander sights.
HUDs.
Variable-wing sweep.
2020- VTOL.
Dagor engine 6.
Volumetric rounds that ended pixel shooting and thus improved heavy tank survivability.
CCIP and flares.|
Radial menu.
Thanks, I was curious of when the new engine was implemented.
Indirect competitors cannot be compared to a direct competitor. Simple as is. WOT is only good for 1 gamemode being a historically inaccurate arcadey potato and carrot shooter.
Dude the largest player revolt was in 2014 with the Skypolice. The review bombing in May 2023.
As of April 2024 it is getting quiter not louder. That was my point.
So no i didn’t miss anything.
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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