This is what I’m trying to say.
Major nations will inherently have much more players, thus Gaijin will obviously cater to them the most. It’s a clear business decision, will you cater to large majority and make them as happy as they can be, or will you treat them the same way as you treat the minorities to offer everyone the same experience, but lose money in the process.
Gaijin wants money so it’s clear what they’ve chosen.
Japan’s problem is a clear lack of good lineups from 9.3 to 11.0. They lose a massive chunk of players because of that, at least in my opinion.
Indeed, this is why BMP-2M’s average skill level should be higher than of those premium vehicles, but yet it has worse stats than them which speaks volumes. Of course, if you want to blindly trust TS.
Just like the Leopard I ?
I believe some people might have issues with Leo because you jump straight from 6.7 WW2 vehicles that have really good armor, to 8.0 that has little armor. This is a pretty big change and some people are definitely caught off guard.
Major nations will inherently have much more players, thus Gaijin will obviously cater to them the most. It’s a clear business decision
You can easily cater to both, there is no reason why you have to neglect Japan, Gaijin wants money but they keep throwing it away left and right.
Japan’s problem is a clear lack of good lineups from 9.3 to 11.0. They lose a massive chunk of players because of that, at least in my opinion.
That’ll happen when you copy paste a vehicle 4 times and still manage to not allow them to make good lineups, and then copy another vehicle 3 times and still don’t allow it to make for a good lineup.
And then make some of those premiums that are both outright better versions of the TT ones because pay to win is always cool but place them at the worst BR in the game and then nerf their shells so they get shit on.
Indeed, this is why BMP-2M’s average skill level should be higher than of those premium vehicles
Not really when those same wallet warriors get the vehicle anyways, alongside a lot of other people who aren’t ready for it, and a BMP is never going to have a better average performance than a 2S38 or Turms.
I think they want as much money as possible with as little effort as possible. Perfectly balancing out hundreds of vehicles at the same time is not an easy task, which probably leads them to focus on the vast majority to save time and work.
Just look at plenty of copy/paste premiums that are piss easy to create, you just add a different skin and sell it for 70 euros.
In my opinion they could be earning more money by fixing some things which will make the whole playerbase happier. But in order to do that, they might have to spend who knows how many hours and I guess they don’t see that making those improvements will lead to big enough increase in profits to justify the hard work.
I guess they aren’t confident that investing work into Japan will have an acceptable return, so dealing with that is not on their priority list, since much bigger cash cows are surely available.
Wallet warriors will probably pick TURMS or 2S38 over 2M for obvious reasons, which as I said, won’t reflect positively on those two premium’s stats.
It doesn’t need to have better average stats than those vehicles, but TS clearly shows godawful performance across the board for 2M which definitely isn’t normal for any vehicle. I think TS is far from being accurate in determining which vehicles are suffering.
That one may be true but what about the kpz/mbt 70 ?
The Dart is still very weak and it can not fight stuff with composite armour as well as a leo with DM 33 at the same br .
It might have mobility with the cost of survivability.
But moving it to 9.0 would be a nightmare for 8.0 Tanks.
So I think that some BR decompression would still be nescesarry here.
Meanwhile the Leo 2k can stay at its br without any nerfs with the br decompression.
It still just does not feel right to play this monstrosity without being able to pierce a T 64A frontally with the dart from certain angles when you miss weakspots slightly.
At least the T 64 has some more valuable armour now…
Of course, they do this for the money and not for our gaming pleasure.
This might not be the way to make the most money, but it looks like to be a great way to make loads of money really effortlessly.
I believe they might be afraid to make drastic changes that are needed to fix the game completely, considering it would be a great risk and it could easily backfire if not done perfectly. They surely thought about this once and discussed that keeping things as they are now is a safer bet long term.
Also, the game is constantly growing which is surely a positive thing for Gaijin, so they’re in no hurry to bring massive changes that will undoubtedly shake up the game.
Changing numbers is indeed easy, but what’s not easy is to know how those changes will impact the game on the bigger scale.
Because vehicles are balanced to perform in an average fashion at their BR, and 2M’s stats are all but not average, thus would highly likely lead to a BR decrease. Of course, if those TS numbers are even close to being accurate.
KPz has 6s reload (instead of 7.5s) which is a massive benefit when shooting rounds that aren’t great.
It also has massive mobility and gun handling advantage over premium Leopard.
But I agree that decompression is highly needed around this BR.
Why are you shooting UFP on an angled tank ?
Yeah, at least it isn’t lolpennable by some vehicles, but it’s still hot garbage at 9.3.
I haven’t touched the kpz after the decompression for some time.
I can just remember trying to hit the drivers port of a T64 and not being able to do anything to it on several occasions
+1 this round need to get denerfed it’s now completely useless and i hate playing my xm-1. It’s just garbage shell that will meet constant spam of tanks/wheelers with 400mm of pen. Or even 2S38 in uptiers that has almost the same shell as you except he can shoot it every 0.5s.
Obvious case of russian bias. Russian vehicles never get nerfed like this. so again other nations are less competetive by this nerf. its stupid. this is why gajin gets 0 cents from ne anymore. i wish i could refund everything.
Also, it is fair to call this a ridiculous nerf. The M735 round got a significant decrease in penetration, from a document that Gaijin admitted was not actually true, and they never reverted it. It may follow XYZ principle but we have it sold in gold that M735 penetration is too low compared to in real life, so it is fair to call the nerf stupid. Maybe not Russian Bias, but stupid. Real stupid.
I agree that the nerf is bad, and should be reverted, but I believe that it didn’t affect it as much as people say it did. Especially since a moderator said that the report that nerfed it was false.
The only one I struggle with is the 2A4s. It’s also the only tank that got much harder to kill because you can’t pen it as easily. It also doesn’t help that 9.3 is 10.3 80% of the time.
