Now, the costs are high because the flux of content is high, and vice versa- when there is no more flux of content, income will be lower, but so will costs be; so there would be no net losses.
Basically, the staff would probably go from the current 120+ active developers to like 30, and there would be no more outsource purchases, etc… I feel bad for all of those who will lose their jobs, but I guess that’s a natural part of things. And with years and years of experience behind their backs and good references, they will probably not have a hard time at all finding a new job!
That’s because they can only run the game off the hype train they create for top tier bozos.
So much more vehicles, tech trees to add, mechanics and bugs to fix but the catering to dented players obviously comes first.
( Harsh reality but those bozos are the ones currently worried for the future of the game rn, idk why, they’re getting their F-35 copypasta into 5 billion trees and effectively ruining anything below top tier and down)
Edit: inb4 anyone asks, I used to care about the game as well, hell I’ve been playing it for more than a decade now, but at this point I just point and laugh. At least I’m entertained I guess.
Well, leaving aside your clear distaste towards top tier players… yeah, that’s correct, hahah.
The majority of the income comes from Top Tier Premium vehicle purchases and people rushing for Top Tier indeed.
It’s only logical, though- the low tiers are so easy and quick to grind that no one on their right mind would pay to progress over there unless they really liked a Premium vehicle and got it just for the fun of it. Top Tier however has such a tediously long and slow grind that it’s where most money goes.
Specially now with the multi-vehicle packs. I got the Two Fronts pack even though I already had Germany entirely researched just because I really liked the tanks and the new lineup they would bring, hahah.
Thing is- outside of that, there’s no reason to pay for low tier stuff when it can all be grinded and spaded within hours. Same goes for Premium account- it is completely unnecessary with low tier economy.
Top Tier however- Premium vehicles and accounts are practically a requirement in order to unlock vehicles at an acceptable rate. So it’s logical that the majority of money is flowing from Top Tier.
EDIT: there are actually many reasons to get Premium beyond the grind! I just forgot about them for some reason when talking about this xD
I mean we know exactly what will happen to top tier air because it has already happened to top tier ground. They rush to some of the newest/most modern stuff and then barely add new top tier vehicles.
There are accepted bug reports to buff ITR and STR, and there are primary sources that Gaijin doesnt consider to be real stating that the supercruise speed should be 0.2 mach higher than it currently is. Also seems to be some wierdness with the engines loosing 25% of their thrust after turning. Also the rip speed is probably way too low. Even several sources showing the Typhoon should have AMRAAM/Meteors on the inner most wing pylons but Gaijin wants more than the sources from the manufactorers.
Beyond just FM stuff. You have:
The BOL nerfs
All the Goldfish-M issues (at this point, should just be replaced with CAPTOR-E, pretty clear they can’t or won’t fix it)
the cockpit is a mess
the HUD/HMD are a mess
PIRATE is hardly worth even having
It’s missing most of its A2G loadout (and not even just stuff that would be a balancing concern like a dozen or so possible types of GBUs)
And thats without including weapon related reports:
Aim-9M lock ranges are terrible
Aim-120Bs have a lot of outstanding reports
Aim-120C5s are barely an upgrade
Brimstone 1s have a number of outstanding bug reports and issues (on top of the lack of MMW and the fact the Typhoon only ever used Brimstone 2s and later)
Suffice to say. It IS underperforming quite a bit at the moment.
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That’s way too soon for the number of production and prototypes that fills WW2-mid Cold War still missing from that game. 3 years isn’t enough time to add all of those, so there will be plenty of content, it just isn’t going to be majority top tier.
The nations in-game have a large number of these, not to mention the nations without a home and sub-trees, both of which see less than 10% of their tech.
Premium time is the best investment when you are grinding trees, course- or if you regularly unlock and purchase new vehicles as they are implemented.
But for a low tier player, who got all low tier vehicles long ago and only plays them? Why would this player purchase premium time? They got nothing to unlock or purchase- and even if a few new vehicles came, they cost very little RP and SL anyway.