The issue is that Gaijin is absolutely the type of company that would eventually put vehicles on the auction system. Remember, they once had it as their policy that they would never sell top tier premium vehicles and they now do. They will claim an 11.7 Clickbait isnt top tier but with the max BR for ground being 12.0 and everyone knowing that uptiers are a core staple of the game, you are 100% buying into top tier with a .3 difference. Theres just not enough goodwill behind their company for players to not make this assumption.
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This is something that does not improve the community in any way, we are watching war thunder turn into CSGO.
I know we both agreed on that during previous chats on Discord Mokka. Also hi 0/
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Nailed it.
it appears we found ourselves in a viva la dirt league type skit
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there is already a poll here with +300 votes
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Notice how you guys didn’t mention about vehicles getting added here. Gee I wonder why, its like you’ll implement that “feature” in a later date…
This is a scummy idea, to think you guys would drop to WOT level of monetization is just plain sad. Instead why don’t you make the content creators/authors of these cosmetic items cost GE? Or add them at a set cost of GJN?
The fact you guys have not finished the roadmap, but used resources to develop this utter garbage. Have you guys forgotten this? Have you not learned?:
You have once again deeply disappointed me.
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they most probably saw it in wot and said they definitely want it here too
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You know you’ve really messed up when TEC makes some solid arguments
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indeed i really liked the point of content creators get the blow-back of unoptainable skins
so content creators also lose(unless they want to be recognized has greedy )
but the free Abrams guy shows being to close to gaijins values isn’t a good thing
Farmer and cows
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It is impprtant for my gameplay that vehicles are not locked behind the inflated prices and artificially limited numbers of an auction, yes.
Still, you didn’t once mention why you like the auction. Only why you don’t care. If you don’t care, then maybe support fellow players, especially those that do spend money to keep the game alive.
Please compare auctioning small numbers of a few skins to the 100 highest bidders, currently sitting at ~8.000GJN, but we can estimate with 15.000GJN for the sake of it in the course of the week.
Now take the GE store and put in player made camouflages, camouflages that Gaijin doesn’t actually move a muscle for as they are published by players on WT Live. Say you price them at 300GE a piece, equivalent value to 2GJN each.
Then make sure to have each vehicle branch (Air, Ground, Heli, Bluewater, Coastal) represented for each nation, and you get a total of 44 skins, maybe round to 40 for the nice even number. Change this selection weekly with new camos each week, all available in infinite numbers at this fixed price.
This makes it so that each camo would need to be sold only 375 times in this time to make the same value. With ~60.000 rounded down average active players that is less than 0.63% of players needing to decide to buy an inexpensive, yet still rare and time limited camouflage to bring the same value.
I guarantee you that is less than there is people trying to bid on camouflages right now, so actual profits would likely still be higher.
Sure this number is multiplied by 40 for the different camos, so 25% total, but considering that is active players at a time, the actual number of people playing the game and potentially paying is also much higher. Even active players at a time often shoot past 100.000, and those that do buy content tend to buy more than one as well.
And all of that that can still be adjusted by offering more camos (which is less work for them than making the auction system) or setting the GE price higher. 500GE, or 3.3GJN in equivalent value might still be something people buy (if maybe less frequently).
So basically what I’m getting at here is there is other, less predatory ways to make money.
This is what Gaijin should be going for, rather than alienating a large part of their paying playerbase.
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Or just…fix the countless issues and add more than like…2 vehicles an update that aren’t just copies in 5 different trees idk. Or redesign some of the awful maps…or deal with many of the toxic gameplay elements. But wait, MONEY!
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I think the only logical conclusion is that they’ll start selling old/rare event vehicles like IS-7/Object 279 in small batches every few months to get some easy cash.
Offering 50x Object 279s for 300 GJN each would make them some serious cash by doing little to no work.
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Also. This is how you get creator skins out there? Super limited runs abusing fomo for way over cost? Maybe just…use your already existing marketplace?? Where it will sell FAR more quantity and inevitably earn MORE for the creator, or some other new system that sells creator skins permanently.
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I think he raises a good point that it’s odd that the two camoes this time are anonymous, when the whole point is supposed to be promoting creators. Normally we always got the creator names, I’ve even said hey in game to one or two over the years and “keep up the great work.”
I assumed these two were done by company artists and that’s why there’s no creator names this time, but if they weren’t and the policy is going to be to leave off their names, this would become another 10% sketchier.
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The whole situation seems dubious, with a lack of transparency about who the content creators are and the percentage they receive.
It’s likely that content creators only get 30% while Gaijin takes 70%, which doesn’t seem to genuinely support content creators but rather benefits themselves, using it as a façade / Front.
If you want honesty, thats how its coming across.
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i have heard they say its a test so no creator this time
but how TEC already said who wants its name on such a scam product and feel the backlash (for 30% of the revenue )
at that point go all in and promote a pump and dump crypto/nft and get much higher profit
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I can’t wait for the Auction only vehicles to start coming out that will only hurt the console player base even more since they don’t even have the market place nor any of the small packs or the event camos to be purchasable on there.
I mean really this game has become worst than EA titles games. And that’s pretty pathetic to say the least.
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makes me think they already thought of that and its just another way (like the current cosmetics and test wording)
to make the Hydrochloride acid easier to swallow