These concerns wouldn’t be their if Gaijin would offer a confirmation that such an extension won’t take place. Until now they completely refused to deny it, which is where the concerns come from.
And of course even then the value of their promises isn’t all that great when taking many from the past considering how much they like to argue semantics and figure out loopholes.
For example “No top tier premiums” started as meaning no jets would be sold, then no top rank premiums, then events were turned non-premium and offered for events, and now they sell top rank premiums stating they aren’t top BR.
So a clear statement is what we need. Gaijin has to say:
“We will never sell vehicles or other non-cosmetic items trough auctions, or other artificially limited quantity, inflated price systems. Every vehicle or other non-cosmetic item will forever have to be available as a playable event, and/or fixed price purchase option not exceeding double digits in GJN ($/€) equivalent value first, before entering systems such as (but not limited to) the Gaijin Marketplace.”
…otherwise we can’t trust the auction. And even then it’s still a bad system, only a compromise limiting the egative effects to non-essentials.
We’re primarily focusing on promoting selected user-generated content from WT Live on the Auction with a revenue share cut offered to the authors.
Additional content we’re currently considering includes profile icon frames, decals, profile icons and similar items.
Is there a possibility that this will be available on the regular market? To be honest, I’m not willing to spend £200 on a profile frame. It’s unreasonable to limit the quantity and set such high prices. A better approach would be to charge £5 or £10 per frame/image and produce 50,000 units. This way, everyone benefits, and you might even earn more, along with the content creator.
Even if you reduced all store prices by 50% (I’m aware of the annual sales; I’m suggesting a permanent price cut), you’d see significant profits. People would buy year-round. Lower prices lead to higher sales, resulting in greater satisfaction for all.
As we’re in the experimental phase, we tested with 100 lots. We may modify the lot numbers for future types of user-generated content if we feel that these changes are required.
Perhaps y’all might also consider some titles as well. Like some rare, hidden or even “new” titles . . . like “Collector” . . . . hint hint, wink wink . .
Just a thought . . . it does seem like something that might fit in there well and be fairly easy to make happen . . . but that’s just me . . . ☻
p.s. maybe not the achievement related titles tho . . .
I feel like Gaijin is gonna auction some new release or rare event vehicle in the future
That would make the community even more mad
This is just absurd
I dont think it’s worth for Gaijin to completely nuke the customer-dev relations. Even before a good amount of people were hostile and did not put much weight on to the words of the company, but if this garbage WoT monetization goes through, it will be an extreme minority that will continue to shill with the majority becoming more hostile.
At the end of the day ratings and online opinion matters to the profitability of the product. Short term you will sell 900$ vehicles, but mid term it will seriously hurt the game.
“Overwhelmingly Negative” is not something any dev wants to see.
See this is why people are concerned, there’s never a direct answer and just dancing around the question.
You talk about what gaijin is primarily focused on, what other content is currently being considered currently but do not actually answer the question which just gives everyone the impression that yes, vehicles are a long term goal.
exactly its common for companies nowadays to create problems and sell the solution
but gaijin here creates a problem and sells us a ton of much bigger problems
