Honestly for vehicles I don’t think there should ever be auction limited ones. I’d be fine with auctions for camouflages, or using the auctions as one of more types of reruns (not making it the only option) to get old event vehicles maybe with special auction camo added to them.
I’m most afraid that with this feature we’ll see limited availability on vehicles that have literally no way of being earned in an event or at least bought for a fixed price.
Gaijin is doing ANYTHING but making new game modes or other fun features, instead they’d prefer to get children addicted to gambling.
I aspire to be as cold as Gaijin, ts tuff
I see this system completely replacing the marketplace in its entirety in the future. It can effectively end the situation where certain vehicles sit on the marketplace for years because no is paying say $350 for T-72 Moderna. If you make it so players can only auction their event vehicles, Gaijin is getting something whether it goes for 1 GJNC or 10,000 GJNC. The thing is, its forcing the movement on something that might not be moving; therefore driving up FOMO. This is why it feels so scummy and deserving of any and all mud dragging its getting.
Yeah, it just seems really scummy
I already said before that there is absolutely no player benefit from this. I really hope they just scrap the idea
I’d really like to see where this sits legally in some countries. Because Gaijin and so many other digitally-based industries are so dead set against digital property ownership (i.e. you actually owning your War Thunder account and not just a license to a collection of data under your username); how are you able to auction something you don’t actually own, but that Gaijin is collecting real currency from? I guess the same could be said for the marketplace. This just feels worse because it hinges so much on FOMO.
bit early for an april fool’s joke
If they replace the general market with this then sellers would also benefit from the higher prices.
On the contrary,
Whilst there would be higher prices I think that the lower volume of trades would actually leave skin makers worse off.
this implies they actually listen in the first place
So assuming they do that, wouldn’t that also deplete vehicles much quicker?
So a few players benefit from getting more money, while other players lose proportionally even more money due to Gaijin’s share, and event vehicles become rarer, which denies access to unique gameplay for even more players than regular market prices do?
Combine that with the Gaijin possibility of auctioning limited runs of exclusive stuff which is insanely unhealthy for a game rated 12+, and we get possibly one of the worst things Gaijin has tried in a long time.
Doesn’t exactly sound like a player friendly decision…
On that note aren’t most auction sites above 18+ or 21+ ?
Let me be clear: this is completely and utterly unacceptable. It is disgusting, and in the grand scheme of things this will not generate nearly enough revenue to offset how fundamentally damaging and dangerous this is to this game.
This is the kind of mistake that could literally end a game’s life cycle. It looks (and IS!) that bad.
Publicly announcing this, let alone carrying it out, is an existential threat to not only War Thunder as a game, but Gaijin itself as a company.
Let’s say every item sold for 1,000GJN, and you had 3 different items, 100 copies. Is 300k GJN worth losing the company?
But yeah I’m in the UK so I need to check that but I do believe gambling is above 18+ here iirc
Yeah sites like ebay and vinted are 18+ so I’d imagine the blanket age limit is 18, so unless Gaijin adds an age verification system then I don’t think it will be allowed under UK law especially since it’s using real money instead of like how Forza handles it’s auction with free in-game currency
Imagine taking all the good faith the roadmaps and Dev posts have garnered just to throw it all out the window with a tone-deaf decision
Whyyyyyyyy
My friends on discord are looking into it but yeah gonna be funny as hell
There is obviously a lot of back and forth. It seems the players need to reinforce reason from time to time to balance this out.
Gaijin is capable of being very reasonable and making correct decisions. And they are capable of horrifying stuff like this.
So you’re saying their dev team uses one of these?
“It is decidedly so”
Can somebody buy me the mig 23 ml , i love russian jets.
Well… seeing how some people are already bidding 67 EUROS for a profile icon frame, I’d say that Gaijin has already found enough of an audience.
It doesn’t matter if 99% of the community opposes this; as long as there’s a 1% who is willing to spend 70 bucks on a profile picture icon, Gaijin has no reason to backtrack on this.
I can only hope that they won’t be locking interesting or unique vehicles or historical camouflages in here.
As long as they keep it for unimmersive fictional skins and stuff like that on a small and limited scale, it’s fine by me.
I hope that Gaijin has an extremely good legal team, because being based in Europe they only need one slightly angry politician and Gaijin will be dragged to court
And trust me,winning is not an option for the Snail