Since Gaijin seems to want to increase their profits, I decided to give it my own spin and see what I could come up with.
I made a relatively simple incentive based system to encourage players to buy more premiums without taking away anything in return, by making research with premiums of the same operator nation as the vehicle in research 110% as effective. This is essentially the same system as that for research with the previous in line, however for premiums.
While this specific system is designed to work with the Subtree rework suggestion, in its basic concept it might give Gaijin some positive direction to help both their profits and the players.
I’m also always looking for ideas to improve and votes in my poll, so I’d appreciate anyone deciding to take a look at it!
This game doesn’t need more monetisation. It needs the existing funds to be shifted from golden yachts in Saint-Tropez to actual development (read: improvement) of the game. That will increase their income, because ppl generally like to spend a coin on a quality product…
I’d probably agree, but considering their (hopefully soon cancelled) auctions I’m not sure if Gaijin agrees.
Though this was mainly a proof of concept, not to ask for more monetization, but to show that monetization can be done without taking away from players, or using any scummy marketing tactics like they tried to apply here.
And of course I wouldn’t mind if this gives them more of a reason to consider the Subtree Rework either.
As long as were promised no vehicles or at the very least exclusive vehicles will be put to the auction let the decals and decorators and skins be allowed imo if people reallllly wanted something visual only that badly. Still prefer auction to not exist however.
But real life economic situations should? This whole thing is indefensible, and stona’s cope post on the news article is just an insult. Content creators that produce “quality” skins already get a cut from the camo boxes, they already get a larger amount for skins that are in higher demand as more of them are sold for a higher price, and for other sorts of content is already rewarded in other ways. From Stona’s post “provide an opportunity to purchase cosmetic items of interest without having to rely on luck” simply makes no sense, you can already purchase cosmetic items for cheaper than this auction house will sell them for without involving luck on the market, and the limited stock means that less people will be able to get these items full stop. It is purely a way of Gaijin making money, and locks the majority of people out of getting the content. The ultimate resolution to this would be to scrap the idea completely, and that is what should be done. If that is completely off the table, and gaijin is willing to die on this hill, then you need to remove the limited amount of the items, or massively increase the amount so that a reasonable number of people will get access to it, for cheaper.
As a console player, might I take this even a step further?
It’s pretty icky that this is being pitched as a pious way to support authors and content creators. Can Gaijin not support these people by paying them for their work and finding ways to monetize the content, with things like premium time, battle pass, et al or, as you said, just selling the content directly? Why does everything have to be so paywalled, overly complicated or locked behind gambling boxes?
Speaking particularly to aircraft skins, when was the last time a skin was made available—either unlock-able via activity or with GE— for a plane not introduced via a recent update? We have dozens of iconic planes that have been in the game for a decade with ZERO skins available to unlock or purchase.
I absolutely love the idea of Gaijin utilizing the community for skin/camo creation and paying them for their work, but they continue to alienate their console player base with locking even more content behind GC.
I don’t play on console, but I empathize with and advocate for our console brethren to be able to obtain as many vehicles and cosmetics as they wish. I do not know if the Marketplace will ever be open to consoles, but it doesn’t seem very likely. So, IMO, this is one of the strongest arguments that I have seen so far against this new auction system. Instead of the content being added in game directly for GE’s. Again, even though I do not play on console.
Vehicles of any kind or a module set according to rank, e.g. rank VII module set for expanding an entire tank or aircraft or ship, i.e. you bid on this module set, if you have it, all modules will be researched when you redeem it, I’m pretty sure that people will bid on that.
It’s inevitable, adding these removed vehicles back in a similar way to the Maus should be a no-brainer for the devs in terms of how easy the event/s would be. But I can 100% see them coming back for this auction.
This doesn’t change the fact we’re being swindled so that the people YOU work for make an extra buck. Insane that they’d level this at a playerbase with so many kids who don’t understand this immorality.
This community has to stand up against this, no matter our views about balance or gameplay experience.
The current market (by a reasonably coherent interpretation) is already a form of auction, and the anonymous factor only worsens it. I expect this to be cancelled ASAP.
You can charge 70-80 bucks for a premium vehicle, but opening the gates for possibly unprecedented levels of paywalled FOMO is UNACCEPTABLE.