Trophy crates are a good idea to reward players for their playtime in war thunder, and are pretty rare to get too.
However it has some insane issues. Each crate is locked behind a 2.49 GJN (USD) key, as a paywall to even open them.
A lot of the player have 0 monetary investment in game probably will never do it, especially on a “marketplace” gambling item.
What makes it even worse is that you cant even do much with it if you dont have the keys. You can either get barely any WB with them, or you can recycle them into some trash wager.
You can technically “sell” them on the marketplace, but its always stuck at the lowest amount, 0.1 GJN, which translates into 0.08GJN with all the taxes. Which still is pretty useless since only one of them will sell every month or two, ill let the volume speak for itself.
Till date with my thousands hour of gameplay i only got 47 crates, out of which only 3 were ever sold for 0.08 GJN each.
This is simply bad gameplay reward design, all of these crates are hogging up inventories. It itself seems pretty hilarious that the crate which actually has the reward within itself (locked) is drastically cheaper than its key.
Hence the crates are in dire need of rework, how? i dont have much idea, ill give a basic (prob not the best) one.
Gaijins main fear is people getting vehicles from it and ruining the rarity of these vehicles.
They can allow this, We can open crates without keys, it will be opened in a “bruteforce” way literally breaking the crate. It will take a day to do so, and in the loot pool, the chance of getting vehicles will be drastically reduced (like SL crate levels of luck of getting vehicles), or else literally 0. This will atleast also allow players to get cool skins which otherwise is also locked behind paywalls.
This will still leave the key crate system completely intact, but also add a way to use these crates for f2p player
i hope yall can suggest better ideas too