You’re spot on VR is definitely still a niche market, and that’s exactly why they should consider reinventing these aspects into War Thunder.
By pulling assets from Enlisted and Aces of Thunder, they could breathe new life into the game and take things to the next level with a more cutting-edge War Thunder 2.0. It feels like the perfect opportunity to really push boundaries, don’t you think?
Enlisted typically sees around 5,000 players online at any given time, while the newly announced Aces of Thunder, being VR-exclusive, will likely attract a similar number.
Compare that to War Thunder’s impressive 120,000 concurrent players it’s clear where the larger audience is.
From a business perspective, it would be a smart move to focus their efforts on War Thunder, as it’s one of their top revenue generators. And just to clarify, this isn’t about bias for the game (even though it’s fantastic), but purely about making sound business decisions.
Would rather have korea as a small unique tree than having all of their actually unique vehicles omitted just so they can come to Japan as a sub with as much copy paste as possible.
I’m hopeful for the game, but I know the player count after a few months will drop to the point where Gaijin starts questioning if they should keep it going or not.
I hope the game does well but I also think that stuff like WW1 aircraft shouldn’t be limited to sell a product which main selling point should be the fact that it’s a proper VR experience.
They won’t be rushing to add WW1 to WT. The money lies in modern era stuff, followed by Cold war era stuff and WW2 era stuff. The majority of WT players don’t care about WW1 and from what I’ve heard while playing the event, people are not enjoying the performance of WW1 vehicles at all.
I believe the real potential lies in War Thunder’s solid and stable customer base. By ironing out the issues in the BR and ranking system, reworking the economy, and fully expanding on nations, they could create something truly incredible.
Add infantry to the mix, integrate the graphical enhancements from Enlisted (like detailed tank interiors), and leverage the VR advancements from Aces of Thunder, and you’d have a money-making powerhouse on your hands. The opportunity to revolutionize the game is right there.
and guess what there is noting out there to touch it!
They will keep the games seperated to be able to maintain the lower age rating of WT, keep development simpler, keep the system requirements and the server loads for each game as low as possible and to be able to balance each game seperately.
The more features a single game gets, the more potential you have to break stuff while working on seemingly unrelated things.
They also already cannot be bothered to properly balance WT as it is. Do you really think they would start putting more effort into balance, if the game was way more complex?
They already have one. WT is raking in crazy money without having infantry, better VR or WW1 content.
They won’t get more to the point that this kind of effort would be justified. Getting the Enlisted players that don’t already play WT and the potential AoT players over would be a drop in the ocean.
adding new nations is more likely to attract more playerbase
For example adding indian vehicles would attract indians, and as we all know there’s many of them
I want to see more WW1-interwar stuff and more nations(or at least the Sub-tree rework that was linked)
Both would bring in plenty of money(form those who play for fun and don’t chase META). Yes nations are likely clearer sources but WW1 can be given to (almost)all nations already.
I don’t think you understand what a meta is.
You can like non-modern stuff and still be a meta-chaser. Chasing the meta means using strategies, equipment and vehicles that are perceived to be the best of their class.
If you look at the WW1 event for example, you can see that there still are meta-chasers, considering that the German Empire side has anywhere between 10 to 50 times more players queued up than the Triple Entente side and ingame most people use the A7V, St Chamond or the Garford and way fewer people use the Mark IV or Mark V.
On the one side, you can’t really blame them, as winning is more fun than losing.
On the other side, it is kind of sad that most players will not even consider playing something that isn’t meta. A lot of people aren’t willing to try stuff to see if they enjoy it, despite it not being the perceived as the optimal way to go.
Just talking about planes nearly everyone has options for aircraft but some nations would be pretty much all C&P from other nations but it being WW1 and low tier it wouldn’t really matter. But some nations would have to be skipped though since they either did not have any aircraft during 1914-1918 or simply did not exist.
US - Nearly exclusively used British and French aircraft. Only 1 US fighter saw service in WW1, the De Havilland DH-4.
Germany - Had their own aircraft.
Russia - Used license built British and French aircraft. Did make their own planes though, the Sikorsky S-16/20 fighters and the Ilya Muromets heavy bomber.
Great Britain - Had their own aircraft.
Japan - Had only 1 bomber at the end of 1918. (I think could be skipped like I said above)
China - No aircraft between 1914-1918.
Italy - Had their own aircraft but also used a lot of French aircraft.
France - Had their own aircraft.
Sweden - No aircraft
Israel - Didn’t exist during the time.
It would cover most of the major players of WW1 apart from 2 which would be tricky to place. The Ottoman Empire used exclusively German aircraft but would be tricky to place into the game since Turkey isn’t a nation in-game and there isn’t really a clear choice of where it should go. And Austro-Hungary would also be hard to place. It could go to Italy since Hungary is there but they were on opposite sides of the war, so the only other option would be Germany but since Austro-Hungary used German aircraft there wouldn’t really have a point there.
But overall I would absolutely love to see the WW1 aircraft. I don’t care if they are bad I find the birth of combat aviation to be interesting and cool. They are such an important part of military history and should be included in War Thunder.