- Rerun events
- Add a way to obtain them outside of events and the market place
- Rerun Events and add a new way to obtain them
- Keep them as they are, rare collectors items
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Over the past decade Warthunder has ran numerous events and is now about to start its 12th battle pass. A majority of these events add decorations, profile pictures, wallpapers and more importantly vehicles of which there is around 177 various planes, tanks and ships that have been added through events and battle passes.
Going off of steamdb alone (All reference to player count here will be based off of steam numbers as they are easily accessible and well documented) the game has had a pretty steady player base since its release up until 2020 of constantly around 15k - 20k players with a peak of 35k on steam alone, in 2020 to 2022 the game grew nearly 50% with a now around 30k to 40k players. From 2022 to current day the amount of players has nearly tripled what it was between 2014 and 2020 with 50k to 70k people and 113 250 players at its all time peak just a few months ago. With the player base expanding so much within the past few years alone so many players missed past events and a majority of the rewards available, with the addition of the gaijin market it helped players to be able to buy the items that they wanted but missed. However as time goes on the amount of these vehicles left on the market has dwindled and caused the price players are selling them for to skyrocket dramatically to where they are multiple times the cost of a brand new top tier premium, and people just do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on any vehicle let alone a low tier counter part to a tech tree vehicle.
I don’t feel all these unique, interesting or fun vehicles should be left to the few remaining players that still play after all these years or left to never be purchased on the marketplace. A vast majority of other online games have similar events and rewards but re run these events every so often or have the rewards of these events available in other means. Warthunder does have them available in their loot crates but these vehicles shouldn’t have to be obtained by gambling money away for a minuscule chance of getting a premium vehicle let alone the event one you actually want, or pay an equal amount to just outright but the few remaining one left on the market. Some of the vehicles aren’t even on the market either so they are just outright unobtainable such as the Yak-3T, Tandem MAI and the Lorraine 155 Mle.5.
The easiest solution to this would to just rerun the events which would be great in of itself and i think they should, but i also think that they could add them to the war bond store or something similar. At the moment the war bond store is alright but i think expanding the amount of war bonds and adding another tier to the store for the higher br vehicles to add some more variety and something that will excite people so that they are a bit more excited about the battle pass and want to purchase it and grind it out. There are probably other ways of implementing such a system but it would be great if either the events were reran or there was a way to obtain them again without paying hundreds of dollars either on the market or in loot boxes.