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xd, title’s a bit dramatic for what’s in the post, no?
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I have to grab the readers attention don’t I
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Anyways, the “business wants to make money” isn’t surprising at all. Every other game does it in some capacity, War Thunder isn’t (and shouldn’t) be expected to be any different
GE sales being x% will always differ depending on the year, so it’s nothing crazy. Sometimes it’ll be a specific figure, but not always as we’ve seen
I don’t see the problem with making rare vehicles permanently available??? Like that should be one of the things people complain about the least lol.
High BR premiums are expected by now. For the time being Gaijin has avoided 14.0+ premiums, but even those are likely to come in a future where a vehicle can’t really fit in the tech tree of x nation and the top BR increases to around ~15.3. Also, a player “buying their way to top tier” is entirely their choice end of day. No one’s forcing anyone to buy said vehicles near top tier.
“Copy paste” when the vehicles themselves have minute but sometimes very noticeable differences 🫠
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I get what you’re saying, but look at the squadron vehicles we got last update.
The MiG-29N has no business being a squadron vehicle. First of all, the USSR already has a top-tier squadron aircraft, so adding another one feels unnecessary. Second, the MiG-29N would fit much better in the regular tech tree, where players could actually progress toward it naturally.
Then there’s the Gripen D. If you look at Sweden’s strike line, it literally stops at Rank VI. So why couldn’t the Gripen D be placed there? It would be the perfect opportunity to extend that line and give Swedish players another vehicle to grind for instead of locking it behind the squadron system.
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No, this is not the end of War Thunder and I doubt there will ever be any soon. War Thunder is holding off as dominant title among vehicular combat titles alongside World of Tanks and a few portion of Armored Warfare, War Thunder being a free-to-play title, is no surprise that Gaijin will try to squeeze the most amount of money.
What makes War Thunder to overshadow these others is the appeal for a more realistic environment, the bombardment of sponsorship and the easy controls compared to other titles like IL-2 Great Battles: Clash at Prokhorovka, Steel Beasts, Gunner, HEAT, PC! making it more accessible for the public looking for a sim-cade experience instead of a pure arcade gameplay like World of Tanks and similar titles.
If the downfall of War Thunder is marked purely by the monetization tactics used by Gaijin then this game should’ve been closed years ago, this is not the first time. They’ll probably come with an excuse this or the next week or wait long enough for the heat of the moment cool down and people forget about it until the next year when they decide to add an specific vehicle as a Premium and so on everything repeats and nothing changes.
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May’s discounts has always been 30% of not 50%
Those also used to be avaliable to every one before they take them off of the store, there no reason for them to be permanently unavaliable for new players after all these premium can’t be traded like the event vehicles.
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Is Mig-29M, Mig-29N is the Malaysian Mig-29 in Japan TT
cause we need to keep the gaijin market place aka a mini stock market going as they make more money
MiG-29N is a vehicle in the Japanese TT. MiG-29M is what I think you mean, and even then this update we got the tech tree version of it (which should be better equipped IMO, but it’s not) in the MiG-29KR.
Gripen D is functionally the same as the 13.7 Gripen C, except iirc it lacks a gun and is a two seater. It would serve no purpose in the TT where the Gripen C already does the same thing.
That’s what I meant sorry
its looks like Margin Call , we all know about it before it happening…
They have 30% and 50% sales at different times of the year, that’s nothing new.
They where pack premiums, hardly what I would call rare, they where removed for a while then returned as GE premiums, something that is fairly common.
Preferable to the F-14D treatment IMO, where a mainline vehicle is locked behind a pay wall, you can by the senrai packs, or not, and you don’t gain/ lose anything over the TT variants.
The issue I have isn’t the company making money, they are a business not a charity, it’s that they invest nothing back into actually improving the game.
Spamming C&P premiums would not be such an issue if players could see at least some of that money coming back into the game in the form of bug fixes, improving game modes and developing the more unique vehicles for various nations.
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