one of the biggest ones not eaten up by a bigger corporation, but technically still indie and I’m not counting Microsoft, sony or Nintendo studios in this. and I think just under 100k people playing as I type this is a good indicator that Gaijin isn’t a small company anymore
If you want to have a laugh read some of the negative reviews on steam, there’s a lot of “bought an abrams but this game is too hard” types there
100k concurrent users is not anything these days when that would be a slow day for newer/more popular titles.
You think that unbiased users find this game crap funny?
100k online. 20th on Steam charts too and steam makes up a majority of where PC gamers play games from. Not bad for a company you don’t see as one of the big ones.
I find the seal clubbing of new players at high tiers of games a funny but deserved punishment, don’t buy your way up in a game with a lot of complicated stuff and matches full of very very experienced players.
Gaijin markets the high tier packs to the mass gaming market to intentionally sucker new players in at that level. What the fuk is wrong with you?
¯_(ツ)_/¯ I didn’t spend £60 on a free-to-play game that i wasn’t sure I’d enjoy, they didn’t have to either its on them more than gaijin showing off their shiny premiums
Work on your empathy.
Im good thanks, I didnt buy an expensive product without the research or testing of the water
I play Air RB up to 8.0.
I came to War Thunder for WW2 to Korean era, and that’s what the game was marketed as back then.
I watch DEFYN on Utube, and top tier planes looks incredibly bad - games over in 5 mins, missile spam everywhere… no thx.
Unfortunately for me, it’s clear the $ is in top tier, and that’s why the focus is there now.
It would be nice if us WW2 focused players could get a few vehicles per update, even if it’s just a reskin or something.
I wish I could get SM.93, P.119, SAI.403, SM.84, Ca.331 and all the other cool Italian planes instead of multiple copypaste jets fulfilling top tier needs.
Yeah I gladly spend on WW2 (mostly) vehicles. Anything BR7ish and under I am down for if it’s a good/fun play experience.
But they don’t want to add things for people like us, which is so stupid. Imagine if they added a GE 234/4 mit AK7B (the recon version) for ~3-4k GE. People would scoooop that up. It makes a massive difference to the German TT lineup having that 234.
But no, they’d rather bait 20% of the total players instead to buy a single 60 euro premium and leave after 2 weeks, instead of many of us buying WW2 stuff over the year…
I can see where the money is to be made. Gaijin is sitting on a money printer and is treating it as such and it shows. They aren’t thinking about keeping core of the game population happy and playing and spending, they forgot us.
Yeah, i totally agree on this!
WWII equipment is bought through the year, instead of an one time purchase.
If they were to expand it more through that era, they would make waaay more money. One of the reasons for this is because everything is openly published, instead of unclassified documents making it impossible to add cou ter vehicles for most nations.
Yes, cause those are the interesting looking tanks and planes. There’s a lot more diversity in those since they have so many different suspension types, armaments, general layouts etc.
Exactly!
There is a post on this forum that asks everybody to leave their ages and you would be surprised to find how many are adults not children,many are well in to thier 50,60 and even 70s.
These are first Gen gamers.
Many people that age have disposable cash and credit cards to throw at the game where kids do not. Gaijin does not seem to realise this and is probably cutting it’s own throat by abandoning WW2 and flooding it with Cold War Arty spam and not introducing new WW2 vehicles.
Overall it is the same story. Obvious greed in some areas and totally missing a trick financially in others.
Gaijin’s CEO is missing out on a new Ferrari by ignoring WW2
They push top tier, as that’s where you can sell $70 premiums. You cannot do that with WWII stuff. People see how much grind there is to get to the top tier, so they get suckered into spending $70 on a pixel unit, thinking it’s a good investment. I don’t like it as much as I don’t like squadron vehicles that are top tier as well.
Years ago I used to think that I can grind out some vehicles and upgrade them, so I can use them in some interesting battle events (World War anyone?) There were some attempts, but in the end we are just stuck with the never ending stock grind with a crappy match maker and nothing else. I signed up for War Thunder, not Grind Thunder.
Better not, Gaijin tends to destroy everything they touch
It would be great if at least one plane/tank from the ww2 era was added in every update for each nation
I’m out of likes but I 100% agree.
Well, having the unique vehicle would be nice, I’d take the C&Ps too.
At worst, I’d take one nation getting one of its unique missing WW2 things with everyone else getting one of their missing C&P.
There are sooooo many cool early ww2 vehicles they could add, like the flamethrower l3/33, and to be honest, i find modern vehicles quite boring.
I fully agree with this. It’s frustrating that many of the recent updates rarely add interesting early prototypes, even though a significant number of players want them. One way to improve this could be to add early vehicles more consistently, without necessarily changing the focus on top-tier content. I’d also love to see more World War I and interwar prototypes—it would make the game much richer and give the lower tiers more depth.