What’s even worse is that people still give them money.
In all honesty, keeping this game alive for more than a decade by simply adding more and more slop on top of archaic game modes is an impressive feat.
Gaijin really knows how to sell things to the average consoomer.
That “archaic” game mode currently has 135,000 on Steam with a 24 hour peak of 166,900… Battlefield 6.
Clearly, people love the conquest game mode [called Domination in War Thunder].
Yeah, a lot of people really like Conquest and Domination, and I’ve seen in game people who hate anything other than Tank CQC and Air RB instant deathmatch. I get it when they say the playerbase wants this. There’s even people who want attackers and bombers REMOVED from Air RB. Where else can they play?
Those sorts of casual players don’t engage with the forums. There’s a clear niche with players who heavily invest their time and money into the game and get involved on the forums, and it tends to have a huge overlap with the sorts of people who really want slower paced gamemodes, or at least gamemodes with more varied and strategic objectives. They don’t exist. Or exist for 2 days in the middle of the week.
It’s extremely disheartening to hear the official response be “Players love playing our one mode. If you want different modes for your vehicles, stop playing”. I didn’t make a conscious decision to stop, but… I haven’t played once since I heard that.
that’s less than 2 week wtf is error message
166k for a newly released AAA title, actual rookie numbers.
That aside, I was admiring Gaijin how they managed to keep the game going with minimal investments towards decade old modes, by just adding more and more tech that come with their own problems and balance issues. Guess the community doesn’t care all that much about unbalance.
the community doesn’t even care about gameplay basics
the sheer fact that ammo detonations are STILL RANDOM is really telling of that
fuel tank explosions are random as well
but they throw a fit if you dare not include a shitty top tier tank for a nation that doesn’t even need one…
This video single-handedly killed almost all of my hope in the future of this game.
This game will continue being how it is now for the foreseeable future, how sad.
Cntrl c+v spg, undertiered premiums and now anime… art direction is gone and so is the atmosphere the game once had.
I’ll probably still grind the fomo mig 25 event but after that: “With one or three objectives, they’d have already stopped playing.”
Okay I agree with the primary sentiment of this reply, but I still love the weird fascination some users have with being angry or displeased with the anime content that either can be turned of or simply ignored cause none of the skins included anime characters or anything, its the stupidest fixation of the last couple updates. Again though agree with the primary sentiment here.
Hey wow, a completely different game that is known for the mode and why people play it instead of asking for something different? Really got them this time Alvis.
Another topic on this forum got me thinking that perhaps a better video to have been made would have been an insight into how Gaijin approaches flash point topics within the game; giving players an depth view at the discussions, meetings, and such on how they come to a decision that they truly believe is best for everyone.
To the average War Thunder player, it wouls have been a pointless video. Sure. But to those players who routinely engage in forums such as here or Reddit or on Gaijin streams, it would have meant quite a bit. Or I’d like to think so.
I am not saying it needs to be on something as super hot as the review bombing a few years ago but…maybe it could have been on the topic like ASEAN nations and China. I would have enjoyed seeing a video that was styled like the old school Bungie ViDocs where we got to meet more of the War Thunder staff (if they were comfortable with us seeing them).
But to see Community Managers collecting comments, building reports or whatever their method is, meeting with BVVD or other devs staff, and actually show dialogue happening between the various branches would have been a significant bump in transparency and showing value to player engagement here.
In short a live streaming answering player coments live in YT/Twitch.
Minute 11:08
I wonder why the diversity of vehicles would shrink, maybe if we stoped getting copy pasta each update things would change, anyway, here is your brand new Su-30 for china everyone.
1:1 copy to the russian Su-30 premium
Im pretty sure he meant Diversity of vehicles as in the type of vehicles we will encounter would shrink like light, medium, heavies to just mostly heavies or just mostly lights etc… Not by Copy paste vehicles. Could be wrong, but that was my interpretation of it.
I think he means in terms of models, but that can be too
Dont forget that after saying premiums should give you no direct advantage, they added the BMPT-72 thingy as a premium that has 2 huge advantages over the TT version, and not just bc its functional and the TT one isnt lol
More armour from shrapnel generally
Higher protection from the likes of big guns and side armour is improved
It also has commander thermals over the TT
only “disadvantage” is 2 less crew but it will be one shot most likely and thus almost meaningless
I saw it on the devstream, Oxy saying that the premium would be a little better than the TT version, its hard to not hate this company
There is no hardline in War Thunder. The goal posts are moving constantly because Gaijin choses to move them. The best ones are when you get different answers from say a community manager and a bug report manager on the same issue.
That aside, I’m glad we’re finally getting some top tier-ish jets that have latest weapon systems.
Nah fuck this, if it was 13.7 i would have no problem, but at 13.3 is obviously downtiered
