Competitors have nothing to do with a decline, since I would say the came is in decline NOW. It’s near impossible to find matches that aren’t just filled with bots, aimbotters or passive campers. The game is just gonna keep getting worse and it’s clear it’s not gonna get fixed anytime soon.
Well in that case they can focus on more detailed and realistic armor for top tier and whatnot. And if that’s done they can add some rare tanks and if there’s nothing new to add they can introduce new game modes. And every few years there’s probably going to be new vehicles designed so a shortage is either not quite possible or that warthunder can still last until new vehicles are designed by companies
And Gaijin has a lot of games running like enlisted so they’ll not run out of money easily. As long as war thunder can maintain a basic level of income it’ll be alive
That will not attract new players and sell expensive premiums.
Free to play games need a hook and the hook is new additions, weapons and vehicles.
If we have the Gen 5 aircraft next year then Gaijin what reverst to adding cold war vehicles they missed out?
Gaijin can last for at least a few years with some new maps and smaller additions of special tanks. By then new tanks and weapons would have been invented. Now there’s already news of sixth gen jets. They’ve already made enormous amounts of money anyways a few years with slower growth won’t kill the game.
Maybe I dont see Gen 6 being in service for another 10 years. Yes there is more stuff to add but the game hasn’t and isnt’t changing the maps are the same small size affairs and the game modes are exactly the same.
I agree, Gaijin needs to slow down. As much as I hated the grind to top tier, Gaijin needs to fill the Cold War gap, there’s no reason it took 5 ranks to get from 1930ish to 1952 (pre-WWII to Korean War) meanwhile it took less than 3 to get from the end of the Korean War to late 2000s-early 2010s.
As I said, I hated the grind, but Ranks 5-7 needs to be Rank 5-9 at least. Giving Korean War jets a bit of breathing room instead of constantly fighting early Vietnam jets (MiG 15bis versus F-104). Giving Vietnam War jets breathing room from fighting modern jets (F-4 Phantom versus JAS39), and so on.
I was beta back in 2012… game is strong.
Sometimes a lvl44 player is excellent and will soon be a lvl100 player.
I’m lvl100, 53yrs young and consider myself entirely mediocre but I love the game.
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That doesn’t mean it’s not running out of steam. It just means you like it a lot.
It’s getting stale. It’s well past the innovative phase, and firmly entrenched in the “milk who we have left” phase. That’s the terminal phase.
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1- War Thunder new vehicle funding mechanism is vehicle additions.
That’s not necessarily the funding mechanism for sustaining the game where premium account is more along the lines for that.
2- In the same way any content stagnant game does.
Counter Strike, Dota 2, PUBG, Stardew Valley… they’re all games that are content stagnant in their genres yet popular.
If War Thunder’s direct competitors are still behind, then War Thunder when content stagnant will maintain a strong base. All projects must become complete, stagnant; and preparing for that is the biggest hurdle of every game creator.
3- Servers are scalable, and they maintained 1/3rd of current servers with far less money 7 years ago.
There’s also potential for sustainable multiplayer if lessons from Enlisted occur.
@NewDawnSets
157,000 players on as of this post’s creation, which is exactly normal for the game since at least 2024 and is still the “peak” of the playerbase.
Cheaters have always been a part of War Thunder, and they didn’t end War Thunder when it was far more fragile.
Yes and new players will come and play to unlock the existing vehicles the issue arises when the current player base gets bored.
All superior games in their own right, Counter strike is a right of passage to any FPS fan and will always have that draw. It has also changed massively over the years. From a Half-life mod to what we have now. A better comparision would be what has happened to Unreal Tournament and Quake…They died
DOTA competitive servers have a lot of play and it is that game mode that keeps the game relevant.
PUBG went from being the original Battle Royale game to to some memey nonsense it changed very much for the worst.
We would all love increased sever capacity and separate regions again.
Player numbers are great as for many neutrals we are at the most exciting time period in the game…Using vehicles from today that are in active warzones with real weapon systems and beautifully modelled vehicles is great. Sadly when you peel back that veneer it is just capture the point gameplay and it is stale and repetitive.
I dont think War thunder dies in 2-4 years maybe 8-10
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They need to fine tune the stuff we have right now. The more iv played , the more i just WTAF…
Il.use the ki200 and its 4 minutes fuel as an example… 2.5 mins fuel when u get central if your lucky- so.time to RTB. How does Gajan think this is OK? IDGAF what the reason they give is as there isnt a good enough one that exists…
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It’s becoming more like the Other Game. I’ve noticed slowly over the years that wins and losses are either absolute curb stomps, or super tight*. Any variation in between those two extremes becomes less and less to where I’m starting to wonder if they are purposely “crafting an experience” like the Other Game does.
*That’s how it always was and still is in the Other Game. Matches are either 16 - 1 or 16-15. Anytime anything in between that happens, it’s exceedingly rare.
I’m just gonna come back in 4 years to laugh at you.
Laugh at whom exactly? Use the reply feature.
I’m replying to OP, he’ll get this message
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Actually there is a problem that your own suggestions moderators won’t process proposals in time i got 3 of them that still pending for 3 month in a row. On RU forum vehicle suggestion spam is forbidden(cause devs are not stupid, they know that there is a lot of different vehicles in the world and they have their schedule what and when to implement). And proposals processed in a day or two. And there is no dozen of suggestion subsections, just “new”, “accepted”, “rejected”, “implemented”. Start changing that. Become a better community and you wonder how game will change.
