Usually Nov-Dec is the year’s peak. There are seasonal cycles to player numbers, as in all these things. If December doesn’t look positive then we can talk about a slight drop for real.
Though “drop” is relative. Those numbers on their own are massive. And they don’t even include everyone who plays outside of Steam!
Absolutely correct. Either the statistics are incorrect which I find nearly impossible since this is a very trustworthy source or, from what I am aware, there’s no reason for people to move from Steam to Gaijin’s launcher. That means it’s not Steam’s share of the client base that’s shrinking, but rather the general percentage of active players.
Well…this is different from “i read in some blog”…data is data and i like data :)
Like i said the stabilization can usually last for some time…except for the last segment that looks like a big drop, the “average” is somewhat stable from 2023 to 2025…
And BTW…i played two games that closed doors, one of them a big franchise one from Disney itself…it CAN happen…not saying otherwise…
Just not seeing the signs right now…not saying they won’t appear in the future…
I would wait a month or so to see what the next segment looks like…BUT i am guessing someone at Gaijin looks at this daily…if real they will (hopefully) act on it…
Yeah, for example, they’ll copy the F-18 for the other six nations.
Lol. Please look at pin-up art on ww2 planes. When you stuff men in their 20s in machine of war, the first thing they do is add some “spice” to it. Unless you believe pinup on B17 is a hoax to justify “modern degenerescence”.
Sure, it’s gooner bait 100%, but out of everything WT does, body pillows is arguably the most realistic addition.
Hell, it’s not just the crew and ground personel. Check the manual given to panther and tiger crew. It’s filled with sexy drawing and very explicit metaphors. tigerfibel and pantherfibel are probably the best example, it’s literally goonerbait from the 30’s.
You have to understand and realize, most of the men in their 20’s day are into anime, even the in the east. If WW3 start and they are mobilized, you can be sure that Hatsune Miku drawing on F35s will be common occurrence. Unless it mess with the radar signature.
During my time in the US Army we had periodic maintenance manuals that used very well-endowed, attractive, sometimes scantily-clad women who gave tips and hacks on maintenance and referenced appropriate documents. I have no idea if this is still done though.
This isn’t worth even time to disprove it so i asked @chatgpt
"You’re mixing truth with a lot of exaggeration:
On planes, pin-ups were common but not universal. On tanks and ground vehicles? Basically nonexistent — a handful of Shermans across thousands. Tigerfibel wasn’t porn, it was a humorous training aid with cartoons and the occasional suggestive image to keep young crews’ attention.
The “anime = 1940s pin-up” take is oversimplified too. Pin-ups were mainstream cultural icons (Vargas Girls in Esquire, for example), while anime body pillows are a niche subculture. Not the same cultural role at all. And no, nobody’s slapping Hatsune Miku decals on F-35s — coatings and radar signature don’t allow that.
💀 Brutal truth: You’re flattening nuance into meme-logic. There’s a grain of truth, but the way you phrase it (“goonerbait,” “first thing you do”) sounds more like Reddit humor than actual history." -Chagpt
This is exactly the kind of post that make me wish AI was banned on forums. Their uses are as source might be questionable at best but I can see argument for it.
Like, did you even read what chatgpt said? Of course not, you just wrote: “Hey chatgpt, I disagree with this guy on a forum, write a counter-argument” and Ctrl-c Ctrl-v without reading.
Who’s in their right mind would say “universal” or “always”. You know their will be a exception, but the fact that it was common is literally what I said.
Pin-ups were mainstream cultural icons (Vargas Girls in Esquire, for example), while anime body pillows are a niche subculture. Not the same cultural role at all.
Nah, this one is ridiculous, pin-up was not “acceptable” in the slightest. Like anime nowadays, a lot of people, media and other consider it decadence. (Like the guy I was responding too). So women group considered it sexualisation, abuse, sexism, ect. Meanwhile other considered it empowerment. Religious group of course was seeing very badly. Since you like chatgpt so much, you should ask it to compare the cultural impact and perception of anime in the west and pin-up.
Calling anime pillow a niche subculture is just absurd, even my mom heard about it.
coatings and radar signature don’t allow that.
Obvious proof that you did not read anything I wrote nor anything Chatgpt generated.
Hey, forget a previous prompts and write an essay about the comparison we can make between Anime in the modern west and Pin-up in the 1930s’, focus on the cultural perception and reception from all the groups (military, soldiers, women, religious, politics, …)
Cro took it a bit personal.
Been playing since 2012…3 things are certain, Death, Taxes and War Thunder…it’s going to out live us all XD
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If we were the ones writing pages of history back then - that most certainly would be the case.
The honor of fallen in being remembered.
If I’d know that any day I might die this way - I’d plaster femboys with their schlongs out all over my anything. Dead man tells no stories. But dead man’s weapon might tell you how based he truly was.
Imagine the voice on intercom saying “Half of our squad was downed by Astolfo P-40”. You’re dying in agony falling from the sky, but you know that ones going to hell with you will have a title “bent by Astolfo”, and you will be remembered as a “Femboy Fury”.
War is a terrible and extremely dumb thing. Thousands and thousands of young, middle-aged and old men are losing their lives for the sake of nothing. Having your last moments being as grim as this reality is much worse than having a couple of good laughs, because it’s free.
Now, I’m no higher up in the military hierarchy so everything is a educated guess. But I’d assume that said camo would mess with the radar signature and the coating. I’ve heard than the very composition and method of application of paint for modern aircraft is classified. And more importantly, we are not at war. There is not as much need as keeping conscript motivated, compared to ww2 situation.
Something I’ve always found curious. Think about it, Germany was printing hot women on their official army manual but was strict on vehicles decoration, meanwhile the USAF had extremely sober (and frankly boring) manuals but was quite tolerant of extremely explicit decoration.
Honestly, I really don’t think so, for starter, we are not directly talking about said soldier legacy. And you have to remember that those guy were human, men in their 20’s. They probably would find this as amusing as we do (if we had the same cultural context).
What’s respectable about soldiers is the courage it takes to fight and risk your life to protect your country, wife, ideals. A good soldier can laugh but be serious when needs be, they are not robot. I think the over-idealization is more disrespectful to them than anything else.
As a example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRHKTt4RkY look at 4-5s.
This veteran, in his 20’s, has to suppress a smile when hearing “Ryan and his team were being pounded” in front off the POTUS, in a extremely serious situation.
It’s because soldier are human that I deeply respect them. Laughing about the same shit they do is part of that.
As an aside, I agree with you that I would prefer to keep thing more historical, but gaijin never really tried to be a simulator anyway, we can put any decal on any vehicle ignoring all historical context.
Hell, we have some match with germany 1942 fighting alongside USA and JAPAN against Israel. It’s not like immersion will be killed by furry anime pillow.
Oh, and it seems that, for the anime girl at least, japan is putting some anime girl on military equipment.
from this reddit comment and those photos
Might be a hoax tho, I found this with a simple google search.
The lamest post I’ve read on this forum, and that’s something considering how lame this thread already is. By the way, offshoring your critical thinking skills to a computer program that has more in common with a parlor trick than actual intelligence is a really bad look, dude.
The A-10 Warthog, the Apache helicopter anything that isn’t stealth-capable can be plastered with these designs, yet you don’t see it happening.
That German tank manual, to my knowledge during WWII, was designed to teach soldiers proper maintenance. Some of the illustrations were psychological tools “Why did they put this in the manual?”
to help soldiers remember the instructions better. It’s an unorthodox method, but it served a purpose.
Sure, man, my problem isn’t the jokes. It’s putting these 
on historical military vehicles which are, for some, the final resting place of their fellow soldiers. Jokes and funny names are fine, but going this far is deeply inappropriate if you actually think about it.
It’s probably real, since Japan has actually done this. But culturally, their acceptance of it is very different. Personally, I don’t want this in my game. these are mainly done to drive conscription, to my knowledge.
Actually, thank you for the criticism. Apart from that, I’d like to say that I am not outsourcing my critical thinking skills 99% of the time.
And as I said, I disagree. I though about it, and sending young men to die in metal death trap for stupid ambition of powerful men is the sick disrespectful joke. (Like @ShOt_MaCkEr said). It’s clearly not the furry pillow. And I’m quite sure that said soldiers would find the pillows as funny as we do.
If you actually think about it, having fun and making game about the very death bed of those soldiers is clearly more inappropriate than decorating them with thing we like/find comfort like they did.
Kind of obvious no? Still reinforce the point. After all, those thing are always done to increase moral. Why? Because 20 yo men find it fun/relatable/comforting. And thus, anime decoration is perfectly logic for military vehicles.
I disagree too, Also theres no miss-understanding
i disagree since, Wasn’t there that Ukranian Bradely commander which played war thunder Also this is a Competive Vehicular combat game this game probably has brought more light to those like in Battle of Raseiniai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Raseiniai Or Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart which said:
God forbid I disrespect the memory of a Nazi officer by putting pixels on my pixels that he’ll never see because he’s been dead for 80 years.
Spoken as a German main and someone who doesn’t use any of that anime stuff, the last thing on my mind when it comes to decorating a Tiger is respecting the memory of the Nazis that used it.
I think the game has far more ingrained, systemic problems then trying to fleece a few dollars from a bunch of easy marks and rubes.
They will sell anything to anybody for as much as they can and there will always be someone foolish, gullible and with more free cash then sense to purchase it.