I just want to talk about a major problem. The monetization patterns: battle passes, premium spam, Grind-events. That is match typical profit maximizing freetoplay tactics. They game is build around frustration and forces you into spending money. It’s sad but am i realy the only one who’s seeing things clearly? Longtime players like me, many of whom are historians, ex-military, or sim fans, are abandoning the game because they feel disrespected. The game isn’t focused on the long term players anymore. Only for the money and all those young kids who are crying about everything that doesn’t fit them. Don’t listen to all the experienced players who literlly played the game since it came out. 1st example: The APHE-change would have been amazing. Getting rid of the old unrealistic APHE Nuke and bringing in a new pattern. Okay everyone voted against it because they thought that it would make their tanks less powerful, but this would’ve affected every tank in the game.
The current grind and skill wall are almost hostile to newcomers unless they pay, which weakens the future player base. You have to spend so much time free to play to reach top tier that you are forced to pay your way up.A game build on ripping you off with a 70$ premium that you Bomb in because gaijin didn’t give you time to lern the game. The proper way YES, Arcade battles. The only gamemode were you can make 10 mistakes without getting shit on. I plame youtuber for this too. We’re havin so many noobs in top tier or mid tier. Because youtuber are telling them that Arcade is shit but it’s not, they are new to the game and you have to lern it somehow. The average player doesn’t care about anything exept Points. He rushes in trades and spawns in a plane to revenge kill the guy that killed him. They don’t lern they don’t chage.
I am one of the better war thunder players out there and i find myself getting frustrated by the game sometimes. I am performing, i am having fun but only because i am good at the game. I just can’t imagen how much pain the newer playerbase has to go trought. Getting forced to spend money and time on a game that only cares about the money. Dieing all the time without getting a kill, it has to be rough. Destroying everything good war thunder ever stood for.
Players like me are getting CASed to death by some toxic kids who abuse the free kills they are getting from spawing a plane in GRB. Another amazing mechanic. Spawn points for planes with full payload is too little too. Don’t come to me with just play Spaa. I don’t want to play spaa all the time because there are 10 planes up. I want to play a tank and you can’t survive that long in the current meta. It’s horrible, i hate what this game has become.
Just let me know what you think