Because my friends play it. Ever since I reached top tier I only enjoy this game with friends… and you’d take that away from me just because I don’t want to pay $40 odd a year?
If everybody paid it would or should be much less than that.
Do you not see my point?
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I see every point made on here ,that is the idea of the discussion
not to be nihilistic but i feel like war thunder even if it wasn’t f2p would end up the same way it is now with excess monetisation
just look at the rest of the gaming industry for example
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I’m not pushing an angle or defending Gaijin or even attacking them but when you take the Console issue and the loss of the casual player into consideration you see a company that has to offer a game for free and therefore has to raise cash in other ways even if those ways can appear silly or over the top.
So it does raise the question that if many players cant pay or wont pay then can we attack Gaijin for what they do? Is it greed or desperation? The other issue is numbers. Always told there are millions of players but so often the “fragile player base” is the excuse for not doing so many things with this game.Its a little confusing
I never meant to sound rude so sorry if it did, just not having a great time so I’m a bit blunt. I just hate the idea of having to pay for games after already playing them for years and years, and hate subscriptions completely. I might be open to it if it was more, its $5 to make a gaijin account now or smth, as that would cover every one of their games yk?
I would be a fine one to criticise others for sounding blunt and coming across as rude on here.In writing it’s easily done : )
Yeah I agree about everybody paying a small amount but we all know with Gaijin it’s unlikey to be a small amount.On top of that we do have console issues as Bombay stated. It has also been said the the game would collapse without Free to play players dropping in.Its a numbers issue.
Might say on the reverse side I could say that we need to ODL premium guys and the silly Auction maybe? I mean its unpopular reality possibly?
With Gaijin its always two things.Good ideas done badly and little thought of repercussions to actions taken.They dig themselves a hole overtime.
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I don’t know how old you guys are, but every subscription game I’ve played has ended up having to fail or go free-to-play to survive in the end (including the likes of Pirates of the Burning Sea, Star Wars:TOR).
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No one knows what happened behind closed door for sure, and I bet it ain’t cheap to use all the real vehicles name and model and it’s 2500 vehicles we are talking about, how much they are paying for the licensing? Pretty sure it’s not a one off thing, and other games I’ve played have to do things like removing some music because they couldn’t afford to renew the contract anymore.
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yes war thunder is one of like 7-8 games that have multiplayer without Xbox live, if it was payed you would have to have live because it would no longer qualify to have free multiplayer
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dunno about everyone else, but if i were required to pay a subscription to play the game, id dip. i already think premium time is too expensive, and i doubt that they’d remove battlepasses and premium tanks if they also charged a subscription. after all, other companies are charging 60-70$ for a game that also has paid battlepasses.
As is, I dont participate in events, I dont pay for premium time anymore, and I don’t buy GE anymore. am i too poor for having done so in the past and stopping?
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I mean if this was a 60-70 dollar game where you could have access to the TT’s and all the premiums and event vehicles via lets say very specific missions or something i donno then this would be probably the best game ever made but it wouldnt be financially good for gaijin which would mean no updates and no online servers for multiplayer so nah
due to how much of this game is p2w and how many people legit use bot accounts/hacked accounts just to use everything they should drop the free to play aspect of the game it might aswell be a $100 game due to you needing premium account just to progress in later tiers
There’s free to play?