Update 1.4.1 General feedback

Flint_74, on 21 March 2019 - 04:59 PM, said:   Well done, not only do you quote someone else's comment in replying to my post and apparently mis-attribute Srele007's post from page 4 of this thread to me, but you also then try to put words in MY mouth by thoroughly and deliberately MISQUOTING what I actually asked. Congratulations on reaching a new unprofessional low...   You know, maybe if you'd actually gotten off your high horse for just a second and bothered to read and understand what I ACTUALLY WROTE you would have seen that I categorically DID NOT ask WG to stop advertising their products in-game. I absolutely do understand that this is a free-to-play game and that this is how WG make most/all of their money, and that's perfectly fine, instead all I did was quite reasonably ask if the playerbase could have an option in the games settings to disable the incessant and thoroughly distracting marketing (a.k.a. intelligence) pop-ups that appear in the garage, because contrary to what you and WG might want to believe, not everyone that plays WoT is interested in spending money on this game, and thus fairly presumably not everyone wants to see a never-ending stream of mostly redundant and largely intrusive adverts flashing up on-screen when they're just trying to play the game and have a little bit of fun while doing that.   So look, with the greatest of respect, if WG aren't going to provide such a basic option, that's completely fine too, but at least have the common courtesy to answer the damned question in even a semi-professional manner, even if the answer is 'no', instead of bringing the unnecessarily defensive attitude, because that just reflects poorly, not only on you personally as a member of WG Staff, but on WG as a whole.   And as for the matchmaking thing, I literally haven't demanded anything, and I also haven't asked WG to give into anything, or for them to immediately give the playerbase anything "now", unless asking a perfectly fair and legitimate question is somehow now considered making a demand around here? But surely WG aren't so sensitive as to mistake a fair question for a demand, are they?   Instead I, and rather a lot of people around here apparently, would simply like to see some actual progress being made to finally resolve the matchmaking issue, even if that progress comes in the form of much more regular progress updates being posted, e.g. once a month instead of once per quarter/once per half year as we've been getting. And yes WG might well have staffing issues, and scheduling issues, and all kinds of other internal financial, time, and manpower issues, that have all conspired to slow down the attempts to fix the the matchmaking problem, but, once again, this has been ongoing for the best part of almost two years now, so if the people in charge of WG can't figure out within that extended timeframe to simply hire more staff, and/or to make whatever other necessary changes are required to get such a serious problem affecting their premier game fixed, then that just reflects poorly on the decision-making processes within WG.   Oh, and one final thing, I've seen and heard the whole "you don't speak for the playerbase/community" argument being used before, many times in fact, I've even seen it dressed up in all kinds of ways too, and frankly it's tired and it simply doesn't wash anymore, because bitter experience has repeatedly shown that it smacks of a games developer/community mangement team living in denial, so by all means WG absolutely should feel free to brush off individual players concerns about the state of things as being not representative, and instead WG should feel free to bury their head in the sand and ignore what's going on regarding the continuing valid concerns of this games playerbase if they want to, but WG should absolutely do all of that entirely at their own peril.   At this point I'll just presume we won't get an option to disable the pop-ups, and that the disabled team damage thing will happen when it happens, and that the matchmaking problems will hopefully be resolved 'soon™'.   Thank you for your time.  


Geno1isme, on 21 March 2019 - 05:45 PM, said: To be clear: WIth "you" I usually mean WG, not you personally. I'm fully aware that you're just doing your job by defending the company policies (though you have a very defensive style even for WG staff) and can't really do anything about it.   Partially this grudge also comes because we don't really have unofficial information channels anymore as you closed basically all the leaks for TBD, TAP and RSR, so we're pretty much stuck with whatever bits of intel you guys can release. Unfortunately for you that also means that we will bug you constantly and every word from you and every picture in articles will now be analyzed to death    What would have been nice after the WG Fest announcement is something like Scheduled for Q1: special ammo testing phase 1, frontline return, wheeled vehicles, multithreading Planned for Q2: bond tanks stage 1, ranked battles season 3, CW season 11, special ammo testing phase 2 Planned for Q3: swedish mediums, new premium account, bond tanks stage 2, MM rework Planned for Q4: ranked battles season 4, CW season 12, special ammo rework   And not just be informed one or two weeks before things actually go live. And yeah, secrecy is common (not only) in the gaming industry. Doesn't mean we have to like it. It's just even more frustrating with live services.


Saar_Lion, on 21 March 2019 - 05:53 PM, said:   I haven't played since this "representative" had me banned from the forum for 14 days for helping him make himself look condescending, stupid and useless at his "job".   Hope the powers that be don't miss my money and sack him... that would be awful