Special: Cease Fire

Ectar:   I find this comment rather frustrating. We don't have an issue with any player. Prior to Silentstalker getting his main account banned from the forums I was always helpful to the guy regarding his Q&A thread making sure it stayed on topic etc. He started his blog so he would have the freedom to say what he wants (and he does) without anyone telling him what to do. Now sure he's made it clear for whatever reason he doesn't like me personally, but I was under the impression we're still on speaking terms as I reached out to him only recently to help clarify any confusion over what the EU office is or isn't doing (for example here). That door is still open and Silentstalker or any other blogger is contact me at any time to get additional information. As said at the time there is things I can and cannot discuss for various internal reasons but if I can chase it up I will. Not speaking about something doesn't mean I don't know, it's simply not my place to confirm or deny it.  Our developers have that freedom because they're the people that make those changes and as you know from reading FTR, our developers can change their minds quite frequently on certain topics (The FV4202 changes are a perfect example). When I give information to players, because I know I will be quoted days/weeks/months later I prefer that information to be concrete and locked in place. To claim that we must stick true to something that was never confirmed in the first place, that's not something even up for debate. It's been said time and time again that nothing is confirmed until it's on our portals.  If you choose to take the word of a 3rd party that's entirely your choice but please also remember that any 3rd party sources generally come with their own disclaimers about things being subject to change.   We don't do things to "spite" our community. Lets be reasonable here for a few moments, unhappy players = players who don't spend money and also leads to players that don't play, any company knows that.  Keeping players happy now by just throwing large bonuses and discounts at you only serves as quick fix for a single weekend. Next weekend it starts all over again with everyone expecting the previous week to be topped. You only need to go back to January this year to see how everyone was expecting massive discounts and bonuses to continue after Christmas and I'm sure next month that will happen too.  Yes we want to have weekend specials that excite or entice players but you also have to remember we also have a limit to what can and can't be offered. Weekend specials shouldn't be something like an arms race to always have more and more than another event.   In the past I've been accused of coming across with a "you should think yourself lucky" attitude when trying to calm players down. That's never been my intention and I'm truly sorry if players have taken offence at that. I'm just trying to get some players to see the bigger picture instead of always looking it thing based on their own individual circumstances and expecting weekend events or things like premium shop offers to be tailor made to them and them only. It's coming up to the Christmas period where players can be pretty sure there will be widespread discounts and bonuses. I go through this discussion with you guys in these topics almost every single month.  Every month I give the same answer and still the topic comes up again and again.   Wait till the month is over then let us know what we missed.   This advice is almost always ignored because each weekend different individual players always want different things and then want it now.  We say we can't please everyone and the answers come back as "Well at least give a little thing everyone can use"  or "Huh, nothing for me this weekend I'm off to do XYZ".  In another comment there is someone saying "At least give us 3x exp." To give a perfect example of the "different things for different players" -  With any 3x exp or 5x exp events you have multiple topics or posts complaining about "only tomatoes playing this weekend" or similar style complains about how X player can't win games. Sometimes there is big bonuses, sometimes it's just something small.  You have to understand however that with a small event it's almost always because there is a bigger event coming right after it.  

Ectar:   http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/332071-end-of-the-year-festivities-in-game-bonuses/page__pid__6706904#entry6706904   It's available for anyone to check, there was also higher tier discounts less than a month before it.