A Helping Hand for Holiday Ops

Cobra6, on 11 December 2018 - 08:08 AM, said:   There seems to be a disconnect between statistically not breaking the game and breaking the gameplay for players. Having skirmishes swamped with Defenders is not fun in any way, it's clearly better then the competition so it gets picked. A couple of years ago the IS-3 was pretty dominant but despite that the AMX100, T32, 110 and other tanks were frequently used as well. Nowadays it's only Defenders and Patriots, stale, boring and breaking the gameplay *for players*. Also, some can be seen as over performing? Look at the win ratios of the tanks you are selling compared to the competition, most are over performing and some by quite a margin.   People will not buy the premium they like, they will buy the tank they'll win most games in as winning is fun and losing is not. So the premium they will like most is the premium they win with a lot. Hence why over performing premiums and tech-tree tanks are always so popular and why it's a bad idea to put more of them on the battlefield. They kill variation and push all other vehicles to the back.   And you are right, tech tree tanks *CAN* be uncomfortable but in the last few years and especially the last few tech trees there are now more uncomfortable tanks in there then comfortable ones and we both know this didn't used to be the case back in 2012/2013. Wargaming needs to understand that while they will make money with all the free-XP'ing that needs to happen to make new tanks/trees bearable, they are scaring away/exhausting a lot of their (new) players and with the stagnant growth, this is the last thing Wargaming can afford right now.   I always hope for good changes but honestly, pretty soon it will be too late unless drastic changes are announced that address issues which have been raised by the community for years. There is more and more (public) discontent and the clock is ticking. We don't want WoT to go away, heck speaking for myself I still love this game despite it's many (years long) mistakes, but it's getting harder and harder press that battle button.   As example: My brother and a good friend who've been with this game since beta both played it for years but got sick of the problems that didn't get fixed. They stopped playing for more then two years and then came back to play a year ago or so. Really nice playing WoT with them again but they've already left again as (with their fresh perspective) they noticed the only thing Wargaming was doing was shoveling out more premiums and perpetuating problems. They aren't the only one and they are "old hands" for this game and they are *STILL* running into the same issues.  It's just an example but they surely aren't the only ones.   Cobra 6