Flashback: Heavy Steel Weekend

Ectar:   Those 2 individual discounts were one off events and not a normal discount.  Yes in the past bonuses were higher along with discounts (only on tier VII and lower), you also frequently had events where it was 1 tank per nation and not all in a tier (for example it would be the Tiger P or Tiger H, the Hellcat or M36). It's not just in Europe but across all regions where the bonuses have been toned down. Please don't start saying that "back in the day" things were better because the first thing you'll need to show is a direct comparison (as in multiple months, not random individual weekend specials) of when things were apparently better. I can assure you that "back in the day" the playerbase was less demanding and things weren't taking for granted as much as they are now.    As I said earlier with the addition of weekly, weekend, and monthly missions this means that the in-game discounts and credit boosts can't be the same as they used to be. We're also conscious that the "extra help" that these events are intended to be, has been forgotten.  It used to be "Oh hey cool, a garage discount" whereas now it's. "I know there is such a thing as garage discounts, so give me one now".    When something becomes to regular you don't see it anymore as an extra. It becomes an expected regular feature/occurrence.   In this thread someone drew a negative that this event doesn't cater to low tier. Not that long ago we did a low tier event and people complained there was nothing for high tiers.   - now you might read this and think "Well why not just do an event that works for low and high tier?" but then what happens the week after? Everyone expects the same because last week it was like that, or this week we're not catering to XXXX. Players wanted discount crew training and when it was added one of the first comments was to swap it out for discount garage/barrack slots instead. There is requests for discount garage slots now, I can guarantee you that if we had it now, people would just complain later in the month that they can't buy new tanks because garage slots are full price so we should discount them then too.   I've seen comments in other threads with things like "Worst month ever" and "what you do later doesn't make up for now".  Where is this attitude coming from? do you even realize the tone of your message?  Again too many people are acting like we've given you something then taken it away, or promised something that hasn't came.  Look at these weekend events for exactly what they are. An extra bonus for players when playing the game. They are not the only reason for you to play this weekend and they are not something which is always going to be applicable to you as an individual player.   "You don't do enough 5x exp events!" - *do a 5x exp event* - "great nothing but noobs playing now, I can't win they're always in my team, stupid 5x exp events" "You don't discount high tiers" - *discount high tiers* - "Awesome, now all the noobs can rush into high tiers and ruin my matches" "You should give tanks credit boosts for specific types of tanks or tiers" *add credit boosts to tiers or types* - "OMG now this weekend the game is full of TDs/Heavies/Mediums/German/USSR/British etc etc tanks" "When will premium tanks be discounted?" *discount premium tanks* - "not fair, tier VIII is filled with wallet warriors now!" or "Screw you WG, now there is nothing but E25's everywhere" "It's always crew training, I want first win bonuses" /"You've done first win 3 times now, I want crew training"    Above examples is pretty much standard replies we see. Every time the missions that are active at the same time are also completely ignored.   Now regarding the claims of "this isn't a special" - you're taking the word too literary.  Even then if you're still going to be specific about the word it basically means: Something distinguished by a unique or unusual quality. Better, great or otherwise unusual from what is the norm. The "norm or normal" is having no bonuses or discounts at all on the weekend.  The norm isn't want you got last week/month, what another region got, or what you think the event should be.   I can honestly say that when the seasonal events are announced, everyone will be surprised and even the most skeptical/cynical people will struggle to find something to complain about. I can't wait to see everyone's reactions.