Wargaming: this is why your game is dying.

VarzA, on 11 December 2018 - 02:52 PM, said: These announcements from companies reminds me of this part in Going Postal (the movie) where the competition decides to 'wow' ppl who use their products by hiring some pretty girls to stand around a model they show to the masses. Right after that they close the R&D budget so they stop losing money on pointless stuff internally. I will believe those MM changes when i can see and feel them with my own eyes, or when i can finally take the AMX CDC out and not be so frustrated at the state it's in, that i want to uninstall the game. I paid for that tank, my own hard earned money ... i didn't rob it, steal it or club someone over the head for it. I paid quite a lot too .... but the tank is near unusable atm, while i keep seeing russian after russian tank being fixed and introduced into the game. What's the message here ?   (for some reason couldn't remove the bold in editing)  Then what's the explanation for the buffs to russian tanks  ? 268 4, 430U (which i will say again, shattered 3 lines that were doing just barely ok E50M, 113 and 121), defender, lt-432, IS-3A (now), t-34-85m and i could go on.   I'll say it again, westerners in general, want to have choices ... and the game is going for a binary choice ... go russian or play with handicap.   Right now, the only thing that keeps me wanting to login and play, is the desire to get more efficient during grinds, and the goal of getting IS-4 (because ppl think it sucks and i find it challenging to grind it), T57 and a few other tanks ... This will keep me busy for another 2-3k games, after that i'm gone. I'm not sure if you can see my history of purchases but i bought some stuff this yr, not a lot but some. X4 foundations will be fixed in 5-6 months also, EVE is calling me back, and there's this new game from the original creators of Fallout that is in space, released next yr.   I love the game, but the problems that it has ... it's getting to be too much.


fabse, on 11 December 2018 - 03:04 PM, said: Here is my take on the matter:
  Wot is a great game that I am enjoying tremendously. If course, I do not agree with some individual design decisions, but overall, the game has only become better over time.   The problem is that this is not perceived as such by a potential new player. Such a player simply overwhelmed by the complexity of this game and the diversity it offers to players. Grinding is a time consuming process which gets worse for a new player who is really bad. To make matters worse, he is forced to play with horrible crews and stock tanks and very little guidance. It is only natural new players quickly drop the game.   My suggestion is simple, goodies for new players, serious goodies: - Start with at least 2 good t8 premium tanks, maybe two or three t6 and t7 premium tanks. Low tier games are totally different from high tier ones. They are chaotic and random and follow no real strategy/meta. New players don't even know the high tier gameplay before they leave the game. - These tanks should be good representatives of their class such that new players can decide which kind of lines they want to start with. - These tanks should have a good crew, maybe 2-3 perks, such that they are actually competitive. - Lower (remove) the cost of several transactions for new players such during a learning period. This period is over after 5000 battles or one year. It should enable a new player to redo crew training (with gold but for free), sell tanks at full price, maybe even undo a research with XP refund. There should not be anything a new player can do wrong and learning by experimenting should be rewarded. - Ideally automate (if wanted) and or guide players through actions such as moving crew, retrain crew etc. - Remove pointless and confusing limitations (Barracks) so that new players can focus on what matters. - ... and much more.


Anymn, on 11 December 2018 - 03:19 PM, said:   The problem is that Wargaming is not transparent and communicating enough. Maybe in Russia that is normal... but here in the EU we love to be informed properly.  This results in less trust in Wargaming of the players.   Another thing: begin this year we were promised that WG would rework the gold ammo shooting. We haven't got any update on that so far, however every other day there is another '*** gold ammo'-topic on the forum. Maybe you could start replying to those topics: 'We hear you, we are currently reworking them. Our progress is [...insert progress here...] and we are planning to launch it at [...date...]'  


TheDayWeDie, on 11 December 2018 - 03:28 PM, said:   Well, I work in a company with probably more costumers than Wargaming EU.   Even if I don't like "passionate" feedbacks I understood in time that a "passionate feedback" is more preferred than no feedback at all.   There is always a difference between what I think it is good for costumers and what costumers think it is good for them. Of course, I can not please all the costumers, but at least I try to do my best.   As long as the costumers know that I do my best, from their POV things are quite ok even if they are not perfect,   The worst case is when the costumers feel that I don't care about their feedback. All in all, I guess this is all about now and here, with or without QB's video.