Comments on: American Q&A

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 06:24:42 +0000

You think WG EU/NA staff are lazy? Check WOT China run by kongzhong.com (not by WG directly).
At least WG EU/NA hold Q&As. There’s never been Q&As held by WOT China. Worst of all, constant AFKers and bots (however much they’re reported) never gets punished. Now that’s called LAZY.

By: Ting

Ting — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:14:46 +0000

There was a bundle consists T34, T26E4 Super Pershing and T14 with some junk on NA sever. Cant remember if it was $99:)

By: Mick421

Mick421 — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:39:28 +0000

Q: Do you guys communicate with the other servers and share ideas or something?
A: (Laera) We bounce ideas off each other all the time! If one region has shown great success in running a certain event or contest, other regions may often adopt it.
A2: (Major Rampage): We do work with the other servers. I collaborate with my counterparts on the other servers in regards to global events.

<<<< Yeah I've seen this happen once or twice on SEA. We took the NA Tank Company idea of running several WG ones at once (instead of just one WG filled of WG guys) and they took our Last Man Standing idea. No idea if they ran with ours in the end, but we certainly did with theirs.

~Mick42.

By: Leedar

Leedar — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:11:43 +0000

To be fair, they have orders from the Politburo in Minsk, no doubt. Perhaps you can say that that isn’t an excuse, but the root of the problem is WG Minsk’s antiquated and possibly regionally/historically influenced culture of secrecy and paranoia.

On the other hand, if there is actually reasoning behind their behaviour, it would be that they seem to think ‘surprises’ and never publicly admitting mistakes outweigh the benefits of being open to the community, which I personally consider very unlikely. I mean, would publishing and updating the whole roadmap, with the inevitable delays, changes and deletions really be worse for their business than the negative feelings that come from closed behaviour? If WG was more open, players would be a lot more sympathetic, and might even shell out for more gold.

It’s ironic the WG is one of the poster children for a progressive paradigm like F2P, being relatively play-to-win, but they have such a backwards approach to their players.

By: Mr Zaigon

Mr Zaigon — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:57:12 +0000

Haha look at the big clan guy who got carried via no lifers and politics talking about “45%ers”.

By: Gino Tusconi

Gino Tusconi — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:36:59 +0000

I don’t follow the EU sector, but if it’s even worse than WGNA, then you have my sympathy EU tankers. Because WGNA is fucking worthless trash at best. They do fuck-all nothing for the community. Never give us info. Never listen to suggestions. They just go in, punch in their time card, read reddit, punch out, and go home. Worthless pricks.

By: Gino Tusconi

Gino Tusconi — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:33:58 +0000

They aren’t really “upstart” and comprised of people who are established in the ring of tanks politics.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:27:22 +0000

Upstart clans like Crabron, that kinda took third place overall after being formed only 3 weeks before the campaign started?

Sounds like some 45%er is mad he isn’t getting an M60

By: Zdude1858

Zdude1858 — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:08:18 +0000

As a moderator of r/worldoftanks, where this Q&A was held, I can assure you that these are most definitely wargaming employees. We verify their identities before giving them special tags to denote their status.They are the community team for the North American server. The post that silentstalker linked to in his post has more details on the employees in question.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:55:53 +0000

How 99 USD? I bought mine for 21€ if i remember correctly and it was in the gift shop and if not for that event, it cost around 30€ (10€(2500gold)+20€(5500gold) packages); albeit after this changes I would expect them to lower price even further, since it is already a miracle to perform exceptionaly in it and that is just for accuracy changes, so now even some lonely KVS can hit your weakspots at range; it will be quite interesting to play after armor angle changes, when another dozen of tanks will not even have to aim for those large weakspots… ; anyway, back to the topic; I am quite sure it was not possible to pay even 50USD for it; 99 USD is pure madness for it; perhaps you are thinking of some different vehicle, but all can be bought by max 50€ gold package, speaking about those offered in in-game shop. Only if some rare gift tank with a lot of automatic fire extinguishers, large repair kits and others desirable junk may cost so much in a gift shop