Comments on: 29.7.2013

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:20:52 +0000

the rammtiger wasnt bassed on the tiger chassis

By: SzalonyChemik

SzalonyChemik — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:15:27 +0000

NavyField was just OK. A bit too outdated for my taste, ridiculously complicated controls and rather long and painful grind all the time. Very steep learning curve. Still, I fould it entertaining enought to play it for a few weeks. Never got past the destroyers.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:51:45 +0000

Tried it a bit, actually. Didn’t really like that much.

By: SzalonyChemik

SzalonyChemik — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:47:12 +0000

Yeah, Warships. I don’t know if you know about game called NavyField? I really hope that WG product won’t be similar. Not that NavyField is bad, I just want something different, to be honest something more like WoT on the sea.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:33:17 +0000

Your adblocker must be better than mine, ’cause I’m constantly running into WT ads. IIRC they’re even in those Mediafire popups these days.
There’d also be something wrong with their heads if they didn’t advertise their Open Beta six ways to Sunday just like WG used to… ;P

Personally I’ll likely skip both WT and WoWP unless social activities oblige otherwise, but WoWS I want to check out if only to see how exactly they intend to make it work – warships being horrendously complex pieces of machinery and by what I know of it naval combat a topic positively arcane in its intricacy.

By: SzalonyChemik

SzalonyChemik — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:55:13 +0000

I’m not aware that WT is advertising heavily , I do know that WoT is, as it slips through my AdBlock from time to tome. If yes, then OK, my point seems more moot, yet clearing some overstatements and misconceptions still seems like a right thing to do. And it really seems for me that WG policy used to be more user friendly. But maybe it is only me growing tired by WoT, after 2 years? RIght now I know that I’ll skip WoWP, as WT is clearly superior for me. WoWS on the other hand is something that I can’t wait for.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:54:31 +0000

Considering the number of WT ads I see popping up all over that place, I daresay people interested in such things will give it a spin regardless of what either you or WG reps might say. ‘Sides, from what I recall SerB only comments on it because people keep asking him about it (and presumably was told by Powers That Be that making some kind of statement is called for) – whether he merely disagrees with some of the design choices or has an (easily enough imaginable) ulterior motive is really a little irrelevant, as it’s hardly a secret no amount of goodwill can make an impartial observer out of him.

And your criteria for “decreasing quality” seem a tad silly, not to mention rather self-serving. WG has clearly been experimenting with their overall policies and business concepts for a while -I like the current aggressively anti-P2W one- and developements in events nigh certainly primarily reflect feedback from Accounting.

By: SzalonyChemik

SzalonyChemik — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:01:03 +0000

I’ve never said I’ve played it in 1992 :). It was bought by my father and it spent quite some time just lying around, until I picked it up, when I have had a really shitty PC, and my Windows died, leaving me with only MS-DOS and retro games. It was 2001 I believe.

I’m not “*shocked* to learn of an enterprise trying to belittle the product of a competitor! Scandalous! :O”. Just I don’t like the way they do it – spreading lies and misconceptions. So I just wanted to play a role of WT advocate, knowing that there are probably people here, who, being interested in WWII era tanks, may be interested in planes from that period too. And WT really isn’t game that they’d want to miss, especially due to not true exaggerations.

About “decreasing quality”. Look at events and discounts year ago and now. Remember how US and USSR heavy line changes worked then? And now, how arty changed worked in 8.6? Or events/discounts – a year ago if there was a discount for a tank it was 50% discount, no matter the tier. Right now its 50% for tier 5 max, tier 6 and up only get 30% discount at best. Remember how there were events like +100% earnings on a PzIV? Right now what do we got? +30% on T5s and up? And a whooping +80% on Tier 2 or 3. x5 exp was a pretty standard bonus during events year ago, right now it is x3, and x5 are only for very very special occasions. Of the bonus codes, the invite ones often seems to be better than codes for already registered players. Even gift tanks – compare awesomness of the Tetrarch to the genreal ordinariness of the T6something.
I’m not saying that game quality decreased, that would be madness. Of course it increased. But hell, community treatment is going downhill, and that is what I mean by “decreasing quality”.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:27:38 +0000

Your retirement home has Internets, grandpa? :v

Anyways – I’m shocked, *shocked* to learn of an enterprise trying to belittle the product of a competitor! Scandalous! :O
And still not seeing how the difference in “premium” ammo purchasing systems is supposed to mean anything given that the end result is effectively the same…

Also if you’re going to throw out lines like “Quality of WG services will continue to decrease” I hope you’re prepared to try convincing the audience the implied premise actually holds water. Because as far as I’ve seen WG’s services and the thinking behind them have only developed in a *better* direction thus far.

By: SzalonyChemik

SzalonyChemik — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:07:35 +0000

That is why I’m not trying to say that WT is better. It is certainly harder to find yourself in than WoT because of addition of third dimension. But there are many players that play tanks and ARE interested in flight “sim” and WG policy aims clearly to discourage them from trying WT maybe not by telling lies, but by twisting the facts for their favour. It is cheap, it is unfair. WT is good enough games that it deserves to be noticed and tried out.
About premium shells – every seasoned WoT player can afford using few premium shells per battle, that is not my point. The difference is that in WT you can use such better quality ammo all the time, without running dry of money, paying only small sum of credits once, after unlocking that ammo load for exp. Difference is between paying small sum of money once and having the purchased goodie forever versus paying (comparatively) huge sum of money for every use of such goodie.
Constructive criticism is something good. Quality of WG services will continue to decrease if people won’t criticize them and/or praise them no matter what they do.

P.S. “positively ancient Crimson Skies”? My last combat flight sim, was Birds of Prey. No, not IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey from Gaijin. 1992 Birds of Prey from Argonaut Games/EA on IBM PC :D That’s positively glacial :)