Comments on: Wargaming company video

By: Konstantin Obvintsev

Konstantin Obvintsev — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 23:37:26 +0000

There is no official translation as far as I know. “Yesterday will be a war” will be “too stalinist” for western audience.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:12:31 +0000

I’ve always thought that one of the main reasons WoWP failed is because WG ambitiously jumped right into a very “mature”(in the sense that flight sims are a very old genre with hundreds if not thousands of games and dozens of very experienced developers) genre and tried to build something huge with no prior experience. Couple that with a poor choice of engine(very important in a flight game), the bad luck of one of those experienced developers releasing a very similar competing game at the same time, and a host of other smaller reasons, and the whole project collapsed.

On the other hand, WG succeeded with tanks because that’s a more immature genre, not many tank games exist outside of the occasional sim here and there over the years. Naval combat is also pretty immature to the best of my knowledge, so hopefully they’ll do better in that case.

By: edger2020

edger2020 — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:12:47 +0000

This is the only source for this book I have found on the internetz

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Books/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Sergei%20Burkatovsky&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ASergei%20Burkatovsky

Did anyone found English version?

By: HarbingerZero

HarbingerZero — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:59:32 +0000

I was not surprised by the HR director being a part of the video. Because HR does all the training, employee reviews, hiring, firing, and status reports, they tend to be the natural “historians” of a corporations history.

By: Iron_Tsunami

Iron_Tsunami — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:49:09 +0000

When penetration got nerfed, and armor got buffed, the VK4502A got pretty good, actually.

By: Kena

Kena — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:32:13 +0000

Both the Vk4502′s are briliant tanks. They don’t spoon feed you like so many other heavy tanks out there (ahem, Russians..). Learn to play their unique styles and you’ll find they’re more than a match for any equal tier heavy.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:29:23 +0000

seems like serb is quite unimportant.

By: xCaptainObviousx

xCaptainObviousx — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:21:45 +0000

But… that requires work, I’m alergic to that!

By: OPFOR6

OPFOR6 — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:17:56 +0000

I think the video did well to show how the company grew up and it was not always planned and done smoothly. Like most companies that grow quickly, how that success is handled can make or break you. It showed quite clearly they did not expect WOT to morph into the huge community it is now. They were playing catch up to the needs of the community. They designed a game that was meant to throw usually random groups of 28 people in a fun simple tank battle with cool explosions. Then people began forming clans, competing at Cons etc etc. Initially the tanks were not well balanced, but they are not in real life so it was a small thing compared to actually getting the game designed and working on the scale they needed. As the game has matured, balance is much more of a game requirement. Keeping the different player bases happy is nearly impossible. There are very few issues that the majority of players agree on. I think WG is one of the best at communicating with the players and listening even if they do not choose to act on player issues. They make mistakes but compared to the rest of the large gaming companies they are head and shoulders above them. Now if they could just fix MM to have me be at the top every battle…

By: Heatseek3R

Heatseek3R — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:17:11 +0000

Make one. You only need specific kind of program and to import frames from video. Have fun.