Comments on: Ex-WG EU Employee Talks about Wargaming

By: Ericridge

Ericridge — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 01:11:02 +0000

Alexander, I won’t want to work for you. Thank goodness.

WOT Makes gazillions, pays its employees pennies?

Loyalty becomes nonexistent when your employers don’t give 2 shits at all.

I applaud him for coming out and telling the truth about evils of wot!

By: ratseal

ratseal — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:41:12 +0000

I can speak neither to all the details of this employee’s motivation nor the basis for his departure. However, his comments are clear. The main reason for his departure was a mix of unhappiness at how the company deploys a flawed but improvable product but doesn’t make the best product possible because the customers keep paying, and because despite a high level of profitability, the employees are not compensated in alignment to the company’s success (which they make possible).

WG is profitable in the context of their current business model and their current attitude towards customers. Why would they change? The leadership is openly contemptuous of their customers, and the customers keep paying for premium.

The negative WG leadership attitude towards customers is brazen – and still the money rolls in. In turn the disrespect grows. How could it not? How is this a puzzle?

If you buy premium time and tanks, you are placing a higher valuation on faster grinding than on being valued by company. There is a learning curve that leads to that realization.

I haven’t played in 3 weeks now – I let my prem expire unused (the last few weeks of it). It feels pretty good. I do enjoy reading this board, thank you SS!

By: Nya-chan Production

Nya-chan Production — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:21:54 +0000

Gold ammo for credits is older than two years (december 2012). And since everyone can buy it, it’s not really screwing up – it’s changed meta.
Arty oneshotting on every tier was ever since its introduction (beta, maybe alpha even)
TDs at T10 are dangerous, but still aren’t ruling the battlefield – that’s mostly mediums and heavies. 15 vs 15 TDs? It happens, but it’s so rare I don’t mind.
Tank balance based on researched models IRL was present in the game from the beginning
IMs have mostly calmed down now, but as it’s a favourite counter-reason these day I’ll give it to you
Power creep is mostly negligible in the latest patches – you don’t see new vehicles ruling the battlefield, at least to me WTF doesn’t present a threat, same with Conway and others.

OTOH in the last two years you had 3 man platoon for everyone, team battles, prem consumables for silver, HD models, strongholds and shitload of new tanks added – and nobody mentions that. To me it’s important that they still add new content, instead of crying for what’s not yet implemented. Sure, it could’ve been better, but it can “always” be better, that’s the problem.

Most of what you mention is just calling for “good old” times – those weren’t as good as you remember them, really. Maybe in beta it was better gameplay-wise, because the game wasn’t so widely known, but if it stayed that way, it’d die down instead of getting new features.

By: orzel286

orzel286 — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:48:28 +0000

Newsflash: you could convert gold to silver from…. The start iirc? Much conspiracy… L2p, stop spamming prem ammo, do dmg, kill tanks and you will earn money. ENEMY tanks, the green ones are on your team.

By: bayosvk

bayosvk — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:26:57 +0000

All I see is: blah, blah, blah, I am a noob (49 wr, 785 wn8), blah, blah, blah, wot is shit, blah, blah……maybe learn about the game mechanics a bit?
One more thing, running T5+ with no profit? until t9 is no problem and even t10 without getting wrecked is profitable(not always ofc)

By: ThaElf

ThaElf — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:32:47 +0000

Been of the hook for quite some time, yet I still have had hopes for WG to step up. Failing for few straight years is a feat in itself… I was a constant paying customer, but it seems it was irrelevant… I had whole clan of friends, and from them 50% was paying customers. All lost for greed of WG. Interest in the game which is not balanced and in denial of its own problems. Catering the majority, well all that is left are those who didn’t pay a single coin or those who’ve put so much money that they cannot stop playing for their investment.

I tried to convince myself back to WoT … I failed and instead have never actually taken that option into my todo list after just playing half a year CT games after quitting. The game degraded fast with each patch and then I merely am reading FTR because of interest to the game itself is still high up, but I doupt it will ever take a turn to better… There is simply no chance for it to happen.

About that silver earning… It’s all in the head. Unless one can prove it statistically, but thus far no changes to back it up. Spendings on the other hand have gone up a lot. Also prem account was really useful and made true impact. From EU launch to say 8 months I had no prem… After first month of it whole world opened. The game is meant to slow down, but with decent play even at 9th Tier it was managable while 8th without prem was starting to be on the verge of small gains only, it still made profit. So getting to T10 was actually quite feasible, but not on your average Jim’s tanking abilities without actually grinding the silver.

Also bout graphics… WoT maximum settings are joke as the engine in itself is joke. Reasonable less than 800$ machine ran it smooth if you didn’t try everything to the max, and reasonably one should not even try due to bad optimazation. So there is actually quite large amount who can run high/ultra mix settings, and it gets higher all the time. At the launch of WoT I would had agreed that there are only few machines that could play todays WoT on high, but now… It is quite untrue.

So rant all you like, but please. Make some chapters, ok? And re-read what you wrote and think again outside your own angered mind. It helps, a lot.

By: Marine_Recon_

Marine_Recon_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:43:47 +0000

Oh and one more thing, if the silver making system wasnt nerfed, then why is WG selling silver? Hmmm….I’d venture to say that 2 or 3 patches after WG decided to sell silver is when they nerfed the silver making ability. Try telling the player base a lie that is believable next time! Saying WG didnt nerf credit earning is like saying Bill Clinton didnt have sexual relations with that girl!

By: Marine_Recon_

Marine_Recon_ — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:35:13 +0000

Hello,
It is evident to me that some time ago, earning silver was nerfed so hard (roughly 80%) in my opinion that you cannot make silver in this game without running premi acct, premi tanks in small tiers or simply playing OP with the gold you got from the rigged CW map for the largest of clans. The cost of gold is going up! Why? Is it more expensive to make “fake” gold? I think not. The tanks, guns, etc are constantly nerfed at the command of ppl that just dont care about “Bait & Switch” tactics. This guy who quit or was fired isnt telling us anything we couldnt figure out on our own. This is a businees (WoT). It is here to make money which is fine but its also quite obvious WG doesnt care a bit about how the player base is treated or they wouldnt nerf our shit, raise prices while nerfing our shit, not fix critical bugs like game crashes, rng and mm, have real or helpful giveaways that truly benefit “the player”. The game has long since peaked and the level of competition in a pub match is very unbalanced. How is it competetive to be on either side of a 15-1 or 15-4 match? How can that be fun for anyone when you either crush your enemy or get crushed because the team balance system has NO balance at all. My count of games played drops every patch. You cant make silver to keep running, your stats drop (no clans want you), your computer crashed (only on this game) and you have to run mods like XVM and sight mods to keep up with the guys who pay “too much” to play this game. I use to spend a ton of USD on this game but now, i only spend enough to run my 10′s with the fixings i choose. I wont buy any premium tanks anymore (I own 28), i wont shoot gold (nerfed), i wont use premi consumable (changes nothing) in pubs anymore. Its not worth marginally better stats for the overpriced fee we’re charged. The contests, events and all other gimmicks by WG are solely to make themselves money and they really only benefit the largest of clans who seem to win every single tourney, event, etc. This game isnt free to play past tier 4 or maybe 5. Even then you have spam some gold from time to time because the pen on your regular AP round is a joke. Why doesnt WG put together a rule that a single clan cannot have more than 15 unicums in it. Try to balance the clans a bit. Yeah, I know, that only means you get 8 Relic clans instead of 4, or 4 Otter clans but the CW rules on the map can be changed as well. For example: if you and 3 of your sister clans are farming gold adjacent to each other on the CW map your gold intake is cut down per province to a respectable 120 gold per province instead of 4350 gold, etc. If you want to sit and not fight it out with other clans then you dont get paid massive amounts of gold for doing nothing! After all, this is a combat game! Isnt it???? How many of the player base can afford the computer it takes to run this game in high graphics? Not enough to justify the dev time for HD tanks. How about maps? They are small, not suited for many tanks and there are simply not enough of them. Where I come from, a company benefits from actually giving back to the player base and not just to the largest of clans or the unicum player who uses cheats to excel at this game. Givebacks like, logging in today gives every individual tanker 30 days of premium time or 2500 gold. yeah, that’s money that WG wont get had you bought it but most USA people are over spenders. Give a person 2500 gold+ or an amount of premi acct time that actually amounts to being useable and he/she will still want more (American Greed) causing them to buy a package for “more” gold/silver/premi tanks/time, etc. Giving away ( you dont have to earn it) something of substance appears to be way above the intelligence of the WG owner(s). Take a poll on that! My money says your poll results in the majority agreeing to spend more and give more loyalty. Once AW or even Hearts of Iron IV are readily available, this broken game will lose plenty of players. Oh, i forgot, we have killing a WG pro for 250 gold. Really! Review the cost of items in game that require gold, now what can you do with 250 gold? Not much. Put a couple of the same decals on your tank (that have been here since the start), maybe retrain a crew guy. Come on! Cheap ass WG gimmick that you have to earn. Again, making money is the reason for the game but WG could make much more if they took care of the clients and that is you and me! I’m slowly being “pushed” (by WG) to stop playing a game with so many broken issues. Or how about this, WG needs to fix what is broken before implementing new items. How about a project manager that knows what he/she are doing and allowing them to prioritize game fixes first, then balancing this rigged game. Rant is over.

By: ThaElf

ThaElf — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:01:04 +0000

Being silent sheep has always been a good thing then, huh? To start a relovution someone has to plant the seed for it. Maybe, just maybe, someday arty will be reworked to be less random, but much less punishing per hit. And would become real support instead of lottery machine. Less damage and less pen more often. Just as current 183 … fucken retarded piece of development brain fart. Nice in the drawing board and in the idea… but we did not need tank with arty cannon.

I have no grudge against them as I was one pre 8.6 players enjoying arty as it was. Not too accurate, not that innaccurate, but skill played huge role to get over 2k per each and every match instead of 3 misses one hit for meagre splash…. hurray for hitting the center of aim circle more often. Although the aim buff was very nice for tanks, that was something that rewarded skillfull aim and driving more than one can think of. But the side effect, too much moving shot hits, was a bit in a need of tweaking. It was still for the better.

By: WaffulMann

WaffulMann — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 22:35:47 +0000

You’re the only one hippie