The Insider: WG EU and Warpack, SuperPershing “Nerf”

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Hello everyone,

the Insider returns to react on current events going on in Wargaming.

Some guys from Wargaming RU in Minsk did notice the FTR article about WG EU ignoring the Warpack cheat mod (some of them refer to it as “Warcrack”). They were NOT happy. It will be mentioned during next WG RU – WG EU conversation. There are other problems however, that are scheduled to be discussed between WG RU, WG NA and WG EU:

- apparently, bots advertising scam sites (powerlevelling, “cheap gold”) have become a nuisance, especially on lower tiers
- on WG NA server, there is currently an issue with lowtier battles (tier 1-2), not enough players are playing them and the matchmaker has issues dealing with it. This is caused apparently by the fact that there have been few new players recently and you also get usually 1-3 spammer bots per battle (see above).

Lower tiers are not interested for old players (veterans) according to Wargaming because of the poor reputation the veteran players have, if they play low tiers due to the “rating system” (SS: apparently, WN8 is meant), because they get called “pedobears”, “sealclubbers” and such – and so, it is actually a shame for an experienced player to play on low tiers even though they are actually fun.

Other things that will be discussed are:

- new premium tanks (some planned Soviet heavy, no details)
- new branches (French minibranch, Japanese branch, Chinese artillery)
- new trees (Czechoslovak tree). Devs also want some Brazilian vehicle (unclear which) as a premium tank in the US tree
- World of Warplanes total overhaul, WG apparently hired a brand new team to completely change the game and bring it from the dead
- World of Warships (the content of this topic is unknown)
- World of Tanks for Xbox (some graphic overhauls, not sure)

And one more thing. The situation with the Super Pershing is unclear, but IF it got really nerfed (something about the frontal armor plates being strange), it is not intentional and will be fixed.

122 thoughts on “The Insider: WG EU and Warpack, SuperPershing “Nerf””

  1. -World of Warplanes total overhaul

    WG better find the best necromancer the world has ever seen, because that thing is pretty much impossible to bring back from the dead.

    • SS, please tell STORM to just run tier 1 games with whatever tanks they have even if its 5 on 5. Tier 1 is for learning game. Also, all players with more than 5000 games should be banned from tier 1 and new players should be given HUGE incentives in gold and silver and a free tank like an LTP if they play at least 100 games in all 6 tanks and 1000 games total at tier 1. This will help to stop complete noobs in tier 5 heavies with less than 1K games.

      Make tier one as a training ground for new players. Like most players, i rushed through tier 1 really fast cause seal clubbers were killing me very fast so i never learned game basics at tier 1.

      • For me, all i remember about tier 2 is being killed over and over by T18 sealclubbers. I almost quit game. I made it to tier 5 and with 5000 games i was deep red, 46%, but i went back to tiers 1-3 and learned game and now im 54%, 1400, and recently over 2000 with 15K games.

        The reason nobody stays at tier 1 is because of sealclubbers. If u remove them then new players will spend more time in lower tiers. Does WG make money off sealclubbers at lower tiers or lose money from players they drive away from game, the latter!

  3. “Some guys from Wargaming RU in Minsk did notice the FTR article about WG EU ignoring the Warpack cheat mod (some of them refer to it as “Warcrack”). They were NOT happy. It will be mentioned during next WG RU – WG EU conversation.”

    Oh, SS. Ever the jimmies rustler!

    “- on WG NA server, there is currently an issue with lowtier battles (tier 1-2), not enough players are playing them and the matchmaker has issues dealing with it. This is caused apparently by the fact that there have been few new players recently and you also get usually 1-3 spammer bots per battle (see above).”

    A declining player base is never good for the game.

    • Those bots are on EU too. Reported one of them, and got a silly copypasted reply:

      “Thank you for telling us about your problem with another player.
      I am very sorry something like this happened to you when you were just trying to have a nice time.
      This has happened to me before, and I know it is very unpleasant when you meet this kind of players.”

      …really?

      I’ve browsed back into the few other tickets that I’ve started over time, and what annoys the hell out of me is that I can’t find a single non copypasted reply, and most contain the exact same sentences. Not only are they wasting your time with a long text you’d have to read, it usually doesn’t even fit the original question.

      Hopefully Minsk will finally deal with these WG EU support clowns, because at present they seem to be pulling in checks without actually doing the work they were hired for.

      • Yeah, when “my recruit” grinded the low tiers, he spent all his possible reports on these clowns, who enter every single battle and spams the shit out of chat with their MEGA-offers..

      • There is only one thing in the world they replay to instantly and no copy-past answers. You want guess what it is? When I send a ticket that I have problem whit baying gold they replay under 10 minutes and then in ~2 minutes to my re-replay whit additional question. Where there is money to earn they are quick and efficient. Where there is problem whit the game etc … you know what they are ;)

      • These are separate offices, thousands of kilometers apart… So apart from the occasional visit, the head office will have to rely on what’s reported to them by WG EU themselves… And if they’re failing at what they’re supposed to do (and/or clueless), they sure as hell won’t be mentioning that to Minsk.

        Hopefully there’ll be something similar to the WoWP thing coming up, i.e. replacing the entire team. Saw my earliest tickets were from 2013 with the same useless responses, so I’m guessing it’s endemic.

        • thousands of kms apart…

          Funny that, since I worked for several companies with just the same geographical issues…

          We have been known to, you know, send letters and documents to each other..
          We used this new technology called “the telephone”….
          We’ve even heard of some majik called “email”….

          • You are falsely assuming, that Office A actually wants to tell Office B wtf is up and about.

            • This.

              You’re relying on the suspects to out themselves. Sometimes it becomes apparent quite fast, sometimes it takes a while. But when reality doesn’t add up to the picture painted, it’ll happen eventually.

          • I also used to run a global team, with offices in Toledo, Gelsenkirchen, Melbourne, Halmstad, Lahti, Moscow and St. Helens. No office can hide anything that’s out of compliance for too long without their overall boss finding out and doing something about it.

            If the boss is doing his job properly of course. :)

  4. Some guys from Wargaming RU in Minsk did notice the FTR article about WG EU ignoring the Warpack cheat mod (some of them refer to it as “Warcrack”). They were NOT happy.
    —————-
    FFS, where is this company going, if something gets noticed and starts to moove only, when a 3rd party blog writes about that.. :’(

    Chinese artillery
    —————-
    O_o

    • Both of your points: read my mind :D

      If SS is the one that is basically reporting what is really going on in WG EU to WG RU, it means WG EU know about their fuck ups and are doing the following: hiding it from WG RU(not working thanks to SS :) and are still continuing to produce more fuck ups, thanks to their useless community workers.

      And chinese artillery: i don’t think there will be any progress in that direction. Logically, TDs would be introduced before SPGs, and since there isn’t any sign about those, I’m not sure SPGs will come anytime soon either ;)

          • That’s assuming the deciding factor is the popularity/perception of one vehicle class over another. It could also logically be that a full Chinese SPG line is more viable (ie they have enough vehicles to fill tiers 2-10) than a TD line and as such would be introduced before a TD branch.

            after all the Japanese were released with only lights and mediums, strange things do happen

            • You are correct, but I think there is far less info on Chinese SPGs than TDs. And well, that’s also all up to the chinese server since they’re the ones who search and give info on their tanks to WG HQ :P

              • The big problem with TDs is that iirc they are mostly USSR-clones and Storm said he wants to avoid clone lines…
                Arty might have some unique vehicles (if they managed to dig some up in the archives as they did for the mediums and heavy tanks), so it would be more viable.

    • Unintentionally this time, probably the same idiot that fucked up some SPGs is fooling around with the SP this time.

  6. If they want to increase player base of low tiers they should stop making missions that require tier 4+. Try making some IMs that are tier 3-. They could do this for IMs, events, specials, tournaments, etc. Doesn’t increase player base but does offer an incentive to older players to play them. What do I know?

    • I was about to say the same. I like low tier battles, they are quick and fun, but since I also want at least the Stug IV and the T28 Concept, then I am playing high tiers exclusively.

  7. “Lower tiers are not interested for old players (veterans) according to Wargaming because…”

    Good thing I don’t give two cakes about my stats or what random people on the internet think of them.
    Nothing will ever stop me from enjoying the goodness that is the Pzkpfw 38(t) \o\

    • Step 1.) Buy tier III with decent viewrange.
      Step 2.) Use binos.
      Step 3.) Get tier III match on Province.
      Step 4.) Light all the things from your kemp-bush.
      Step 5.) Win.

      Rinse and repeat.

      • Get that new Low-tier map instead of Province… Insta-earn Scout medal in first second of the game, because you light up all the enemy team on the opposite hill.
        And, if you have somewhat decent armor or camo and gun elevation, simply stay in your spawn and easily kill half of the enemy team from there, because some of them are still loading into the match and some do the same sniping but without any armor to back it up :)

        • I got 14 spots the other day with my FCM36 on that map. Don’t know how number 15 escaped.

          With binocs, the PAK 40 has a greater view range than the draw square. Must be some kind of record.

      • Pedobears is a shame.
        BUT wg still give low Tier gift tanks.
        AND allow noobs to play in High Tier.

        Fuck their logic. I’ll continue to play FCM Pak, Locust and the Te-Ke, to destress from all those T7 battles with dumbs.

    • Cruiser II, the tier III KV-2 :3
      One shot every tier III, many tier IV, and has no problem against tier V.

      T-60, a PzI.C that cannot meet tier V :3

      NA players prefer reputation against fun… Damn i play a game for gun, and there is nothing better than oneshot/oneclip begginers with an OP tank that costs less than 200k credits and earns up to 15k credits per game without premium :)

  8. “- new branches (French minibranch, Japanese branch, Chinese artillery)”

    Chinese ARTILLERY???

    Question 1.) Why not tank destroyers? Since when do arty lines even come before TDs?

    Question 2.) Why don’t we NOT introduce another branch of cancer? God help us all if this preludes the Japanese 300mm mortar thing.

    Question 3.) Didn’t we just hear Wargaming talking about not doing the whole Chinese market appeasement thing ever again? Why are we suddenly interested in more vehicles for the Chinese tree? (Note: the Chinese tree is the LEAST popular tree by far outside the Chinese server.)

    Question 4.) Is this the “third regular branch” of vehicles scheduled for 2015? What a poor choice if so…

    Question 5.) Okay… If you’re going to introduce more cancer, then why would you not make it a Japanese arty line instead? I’m pretty sure that would at least be a BIT more appealing.

    Question 6.) …But seriously, more arty? :(

    Question 7.) WHY WON’T YOU RELEASE MY GODDAMN SECOND FRENCH HEAVY LINE?????? YOU’D RATHER GIVE US THIS OVER THEM? #freetheM4s2015

    Question 8.) Is this trolling? Because if so, you’re doing one hell of a job there, son.

    Question 9.) Is this incorrect information? I strongly hope so. Please be wrong on this one, Mr. Insider. That is, if you’re not trolling anyway.

    Question 10.) WHY???????????????????????????????????????????????

    If you’ve read this far, you get an e-high-five.

    *takes deep breath*

    • No e-high-five for me, then. Skipped it after the word cancer and on sighting block capitals.

              • And the fact that you bothered to comment on it shows only that you want to win argument against a random guy in Internet to feel good about yourself. Random guy in Internet doesnt give flying F about what you typed after 3min :P And what you commented wasnt even constructive criticism, just showing how “superior” you are. Just like im doing to you now. Welcome to Internet.

                As you said, “dumb and immature.” What’s the point?

                Oh, and i wont be checking this after this so dont bother to insult me. I wont see it enyway.

    • they are releasing second med line tho
      you know AMX 30 and AMX 30B will come at 9.7 better than french heavies

    • AMX 65t, Somua SM, AMX M4 49, … not that shitty chinese tree (tier 1-4 = importations and tier 5-10 = russian clones)

      • Tier 3 is a tank they captured, actually. And tier 5 is not a clone but an imported tank.

  9. They should add WG bots for low tiers if the population is too small there. This could also work for smaller servers like (NA)? Also this would be useful in test servers and super tests. WG bot is for sure better than our average tomato. I don’t see any harm in this. Singleplayer 15 bots vs 14 bots and a player would be cool :D Of course you would not get any credits and xp for them or a small reward for completing different singleplayer missions.

    • Help us, Obi-Wan KeChieftain. You’re our only hope.

      The problem with the Super Pershing’s frontal armor in this test iteration could be a good sign though- the frontal armor being messed up might be a sign of recent, last-minute changes. The information about the Super Pershing’s armor being unhistorical is only a few weeks old, so if the SP was already due for an HD remake and said modelling was almost done, then maybe they messed up the frontal armor trying to fix it in time for the Super Test?

  12. Brazilian tankS in US tank tree?

    Bernardi Tamoyo MB-2 or 3? (MB-2 is a M41 Bulldog rebuild with Scania diesel engine, Bernardi 90mm (IIRC license copy of Cockerill/CMI 90mm low recoil), has lots of other gear that would not be modeled in game like night vision

    IIRC MB-3 is a total redesign with lengthened hull, low recoil 105mm, IMHO comparable to a AMX-30 or a Leopard PTA

    Or Bernardi X1, X1A1, OR X1A2? Bernardi rebuild of M3A1 Stuarts with X1A2 almost a total redesign weighing 19 tons and a 90mm low recoil gun…a Stuart running around with a 90mm…

    Only thing scarier would be the Chilean rebuilt M24 Chaffee’s with the IMI 60mm HVMSG

  13. - apparently, bots advertising scam sites (powerlevelling, “cheap gold”) have become a nuisance, especially on lower tiers

    No shit? I have 17 OPEN tickets about this shit just from last weekend alone and WG gives the same BULLSHIT response. How about ACCEPT INVITES ONLY FROM PLAYER ON YOUR FRIENDS LIST OR CLAN ONLY. Seeing how we have to approve them first that BULL SHIT will end. Stupid fucking Russian cunts.

    • As you sound like you’re from NA, you’d be dealing with NA support staff, not (bela)ru(s)sians…

  14. Maybe WG Minsk should employ a whole new WG EU team,that way might actually get a team that give a fuck, Also want more low tiers played maybe they should remove stats then nobody can troll or care whether someone is a noob or not.

    • yeah no shit sherlock they probably are going to change the working team but they cant do it without setting a new team so until they have a new team and the plan gets voted enough(private voting nothing we can do) they will change but until that time they cant just officialy say we will change it and fuck it up half way

    • Well, he can hardly say “you know, we didn’t want to tell you but FTR is right” now, can he :) Persha studios might stay of course, but they could just hire new guys for it and fire the old ones.

      • Of course. Just wanted to show here the info from the other side.
        Anyway they obviously still want to work on the game.

  16. Nice to see that the head office is finally noticing the gold spammer bots…they’re a MASSIVE issue on the NA server, and have led to a lot of TK bans over here (because more experienced players have a bad habit of forgetting rule #1 and shooting them on sight, leading them to get a TK ban because the bot never leaves the spawn point, and spawns in the cap circle 3/4 of the time).

    • You also forgot marks of exalence…. I want them so bad for my loltractor, you know the one who can’t have them because it’s tier 1? (I don’t get that)

  17. Lowtier dying out of veteran players is not only due to bad reputation.
    I myself like to play my lowtiers even if I got 28K battle and more than average 1500+ rating.

    It is the missions. Be it standard missions or the individual missions. Most require Tier IV+ and the latter advance in tier requirement each stage.
    With top of the tree in the same time requiring grinding on higher level priority you have another factor.

    So there you have it….

    Regarding “copy-paste” in customer care.
    I work in customer care for an IT distributor and let’s face it – you can’t handle the amounts of requests without using these.
    A lot of concerns of customers are repeating and you simply cannot fulfill these in appropriate time without using some text modules.

    However – concerns should be treated seriously and if there are individual problems not solved by a text module you have to dig into it. In my company we get the time to investigate but you never know what policy drives the agent behind the other screen.

    But in general there needs to be understanding on both sides!!!
    It is not always the fault of the agent – you won’t believe how stupid custiomers/users can be…
    In those cases it is almost impossible to get them satisfied and can’t solve the problems simply because they can’t understand.

    I don’t say WG EU or any WG unit is made up of saints but sometimes people here and elsewhere overact big time over certain events.
    There might be a pattern and a weakness in WG EU service and policy in particular but I think you have also to consider the other side and try to slip into their shoes.

    • I often dabble in customer service, when my partners at my firm are overloaded and I have to step in…
      And while I get many, MANY dumb requests, the only thing I have ever copy pasted was the “greeting+salutations+name” block. All the text relevant to the customer is typed out, unless parts of the terms and conditions have to be cited.

      I can’t imagine the amount of bullshit requests they get, but they are in the fucking gaming industry. Cheating and botting are some of the biggest problems they have to deal with, so if someone comes out and practically admits to cheating, you could try to do something rather than blindly repeat some dumb crap.

      • Don’t think they’re getting the ‘relevant’ and ‘typed out’ parts tbh. Every answer I’ve had reads like boilerplate head to toe, and shares many identical lines with other answers in what you would call the ‘payload’ part.

        Regardless of the futility of doing long greetings and what I assume are supposed to be comforting lines (which are really filler text), if your follow-up answer is _also_ a copypaste – after you’ve specifically mentioned they haven’t answered the original question (and explicitly explained which bits), someone’s clearly having fun with CTRL-C, CTRL-V and a word document, between what I assume are porn and cat picture browsing sessions.

        • Well, maybe WG EU replies.

          A few days, due to the nature of my in-game name and how the old name search worked I started getting PM spammed with bots.

          When my ignore list reached full capacity, I went up to an in-game mod in the NA server and asked him if he could chatban the bots, which he did and replied anytime.

          Next day, I’m being spammed again so I pm this mod to see if he can remove the offender. He replies a very salty no [assumed the guy was having a bad day] and 2 games later apparently I’m chat banned for unwanted advertising/spam.

          Took 3 or 5hrs for a ticket to be answered by support and the ban lifted. I honestly expected a cookie cutter answer typically in the vein of “we analyzed your claim but found no reason for the ban to be lifted blah blah” but nope.

          Guy apologized for the mis-communication and lifted the ban.

  18. After 31k games I am still proud to be called a pedobear.
    Low tier games are great for making you think on your feet – as no one goes where they are ‘supposed’ to!

  19. “Lower tiers are not interested for old players (veterans) according to Wargaming because of the poor reputation the veteran players have, if they play low tiers due to the “rating system” (SS: apparently, WN8 is meant), because they get called “pedobears”, “sealclubbers” and such – and so, it is actually a shame for an experienced player to play on low tiers even though they are actually fun.”

    Ban all ratings then. All of them.
    No WN 8. No problem.

    Might even improve gameplay.

    We do it the old fashioned way. Win % and actually looking up at the player’s stats.

    • Or wait for WN9.
      WN8 is pure damage, it makes statswhore camp, no matter the tank.

      WN9 is supposed to take into account spotting, amongst other things. I think we’ll have as good of a laugh when it hits than when XVM changed from ER to WN.
      Some ER farmers went from being purples to being greenbobs x)

      • WN9 will probably break stats left and right because spotting damage is really going to change the defination of good player

        they should make WN9 include all tanks above tier 4 so that playing at low tiers wouldnt punish you

          • No, but detracking counts too ;)

            I don’t know how many situations I’ve saved by “wasting” one shell to detrack a target without causing damage so the rest of my team could burst him down, then doing the same to the next guy.

            In WN8, that which amounts to effectively being the reason a tank was killed grants you close to nothing. Which is retarded because good detracks like that basically makes you win the match. They are MUCH more valuable to the team than doing 400 damage.
            With WN9, those should be counted properly, so good players who don’t have one eye on their damage counter mod at all times are actually rewarded.
            (And bad unicums statpadder are punished with a massive stats bitchslap for having been useless in their pro o140 snipe spots near the base)

            • Those bad unicum statpadders that still win more games than the self-professed “good” players that have bad stats. If what they are doing is bad, why do they win more games than other people? Luck, right?

      • Isn’t that basically what they said about WN8, back when we were still using it’s predecessor? Each time we use one sort of rating, people say they can’t wait for the next version. And each time we get the next version, something turns out to be wrong about it and we can’t wait for the next version…

  20. Fewer experienced players playing low tiers ………………personal missions have anything to do with this? WoT player having shame – pull the other one.

  21. Not sure why the “account” or “stat” hiding was cancelled. Just make it impossible for external sources to read your data (as an option) and nobody will see your wn8 or winrate in the game. Problem solved. I’d hide my account in a heartbeat.

    • They said it would be pointless, as the only ones who read the patchnotes are above average players who don’t “play4fun” , and hiding your stats would mean you are either a terrible player or a reroll.
      Either way, you would get griefed for it.

      • I don’t mind my stats being visible in garage (= after the battle) or on the website but I would rather have them not display during the battle for XVM users out there. WG could simply remove the functionality that allows XVM statistics display in the client and be done with it.

        • That’s easier said than done. They all use the same API. So for them to try and block certain functionality, they would have to program it for some very specific functions. Which in turn will most likely make it easy to get around.

    • Ban xvm. Solved.
      U hide stats = ur N00b In hightier and sealclubber below.

      Xvm is just an hater Instrument.

        • Didnt say happens. just say like to.

          Same for cheats … But i rather believe on flying spaghetti monsters…

      • Yes! Kill the messenger! Quarter it! Hang it! Drown it! Stats are the source of all evil! BAN STATS! BAN STATS!

        P.S.: Don’t mind the tomato causing the red stats behind the curtain…

    • Go fuck yourself. If you are upset by your stats and how people regard you because of your stats, then learn to fucking play and improve your stats! It’s not the stats that are causing your problem, IT IS YOU.

  22. In addition to the rating systems (rightly so) frowning on low-tier matches, another problem is that missions (individual missions or weekend-missions) can be completed in tier 4+ only. There thus is no incentive to play low-tiers (except when introducing new players to the game and you go and platoon with them), no matter that they are fun (I should know, I have a few hundred fights in M2 Light and Murder II, but I have had neither in the garage for a very long time anymore).

  23. “Lower tiers are not interested for old players (veterans) according to Wargaming because of the poor reputation the veteran players have, if they play low tiers due to the “rating system””
    - No, I do not play lower tiers just because of the missions. Allow missions in tier 1 and problem solved. :D (and couple of new problems arises)

  24. Well, low tier battles are exactly opposite of high tier battles and I don’t enjoy them cause 4/5 of players have no clue what to do (i don’t blame them unlike clueless e100 drivers rushing westfield valley) and 1/5 has 50K battles and seven skill crews on T18s, Tetrarchs and LTractors (or whatever). Their skill is to camp in bush with bino and camo net, outspot everything and survive as long as possible to damage whatever gets spotted and perhaps move 3 minutes before time out. Those 3 players on both teams farms 75% of enemy team’s hp. I tried 20 battles with T1 once, it’s not fun at all.

    • That is why I occasionally take my Pz1C with coated optics, press 3xR and just zoom around, only shooting if I think they can’t kill them. :D

  25. So, what if the guy behind the Warpack business is at the head of WG EU? Or get cash from it?

  26. There is lot of funny premium tanks on low tiers ..but when you cant do any missions and specials on them … why should you play them massively

    • IF WG would introduce all the existing missions for low tiers too, the situation would turn all the other way around – everyone and their grandmothers would go to sealclub the shit out of everything, because many of those IM’s would be a 30second job in Tier2 for example.

      Solution for this – introduce different Individual/Personal/whatever missions for new players and low tiers. Give some low tier tanks as rewards, make some more low tier friendly mission goals, which actually teach something to new players.

  27. How noobs know ur sealclubber, If they dont use fucking xvm them self?

    So much about their innocence.
    (Should Club More….)

    …….
    World of Warplanes total overhaul, … bring it from the dead
    ……..
    But undead is so mich more Fun!
    Btw told them on beta day1 its crap.
    Haha. Way to waste millions….

    Ps. Sovjet heavy prem?
    So we get an actual tank? After all this paper armor (by that i mean paper thin)

  28. - on WG NA server, there is currently an issue with lowtier battles (tier 1-2), not enough players are playing them and the matchmaker has issues dealing with it. This is caused apparently by the fact that there have been few new players recently and you also get usually 1-3 spammer bots per battle (see above).

    Maybe they should add some bots! I really dont think it would hurt the low tiers at all, most of the bots are actually a bit better than brand new players.

  29. - World of Warplanes total overhaul, WG apparently hired a brand new team to completely change the game and bring it from the dead

    Iol. I thought it doesn’t even exist. Good to see though.

  31. “Chinese artillery”

    WG should correctly balance the SPG class, before put any new ones into the game.

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  33. “- apparently, bots advertising scam sites (powerlevelling, “cheap gold”) have become a nuisance, especially on lower tiers”

    Are they that dense? The spammers have been a problem at low tiers for over two years now. I know on NA alone, the entire community has been telling them it’s been a problem for at least that long.

    “- World of Warplanes total overhaul, WG apparently hired a brand new team to completely change the game and bring it from the dead”

    good, now maybe it will get the love it’s deserved all this time.

  34. Chinese arty? Interesting. Do we know anything about that branch? The internet is poor when it comes to pics of chinese vehicles.

  35. the WoWP snafu is a huge mess/embarrasment/money sink for WG because:
    1) they can’t drop it even if it losses money for political reasons “mega succesful “dark horse” company on the rise with their super-effective monetization and unified accounts admits their planes game was a total failure”, never gonna happen.
    2) IF you look even closely the situation is quite dire as i said before, EVEN when sharing account, premium AND gold you can’t get people to play it, not even to “log in for daily doubles”, imagine if it required a different account!
    3) let’s say they hurry the new team up(in this case, the sooner the better), you still have to deal with the name stigma that the game already has and the more they delay the reboot the worse it will be. IF they mention that some premium tank nerf subjects are “radioactive” subjects, i can’t even imagine how wowp meetings go…, fuku-byl comes to mind…
    4) Someone will be butthurt and start forum wariorring with the reboot because they “like the current game”, they need to deal with this as well.
    5) And what happens to the old “stats” of the game, that is, if they decide to maintain the name and just dunno, make a “WOWP 2.0 totally not like the old wowp!” patch?

  36. - on WG NA server, there is currently an issue with lowtier battles (tier 1-2), not enough players are playing them and the matchmaker has issues dealing with it. [...]

    Yea, I just created an account on NA, and I noticed that the search process takes actually quite long (1min up to 1 and a half minute) for lower tier battles.

  37. When are WG gonna introduce a Swedish tech tree? Sweden got more tanks then the French does in tech trees.

  38. “On WG NA server, there is currently an issue with lowtier battles (tier 1-2) (…)” I don’t play lowtiers not because someone’s gonna call me a pedobear. Sure, It’s fun to sometimes pwn lowtier bobs in my Locust, but after some time it just gets boring. And if someone actually starts calling me statpader, sealclubber etc. I just go with it and laugh at his <500 WN.