What I wanted for Christmas/New Years Event. /rant + plea

[Czevak]

 

1. The ability to buy and stock up on New Year's camo. You "can" but you have to spend money.. at least let us buy and stock up with doubloons at the very least.

 

 

2. The ability to actually buy crates with doubloons.. it once again seems like a massive money grab that I must go into the premium shop and buy full items.. e.g. Arizona was on sale, couldn't buy cause CC locked but I could've bought it with doubloons - I'll just have to wait for 4 months when it might be on sale again. Same with crates, I could buy a ton in game with doubloons but I cannot get any.

 

Cmon WG, you know players stock up doubloons.. we already spent a ton of money must we spend more? Be nice

For example, when an awesome premium comes out some players have the doubloon equivalent to buy it but they can't because WG forces you to buy from the premium shop.. which forces the player to spend more money. 

 

Let us buy the regular/new stuff with our doubloons.. don't pull this marketing crap on us please. Add all ships to the premium shop (except the OP ones) finally, you'll get more money.

 

WG's 2017 New Year's Resolution should be: I will listen to the player base much more often and will be much more open to change. I feel like unfortunately this analogy is what the WG to playerbase communication is like: "We literally have to grab WG by the collar, shake them, threaten to murder their puppy and only then do they start listening to us... for the specific incident and once we release them it goes back to normal."

 

 

3. Something that really annoys me to no end.

You must wait until January 9th to finally begin "Santa's Christmas Convoy's" (hello, Christmas is done.) which is fairly annoying and cleverly prevents many players that have not a lot of time because the break is over from getting the rewards.. you also need to grind Graf Spee when you get it for about a week to really start earning & stock up on the camos.

 

Oh but you can complete it now if you want! Just buy a "on sale -19% off" Graf Spee package!

 

 

..Really WG? You're trying that hard to prevent players from getting the rewards?

,_, this annoys me.

 

 

4. Very easily could've made daily containers have a % of chance of it being a Santa Crate (even just $1) which would've actually been awesome and might've prevented me from creating this rant.

 

 

Conclusion: While this Christmas/New Years event is.. nice it's also not what it could've been simply for the fact of you literally need to spend money to get anything except the achievements part - which is a nice touch.

 

I'm sorry guys but it just seems like more taking and less giving.. but then again there's those that got free $60 premiums & rare ships from crates that I can't buy.. due to CC recently blocked and the inability to buy with doubloons.

 

 

I don't like making these rants because I genuinely like this game and it's community but this event was a little too money grabby for my tastes.

 

 

Sorry for being the grinch guys but I'm just so disheartened that I can't spend my doubloons I've been stocking up on, for any part of this event.

 

Thoughts? Also, try and at least be a little constructive.. and less salty than I am in this post lol

 

[shiroko_prpr]

shush mate!

 

For we are not as screwed as EU yet!

 

Merry Christmas and have an empty wallet!

[HMS_Battleship_Vanguard]

The salt must flow. 

 

TLDR you're blaming WG for running a promotion while your CC is blocked.

[AVR_Project]

We have all those missed campaign steps that offer rewards that we missed.

I was in such a hurry to finish it, that I left a few real good ones behind.  You can still cash in on those.

[BlazerSparta]

As long as players refuse to show the restraint to not purchase ships for cash, WG will refuse to sell them for doubloons.

 

 

[Flamadiddle]

I'm out of +1's, but +1 for being able to stock consumables with doubloons. Without a depot the value of doubloons is gimped compared to the value of gold for WoT. 

 

As for the santa convoy, while I'd rather to just progress on my own I'm happy they are letting us earn the ship at all. 

[Czevak]

The salt must flow. 

 

TLDR you're blaming WG for running a promotion while your CC is blocked.

 

I am blaming WG for not doing the smart thing by putting stuff in the in game shop.

 

As long as players refuse to show the restraint to not purchase ships for cash, WG will refuse to sell them for doubloons.

 

 

 

Which is certainly odd because I'm almost certain WG would get more income.

[BlazerSparta]

Which is certainly odd because I'm almost certain WG would get more income.

 

Why is that odd to you?

 

Because as you mentioned, 

 

For example, when an awesome premium comes out some players have the doubloon equivalent to buy it but they can't because WG forces you to buy from the premium shop.. which forces the player to spend more money. 

 

WoWS is not a game monetised to take advantage of microtransations - that idea is a joke given the premium ships that cost as much as AAA games.

 

WoWS is a game designed to suck money from whales, and whales don't care about a few wasted doubloons.

 

They just want their pretty boats, and they want them now.

 

WG wins when you convert your valuable real currency to their crappy doubloons.

 

They have zero incentive to raise the value of their house currency.

[Czevak]

 

Why is that odd to you?

 

Because as you mentioned, 

 

 

WoWS is not a game monetised to take advantage of microtransations - that idea is a joke given the premium ships that cost as much as AAA games.

 

WoWS is a game designed to suck money from whales, and whales don't care about a few wasted doubloons.

 

They just want their pretty boats, and they want them now.

 

In the long run I mean.

[BlazerSparta]

In the long run I mean.

 

Humans are terrible with long run considerations.

 

If you want WG to change, you have to make it hurt for them in the short run.

 

In this case, you won't force WG to sell all their ships for doubloons unless you can convince a significant portion of the paying playerbase to refuse to buy ships for cash, no matter how rare, exclusive, or OP it is.

 

Good luck with that.

[Czevak]

 

Humans are terrible with long run considerations.

 

If you want WG to change, you have to make it hurt for them in the short run.

 

Unfortunately that wont happen.

 

That is unless WG starts hiring a surplus of us players into management positions.. which wont happen.

[RumblingMouse]

 

Unfortunately that wont happen.

 

That is unless WG starts hiring a surplus of us players into management positions.. which wont happen.

 

You should apply for a management position then

[this_might_be_slak__]

 1. The ability to buy and stock up on New Year's camo. You "can" but you have to spend money.. at least let us buy and stock up with doubloons at the very least.

2. The ability to actually buy crates with doubloons.. it once again seems like a massive money grab that I must go into the premium shop and buy full items.. e.g. Arizona was on sale, couldn't buy cause CC locked but I could've bought it with doubloons - I'll just have to wait for 4 months when it might be on sale again. Same with crates, I could buy a ton in game with doubloons but I cannot get any.

 

 

There will be some Camo released in a couple weeks that does... something, is purchasable by Doubs or earned somehow. But... I would like to see an in game store that you can use to purchase things w/Doubs. Not like WG has made WoT Gold accessible or anything on WoWs so not sure what the issue would be other than creating a UI....

 

3. Something that really annoys me to no end.

You must wait until January 9th to finally begin "Santa's Christmas Convoy's" (hello, Christmas is done.) which is fairly annoying and cleverly prevents many players that have not a lot of time because the break is over from getting the rewards.. you also need to grind Graf Spee when you get it for about a week to really start earning & stock up on the camos.

 

Same. Though when Guru put up a thread about it the consensus seemed to be that players were whiny Western Babies for bringing it up...

 

 Sorry for being the grinch guys but I'm just so disheartened that I can't spend my doubloons I've been stocking up on, for any part of this event.

 There is absolutely zero incentive to hoard Doubs as you can use them for very, very little in game. Not sure how this is a smart thing on WGs part....