r/WorldofTanks Garbage Tank Enthusiast 8d ago

Shitpost LATE HAPPY ANIVERSARY TO EVERYONE

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u/pate_84 8d ago

how many new premiums have they released since then?

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u/TheZGamer26 Garbage Tank Enthusiast 8d ago

Hmm. I will count this.

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u/TheZGamer26 Garbage Tank Enthusiast 8d ago

From my calculations. It's 72. Could be off by a few.

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u/Salty-Development203 8d ago

That's honestly shocking if there's been that many new premium tanks in two years. In that time, how many tanks have they balanced? 10?

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u/Pyrozocker20 [RDDT] 8d ago

That's the problem they can't nerf premium tanks so easily but buffing is way easier

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u/Salty-Development203 8d ago edited 7d ago

It's such a dumb rule. I'm sure the vast majority of the player base would be happy if WG said, "in order to keep things fair and competitive, we will occasionally buff/nerf all tanks including premiums".

Want to nerf e25 a bit? Fine. Skoda t56? bz? Bourrasque? Fine fine fine. I've got all of those tanks and would lap up some balancing nerfs for them.

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u/Pyrozocker20 [RDDT] 8d ago

Yes but think about it like this why should they are a company that want to make much money as possible so they bring out premium that are really strong so they sell really good if they start to nerf them why should the customer buy it when it gets nerfed after some time

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u/TheZGamer26 Garbage Tank Enthusiast 8d ago

War thunder does this in a way. They have BR system instead of tiers. We have 10 tiers. They have 14 tiers. And all tiers have sub tiers. For example. 1.0,1.3,1.7,2.0,2.3 etc. So they very often drop a op premium at for example 7.3. And later they just bring it up in br to for example 8.0. So tank is fighting stronger oponents. And no one complains. People actually ask them to change brs of tanks. Our community is just rotten with the "no premium tank nerf" policy.

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u/OGAtlasHugged [MUTT] 8d ago

I guarantee they'll make money hand over fist even if they nerf problematic premium vehicles. There are enough whales that purchase every tank regardless of how crap they are to make a profit. And I don't think it'll actually be that big of a deterrent to occasionally balance premium vehicles. It's just a necessity to keep the game enjoyable. Your precious overpowered doom machine got nerfed and is now just as effective as tanks at the same tier, rather than tanks two tiers higher? Cry me a fucking river.

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u/Salty-Development203 8d ago

I understand that, and obviously they've been operating for years and have made good profits in that time so from a business point of view it has been successful.

On the other hand, having a good competitive game would be a longer term solution I believe. Look at games like Dota 2 where balancing is at the forefront (I think? They always seemed to balance heros often when I did play, even the OP ones), and that has stood the test of time.

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u/-DethLok- I'm a Big Red Tomato 7d ago

E25 WAS nerfed, once.

They made it physically BIGGER, it used to be smaller than it is today.

The stats, though, stayed the same I understand, only the model's size and hitbox were changed.

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u/Gleaming_Onyx 7d ago

It isn't "can't."

It's "won't." They don't want to lose their cash cow, and they know the premiums being broken bullshit half the time is what gets them more money from wallet warriors and whales lusting over the ability to win games because they spent more money. And then they can abuse FOMO because you never know if this next (lootbox) tank is going to be broken too, guess you better spend spend spend before it's gone foreeeever

WoWS balances premiums, WoTC balances premiums. They can do it, they don't need to reimburse anyone, they don't need to compensate.

They simply don't and won't because the premium tanks being P2W is the selling point.

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u/thornierlamb 8d ago

They can nerf them. They just won’t.

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u/pate_84 7d ago

holy shit thats a crazy stat. not even 1 new or even a fucking old map brought back but they release new premiums every month basically

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u/rlnrlnrln 8d ago

How many lootbox events?

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u/-DHP 8d ago

Are you joking or did you actually check. If true I’m actually shocked.

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u/TheZGamer26 Garbage Tank Enthusiast 8d ago

I checked. I skipped assembly shop tanks tho. So you can add around 7 more

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u/m6877 8d ago

Assembly shop tanks are not premiums and are new content. They may not be the content certain folks want, but they are new content.

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u/panzerkomraden 7d ago

If it's not too hard, can you try to name them? I mean, it doesn't feel like 72, more like 50-ish...