MrFingers

It was a 3-day rental. WG is never that generous to existing accounts.

She does. She has an account of her own (not that active though).

I did let MrsFingers read the event announcement from "that silly boat game". She didn't understand a thing of it, despite really trying... She's a PhD in neurobiology, she is used to work with complex algorithms and difficult data.

Oh Wargaming, you so silly!

But the player that plays 1hr each and every day does get it as well, eventually. The opposite isn't true for Benham, which is impossible to get if you don't have regular attendance. Your logic is deeply flawed to begin with.

That's the issue. WG rewards players who can play 1 hour a day for 24 days, but not a player who can play 24 hours in 24 days (3 hours on day 1, nothing on day 2, half a hour on day 3, an hour on day 4, nothing on day 5 & 6, 2 hours on day 7)...

That video of Dasha... Isn't that intro the opening of Tchaikovsky's "1812"? Written for the victory of Russia over France? Cheeky! Sneaky! Devious! You know what this event needs? More lootboxes. WAY more lootboxes!

@CrysantosIt's exacty what Egoleter says. The main gripe is that WG rewards a player that can play 1 hour per day for 14 days without interruption, but not a player that can play for 14 hours in 14 days, but spreads that out (3 hours on day 1, nothing on day 2, half an hour on day 3, 2 hours on day 4,...). It's not that I haven't told you that for... over a year by now. Yet you seem really slow to learn and adapt. Yes, the campaign has its drawbacks as well, with the "accidental completion" of a mission you didn't select. But that does not outweigh the benefit it has of not having a harsh timegating. Also: directives have their place, being the antagonist of the campaigns. Now if only those would succeed eachother, and that new non-time-gated content would appear in the game. Why wasn't Kuznetsov (or the upcoming French commander) added to the game via a campaign? That would be logical and interesting. Also "you can buy tokens in the armoury via containers" is also a poor show, that you need a "surprise box" to bloat the price of the tokens, all for the greed. Then the Cossack-event was better (spread out more, some leeway in terms of how to fill it in, and more importantly: standalone tokens). I got the Cossack (despite it being a long grind, and despite it requiring to pay for it nonetheless). I didn't even care for Benham, even if I were allowed (or want) to buy containers. The thread started by Apollo, or the one on reddit, gives a clear view on how people react to such missions... I'm going to condense it for you: it's not favourable. I'm talking from a personal view now, but with these kinds of time-gated events, you lost me. Plain and simple. Previously I was all to eager to participate in events, go for the final goal, spend some decent time and effort,... but now: I see the requirements, and I just shrug, raise my eyebrow a bit, and then logs off. And once you've missed one event, the (mental) hurdle to participate in the next event becomes higher the more events there are happening. I did Exeter, which did strain me a bit, but I freewheeled when the Russian BB's happened, and I plainly didn't bother for Kuznetsov, which also made it so that I didn't bother for the Benham (not even for Hill, which was within reach easily, compared to Exeter), and following on that, I will not bother for the French DD's (which is the first time since CBT I will not be participating in the release-event of a new branch), etc... etc. Once you're out of the loop, it's very hard to get back into it, and to motivate oneself to participate back in the events. Previously a day where I didn't reach 12.5k XP for 2 containers was a meagre day, nowadays a day when I reach 2k XP for 1 container is a hugely successful one. And it's not because I dislike the game (although I do have my questions and reservations about the direction it is going), it's purely by the timegated events, the lack of alternatives and the lootbox-bonanza.

Counting backwards: Benham: absolutely ridiculous, with having 1/8th of the required tokens hidden behind mandatory daily attendance & activity, in full holiday season. Kuznetsov: really grindy, borderline impossible to get without buying "surprise mechanics" Russian BB release: really grindy Exeter-marathon: really grindy, especially for a T5 cruiser. British CV-marathon: also grindy PEF-marathon: really grindy, eventhough the real reward (the steel from the parallel campaign that needed PEF to unlock) Cossack-marathon: 3 months of directives to get tokens. That's a quarter of a year to get a (admittedly strong) T8 DD at a substantial discount. British DD-marathon: grindy ... When is the last time we had a rather "casual" event? Pleas help enlighten me, because I can't remember it. Related to that: Why do we still have a campaign-tab in our port anyway, it's not seeing any additions at all: everything is time-gated directives or missions anyhow... And since a few years it is time-gated with short intervals (really starting with the Aigle-marathon, but also starting with the OktoRev mission chain, or the X-mas campaign for the Duke of York), taking away any planning or initiative from the player's side, with WG dictating the agenda, and saying when we have to play what for being able to participate in the event. First you just had a start date and an end date. Then a start date, an intermediate date and an end date. Now we have a start date, a gazillion intermediate dates and intermediate end dates, and an end date. And no way to catch up. That's what made the goal of getting Yamamoto, Halsey or Shinonome so interesting: you could do so at your own pace, on your own terms and by picking and choosing the missions you wanted to do. But hey, campaigns don't bring in any money, that's why they got sidetracked. If you add this with the absolute reluctance/ignoring of WG staff for the "Summer Sale", and how non-Steam players are being treated, the lootboxing of absolutely everything this game has to offer (with a really aggressive way to do so on top, making crates borderline mandatory for anyone who doesn't see WoWS as a job,...)... I've told you guys in the past to maybe ease of the throttle a bit, spread the events a bit out, allow for some breathing space, but all in vain, you said "we want to keep the players busy and entertained", well... Congratulations, you've made an event that 60+% didn't even bother to begin with because it was so ridiculous, and you've now successfully wore out a part of your playerbase. Your aims to keep us playing more, and more regularly, is starting to bite you in the rear, and is making people play less, and less regularly.

48/50 daily missions... "Some"... sure...

Since LordofDroid came to power in the EU, there has been little-to-no inter-server fckery going on, so no need to keep up with the discrepancies. I may need to restart it for the Steam-stuff though. But my emotional investment with the game has slipped to almost 0 with the "quality" of patches/events they churned out since 0.7.1 anyway.

Only after the CV rework is finished, and balanced, and enjoyable for all parties involved. THEN I might think about welcoming submarines.

It's brutal in every aspect (both for the player as for the enemy). But it should have come with smoke, and bumped to T6. It's too shoehorned in a T5.

Oh, I had an absolute field day in that period!

Doesn't work. It works via the game profile. If the in-game profile says you're from Belgium, you can't buy any lootboxes, even when physically located abroad.

It's being exchanged for a patch

Rank 15 & the commemorative flag, here I come. Can't be @rsed to do more.

It wasn't about the nerfing, it was about not getting properly compensated for it. Yeah, we were given doubloons, which are virtually useless in this game anyhow. If it were a real money compensation ("annulling the sale"), I would have been more than happy to hand over my OP toys.

Whatta mistaka to maka! Die beaautifull ladiee, I kisse the hand!

This. I haven't thoroughly enjoyed WoWS in months now. All due to the events and the pressure that is being put on the players to participate. And once you're out of the loop (because you're not obliged to participate), it's very hard to get back into it.

Love the signature, botato!