Crysantos

Hello dear forumites, I also wanted to take the chance to say goodbye to all of you on this platform here, Yabba already covered many aspects very well. I myself had been a forumite long before I joined Wargaming - joining in passionate discussions, getting a warning for getting too passionate in a discussion with "Dunning-Kruger-effect" commentary , using one of the first community-websites maplesyrup to take a look at ship statistics in spreadsheets and getting to know many of you during a time when were still learning how to be less bad at this game. And maybe without this I wouldn't have been so close to the game and ultimately ending up working for it. I want to say thank you for over 7 years of being part of this community, the conversations and connections that we've made over that time and for being passionate about the game. Special thanks and shout-out to all of our moderators, guide creators and helping hands that always tried their very best to help fellow community members and newbies to find their way here. Thank you and see you hopefully on our other platforms in the future! Chris

Hi, YabbaCoe will reach out to you and figure this out together. Greetings, Crysantos

I get your perspective - but for us the whole aspect of official forums is a direct connection to the game, official responses and direct contact with the company. Be it in terms of announcements, answers, relationships, etc. This is why we provide our forums in the languages where we have a dedicated CM to be able to do this. Consultation with forumites wouldn't have changed the decision because it's not about the content that is available here and I think it wouldn't have changed also the perception of this decision. We know it's a tough one. And while it is indeed sad that some of these things - even my old own posts - will be lost in the digital oblivion, the things that matter to players they'll save but not everything. That nostalgia also makes me sad but I still think this is the right choice for the future instead of delaying this decision further. The digital space keeps evolving and forums unfortunately seem to be less and less what players use. We'll check about the things highlighted here that you guys would miss the most and we'll see how we can incorporate this into the Discord or other places. Greetings, Crysantos

D.h. wir sollten nicht schauen, Dinge wie z.B. Divisionen zu ermöglichen?

Ja, betrifft nur Warships. Das muss jedes unserer Spiele für sich selbst entscheiden, wie sie mit dem Thema Forum umgehen wollen und in der Zukunft interagieren möchten. lg, Crysantos

We won't transfer them from our side but the forums reviews will be accessible until end of October - which gives enough time for users to find a new home for them and then it's ultimately up to LWM to decide where to publish potentially new reviews, e.g. on Blogs or maybe with certain Discord features. This isn't about registered playerbase, it's about activity. Less and less people are here on forums, more and more actively interact on Discord. Yes, we promote that platform but players decide where and how they want to interact - and many chose Discord. Yes we need to decide where we want to invest our time and effort to benefit as much players as possible and we know that it will be difficult for those who really enjoy forums to accept. We get that and we know it's painful, I'm not trying to sugarcoat this. But we can't be everywhere at the same time and the reality of forums is unfortunately (I say this as a forumite with many posts before joining the company) a declining one which isn't only the case for us but for many, many other games. When it comes to such content, Discord will be able to hold some of it but of course it won't be a 1:1 replacement - and content like LWM reviews will always find a home like Blogs. Greetings, Crysantos

Um hier vielleicht etwas Einsicht zu schaffen - tatsächlich ist es nicht so einfach kommende Updates zu ändern, v.a. die beiden Updates die bereits im Supertest / öffentlichen Test sind. In der Spieleentwicklung muss vieles getestet werden bevor es auf dem Server erscheint, um ein möglichst stabiles, fehlerfreies Spiel zu ermöglichen. Daher werden Inhalte ab einem gewissen Termin festgelegt und nicht mehr geändert, da kurzfristige Änderungen zu unerwarteten und größeren Problemen führen können. Die asymmetrischen Gefechte kommen zurück - ich hoffe eher bald als später. Wir werten aktuell die Daten aus, schauen was man bis zum nächsten Event verbessern kann - aber uns hat sehr gefreut, wieviele von euch den Modus mochten und viel gespielt haben. Also bitte etwas Zeit geben, der kommt wieder und wahrscheinlich auch deutlich schneller als ursprünglich geplant. :) lg, Crysantos

I can tell you that this has nothing to do with saving costs - this is more a matter of shifting our attention away from our forums to Discord, based on where we see more and more of audience being active. A decision that took a long time to make but we're not able to be on every platform - at least as official platform with the support we want to provide. And we're not cutting down on staff - our regional CMs will all stay here but shift their focus of work towards Discord. When it comes to the timescale of this - the information of forums are accessible until end of October but we'll remove the ability to post on Friday. This is a short-notice but a longer duration wouldn't provide any major benefits or change the inevitable closure that we decided to do. I understand it's painful but with less and less players choosing forums to be their main communication tool with us and others we made this decision. Thanks for staying constructive and I hope you might change your mind about Discord or our other community channels. Have a nice week!

This decision was made for World of Warships, unrelated to any other WG product.

Happy to discuss internally how to make it easier to get staff's attention without too much notification spam, it's a good point. It's something that was a bit problematic when launching the Discord but things evolve, so we can see how to make that easier. But overall pinging isn't necessary to interact with our staff, with shifting our attention from forums to Discord there should be more eyes from our side on general discussions, topics and problems on Discord that require less pinging for attention. When it comes to banning - I don't understand this point. If you break rules - doesn't matter which platform you're on - you will get sanctioned, the same is true for forums or Discord. Stick to the rules, stay respectful and you won't have problems. Greetings, Crysantos

Natürlich sind die Spieler, die primär das Forum nutzen, nicht der größte Fan davon auf Discord umzusteigen. Die Realität ist, dass die Foren als Plattform einen stetigen Rückgang verzeichnen, sowohl in Bezug auf die aktiven Nutzer als auch auf die Aktivität. Das hat nichts damit zu tun, wie aktiv unsere CMs sind oder wie viele Forenaktivitäten wir hier veranstalten. Wir haben bereits schon seit einiger Zeit mehr aktive Nutzer und mehr Engagement auf Discord, daher hat sich unsere Entscheidung zu diesem Schritt mit der Zeit herauskristallisiert. Wir versuchen unserer Community so viel Unterstützung wie möglich zu bieten, aber wir können nicht aber wir können nicht überall gleichzeitig sein, also haben wir beschlossen, mit der Zeit und den Spielern zu Discord zu wechseln. Ich persönlich bin ein langjähriger Forennutzer -freund- und das schon lange Zeit, bevor ich bei Wargaming angefangen habe - aber ich glaube wirklich, dass dies eine gute Entscheidung ist, auch wenn sie schmerzhaft ist. Wir wissen, dass jede Plattform anders ist und das Forum nicht 1 zu 1 mit dem Discord verglichen werden kann. Es gibt genügend Platformen, wo du deine Kritik mit uns teilen kannst. Wenn wir solche Beiträge nicht haben wollen würden, hätten wir diese hier auch einfach wegmoderieren können. Das tun wir aber nicht - wir wechseln nur zu einer immer beliebteren Platform, die auch von vielen Forenusern genutzt wird, aber natürlich nicht von jedem Spieler. Das hat auch nichts mit Kostensenkung zu tun - unser Community-Team bleibt unverändert und wird nun eben mehr Zeit auf Discord als im Forum aufwenden. Ja, Foren haben gewisse Vorteile - aber immer weniger Spieler nutzen das. Seit Jahren sehen wir sinkende Zahlen im Forum und nun sind wir eben an einem Punkt angelangt, wo wir mit der Zeit gehen und uns mehr auf Discord konzentrieren. Die Platform hat ihre Vorteile - aber eben auch Nachteile, was Foren vielleicht besser lösen. Leider gibt es da keine eierlegende Wollmilchsau die alles kann, aber es ist klar dass mehr und mehr Spieler sich Discord zu- und dem Forum abwenden. lg, Crysantos

Please stay respectful - you might disagree with the decision but forum rules still apply. I understand your frustration as a forumite that you would like to keep the forums - and of course Seraphice is giving you our position because he's replying to questions. He wants to give you some additional context and insights into our decision making process. The reality is that forums as a platform are in a very steady decline, both in terms of active users and activity. This is unrelated to how active our CMs are or how many activities we run there. We've already had more active users on Discord and more engagement there for a while, so over time our decision took shape to make this move. We try to provide as much support for our community as possible but we can't be in all places at the same time, so we decided to go with the time and our audience to Discord. I'm personally a forumite - have been for a long time before I joined the company - but I truely believe this is a good decision, even if it's a painful one. We know each platform is different and you can't compare forums to Discord 1:1. If there are specifics that you worry about in terms of information getting lost, let us know and we will see what we can do. Also the forum closure on Friday means ability to post - while the content is still accessible until the end of October. No, it just means our CMs will spend more time on other platforms like Discord to provide a better support and experience there. Greetings, Crysantos

Hi, no it's about fairness of progress in the game. There are certain metrics - like ship kills or damage - that are much easier to score in Operations than in other modes like Random Battles. This is the reason why this mode was excluded in the past. With Update 12.6 we can now add the mode to pretty much all missions so you can progress but at a similar pace as with other modes. This should be a big step for most players who enjoy operations because they don't have to play other modes to progress in missions and events. Greetings, Crysantos

While we do compensate to a certain degree, it's still a free reward - so we don't necessarily provide a full 1:1 compensation in direct doubloon countervalue, you can see the same even for many other compensation practices in the Armory for containers and other avenues of how to obtain ships. But 30k CTs is the maximum price right now in the Armory for any item and allows you to get a free Tier VII ship or buy several Supercontainers - so I personally think that it's a very good compensation that fits well and is much better than what we were able to offer before. Similar to e.g. receiving a Supercontainer, the rewards aren't equal for everybody and that is by design. The core idea is that everybody has a reward - that reward is either 400 CTs or 200 CTs + eco-boosters - and there is a chance to get lucky. I think the overwhelming majority of users prefer this setup than just the basic common reward, which has been very consistently over the last few months the Tactical container. We'll still be using other rewarding to keep things fresh and interesting but so far the feedback has been very good for this new option and we'll keep using it occasionally. While I'd love to be able to provide everybody with multiple tries at this Mystery Drop, the reality is that it won't be possible in its current value and chance distribution. It's completely for free with no direct interaction with the game and it's meant to be a goodie, nothing more. I hope that you do enjoy the different things we do with Drops on a recurring basis and the extra things you can get for the game with it :) Greetings, Crysantos

Es gibt auch einige andere offizielle Streams, aber die sind dann nicht auf Deutsch. Die Drops funktionieren leider nur bei Live-Streams. lg, Crysantos