MyopicHedgehog

Thankyou O/P for posting this. Now if only someone could hammer this into the dev's thick skulls (common sense & good game design doesn't come in to their decisions so maybe they will learn by manual input/osmosis) this game could be improved!

Agreed. WG, WTF are you guys smoking?! Is the balance department really just one monkey on a unicycle?

The number of times I have seen a 5* loss though...

Well, if we look at the US Navy's recent track record they should also stay moored as they have an inexplicable tendancy to disobey the rules of navigation and get BTFO'd by merchant shipping... There is a reason that a boat is referred to as a hole in the water you just fill with money - it's as true for wet navy ships as it is for other ships & boats! Our ferries have engine failure/trouble very frequently - fun for an island that relies on marine transport!

Fixed it for you... But yeah. When? If we listen to El2azer, it will never happen as it goes against the "design" of the reeeeeework

Merry Christmas all! (Or what ever you are celebrating :) )

Boarski needs to be taken behind the woodshed and given an old fashioned "corrective treatment". And the brown cleaned off his nose.

I thought it was just my imagination, but my divisionmates have also said this.

I guess it's the east's revenge for the 90's!

They used to do team damage fairly regularly...

iChase did. (I think it was him anyway). Radio silence from everyone else though...

Example, I would have been prepared to purchase the Gorzilla/Gorilla/whatever it is before WG pulled this. Now? Not happening. Buy a year's premium for half price? Why, if I'm not going to end up playing in a year's time (still have around 320 days left)? @MrConway @Crysantos - do WG not want people to continue funding the "development" of the game? Kind of feels like time to remind your paymasters what happens when your customers turn off the spigot.

Short & sweet. No. But I did come across someone in co-op that is trying to do it for free...

Yes it is - you need to pay 59,000 dubloons to get your chat ban revoked...

Because they are. That's why. It doesn't help that the "elites" are expecting the USD to crash out from being the reserve currency, in the process crashing the entire western economy. Expected that WG would try to screw people for as much $$$ as possible and then convert it into something useful in that frame of reference.

Simple mate, it's all about the $$$

Sub O completely misses the point (as usual). Locking performance upgrades behind the NTC 2.0, whether or not we get a whole year to grind them or 3 months is bad for the game in general and exactly what the playerbase said "no" to with NTC 1.0 Legendary modules were stated to be non-expiring! Again you break trust with us WG. Have the lunatiks truly taken over the asylum as this is how you kill your game!

It should - yes. But if you have a game that is rated under 18, there should be no gambling in it. Otherwise you are encouraging a naasty addiction. So if you are actively targetting kids or people with an addictive personality, you are (almost) the worst kind of sc*m. Using psychological tactics like the sunk cost fallacy in a game that kids play too is also just not on. If it was an 18 rated game, sure it would still suck (and tell us all how WG see us) but it wouldn't be quite as repulsive.

QFT. BTW, any one that believes WeeGee's "we haven't decided yet" spiel - well lets just say I've got a beautiful bridge for sale here...

It's not quite that simple. They have gotten used to their playerbase leaving their wallets open so they have just turned the screws to see how much they can extract. I mean, who wouldn't? Problem is they have mis-read the general feeling of using sc*mmy and underhand tactics in a game that is rated low enough for children (people are really starting to push back against loot boxes too). And then they thought that releasing another bit of "bad news" would either cause the original mess to get forgotten, or simply fly under the radar.

This, so much this. Sub Octavian's puppet masters are so out of touch with reality - their plans are the epitome of short-term thinking, like that which resulted in the financial crises in the West. Guess what Sub O, you kill or scare away the golden goose, you don't get any more golden eggs. Keep your player base HAPPY and CONTENT and give them cosmetics (etc) to purchase you will keep them supporting you. Lock everything away in the NTC 2.0 etc - opposite effect.

The issue is theur thinking is short-termism. They will increase profits for a short time and then the golden goose will die. As will the game.

Game now takes even longer to log in. UI slower. Takes longer to exit battle. Inverse Midas touch at play at WeeGee...

I pray that you are correct. Judging by form though, it is set in stone and only another storm from the community equal to the original NTC blow up can stop it.

I'll get the snowflakes done & if I get time over the next month, play a bit of Randoms. Family is WAAAAY more important than this. No way am I bothering with any grind, especially after WG's current MO has been laid out in the open.