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Value is relative. It has higher perceived value in your eyes. But if you ask me, that's just elitist entitlement speaking. Objectively speaking it's just bytes on a server. For WG, now that the event is over... it's basically just an added cost because it's one more ship that they have to take into account during future balancing efforts (which is probably why it will be sold at a later stage, because to put all that work into something and not make more money off it is a bit of a waste).

But to be blunt: Yes. This game isn't a competition. The reward ships exist as rewards for keeping the servers populate it. That's literally it, that's all they exist for. There are no genuinely competitive rewards in this game outside of tournaments. So yes, everyone who participates in keeping the different game modes populated should have access to the same reward ships.

Would a gold medal as a symbol have meaning if anyone who manages to run 42 km altogether over their lifetime got one? Would it have a meaning if anyone who manages to run for one hour a day for a couple of weeks (regardless of how long) got one?

Again, you fail with the reading comprehension. Criticizing WG for being bad at promoting their game isn't the same as complaining about not getting a particular ship. I don't give a hoot about the Benham. I do care about the game because, believe it or not, I actually enjoy it. Which means I really hate seeing WG continuously shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to how they (fail to) promote and grow their game. Never, because clan battles and ranked don't interest me. I mean, I could have just played ranked for the heck of it, not really enjoyed it, and gotten it eventually. But it's not worth the ulcer I'd get from playing something I don't particularly enjoy.

For one thing, they currently don't. If you want a game that rewards skill, this one isn't really it. Secondly, there's nothing stopping them from making certain game modes more rewarding (by getting access to rewards faster) while still not having rewards be exclusive to those game modes. Skill and dedication are two entirely different things. And your definition of what is dedication vs what is casual is obviously not universal, as has been demonstrated in this very thread. I posit that ten hours played should be just as rewarding regardless of whether that's two hours every weekday or ten hours on a weekend. Both players are equally dedicated, they both dedicate the same amount of their available spare time to the game. This isn't a sport, nor is it really a competitive game. Outside of tournaments, there isn't really much of a competitive aspect even to the clan war seasons. The rewards offered in game are primarily just rewards for time spent in a particular game mode. You can speed it up a bit by being good, but it's not as if the less skilled clans don't also manage to get the Stalingrad eventually. Amusing spelling error. But... well, if you actually look at the psychology of competitiveness, it's not really the rewards that are important.

Same here. I probably would have picked up one or two ships if they hadn't been bundled with containers though. So good job WG with shooting yourselves in the foot, I guess.

Opinions without reasoning behind them are worthless. Why do you think the way you do? What is your rationale? Why do you think people who play certain game types are entitled to different rewards than people who play others? I have explained why I think they're doing it wrong: Restricting rewards (that people are going to want) to specific game types means that you will have players who feel pressured into playing something they're not good at or not interested at just to get the rewards. How much moaning do we have every ranked season about players who aren't good enough to play ranked? And how many of those players do you think would happily skip ranked, making it more enjoyable for those who do like it, if they could earn a reasonable amount of steel in other ways?

Well, goody for you. Why not? If WG can't make their content appealing enough to stand on its own, that's a problem with content design. Using exclusive rewards to browbeat people into playing something they may not really enjoy and may not really be good at just makes the enjoyment less for those who actually are good at them and do enjoy them. Why? How would it hurt you if other players who prefer other game modes get access to the same things? Heck, it's not as if you'd see a coop-main Stalingrad that often in random battles anyway. Why? There's no real-world economic reason for it. There's no material unfairness to it. Aside from elitist entitlement, what's the reason for it being "wrong"? What's the rational justification?

"I am not sure"? It's blatantly obvious that these events are designed with anything but recruitment in mind. They are, as I've already explained multiple times, designed to make the current players keep the servers active by exploiting fear-of-missing-out-mechanics. WG absolutely sucks at running recruitment events. That's the problem. They are relying far too much on the existing players to keep the game alive, instead of growing the player population. Which is exactly why no reward should be tied exclusively to one type of content.

Hood was "buffed" recently, her AP fuse timers was changed from 0.015 s to the "normal" 0.035s. Which means that whereas she used to be a bit of a cruiser killing monster that had a harder time than most against BB main belts, she's now as liable to overpen cruisers as any other BB.

Erm, it's basically the same as with the British DDs. T5-9 are "early release" that you can earn through the event, the rest are released later.

With that specific camo, I agree.

Jesus H. Christ on a ing pogo stick, learn to use the quote tags when you're replying. Yes, the population is stable. That's the problem. It's not growing, and it's never been particularly large. They are relying solely on their current, rather small player population to generate all of their income and keep the servers active. And instead of looking into how they can grow their player numbers, they are just rushing out event after event using FOMO to keep the small core of players on the servers.

To be honest, I don't think he's smart enough to be trolling. IE, the "never argue with an idiot" meme would fit better

Because like so many others, it's a poorly designed event that rewards players with the same amount of play time unequally. And as has been mentioned so many times before, it's a promotion design that is likely to hurt the long-term player retention, meaning that the game's life span may end up being shorter than it could have been. It's a classic case of short term profits over long-term stable income. They are basically relying on the hard-core no-lifers to keep the servers populated short term by exploiting their FOMO, instead of looking into how they could grow their overall player base to a more sustainable level.

I'm not. I'm saying it didn't require effort. And you shouldn't pretend it did.

I assume he's proposing account sharing, which as we all know is banned in WG's terms and conditions. Explains why he's reluctant to post from his main account, though

Effort is if you actually had to play well to get it.

No it's not. If you just happen to have nothing else to do in July, there's no real effort in getting it.

So, the less dedicated player gets a reward, while the more dedicated is left without?

So, what does that say about the player who plays extensively for a one month grind for a specific reward vs. the player who plays weekly all year round? Or, you know, people could just grow tired of the constant event pressure and incessant monetization and grow tired of the game. Hurting the long-term player retention in the process.

No. A player who plays ten hours every saturday is more dedicated than the player who plays one hour every day. But the second player is rewarded far more than the first.

They aren't for either. They are for the players who happen to be in a situation where they can play every day in specific periods of time. That is literally all they are for. Nothing to do with skill, nothing to do with dedication. Just having the opportunity.

Of the ships I don't already have that I'm actually interested in, all of them were bundled with containers and therefore a no-go The handful of decent offers basically drowned in the flood of turds.

It doesn't require effort. It's piss easy, if you don't have other commitments. Not having a life isn't a measure of worthiness. And having an actual life isn't the same as "the game being hard".