Premium battle pass reward

[Deksi_4]

Hi captains, 

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

I have already Kearsage in my port, so I wont pay for the premium pass. My personal opinion is that a tech tree ship as a final reward is patetic from WG. They should include a premium ship like it was Tokachi the first time. 

Kind regards. 

[black_falcon120]

30 minutes ago, Deksi_4 said:

Hi captains, 

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

I have already Kearsage in my port, so I wont pay for the premium pass. My personal opinion is that a tech tree ship as a final reward is patetic from WG. They should include a premium ship like it was Tokachi the first time. 

Kind regards. 

I mean it’s like 20mil credits and 300k fxp assuming you don’t want to grind it? 
 

that’s a big if though… it’s not terrible, but it doesn’t feel comparable to 5 mega crates

[ZygZag]

39 minutes ago, Deksi_4 said:

Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

(...)

Nebraska is an early access ship only. 

As I am not in the need of coal/fexp/steel Prem BPas is not sth I am interested in.

[NewHorizons_1]

49 minutes ago, Deksi_4 said:

Hi captains, 

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

I have already Kearsage in my port, so I wont pay for the premium pass. My personal opinion is that a tech tree ship as a final reward is patetic from WG. They should include a premium ship like it was Tokachi the first time. 

Kind regards. 

As mentioned in a couple of other threads, there is a strong suspicion that the first battle pass was deliberately generous to attract as much positive attention as possible.

2500 dubs (~£7) + grind (that you may normally do anyway) = T7 premium CL (normally ~£24) + other goodies.

I remember myself, and other forum members, at that time wondering if subsequent BPs would be of comparable value for money.

I bought a couple of quid's worth of dubs to make up the shortfall for the first BP, so a T7 premium for ~10% of the regular price seemed a fairly good deal.

Since then we've had a paid licence for Santa crate gambling and now early access to a tech tree ship**.

I've not bothered with a premium BP since the first.

Only time will tell what value BPs remain in the future, but given the initial trend ... it's not looking promising.

 

** On the other hand, some players (without shed loads of FreeXP) might see 2500 dubs as good value for money to avoid grinding with Colorado.

[Gnirf]

3 minutes ago, NewHorizons_1 said:

As mentioned in a couple of other threads, there is a strong suspicion that the first battle pass was deliberately generous to attract as much positive attention as possible.

2500 dubs (~£7) + grind (that you may normally do anyway) = T7 premium CL (normally ~£24) + other goodies.

I remember myself, and other forum members, at that time wondering if subsequent BPs would be of comparable value for money.

I bought a couple of quid's worth of dubs to make up the shortfall for the first BP, so a T7 premium for ~10% of the regular price seemed a fairly good deal.

Since then we've had a paid licence for Santa crate gambling and now early access to a tech tree ship**.

I've not bothered with a premium BP since.

Only time will tell what value BPs remain in the future, but given the initial trend ... it's not looking promising.

 

** On the other hand, some players (without shed loads of FreeXP) might see 2500 dubs as good value for money to avoid grinding with Colorado.

Agree.

 

i can also think of credit starved players or players with a huge shortfall in eco bonuses like newer players might be tempted if they play a lot as if you pass beyond the required steps to reach the rewards you get some after rewards. F.e. during christmas I even whaled the season bonuses as they then gave the snowflakes extra value and I reached level 107 or maybe 108.

 

So these excess boxes this patch are now less tempting for me. I honestly think that the Season bonuses are only interesting if you f.e. have saved a huge number of RB points or during snowflakes if you have a huge fleet.

 

The premium battlepass for a player that reaches the rewards and somewhere beyond that maybe. I calculaae all prizes also on how much I have paid for the doubloons, if you have got them with 100% cashback and bought 50.000 doubloons, the actual prize is not that excessive while if you have paid full doubloon prize another matter. But in all these matters do not listen to superwhiners nor WOWS superfans, make a calculated estimate if you think it is worth it.

I have a resaonable salary so I can set value on time differently than a student. If I have to work say an extra hour or accept three  beers at afterwork instead of four how do you compare that to the extra steel, commander XP coal etc for no effort. While I agree that this pass is worse than the previous, one have to value them individually. I thought the first BP waa very good value, second fairly good and this one average for the doubloon value. I compare it to various bundles in events for maybe 1000 doubloons where you have say 3 out of 61 really good. I have sometimes use a few of these to reach next level or so in EA. But here you know what it is so here is at least in this patch no gamble.

Compared to these loot bundles the BP is a reasonable idea IMO. 

[Verblonde]

49 minutes ago, Deksi_4 said:

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass?

For me it is - kinda - as I dislike playing Colorado intensely (doubly so since Narai went T8, and I retreated from Randoms), doing the BP gets me the T8 hybrid thing without my having to use up free xp or - crucially - do anything as ghastly as play Colorado.

 

For more sensible folk, it probably isn't.

[NewHorizons_1]

2 hours ago, Gnirf said:

... make a calculated estimate if you think it is worth it.

I think this bit of advice is very sound and the value of one battle pass, to an individual player, will vary from season to season.

Players should also very carefully examine what the current BP offers, and not assume that it contains what was included before.

There's already someone who assumed that all battle passes always included free module dismounts and was somewhat disappointed when the current one didn't.

Checking the comparative value of other goodies (steel, coal, eco bonuses etc) to previous BPs is also informative as someone else has noticed they seem to have been reduced.

[NewHorizons_1]

2 hours ago, Verblonde said:

For me it is - kinda - as I dislike playing Colorado intensely (doubly so since Narai went T8, and I retreated from Randoms), doing the BP gets me the T8 hybrid thing without my having to use up free xp or - crucially - do anything as ghastly as play Colorado.

 

For more sensible folk, it probably isn't.

Is it coincidence that the hybrid BBs branch off at one of the ... let's say ... "less popular" ships and then WG introduce a pay-to-skip option?

The balancing act for me here is:-

Do I play Colorado in co-op ? Do I begrudgingly** give WG cash ? Do I skip with FreeXP?

I might do the former (as I have the Independence Day perma camo + 50% XP perma-bonuses) so hopefully the grind won't be quite so tedious as the initial grind to N. Cal.

If I'm feeling particularly daft I could load it up with signals & expendable bonuses and take it into ops.

But, like many of the early access ships (Italian BBs & DDs, high tier Dutch CAs, German heavy DDs) I suspect large amounts of FreeXP will be involved.

 

** I'm mainly F2P now after some of the more dubious development decisions that have been made lately.

 

[Heida03]

WG is just testing how patetic they can create the final reward and the playerbase is still paying money for it.... If enough player will pay for this one, the next will be even worse.

[Verblonde]

29 minutes ago, Heida03 said:

the next will be even worse.

If it follows the template set by the present BP, it'll be one of the new RN submarines.

 

No money for WG from me, if that's the case...

[SurfaceFish]

New RN submarines. Pay real money for a T6 techtree ship LOL!!!

[Miscommunication_dept]

I paid for the last two but this one looks a bit poor.

I'm making enough steel for a ship every 6 months anyway so I might not purchase this one.

[Yedwy]

11 hours ago, Deksi_4 said:

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

IMHO as the "main" prize goes Nebraska is actually ROFLMAO, not because of the 2500 dubs (I spent way more then that on some EA events and while that thing is not actually interesting to me like at all I can understand other peoples milage may vary) for something that will become a standard ship in couple of patchess but the fact you first need to GRIND FOR NEARLY A MONTH TO EVEN GET THE EA SHIP FOR 2500 dubs! Let that sink in - YOU  GET  HALF  OF  THE  EA  TIME, period. If that aint a ROFLMAO IDK what is...

 

So since main prize is kinda moot all that remains is the "stuff on the way" and bonus containers after one reaches the last level and every one of us can only decide for themself about how much those extra bonus cards are worth to them

[Gnirf]

17 minutes ago, Yedwy said:

IMHO as the "main" prize goes Nebraska is actually ROFLMAO, not because of the 2500 dubs (I spent way more then that on some EA events and while that thing is not actually interesting to me like at all I can understand other peoples milage may vary) for something that will become a standard ship in couple of patchess but the fact you first need to GRIND FOR NEARLY A MONTH TO EVEN GET THE EA SHIP FOR 2500 dubs! Let that sink in - YOU  GET  HALF  OF  THE  EA  TIME, period. If that aint a ROFLMAO IDK what is...

 

So since main prize is kinda moot all that remains is the "stuff on the way" and bonus containers after one reaches the last level and every one of us can only decide for themself about how much those extra bonus cards are worth to them

Well we shall not forget that you have a trained commander on 10 p for Nebraska, the value of that varies from player to player but if we have three ships fronm 8-10 and you are a new player or not have USN captains in reserve it is some value.

And the credits for an equipped ship is of some value too but ofc worse than before.

 

If we have looked how WOWS have been prizing tech tree ships before in various events they have always been overprized. Also premium versions of say Amagi with some fantasy camo that have been extremely overprized. 

[Kruzenstern]

The last two BPs I even bought the big pass, since both end rewards and other rewards were well worth it and I wanted to reduce my grind (don't really like to play because I have to rather than because I want to). This time neither is true and I won't even get the 2500 dubs pass, unless I unexpectedly finish this BP. But being a bit burnt out after christmas overdose, I should be spending more time with my models and Days Gone in the upcoming weeks and less with wows.

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

19 hours ago, Deksi_4 said:

Hi captains, 

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

I have already Kearsage in my port, so I wont pay for the premium pass. My personal opinion is that a tech tree ship as a final reward is patetic from WG. They should include a premium ship like it was Tokachi the first time. 

Kind regards. 

Its a waste of money and WG already said this month is worse then previous BPs. Just grind the free stuff and then grind the hybrid line when its released.

[Peffers]

Never ever pay for early access.

 

Never pay for early access  on a BP when:

1. When it impacts on "real life".
2. You start hiding you paid for it.
3. You keep ,losing (not completing It)
4. You can't afford the payments for it.
5. You are just paying for the sake having it
6. You think you can stop it but never do.

 

[black_falcon120]

50 minutes ago, OldschoolGaming_YouTube said:

Its a waste of money and WG already said this month is worse then previous BPs. Just grind the free stuff and then grind the hybrid line when its released.

They said that?

[Cyberstorm1981]

and if it get more worse or the same i wont buy it annymore for what for 5% coal and a few steel ....30eu in the water than 

[Cyberstorm1981]

this bp is just anoither try of wg selling us something new and than cut it and cut it to squeez all the money out of the player base....its always the same with wg they bring something new and than ruining it by them self ....whats the vision in that ???? bring something and than make the crap out of it thats wg very nr 1 speciality i believe

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

1 hour ago, black_falcon120 said:

They said that?

In not so many words in another thread in here. Pretty much, "its a shorter update so we shorten the levels from 60-ish to 40-ish with of course then WAY LESS rewards but just kept the same price because we cant be bothered".

 

So better to throw money in the sea then at this pretty much. Just another sneaky way for WG to fool some of the playerbase. And of course final reward is a T8 tech tree ship you can just get for free in a little while.

[SurfaceFish]

If WG had an article explaining this instead of radio salience. Or if the final reward is better (anything is better than a T8 techtree ship). I wouldn’t mind the shorter patch so less reward for same money explanation. 

 

 

[Dongi_2018]

Makes it easy to pass. T7 premium ( even if not the greatest) ok. 5 Santa Mega’s a gamble ( which turned out to be a De Grasse) in addition to extra bonus items and double the coal, steel and RB made it palpable.

 

But the offering of early access to a T8 silver ship ( worth 130k FXP plus some modules = max 200FXP?) plus about 15-17m silver worth and one portslot and 10 pnt captain…Nope. In addition I am a bit tired after wow exposure last 2 months grinding my snowflakes, Dido and Renown 44.

 

Hybrid BB’s, more subs and the like combined with these kind of “ offerings” make limiting WOWS game time easy without any fear of missing out anything of value.

[Fediuld]

On 1/19/2023 at 8:08 PM, Deksi_4 said:

Hi captains, 

As per title, what is your opinion of the battle pass premium reward in this patch. Is Nebraska plus other rewards  worth the grind and 2500 doubloons for the premium pass? 

I have already Kearsage in my port, so I wont pay for the premium pass. My personal opinion is that a tech tree ship as a final reward is patetic from WG. They should include a premium ship like it was Tokachi the first time. 

Kind regards. 

If it had perma cammo or eco, probably would have been a good deal. However seems it doesn't have any of them, so is the standard T8 USB hybrid BB. Plus the other goodies plus 20000 coal for the extra 20 levels (it has max Level 60).

Is all down to, if you want to play this line, you need FXP or play the Colorado plus if you want the other goodies.