How would you describe the launch of WoW?

[YAK9UTPRO]

3:05 suits better i believe

[Vulgarny]

Official EU WoWs launch:

 

[aboomination]

3:05 suits better i believe

 

Nah - 3:30 is perfect ;)

[Venatacia]

 

So much this.

In CBT I dismissed all saying this will be a flop. But slowly I am starting to get really concerned. Going into OBT, with a barely tested patch that had a lot of changes. Then after a minimum time (and basically no change from OBT) we go into a release that mainly went: "hmm, x3 today? ... Oh... release-day".

We went into OBT too early and then instantly rushed into a released state.

 

This game is FAR from being released. Off the top of my hat I can name the following issues/bugs: chat system (not working or deleting after every game for example, no division chat), no depot, major balance issues, only 2 countries out yet (even though the awesome marketing team goes: We have 5 countries! ... yeah... with premiums you do. Good job), LOADING TIMES!, memory leak bugs, no optimization.

Ugh I grow depressed stating all of these problems that have been around since CBT. But no, this game is ready to be released to the general public.

 

So yeah, I have grown really concerned about this game in the past few months.

 

 

Totally agree with you. That untested patch was the first sign that something was wrong and then it been going down hill since. Still, if WG or WG EU wants to treat us like this then that's fine, I left a week ago from playing the game and now see with the fail of the game on launch day I was correct to do so.

Really am disappointed because I supported this game along with many others in CBT but all WG/WG EU have done, is slap us in the face. Not much left to say apart from WG has now left a sour taste in my mouth and a few friends are already saying to me "I told you so".

[Bortasqu]

 

Damn dude, talk about think alike :d

 

Haha, I win!

[Francois424]

 

Will describe the launch with questions :

 - Where are the big publicity videos on youtube (not counting streams, as some ppl work 40+ hrs /week and cannot possibly partake)

 - Where are the promotions (port slots? I mean really, not with a week's premium) and ship sales ?  Ships like WarSpite, Mikasa (especially on NA and RU), Diana, and a few others (beside the usual we have everyday in the shop)

 - Where is the x5 week-end we usually have 2-3 times / year in WoT ?

 - Where is the official Red Post on the forum stating "we did it, here's the results, things to come for the future, thank for support to date"  you know the usual launch statement just about every developer is proud to tell it's forum customers.

 

Glad you guys are now officially launched and all, but there where updates in the past with more fanfare and cheers than what happened yesterday.

It felt more like: "Honey you'll never guess what day it is !"  (what day ?)  Iiiiiiit's THURSDAY !  (Yeah and... ?  should I cheer?)

And it definitely should not.  I'm sure for Tirpitz lovers on NA and other servers where they did not get it before it was a good day, but for everyone else ?  yeah.

 

IMHO.

[jimonwye]

 

I'm pretty impressed, it beats my all time favourite product launch, which has been at no 1 spot since 1973. Good to see the old days coming back again.

 

 

[moth_hunter]

If they hadn't announced it in advance, I wouldn't have noticed the game went out of beta...

It isn't just the lack of specials and shop offers. What worries me almost more than that is that the official release of the game is just one of many news items on the game page.

I'd have expected an extra celebration page with a video that you automatically get to when going to the game page. I'd have expected fireworks on game page and in port. I'd have expected... something... anything... Not just a meagre news item like for any old patch.

It's almost as if they themselves don't care the slightest bit....

[RepSrb]

After the latest "communication" on the announcement thread I am officially in the "no desire to play" catergory.

 

I am seriously wondering if WG have internally decided to focus on Tanks and to just make a stab at the other games for the sake of appearances and then sabotage them so we will go back to their cash cow. Everything from the Warspite fiasco to this seems to have been designed to piss us off. And now we see contempt oozing out.

 

If that's their goal then I hate to shock them but WOT is an old game that's just getting older and frankly its just not that enjoyable most of the time

 

I like this game. But [edited], I'm regretting the money I've spent on it. Thanks be to God I resisted the Tirpitz temptation.

Actually this is my first post about this topic , it seemed strange to me few months earlier on CV topics how many people were comparing it to wot and arty and all that stuff... and that all seemed strange.

So i come to think of it -with so many players in wows-> from wot and wowp , just how many REALLY REALLY TOTALY NEW PLAYERS ARE ACTUALLY THERE??

80% ,50% ,30% >???

If most of this wows players- are just transfers from other wargaming games ,... then they arent making any new aditional money,!!!!! even advertising is bad if that means only players from WG  will switch games. ..

Now i didnt play wot for over 4 years at all , and i dont know how much money average player spends per month but if its higher then in wows which i suspect -then situation is even worse...

And there is another problem wot is working ,->wows has tonns and tonns of work , they cant balance classes and 2 nations , -imagine 5-6 nations and different crusier lines , premiums ,maybe submarines.

 

Its a chore for very little or no reward.

 

So maybe after internal analysis they decided to quietly drop it  and thats why they could be going quiet.

 

Recent situation reminds me of those late abortions documentaries , where mother is enthusiastic about the child , but then in the latest possible moment changes her mind when the reality of financial burden , responsability etc strikes her....

[Comrad_StaIin]

"WoW" isn't that this orc game !?

[RepSrb]

Reality is that if new players coming to wows means decreasing playerbase on other wg titles ,then they are not going to advertise it, fix it, work on it ...

[DD_Zooly]

Did I miss something?

[Vulgarny]

You missed release of game!

[Admiral_noodle]

"A formality"

[Loran_Battle]

 

Totally agree with you. That untested patch was the first sign that something was wrong and then it been going down hill since. Still, if WG or WG EU wants to treat us like this then that's fine, I left a week ago from playing the game and now see with the fail of the game on launch day I was correct to do so.

Really am disappointed because I supported this game along with many others in CBT but all WG/WG EU have done, is slap us in the face. Not much left to say apart from WG has now left a sour taste in my mouth and a few friends are already saying to me "I told you so".

 

I don't really like to bash on WGEU, but they are not really that good. Lots of problems come from them artificially breaking up the community in 7 language parts. And then not communicating among eachother. They also are badly understaffed. And they got a really bad reputation because in WoT their support only went "let me not read what you typed and copy-paste this standard answer for you". To the point of rumours that the head office was gonna intervene.

And then it's as I said: there doesn't seem to be ANY communication between the various departments in WG. Marketing does what it wants (and is bad at it, there are a few examples in WoT where premium tanks have been released by the marketing department, while the devs said they were OP and had to be balanced first...), same as the PR department (seems to be a different part).

The real devs are often not listened to and the head office management seems to decide by rolling a dice without listening to anybody.

But this is just my thoughts about how I see things working by playing WoT and reading news and such on various sites for 3 years now.

 

If they hadn't announced it in advance, I wouldn't have noticed the game went out of beta...

It isn't just the lack of specials and shop offers. What worries me almost more than that is that the official release of the game is just one of many news items on the game page.

I'd have expected an extra celebration page with a video that you automatically get to when going to the game page. I'd have expected fireworks on game page and in port. I'd have expected... something... anything... Not just a meagre news item like for any old patch.

It's almost as if they themselves don't care the slightest bit....

 

This is also something that REALLY bothers me about this. It's absolutely not about specials or x3-x5 for me. I couldn't care less about that. It would have been nice, but I can do without.

The fact that this was just another  (small) article, bunched up with the rest of the patch notes and such news, just made me go: "so... does WG even care?". And then ingame I would've thought to have SOME indication of it being released. Even if its only a banner somewhere...

All in all it just looks like WG doesn't really seem to care about this game. Normally when games go from some beta to release there is a lot of enthousiasm from the devs and PR department, sometimes even over the top. But WG went: "Oh, look. We released this game. Yey."

 

 

I dunno what to think of this anymore.

[Naskoni]

 

 

 

Sums up my opinion (and then some) pretty well. I see no reason to invest either time or money in the foreseeable future. I think it's rather obvious that the studio behind WoWS is having some sort of financial difficulties given how pathetically obvious it is that their priorities are milking people as fast and for as much as humanly possible and adding actual content and actually fixing/finishing the game are pretty much bottom priority. And then you add the WG EU pretty much typical retarded excuses, incompetence and utter inability to do anything I'd deem acceptable for a gaming company (that's the best they came up with for "release" https://eu.wargaming.net/shop/wows/main/?item=1458)

 

Guess I might come back when gold is actually unified, which would mean that either the game is dead (ala WoWP) or it is actually finished...

[ulcusrodens]

i couldn't care less about specials, gifts and such (well, no, but it's just to emphasize,,,). the thing that really annoys me is the fact that, besides changing the intro video and removing the "beta" watermark, absolutely nothing changed in 0.5.0.

 

MM is still designed for an early access game with few hundreds players (but WoT has the same tier span after 4 years, so i don't think it will change so easily...), and there's still no ship sorting option in port and no depot. seriously, how hard is it to add features that WoT and WoWp had right from the start?

last news entry dates back to 17/9, and this is supposed to be a great event and an important step for WG, if you think about the WoWp flop... new players could see it as a general lack of interest by the developing team, that's a premise for another doomed game. and usually that's enough for something to be doomed for real.

 

so, definitely not impressed.

[Trigger_Happy_Dad]

[Arakus]

WG celebrating the WoWS release:

 

[VigilanteMerc]

I think it can be summed up in two words.

 

 

it released?

[Admiral_noodle]

I'm still not sure it's worth getting your knickers in a twist over or predicting doom and gloom.

 

I like playing the game. Ranked is new for this month. Apparently more shops are coming in October. That will keep me amused for quite a while. If they keep releasing content at that sort of rate (and you'd hope that with fewer bugs to fix they could spend more time adding new stuff) I'll be content.

 

The release comms were rubbish, as is the website. The devs are up to lots of good stuff (see posts elsewhere) but there isn't anything like a "dev blog" updated each week to tease us and inform us.

 

Game is good. Presentation and marketing I could do better.

 

But I think some people are assuming a ridiculous amount from... Well nothing.

 

And MM complaints are endless when the vast majority of games are pretty well matched.

 

Anyway I'm off to actually play some ships.

[varis]

Hit me with all the ferocity of a wet towel.

 

Something might come over time of ranked mode though. But what they have in the pipeline is more exciting, I think.

[Admiral_noodle]

Hit me with all the ferocity of a wet towel.

 

Something might come over time of ranked mode though. But what they have in the pipeline is more exciting, I think.

 

Actually it occurs that ranked battles were in fact new content for the release. I could have spun it much better

[Vistulus]

Disappointingly poor, is how I would describe it.

[Vanhal]

 

Actually it occurs that ranked battles were in fact new content for the release.

 

Although we tested them on public test (and most likely ST did too) for 0.4.1 patch, not for 0.5.0. WG apparently noticed their patch (not even release, but patch!) is absolutely devoid of any content and changes, and this was the reason to postpone rankeds to 0.5.0. From what i read on the forums, nobody bought that, it still 0.4.1 content, no matter when it was opened.