How would you "sell" this game to a new player?

[Spuggy]

Free to play, easy to learn, hard to master - and an overall nice community!

 

I'm not sure anything you have just said is true. 

 

Do you work in main stream media by any chance?  Or perhaps you work for the CIA

[Procrastes]

 

I'm not sure anything you have just said is true.

 

Do you work in main stream media by any chance?  Or perhaps you work for the CIA

 

Did I mention, an open-minded, tolerant and welcoming forum base?

[Spuggy]

Free to play, easy to learn, hard to master - and an overall nice community!

 

 

I'm not sure anything you have just said is true. 

 

Do you work in main stream media by any chance?  Or perhaps you work for the CIA

 

 

Did I mention, an open-minded, tolerant and welcoming forum base?

 

Oh! I see now! You work for the DNC! 

[Procrastes]

I'm not sure what, if any, stakes the Danish Nailpolisher's Club have in the online gaming industry...

[Dominico]

Put him in a rowing boat and then lob stones at him while shouting TORPEDOES BACK BOARD!

[Nargoth73]

Fun and engaging

 

•  Invisifire
• Detonation
• Torpsoup
• Fiery death
• BB flood
• Mouthbreathers
• Borderhuggers
• No cap, kill all logic
• Rush B
• No HE on RN cruisers
• Too much HE on Ruski and Japanese cruisers

 

Fun and engaging indeed!

 

[Amon_ITA]

I'ts free, just download it and try.

 

Just recommend him to stay away from the official forums.

[Thunderbird_6]

Try to convince him his first game loss to a 1 hit Detonation in the first 2 minutes was actually "Fun and engaging".

[GeneraIlKrizmuz]

It's good fun to sail your ship around and shoot at other ships. Be sneaky and play a destroyer. Be bold and play a battleship. Be confused and play a carrier. Or was that the other way around.

 

kek

[EsaTuunanen]

 

Free to play, easy to learn...

Translation:

Free-to-Fail-Forward game with teams half filled with team saboteurs who wouldn't qualify for captaincy of rowing boat.

[Venatacia]

Would only recommend it to someone I hate. Couldn't recommend it to a good friend only to see the frustration on their faces as they go through what most of us do on a daily basis. Actually I did recommend this game to two friends when the game was in CBT and they both hate the game with a passion. "Fancy playing ships tonight I ask them", Yeah I don't think so - they say.

[SBS]

The best thing answer to this question is: "Why do you all (you, the commenters here) play the game".

 

Afterall, none of you would be here if you did not find it worth your time, and possibly your money as well.

 

Then you have your sales pitch.

 

[SovietFury43]

The best thing answer to this question is: "Why do you all (you, the commenters here) play the game".

 

Afterall, none of you would be here if you did not find it worth your time, and possibly your money as well.

 

Then you have your sales pitch.

 

 

I play World of Battleships becuase there is really no other alternative currently available.

 

Used to like Battlestations Midway back in the day, but there really are no other games like this out there that i know of.

[G01ngToxicCommand0]

Hi there, one of my friends at work was asking about the WoWS reddit page I was browsing during lunch and I started to tell him about the game but stopped after a few seconds when I realised I was so sick of the game that I couldn't even fake any enthusiasm when trying to "sell" the game to him and maybe start him as a new player.

 

I mean I genuinely couldn't think of a single thing about this game that would make me recommend it to a friend, I just couldn't. The game has changed so dramatically since I started playing in April '16 that all the carefully laid out "balance" the game had back then is long gone and with the balance gone the game is much worse and I just don't see it getting any better.

 

I know I'm a bit burnt out right now (even my favourite co-op is filled with mouth breathing morons who couldn't win if it was 8 v 1 bot) so I'm probably not the person to to approach but my mate still seemed pretty keen so what can I tell him about the game thats positive, that'll sell the game to him?

 

To be honest I find it harder and harder to 'sell' WoWS to anyone due to the deteriorating quality of the already low skill community and certain game mechanics that persists that prevents WoWS from being categorised as a naval warfare game as WoWS is basically nothing more than WoT on a flat board reskinned with ship models with different ballistic and damage mechanics.

Still fun from time to time but the frustrations experienced in WoT have already shown themselves in WoWS regrettably. No real point in grinding any line to tier 10 other than for the sake of collecting really due to lack of endgame material and low quality of the average player who generally are a hindrance to me having a good gamig experience - selfish point of view sure, but that doesn't make it less true that the majority of players are so bad at this game that everyone would be better off if they played non multiplayer games.

 

[chazwozza]

Its about to get worse dont bother

[IanH755]

Show him this 

 

I showed him that video today and he said "that looks fun, I might give it a go! Are the Battleships any good?" so I'd expect another very confused and angry poster to appear on the forum soon with such great posts as "Fire is OP" and "ARRRGGGHHH DD's are OP" etc

[veso_vn]

I personally like it more than WoT because is more easy to learn  . No premium ammo . Even if you are low tier you can still burn or torpedo things . Balansing is a problem for all games so just tell him to try the game and he will see for him self like it or not

[Hedgehog1963]

Occurs to me that the better a player is in terms of stats and whatnot, the less likely they are to be happy with this game.  Same goes for WoT.  People think they should win more than they do.

[Xevious_Red]

Occurs to me that the better a player is in terms of stats and whatnot, the less likely they are to be happy with this game.  Same goes for WoT.  People think they should win more than they do.

 

The unfortunate problem is that if you're better than everyone else, then everyone else is by default worse than you. So by their standards everyone else isnt doing what they should.

 

Human nature to expect to win more than they should. You have bad/average players who think they should win more without understanding why they lose, and you get good players who get it into their heads that they're amazing players and suddenly start thinking 55%WR = win every game

[Ast3lan]

WoWs? ... Dear player, download steam and give your money to gabe. 

 

There WoWs sold to a new player.

[fatmonk]

Id say:

If you want a game like CS, just with ships, Go play WOWS and you never have to think again!

- And you don't have to be good at it at all.

Because of a carefully thought out skill system, and ship buffs and nerfs that promotes lots of bad gameplay.

[Nethraniel]

Somehow funny and sad, how people writing here, seemingly have no reason to play the game, but still are here...

[Ishiro32]

 

You like naval history of WW2? Give it a shot, the theming of this game is quite good. Sound and graphics really are the best part of this game. The models are of the highest quality and just having some of your favourite ships in port is a joy.

 

You don’t love the theme? Ignore this game as outside of it, the design team is dissapointing to say the least and company itself suffers greatly from their bussiness structure which results in drasticly different treatment of the servers. The deeper you go the more holes and broken elements you will see. 

 

[svadilfari]

if ya like cs:go, CoD, BF, LoL, you will hate WoWs.

if you like strategy, warships (obviously), WWII history, indepth game mechanics, teamplay (if and when you can find such a thing), you will love it

[fatmonk]

Somehow funny and sad, how people writing here, seemingly have no reason to play the game, but still are here...

 

I've seen mods where you can fly with your ship in space.