I’m fully aware that with the number of WG apologists on this forum this post will likely get mass-reported, nasty comments, and result in me being banned. Rest assured this is the last time I will ever post here, I just felt this needed to be said.
Now let’s address the elephant in the room: this game is dying and there’s no denying it anymore. The NA servers were combined to make up for the player numbers dropping by the day, bots have been added to low tiers, ranked has been an objective disaster from everyone I’ve talked to, and the less said about the matchmaking system and the current meta, the better. If things don’t change soon I could easily see this game being dead or on life-support by the end of next year, or if War Thunder decides to fix their tire fire of a console port, even sooner than that.
At this point the devs have to pick a direction to go in:
A) Keep on their path and ignore blatant issues while chasing profits in the short-term, eventually driving away their dedicated player base, leaving only the cash cows, most of which will eventually grow bored of the endless stream of OP tier 8 premium tank releases before moving on to something else, effectively killing the game in the process.
Or
B) Actually start listening your community. Stop with the blatant arrogance towards player questions and suggestions, which if we’re being honest, are coming from people who know a heck of a lot more about balancing the game than whoever is currently making those decisions. Stop this weird obsession with making sure every tank has a 50% global win rate and using that as the basis for nerfing/buffing tanks that don’t deserve them. Stop holding back actual innovations and end support for the Xbox 360 version, it’s been nearly 7 years since the Xbox One and PS4 released and there’s no reason they should continue being held back at this point by an outdated console. Take those mechanics you tested out recently and make them official parts of the game, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, you want to win back some brownie points from the players that have been upset with your game? You couldn’t go wrong with this idea. Fix your joke of a matchmaking system, add a skill-based element to the algorithm, anything at this point would be better than the disaster we have now. People are tired of the endless streaks of 15-3 blowouts where the game is over in the first 3 minutes because all the unicorns and greens got placed on one team against a full team of tomatoes.
I may may sound like I want this game to crash and burn, but that isn’t it at all. When fans are booing their football team it isn’t because they want them to lose, it’s because they want them to be better. I want this game to be better, I know it can, the question is will WGC help it become that. Ball is in your court, developers.