Is Gaijin Actually Listening To Players?

Some of you guys have asked me to cover the economy change roadmap which was released by Gaijin prior to update La Royale going live. While I do think the changes are overwhelmingly positive and I appreciate how communicative the developers have been recently, I am slightly skeptical of some aspects.

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Is Gaijin Actually Listening To Players?

[Last_Baguette]

Gaijin doesn't listen unless we're forced to show our frustration.

[stanleythedoggy]

I'm gonna stay on guard with this one. It shows that they absolutely knew all along what was most important to players to fix, and I fully expect them to slowly ratchet things back in the future or spoil this in SOME way. Although these changes seem fantastic, it's still Gaijin.

[joshuamueller]

I like how when you said "play with your brain off", a Pz. IV tore right past you a second later.

[Scrilla]

The one thing that wasnt addressed was crew costs. It should not cost 300k to crew a top tier vehicle in the tech tree. It limits players from messing around with different lineups. I shouldnt have to plan ahead which tank is going where because of the crew costs

[CheezeSpartan]

I’ll believe it when they prove it with actual action and changes, simple as.

[WooperatThePond]

"Saying it will allow players to just play with their brain off and throw games"

*blind Panzer IV drives right past you*

perfect comedic timing 2:50

[riatorex]

As you've said previously, Gajin has had a history of slowly, and quietly reverting the changes a few months after release, which is why I'm very much on the fence with this one. Yeah, the "fixes" sure sound promising but it just isn't the snail if they don't find a way to screw things up one way or another

[MadManchou]

My personal theory is there was/is a group of devs at Gaijin HQ who try to push for player-friendly measures, but was being sidelined by corporate. The review bombing then gave them leverage to get their point of view across

[oddforoddssake]

I will keep to my cautious optimism about all this. Playing WoT has hardened me to the whole “Monkey’s Paw” situation you said offhandedly. F2P devs will weasel their way around actually implementing their changes and stick to letter of the law instead of the spirit, I’ve noticed.

But… here’s hoping. Can’t get anywhere without hope, after all.

[stoyantodorov]

The "no negative sl" buff to premium account is a great change for air rb. That way if you get yeeted at the beginning of the fight by an all-aspect missile in your flareless jet you won't pay tens of thousdands for repair. Unlike ground battles where you have respawns, air rb has the significant risk of going to the hangar with zero points.

[waffleserzeant]

One of the minor neat change I like is the free PBE and Part for stock tank, you get a one-time use before you upgrade and 2 times after you upgrade. That would make stock grind less suffering.

[Arc_Lab]

This aged so well gaijin put all of these in and that feels great

[Lunchbox]

The foldered vehicles change is very welcome. One thing that hurts me with the grind is when I just get kind of tired using the same gun, i.e. the American 90mm or the Soviet 85/100mm, especially when there's very little change between vehicles. It's just a personal preference, but I like the idea.

[warhead_beast]

2:40 this change is actually really nice for naval BB players. The repair costs are mostly 50k+ sl and it is very hard to get a positive income when you have the misfortune and get an bugged diving shell right into your ammo at spawn

[MRKapcer]

I think that the devs themselves likely wanted to implement changes to improve the game for a while, but either due to project management being worried it'd lose them income or not wanting to "waste" development time on improving the game, they haven't. I don't think the development team itself wants to make a shit product, and they're most certainly aware of its shortcomings.

[justinf]

These changes are amazing, but I am still worried and skeptical that they will continue with positive changes in the future, as Gaijn has never in their 10+ years of game development made positive changes like this.

[ommsterlitz]

Man i looked at the planned economy changes France might finally be played it's almost all green with an average of -6000 SL for tier IV+ vehicles😅

[Warmaker]

2:51 That panzer rolling right past you is a comedic moment.

I don't play WT by the way, but I enjoy watching your vids.

[disturbedwaffle]

I'm excited but not expecting too much tbh.

[Rojek-lsdl]

Gaijin should probably focus on making the community happy, with all sorts of QOL stuff to economy and gampley, and then the community will be more likely to buy more stuff like premium account or premium vechicles and bundles for collection