World of Tanks developers Lesta Games have officially announced that premium vehicles in the game may be nerfed in 2023. For the first time, this was said on the stream “Lesta developers are visiting Granny”, and questions were asked by EviL GrannY and Vspishka, respectively. This news caused a storm of indignation and a lot of discussion among the players. Let's try to figure out if Lesta Games can nerf premium tanks, what caused such a decision, and what compensation awaits players if their vehicles receive a change in performance characteristics.
Background: how premium vehicles were nerfed before at Wargaming
At the dawn of World of Tanks, the first premium tank to be nerfed was the American ST T26E4 Super Pershing, it turned out to be too imb when it was released. Then the developers compensated for its cost with gold for everyone who decided to abandon it. The situation then was confusing, brought a lot of trouble, and since then the developers have not changed the performance characteristics of the premiums for many years.
The next attempt to nerf premium tanks was made in 2020, when they weakened the pumpable Italian CTs and French chariots. However, a real riot arose in the gaming community so that the developers would not touch the premiums. 46 project и EBR 75 (FL 10)which were then (and still are) among the best. As a result, Wargaming did not change the EBR 75 (FL 10), and Progetto 46 was completely upgraded (the rammer was not allowed to be installed, but by default it was accelerated reloading, as if the rammer was installed).
Can premium tanks be nerfed?
After splitting the game into World of Tanks and World of Tanks, the game Lesta Games operates in the RU region. If earlier Wargaming were bound hand and foot by European legislation, which forbade them to change any property already purchased by players, then according to Lesta Games executives, there are no such laws in Russia and Belarus. Since they openly talk about it, it means that it is so.
Why did you decide to nerf premium vehicles?
It just so happens that new tanks come out better, more interesting than the old ones, whose characteristics inflate (depreciate) against the background of new products. We can observe a similar situation with pumped equipment, but real money was not directly paid for it, so the decrease in relevance is less offensive for many.
The biggest problem is now observed at the 8th level:
- The dominance of the French LT ELC EVEN 90, which is now being withdrawn from free sale. She has an emblem disguise, but better than some of the "tens", so on certain maps she has a very high efficiency.
- Chinese heavy BZ-176 has already managed to get the title of the main “toxic” of the random house with its penetrating high-explosive, which is a nightmare for single-level vehicles, and even more so for those who are lower level.
- It is possible that the developers will lay eyes on Bat Chatillon Bourrasque, because he also has a high level of experience for taking 3 marks.
What can be compensation for nerfing premium vehicles in World of Tanks?
Despite the circumstances of obtaining equipment, the developers are still considering only one option - reimbursemyont of the cost of a premium tank in gold. If the player is too dissatisfied with the changes, they will give the opportunity to turn in vehicles for gold (according to their cost in the game, each tank is assigned it) within a few patches. They will not refund in money and no one will figure out how many boxes you bought to get the desired tank.
By and large, the release of an imbalanced technique in a random way is a mistake of the developers, which means they didn’t test it or knew that they were releasing it, but decided to “hit the jackpot” on this, as usually happens with Large Christmas boxes.
The only question is, do players need gold? Many people already have it in abundance, because there is no special use for it in the game, except to buy chapters in the Battle Pass, a couple of times you can transfer combat experience to free or buy a premium account. Another question is that you can’t buy another good premium tank for gold, because mostly obsolete vehicles are sold in the public domain, which are not in demand in the time-limited sale in the premium store.
It is with the aim of washing out the donated currency that they plan to hold events, for example, as was the case with “trade caravan"or auction"With a hammer!". The New Year offensive has not yet ended, and the developers have already released a teaser for the new event.
Will developers decide to nerf premium tanks in 2023?
Whatever one may say, the situation is ambiguous and at first glance there are no correct solutions:
- To follow the lead of dissatisfied players and nerf imb premiums - ok. What's next? If a player’s favorite equipment bought for real money is nerfed once, a second time, will he donate to the game for the third time? Question.
- On the other hand, the situation in the random with some tanks really raises a lot of reasonable objections, because many pumped and even premium tanks have nothing to oppose to the same BZ-176, which can send most of the opponents to the Garage with two shots. Previously, the developers specifically “closed” the high-explosive topic with “alcotanks” with a nerf, but then there was no premium.
UPD: before the beginning special chapter of the Battle Pass in January on the heavy premium tank of the 8th level "Karachun", the developers immediately added a plate with a notification that at their discretion can change the characteristics of premium vehicles.
This may indicate that the developers from Lesta Games will still decide to rebalance premium vehicles in 2023.
Read on:Share your opinion in the comments: is it worth nerfing premium tanks and if so, what compensation would be fair?
I certainly won’t throw it into the game now, BZ 176 IS FULLY UPGRADED, STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN TO IT IN GENERAL.
I agree that it is not forbidden to nerf equipment, but thinking no one else will buy equipment for Real! It is a fact. It is their mistake that the prem was not released before testing, they thought badly .... If compensation is reimbursed, then the cost of the tank is on the card, since Gold is not needed.
Why nerf? Let the “old” technique be AP so that it does not suffer from the new one, so that new premas do not stand out so much. For the same Lion, let him APnut the alpha and the armor of the hull, so that in the BZ he would take down 50 hp each. Or let them return the land mines that they used to be. There are high-explosive tanks in the game, the same KV-2 (r) and 8-kam demolished 600 hp each and do not care about penetration. And then some landmines tear everything up, while others have useless shit, blowing down 50 hp at best ...
Yes, this is nonsense, I bought a defender, played on it for 3 weeks, just got high, everyone knows what happened to him, this is a hidden nerf, it’s easier to hit on a woman than on him, it’s worth pouring out, once a month I roll out to make sure that nothing good happened to him. Prog 46, everyone cried as she imbued, time passed, and right now she is very good, one of my favorite articles, but no one has been toxic to her for a long time. Yes, right now there is a bz, I don’t have it because I’m not a fan of such gameplay, well sometimes I agree, sometimes it breaks through the pixel right to madness, so what, play carefully, and on other equipment it flies at 500m on the go, it’s not from tank depends. I noticed a long time ago, if you enter a battle and it just doesn’t fly for you, then it doesn’t fly for anyone, and it’s almost 100% drain, and if it flies, I don’t even sit down sometimes I don’t even bring the sight even to the tank, everything flies where it needs to , I think I’m not the only one who noticed this, or there are times when everything flies, you think victory, the allies are crap and abruptly, like at the click of 7 shots, one hit didn’t hit the armor, before that the target hatches didn’t come down. So it's not about the tanks)
Agree! An obvious setup.
to hell with him with premiums with 8 (176 land mines) crap! When bz 75 hatches are sewn up and so 8 ki are pierced with a bang and the gun in terms of har_k is far from ideal.
In fact: They just throw people for money.
I bought a car, a week later they take it away from you and give you a bicycle, as compensation they give you spare wheels for the bike.
worm scammers st. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
Well, with this nonsense it turns out like this. I bought a BMW for myself, and a week later they squeezed it out of you and gave it to Largus
Well, it makes sense to buy behu!
Isn't that how you bought a Mercedes. and they brought you a Cossack, but on the front there is a photo of meren
I read the comments, well, I’ll add my 5 cents, I have a knowledge base, I won’t say that the word is just imbecile, in some places it’s really good, in another battle it’s 500 damage, the tank is situational, as for nerfs and compensation, they nerf the bonuses They can, of course, it’s not prohibited by law, moreover, the nerf can be hidden, they won’t touch it on paper, they’ll tweak it here, they’ll trim it here, in terms of performance characteristics it will still be the same, but it won’t break the screen, it won’t hit the full summary, etc. and many people will gradually lose the desire to play on them, plus he is not a farmer, if boosts were the solution in NG, now they are gone, I don’t think there’s any need to worry too much about them, the arms race will do its job, by next NG you need to again it’s imbued to come up with boxes, that’s their trick, without imba in boxes no one will buy them much, so there won’t be a direct nerf, you don’t sit in Leste, knowing full well that an open hard nerf will cause a lot of hate, and boxes, as well as any premium equipment, will not be taken, and lastly, now Lesta writes directly that premium equipment can be changed for the sake of balance, so this year you already know that you are buying a pig in a poke, all at your own peril and risk
So there was a premium nerf. There was no ladder yet. There is such a KV-2R. They changed the mechanics of land mines and the tank turned into a poop. What's new here??
If nerf is inevitable, then let them pay with bonds
on which bonds at the dollar rate
The whole problem is that the law of business operates here, there is demand, it is necessary to constantly make profitable offers, WG initially went to a dead end, each subsequent tank sold became better, and the old ones were not competitive, this race led to an almost dead end, the next tank sold will kill the equipment with once. The one who organized this sales process earned a lot of money and launched a self-destruction mechanism. I don’t know how these bastards will solve this problem. Greed does no good to anyone, the solution was on the surface, the new tank being sold had to be better than others according to 1 or 2 indicators, and the old ones remained relevant
it is no longer a business. if you went to the store to buy bread and at the exit you have 30g of flour in your hands and half an egg.???
It is not right to nerf a tank bought for real money. I bought boxes only because of the Chinese BZ if he gets nerfed then why the hell do I need him? Or let them return the money to the card and not the gold.
you bought the boxes! And not the tank itself means the nerf is justified, as it were. The second thing is that all these 2 tanks need to be nerfed, it’s a fact that the imbalanced light on 4 shells on the side almost constantly sets fire, bz for half the map in the hatches with its spread of 3 -700 hits with a bang + the armor is not frail, the improver with his armor and a gun on gold at 900 tears 300 ko with a bang.
You deliberately bought an imba and deliberately spent real money on it, I understand perfectly well that this tank stands out too much from others, which means it will definitely be cut and brought into balance so that it does not differ so much from similar ones. There’s no need to include the s**t here that you were deceived, you understand everything, you’re not 5 years old. You paid money to “bend over.” You were given the opportunity to bend over for 3 months. A little bit of good stuff. Why are you displeased? did you want to pay for boxes and get a toxic tank that will ruin your entire game? Won't your ass stick together?
You bought a product that at that time was the best in the segment. And no one told you about the nerf at that point, so why hire players. Money for the goods is paid - the goods must correspond to the DECLARED characteristics !!!!
What is the point of wasting gold at events for special equipment with increased performance characteristics, if it can be nerfed in the same way as a premium one bought for real money and argue this with the same right as the nerf of techniques !!!
We nerfed it once - that's it, we lost the trust of the players! So everything else can be nerfed!…
The nerf of premium vehicles purchased with real money is nothing but a deception of the buyer, because the buyer pays for the performance characteristics of this premium vehicle and chooses what to buy exclusively according to its performance characteristics!
In the event of a nerf of premiums, I personally will reconsider my financial relationship with such a “seller” and stop buying absolutely everything from them. Maybe I’ll even be completely disappointed and switch to another game from another gaming company.
Tundra: increase b.r. technology for donat, but no question)
What European legislation?! The fact that the techniques do not nerf is the basic law of PREMIUM TECHNOLOGY! So it was and should be! Over time, the arms race will reach other tanks around the bz and it will dissolve.
Kv 5 apnite the poor fellow suffers how much he also bought for days you don’t think about it but you are afraid of how to turn it
They survived, first they put it into the game, then they nerf it, then the fact that vz 176 would be toxic didn’t have to be Vanga
No one compensates for handshaking anyway!
No matter what the imbs are, it doesn’t matter, even if a person filled in 1kkk, he is still a rukozop. So do not whine and sharpen your skill!
Complain to technical support about the BZ-176 tank, otherwise the developers of the players will also have to earn on their nerves
It is necessary to remove BZ-176 from the game. I will do everything so that it does not exist, I create a lot of forum threads where players who are dissatisfied with this tank leave comments
You’re just a toad, judging by your writings, you were offended that you didn’t take it out of the box, if you didn’t carry such garbage
The forehead is on fire. He will do everything so that he does not exist, I’m dying from these words, as if in life he has nothing but tanks, a miserable person.
You are like a dog that takes offense not at the owner, but at the stick with which they beat him. Such a strong tank was introduced by the admins in order to suck the loot. They got the money, now they want to return the trust of the community.
Ahahah
Better do everything to reduce infant mortality zadrot.
We need to collect a petition! Or let Lesta listen to those people who have invested and are investing in them and not to those whiners who have not invested a dime in the game! I personally have invested more than 12k in 50 years and somehow I don’t like what is happening now! I bought a candy, and when I unfold it, I don’t want to look at a piece of shit !!!
Only the last boxes cost me 18k, and from the age of 12 I swelled more than 150k, and what kind of collectors like me, I gave 1.4k each for a Jedi and a minimaus
Vyacheslav Myasnikov - Oleg's Lego Apparently your song.
As a matter of fact, it is not right to nerf premium vehicles. Everyone who spent money on boxes wanted to get a certain technique or style. And given that everyone was spending money until they got the desired tank that matched their wishes. This is disrespectful and frankly a scam from Lesta's Side. We got our money for the goods, so please do not touch the goods, they are not yours!
They don’t break randomly at all:
No, no, this does not break everything randomly. All OK.
But BZ is evil. Yeah. Exactly. Urgently nerf, cut armor, speed, mixing, penetration. Let there be a speed of 10 km / h, armor 5 mm, reload 20 minutes and penetration of 10 mm. That's it, I solved all the problems, take me as a developer.
BZ will be nerfed ... I won't buy boxes again ... then it won't make sense to buy them.
Yes, and I'll tell you on BZ fight for fight you don't have to constantly break on it for who knows how much. Let's say with level 10 he can't really do anything. Yes, and with level 8 he doesn't always flash. If they nerf it will already be a piece of iron in the hangar that many will refuse or sell
are you selfish? Yes, FSUs on the 10th if at your 8th level and below it does not allow you to play. This landmine must be removed and properly balanced. + He somehow often gives a turn
already nerfed, on gold 132 damage is what???
If there was an opportunity, and without a nerf, I would sell bz for gold. The rocket booster is the illusion that you arrive at the position before everyone else, the stub is like a mammoth point, and if you are full it’s not a fact that you will hit or break through, there are many weak zones (you just haven’t learned how to sew it yet). And no matter what he bends against the sixes, it will become easier to set the level of battles for him to 8-10 then in a random house. Of the things that bz interferes with against you, it's only doing LBZ for tanking. But at the expense of the Christmas tree, this is of course sad, a favorite tank for farming and performing LBZ.
Whatever they say here, but BZ really broke the random. The man says "buy yourself a BZ and bend over". Yes, that's the problem, but how to pump out other tanks, playing only on BZ. And not everyone likes to play heavy. Many people like tanks faster. And you propose to put the whole random on the bz. I don't think it will be very interesting.
In addition to the BZ, a bunch of equipment breaks randomly. And the Czech TT with 2 shots, and the coliban, and the burask? Are they okay?
Dear sufferers, what prevented you from buying an imbuing BZshka? I do not understand, buy and imbuy as much as you like.
What to whine then? You never know who wants what, it's not the problem of those who bought it. The money has been paid, we have signed and we are playing.
Still, BZ-heh would make the flight speed of landmines, well, at least 1450m / s, in general there would be fire!
As they say, like it or not, be patient ... 🙂
I don’t understand at all why they need it, if they
so they can secretly nerf!? I'm sure if the developers decide to nerf, they will end up losing a lot. There won’t be any assholes who will buy something that will make things worse in the future!
no one will return anything. gradually make shit out of premiums. on a piece of paper, the performance characteristics will remain the same, but in the game it is completely different.