I am about 26 minutes in, and the repetitive blame on bad communications is just plain BS. I call BS on that. Sure the pandemic makes travel much more risky and difficult. Sure they have many people speaking different languages from all over the world. First and foremost, if you are going to tell me that you can't have a meeting with people via internet hosting, you're an idiot WG. Second, I have found that as far as printed stuff goes, washing it (Russian) through Google Translate to English, back and forth to test if it keeps its meaning, is generally pretty accurate, and I know that WG has on-site and on-staff almost 30 native language speakers JUST FOR TRANSLATION. And yet you still blame translation as the problem. If international businesses such as banks and construction companies had this level of incompetence, they would fail, plain and simple. I believe the problem is not translation. Its that WG's ears are packed full of shit and their brains are turned off, because they are too busy screaming "PAY ME SOME RESPECT!!!" and "YOU GIVE ME MONEY!!!". WG you are just full of it. WG's mindset is the problem, plain and simple. Every issue they have as a game, the players give feedback on, and the CC's have always given great feedback on. WG just ignores it, in favor of spreadsheets and "data". Has no one in Russia/Belarus ever realized that any data set can be manipulated to show and prove anything you want? Hell, your people don't even play your own damn game publicly!! You have no idea how the game and ships actually play in the first place, beyond what you do on a protected server!! And different servers have different meta's, depending on the player base. People think and play differently on the different servers because their languages are different, which means how they think and process information is different. Ok I am off topic. What I am saying is that almost every issue the players have with WG, WG blames on communication. Communication can be defined as the flow and EXCHANGE of ideas and information. The exchange part is critical because it describes the action behind communication. It expressly implies that information must flow in multiple directions, i.e. two-way communication between 2 people. WG is a business, and the purpose of a business is to make the owners money. Plain and simple. BUT, just because you are a business doe not mean I must pay you. I can choose where to spend my $$. And if, as a business, WG has poor communication, treats their customers poorly, or has a poor quality product, then exactly WHY should I pay for a shit product with crappy customer service and shit quality?? The answer is I WILL NOT. Just as WG does not exist to provide me with entertainment, "I" do not exist to provide them with a paycheck. They forgot that rule of business. I guess they missed that communication....... EDIT: OK Victor, how is this for clear and respectful communication? GO FUCK YOURSELF. You guys are a fucking complete JOKE. You insist on DEMANDING respect, yet again, and yet you refuse to GIVE respect at all to anyone. Just because someone has something to say that you don't like or they are asking questions you don't want to answer, does not mean you should treat them like shit, ban them, silence or bully or intimidate them. So again: GO FUCK YOURSELF. If you want to take it up with me in person I will GLADLY send you my address. You can come see me directly for some one on one, in person direct communication. BYOBB.

Starting in 2016, all games in China must announce to the public the probability of obtaining paid random items in the game, including the success rate of equipment enhancement, gacha rate, lootbox drop, and so on. It is very irresponsible from the WG side for using "China" as an excuse not to announce the drop rate.

Disagree with their Ops assertions. They've not had enough content in the mode, nor mission and rewards support for the mode for it to be worth most players time. A prime example is only having the one Op on weekly rotation... Why would you queue for that when it's same thing over and over? The thing is, I get it takes a lot of work to develop new Ops, but if they'd kept doing 1-2 a year since release, they'd have the variety of content needed to support the mode properly. It's a simple matter of they've not devoted the resources necessary to properly support the mode, be it missions, campaigns, content.

Isn't it the law now for games with gambling elements to show drop percentages to players? Pretty sure almost every single gacha game does this now.

@@SoldierOfFate depends on the region and system they fall under, AFAIK ESRB is a voluntary rating, I THINK EUs version is similar, I know some countries in EU have laws, however in Australia where I am there's a government funded independent board that does it but they don't appear to be policing gamble boxes here yet

I would say the recent push by the player-base to pay for NOTHING has prompted this. Let's keep it up.

@@EvoraGT430 How did valve managed to make a profit on SC:GO while only selling skins. WG is just ripping it's players off.

What i see they are saying, our profits/ wallets/player base tells us we messed up lol, we listen to your feed back/ or is it our negative cash flow??

I'm with you. They'll need to actually DO some 20-400 things they've "promised" in the past and they've promised here before I log back in.

Best boycott is to uninstall their games.

@@Pikilloification best boycott is to delete your account. But all these people don't want to do anything that will actually matter.

The only thing they care about is people _not playing._ If you're a F2P player they have the chance to frustrate you into purchases and you exist as a punching bag for prem players.

They do 'follow every law'. They follow it right to the ragged edge, and if they cross it, then they hurry up and backtrack so they aren't punished. They also closely follow new laws so they know how much they can get away with. The laws are guidelines for them in how bad they can be without being punished, rather than IDK, having actual ethics.

only thing that will hit them will be a PEGI age change from 7 to 18 if it's shown they promote gambling to minors or more countries banning loot boxes.

@@paulbaker9687 i think that the investigations from us, eu and i think cyprus government for money laundring will hit the harder, lol

Well I can only uninstall once... Should we reinstall then uninstall just for kicks?

@@paulbaker9687 no. The vast majority of players of this game are adults.

....or the playerbase can vote with their wallets and/or the uninstall button. That's what I did and this was immediately after the CV rework.

Some of them involve a flowchart. They don’t want to show it because those flowcharts are not a good look.

On the console side it's made mandatory by both Sony and Microsoft that you have to disclose drop rates, but on PCs there's no one to make it mandatory.

@@treystroeder5506 lol you play a game based on the rewards in the crate? Legends is for noobs everyone knows that....literally a game for people in wheelchairs. And i know what im talking about as i have grinded alot of legends but never did i use a single dollar on that game, just not worth it...

@@InfiniteMind777 Oh wise and powerful one! Lend me the strength to one day rise out of the wheelchair I may yet have in the future, in hopes that I can elevate to the highest position in the land… WoW on PC! Oh how I’m trembling with excitement and awe at your badassness as you look down at all us console peasants! Please oh Great One, show us favor as we all yearn to be as great and powerful as you!!! Pssh lol what a joke

Legends has better layout to pc version even though I'm a pc player imo maps better on left, but consoles can't run mods

Well said.

I have one question: do whales really go "brrrr"? I thought they made more of a squirty milk sound.

Then I suggest you look elsewhere. WG's actions afaic are worth just as much as their actions now.

I wont like this comment coz 69

@@900xwb_ Nice~

I absolutely understand what you're saying. I too work in a big organisation with many, many layers, so I can see how being "in the weeds" possibly isn't this guys thing as he's more strategic and big picture from a business perspective. As such, there is a chance that the moderators etc at the "low" level are reporting things up, but as they have to go through SO many payers of people that their messages / shouts of alarm / shouts for help get filtered and / or diluted, so teh big bosses didn't get to hear it. Until the results of the business performance (as opposed to the gameplay stats) came through. And no, I'm not defending anyone, just stating what can happen in big organisations. I fail to accept that covid and lack of face-to-face interaction hinders comms. Hell, they are, essentially, a bloody tech company! I've been talking to folk from around the world in games for a number of years, so surely that's a set of tools that WG staff should be able (and willing as it saves money) to exploit.....

@@leeroberts163 500 people is not that big, the company i work for has over 800 people and communication is smooth. The problem with WG is that they dont care for the feedback given, the people communicating with players are simply used as a barrier.

@@leeroberts163 I once heard it put like this: when you’re a high level manager, you’re paid to be responsible for everything that goes on. I’m willing to bet he is not even remotely on minimum wage. If he’s not aware of what’s been happening, then that’s still on him.

What did they do to the Warspite?

@@SuperCookiemonser nurf after nurf after nurf

It didn't need a nerf... It was a shit ship in the hands of the average player but with a pro BB main... Just wow. She is just very skill based, more than some others imo

I stoped playing shortly after the CV rework. I was a beta player and the game got worse over time and not better. So I pulled the plug and stopped playing it. WG never listened to player feedback and never will…

For me it seems as WG only listened to feedback in the way of "gib biggah explosions" - these got more colorful over time. Ah, and islands have trees now. Wow. Back in 2015 there were no trees on islands and guess what; the game was better and less ridiculous than now.

I got bored not long after the CV rework. I don't see myself coming back unless big changes are made in that area (similar spotting system to radar, manual AA)

What? You didn't know that World of Warplanes was the canary in the coalmine?

I hated WoWS back since they "fixed" the "firing outside of detection range" feature, and finally quit after the CV rework. I was going to reinstall WoWS and see how things are now, but after watching this video, all hope is lost lol.

Shit, when I was in the Super Test program, if your feedback wasn't on the .ru forums, or later the .ru Google Survey form, you might a well have flushed your feedback down the drain. There are TWO TIMES they listened to non .ru Feedback in ST, the Royal Navy CL line, and the USN Cruiser split... although they still ignored us about the Buffalo...

Players where saying that for years. O.c. the whitish knights always came in and said "you not doing that anyway, so stop pretending". But have you notice that sudden increase in advertisments e.g. in very very distant related YT channels (4x gaming, historical ships etc.)? That started over a year ago IIRC and really ramped up just before the CC walking already. So that tells me that playes HAVE been keeping their wallets shut, while still playing the game now and then. Irconically, that might have been the cause for all those desperate attempts to squeeze more money out of the player who are actually paying that we have seen in the last month - and those stupid attempts to get in new game modes/mechanics for new player types?!?!

did you really just say this reply wouldnt be available 20 days ago? do you realize that they have people who's job is to manage the game's communities? even assuming communication between their departments was ass and took a week at most this shit should have come out almost 2 weeks ago. A good company would have someone high on the totem pole addressing this shit 2-3 days at the latest with a formal letter. I could write this apology in 4 hours

A) this is not a real apology. B) this should have been attempted properly 20 days ago. C) we shouldn't expect anything to change as this is WG...

Genius!

The time where you could actually "own" the copy of a game are long gone since publishers switched to the "game as a service" model. That switch by itself is however not the issue, since it effectively ensures that the developers continue to get an income and can thus continue to evolve the game. The counterpart to that would be to release a game and, since it won't produce any further income, develop a new one which they can sell on its own. -- Given the choice between an unfinished new game, a half-baked remake of a remake and a "game as a service" (which deserves to be called as such), I'd honestly choose the latter. The problem is however that a publisher's greed starts to kick in as soon as they hear "game as a service". Instead of only selling "premium time" (as in an increased experience/chash gain), they try to sell overpriced and overpowered items. By that they turn the "game as a service" idea into a perversion of what that description could mean.

@@steffenrumpel2784 So maybe we should go back to monthly "pay 2 play" at ... maybe $5, or $7,5 or %10 with monthly dubloons to get extras? On the other hand, PoE seems to do fine with selling cosmetics and QoL stuff only, and STO still gives out that lifetime subscription for the price of 4 pixelships if its on sale. So there are some alternatives ... which one is the smaller evil?

@@memyshelfandeye318 - I'd say the monthly subscription since otherwise there must always be people who buy that extra stuff. Because of that, publishers will always be tempted to buff the cosmetics they try to sell. -- On a side note: I doubt that there would be much reason to still have multiple coexisting in-game currencies (steel, dubloons, etc.) with proper monthly subscriptions.

@@steffenrumpel2784 exactly dude I take it you seen premuim ship prices? Htf can a pixel boat cost £60 this is the price of a AAA game talk about greed. These boats shouldn't cost more than £10 15 at most these ship prices are a joke a 7 year old can afford this?

not really. they "apologized" that we are pissed but are still openly saying that they are "in accordance with government laws" when it comes to their monetization so no they arent really sorry. screw this company

pretty sure they even changed their rating themselves so the Government wont slap them with a higher rating

@@BrowMoSai no they're hoping for Pegi-12 (currently 7) but people are filing complainty to make it Pegi-18+. WG doesn't get to choose their rating

It’s kind of like catching your partner cheating and they apologize. Usually, it’s not an apology for cheating, but for getting caught.

Yeah - but I bet Flamu is closer to nailing the reality of the situation - iChaese is just too polite!

All the way to the bank, can't imagine how many new players they're getting from this whole fiasco

Utah is resting on the other side of the island from Arizona. By the time of Pearl Harbor, she was refitted into a target ship. If I remember correctly, she was a member of the Florida super-dreadnought class. She is a very unique ship with some incredible stories.

@Steeljaw XXI ... Drachinifel The Salvage of Pearl Harbor Pt 1 - The Smoke Clears kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKhdiZyUqLmnaKM.html You surely are able to find part 2 and 3 on your own.

@@memyshelfandeye318 Oh yeah, he is cool too. I wonder how he is doing with all this because he is missing from the next Armchair Admirals video?

Thanks, I laughed at your comment. I'm surprised they haven't tried that excuse yet.

Yeah stopped after the cv rework as well. Still think it was the perfekt time to stop giving them money. They never listend to feedback. Not even in closed beta.

It went down long before that. Kutuzov and Belfast ring a bell?

Or rotate them faster. How often can you play the very same mission ... every day for the whole week?

Exactly, 14 days to negotiate a lower rate to save money, 2 days to write this nonsense and 4 days to get everyone to agree on some small parts of the information making sure they dont embarass someone high up

By now ,they have the expertise in-house.

Completely agree! We’ll just have to wait and see. Having acknowledged some issues now in this post should also make them actually commit to them. Otherwise people will just point back at it when they don’t get addressed. So fingers crossed.

I do too dude

He is fine, he is just focusing on school

Naval architect school is where ichase is at now

Hmm he says he is focusing on school, he is going to lose monetization status unless he makes a video or a community post soon

College