In the World of Warships community, the increasing focus of the free-to-play game on loot boxes is criticized. The vehement criticism triggered the return of an old, particularly useful ship to the shop. Occasionally, a change in the age classification is even required.
Wargaming always offers premium vehicles with special bonuses for purchase in World of games. These could be unlocked in the past, but in recent years only earned free of charge with increasing hurdles. In this case, however, ships were always offered for sale directly. In the past few months, Wargaming began to hide more and more costs with additional mechanics and to offer more and more things only via loot boxes.
Lootbox ship decides
The recently announced return of the USS Missouri, a ship that throws away a lot of in-game currency when used, is bringing the barrel to overflow, because the ship should actually be able to be bought directly with premium currency, but is only offered as part of a loot box.
Players are particularly sensitive to this point: Last December they accused Wargaming of preselecting premium ships from loot boxes. According to the shortlist theory, priority will be given to a premium ship from a fixed list, provided it is not already in the player's possession, i.e. no random selection is made due to the weighting.
These and other monetization practices have resulted in “Community Contributors”, with whom Wargaming claims to have worked closely in the development of the game, have turned their backs on the program in the past few days. traces MassivlyOP.
Only age classification helps
The Mighty Jingles, a cornerstone of the community, gave two reasons for his departure. On the one hand, this was the ignoring of the community representatives by the developers, on the other hand, the increasingly aggressive monetization and the introduction of more and more gambling mechanics in a game that children have access to – a development that he traces in detail in a video and criticized. The development is also remarkable insofar as Wargaming has established its World-of-Games with comparatively fair monetization.
The fear expressed in the video that wargaming will simply sit out the criticism has is initially confirmed. Although the developer published a statement, it only refers to the ship, not the criticism of the basic development. The only thing that helps is a change in the age rating that reflects the use of Looboxes. The Mighty Jingles therefore calls for complaints to the PEGI and ESRB in this regard. In Europe in particular, authorities are now more aware of this, even after increasingly clear warnings.
The editors would like to thank the ComputerBase reader “Galaxytourist” for pointing this out!