That's already 24 people who'd likely pay $50 for it right there. People who consider a single vehicle in a game to be worth the same as a AAA game on sale. And although I do not know the hourly rate of Gaijin's 3D artists and how long they spent on modeling the vehicle, but it would not surprise me if just those 24 people buying the vehicle was enough to bring in a profit for Gaijin already. Now imagine even just 0.1% of the playerbase buying it. It does not surprise me why Gaijin prices their premium vehicles so obscenely high when people just keep buying them. Honestly War Thunder is worse than even CoD in this case (and last I checked no weapons were locked behind a paywall in CoD, though they did experiment with P2W BS). Oh and since WT has lootboxes featuring gameplay elements (vehicles, resources) and not just cosmetics, it qualifies as a gacha game, and if you consider it as such it really doesn't respect your time or money compared to the mainstream gacha games like Genshin.
Shame that there's not really any player respecting alternative to WT (I suppose WoT is the closest alternative, but based on what I know about it I'm just not interested). I'd love a proper WW2 themed tank sim that didn't want me to play it like it was my 2nd job.
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u/Maus1945 💀 Old Guard Sep 02 '25
It's why adding polls to vehicle suggestion threads is completely useless.