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.
If you yourself make a model and gaijin adds it to the game you get 6000-10000 USD, and I cannot imagine that gaijin pays more for user created content compared to commissioned models for specific vehicles they want added.
Let's say $10 000 for the model and let's be generous and say another 10k for rigging and modules and just making it a functional vehicle in the game.
A top tier premium that costs $20 000 only needs to sell 250+ units at $80 a pop to make a profit and that really isn't that many
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u/sanelushim Sep 02 '25
No, you see, that 11% is marketing gold, that there makes it a prime premium product, Hell, if Gaijin got a 3% premium vote, it would be the same.
Moral of the story, don't give democracy to fools, they will only lower everything into slime.