Thursday 5 March 2015

Info from Insider meeting with Developers continued from "For the Record"

So here it goes:

- Storm is satisfied with preliminary test server results;
- the introduction of Chinese artillery is completely up to Kongzhong, Wargaming's Chinese partner, as the museums and institutions in China are "uncooperative" with foreigners. Chinese tank destroyers can be introduced even without the Chinese help, but the French and the EU tanks have higher priority (RG: Its known how reluctant china is to share their information with outsiders, take a look at "Jiangsu National Security Education Museum", shown below, for example, foreigners are actually not allowed in, but please China, we want those HD models!);


- average online player numbers in WoWp from NA cluster: 650, EU: 1,000. WG expects the future updates and the changes they will bring to bring back the amount of players to at least 10,000 in order to self sustain the game;
- WoWs team expects starting player base from the beta to be around 8,000 and up to 20,000 "if all goes well",future updates will increase performance (RG: Will make sure to check out those changes, crossing fingers).

WoT for Xbox

- Xbox360 conversion to Xbox One: "its happening", everything will be full HD, migration will occur without incidents and both systems will be compatible, so you can play with your account on either console - of course Xbox one will be much more impressive in graphics;
- the player base from the console version of WoT is a success, it grew considerably after the launch (which actually just turned 1 year old recently);
- one of the most acclaimed features of Xbox Wot is the point of view from the turret of the tank and the fact it has weather system. Developers really want the weather system for PC, but as for the turret camera: "let the modders do that" ( RG: As a PC user I'm jealous of the weather system from Xbox, make it happen!).

WoT Generals

- WoT Generals on beta: some people consider it uninteresting and it's true - if played on a computer, you may want to do something else than play a browser game. However once the game launches for cross platform (mobile phones and tablets), the game will be better and the developers expect the main player base to actually come from mobile devices:  "a mobile pvp game that's not a facebook zombie app". The game data transfer won't be heavy in cost for mobile internet users - "not beyond sending whatsapp messages, an entire battle may just be under 1MB for mobile users" (RG: Do know someone that got access to the game and been having some fun, if they ace it, its going to be a good casual to play on a mobile while waiting for a appointment or just while stretching the legs on the sofa, definitely will be checking it out!).

- SerB is actually a nice person, internet tends to distort many things from a person and even he takes the role given by the internet as a joke, turns out he's very rational and has a keen sense for marketing and numbers (RG: Also heard he is fun at parties by a trusted WG staff member);
- WG purchased 9 new props for shows or decoration, planes, tanks and scaled versions of boats, one of the planes is being hanged in the cafeteria - also something interesting, one of the props is a 30cm 3D printed custom Star ship, ordered by SerB (RG: hope that was a U.S.S Enterprise, or a Bird-of-Prey, those are badass too!)

38 comments:

  1. Almost like good old SS! Almost... ;___;

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  2. Rita, I wish you a good luck!

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  3. Good luck and as few arty arguments in comments as possible~ :>

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  4. Regarding WotGenerals, I found it quite fun... it was a breath of fresh air after all the RNG from Hearthstone, quite a bit of strategy and maneuvering involved. But yes, definitely after mobile version is released, it's gonna be way more popular :-)... looking forward to playing more... against noobs hopefully XD

    Oh and Rita, good luck with the blog, wish you the best and I'll be here more often :-)... oh and it just so happens I subscribed to your YT channel last night XD, what a coincidence

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    1. Hehe thank you very much for the kind words! :) Yeah, actually been a long time since i played a card game, WoTGenerals gonna make me go back into it.

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  5. Good luck Rita ! I like the fact that you are more "positive" than SS was =p

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    1. Different personality yes, silentstalker is known to be more rough but he is actually a nice person, im not really built to be mean but i never sugarcoat either. :)

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  7. Damn blogspot.... -_- Double post :D

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  8. Good luck Rita. Keep us posted :)

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    1. Thank you, still fresh but doing my current best!

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  9. Well... goodbye FTR/SS, hello Rita!

    Best of luck to you, from what I gathered it can be an overwhelming job

    Fedaykin89

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    1. Hello!
      Yes, i decided to take the baton because there is no other blogs like FTR out there, would be a loss for the community and believing or not WG would also be losing publicity.
      Thank you for the kind words!

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  10. Hello, let me joining in Rita! Good luck for the new role and I wish you will have a good time :)

    From strolling around I can tell that things are as good as usual (We even have continuation of good ol' insider leaks!). I wonder if we could have a better comment section than FTR since it has become more toxic for quite a long time.

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    1. Hello, Thank you! :)
      Hopefully yes, im known for having a good community wich I pride on, ofcourse there are rotten aples everywhere but will try to keep things as much orderly as possible. short and precise. :)

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    2. Did that mean pretty heavy modding of comment section? I don't have any problem with that, though. Already quite amazed that you are replying to many comments since that+writing actual blog+streaming+actually playing would cost a ton of time.

      Anyway, good luck again! Switching to google account since with authorizing with WP account is difficult and had many errors :/

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  11. Hello and good luck Rita. i was already loving you more than SS :P <3

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    1. ohhh... ahah Lets hope he doesn't read this. xD

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  12. Warbirds are kuewl too!

    Also Serb is funny. Tough guy.

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  13. well i hope the best for you i used to watch you from long time !!

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  14. Good luck! You'll be just as good (if not better) as SS. Im looking forward to reading your blog in the future

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  15. Heh, back to blogspot.
    Well, hello, Rita, and further good luck on the legacy Frank left to you. Keep it like this and I'm sure you'll do fine.

    And as a side-note, hope I won't be a pain in the arse with my occasional trolling.

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    1. Damn, I need to get used to the blogspot commenting system again

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  16. Rita! Thank you for continuing the work of SS! We're all gonna miss him, but we're also looking forward to your work :)
    All the best, and let us all know how we can help!

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  17. Thank you for covering some of WG's other games. I hope to see more translated news about WoWP/WoWS/WoTG/etc!

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  18. Nice, time to add your blog to bookmarks, I'm looking forward to your work!

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  19. Good luck with blog, i wish you as many readers as ftr had!(but no trolls ;P)

    Lets s hope that blogspot will handle this flood of new readers :3

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  20. Good luck!

    Hopefully, with a lady in charge, the boys will start to behave and the comments section won't be such an idiotfest now... ;)

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  21. G'day Rita...wishing you all the best in your new venture...going to miss SS but looking forward to a new perspective.

    Happy Hunting o7

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  22. Rest in Pieces SS, Rise RG!

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