The WG official apologies shitshtorm on CIS forums (featuring the founder and general director of Lesta Studio)
Greetings, I would like to bring your attention to the current shitshtorm brewing in the CIS World of Warships forums
Basically they posted the same apologies intended for western audiences and people started to call WG on their bullshit It got so hot that founder and general director of Lesta Studion (Malik Khatajev) HIMSELF went to the forums to duke it out with the playerbase
Here is an example of his post:
"Of course not in vain. If it were still written humanly, it would be even more useful. We certainly will not blindly follow everyone's desires, since they are often opposite. But they made significant amendments to the plans.
The game is great. And it will be even better.
There are of course many YouTubers and people in general who think they EXACTLY know how to "ride a horse". They say Developers are stupid, but everything is obvious to them. Moreover, the better the game, the more such opinions.
Always wondered why they themselves don't make games? Cooperate, make a kickstarter or investment fund would allocate finances. Game design, PR, Marketing, and the internal dryuchilovo [hard work, in a negative connotation. Like a very tiresome hard work] of "stupid developers" would be completely in their hands.
What minds and intellect [the critics have] - what a terrible force, success is guaranteed! The main thing is to be able to switch from the mode of discussing someone else's work to the mode of one's own creative activity."
Here is the forum profile of the Malik: https://forum.worldofwarships.ru/profile/18986014-mal_h/ (a nice row of minus karma)
I recommend giving it a read, google translate does the translation from RU to EN pretty accurately
p.s. I apologise for any mistakes in the formating of the post. Litterally my first post on Reddit.
Posted Sep 7, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC
Sounds like the classic "You can't critique our garbage ideas unless you've created a game of your own", ignoring the fact that some garbage ideas don't require expansive experience to recognize. A time-honored implicit admission that they can't justify their actions in a manner palatable to the public. “If you have the law, hammer the law. If you have the facts, hammer the facts. If you have neither the law nor the facts, hammer the table”.
"You can't say the food tastes like shit unless you're a chef". WG's management never ceases to amaze me.
When smart companies develop products, they involve EVERYONE. When John Deere makes a new tractor, they don't run up to a farmer and say "You've never built a tractor, so beat it!" They listen to the farmers, the mechanics, the dealers- EVERYONE. If Wargaming is in a situation where the implementation of something comes down to money vs the playerbase, it's just a crap idea. Go back to the drawing board and come up with something that makes you money AND pleases the playerbase
Off topic, but my family owns a John Deere, and works like charm even though it has been running for over 40 years. They are very solid machines.
Back then, things were built to last. My father and I run a straw baking business. We love the classics- they’re easy to work on, simple to run, and always ready to work. I bought two tractors this year for our growing business: A 1964 Case 830 and a 1949 Allis Chalmers WD. Even though it’s 72 years old, you can walk up to it any day and start it within five seconds. Sure, it’s a bit crude and unrefined, but who cares? We bought it to run a hay rake, and it does it nicely! I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that tractor ends up making 100 years of service. I have no plans to upgrade it
From what I've heard, the electronic dodads in the new ones can be a bit persnickety, and only the one Deere repair man for the area (which can be absolutely massive) is allowed to fix it. I think they used to be solid machines, but the new ones may have lost a bit of the quality.
Random fact - your key will work in all similar models from that year (maybe more).
But, yes, they are very well built
Does John Deere listen to the customers though? I was under the impression that their questionable spare parts and repair policy was a major subject in the whole 'right to repair' debate in the US. Correct me if I'm wrong please.
I’m not a fan of Deere, but I think they get a worse reputation than they deserve here. A lot of the difficult to work on things on the neighbors newer ones have been emissions things. They own an 8260R and a 7230R, both about ten years old. The local independent mechanic can fix them up for the most part with just basic tools. It’s when you have electrical problems that things can get really bad. That said, I still don’t want a newer tractor- just because there is more stuff to go wrong
That's basically the mentality of those shitty game developers like Digital Homicide, honestly. I expect FAR BETTER from a globally recognized brand that Wargambling is.
Why? They've been enormously successful financially without ever needing to evolve beyond it. This is their standard PR playbook, has been since 2011.
Meh, clearly what they're doing right now is raking them money in, why change? They don't need to give a shit about "morality" or "expectations" as long as the green keep flowing, and it is flowing.
I don't think he's saying "you can't critique us.." but rather "If you hate us so bad, if you think we did this wrong, what's stopping you from going out and doing it yourself?"
fuck those fucks. I hope they lose money and go out of business as soon as possible
I think he means more like: 'We made those crappt decisions for a reason. If you were a game developer you would understand why we made them'
Cool proverb, I'm adopting that one for my own use, thanks.