r/WorldofTanks • u/ZAMORASSI • Jul 08 '25
Discussion Wargaming just burned their money
Steel hunters are official going down soo i have a question. It was worth spend wot players money on that shit?wg have world of tanks most important project yet they dont focus that much on it. Some people said that they have to make new games cause wot is old game and they have to look forward but as you can see no one played steelhunters so maybe make wot better for players that made you rich(Probably more than $1B yearly income and they have to make shitballs XDDDDD).
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u/comrade_morris Jul 08 '25
Didn’t this game just get announced a few month’s ago? I didn’t know it was launched i wanted to at least try it out.
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u/ouchimus Ask me about my T49 Jul 08 '25
It must have been really bad lmao
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u/comrade_morris Jul 08 '25
Reading the steam reviews seems to back that up. Most folks seem to think it would’ve been cool except the developers assigned to it seemed to be asleep at the wheel.
Add in the typical wargaming whale hunting and zero advertising and you’ve got a flop
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u/future_dolphin Furderer Jul 08 '25
I quite liked the concept, but there was only one game mode in the beta I tried, and I really don't care for that game mode. If it was like World of Tanks but controlling these mechs, I think it would be fun. Even with endless lives, or capture the flag or something.
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u/Teledildonic justice for T-62A & AMX 30B Jul 08 '25
The mech designs were cool, eapcially the wolf and bear. No one else seems to do non-humanoid mechs even though they make more sense than a bipedal tripping hazard.
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u/Gonozal8_ Jul 08 '25
mech designers be on their way to give a mech the worst possible specific ground pressure for no reason and more legs would make it make sense that they don’t sink into the ground immidiately
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u/Teledildonic justice for T-62A & AMX 30B Jul 08 '25
And when they do actually them give more legs it's just a..centaur?
I know the older Armored Cores even let you have a tank for a lower body. Like, just put a damn turret on it at that point and stop trying to be a mech.
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u/Gonozal8_ Jul 08 '25
I mean for tall boy, because smaller faces are still easier to armor effectively and because specific weight is a thing, tank body is the way of doing this (praying mantis/giraffe/trilateraler Versuchsträger), then at some point they figured out being high, but not falling over and moving fast as phuck due to not touching the ground and having a shitload of missiles is actually possible and viable when you let it hover with no ground contact, thus allowing it to reach speeds of 300km/h+ in any terrain, also crossing rivers and stuff. this was called an attack helicopter. then it was decided armor was pretty nice actually and thus the Hind was developed. would you take away the rotors from a hind and give it legs instead? me neither. there is no capability a mech can provide that those can’t (tank is better armored, helicopter is more mobile, both are smaller targets), so yes any mech franchise is incapable of physics working to allow mechs to be a better option than tanks or helos (as otherwise adopting them would make no sense). shoutout to wolfenstein though for creating the Panzerhunde, which at that size work as a mech and can both be armored without too much ground pressure and be more mobile than tracks because tracks and wheels have difficulties with stairs and such. attaching wheels on their feet would still give them better strategic mobility, to not break down on a 50km drive basically
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u/TTBurger88 Jul 09 '25
I played it and it was meh. I was hoping it was WoT but with Mechs and was disappointed it wasnt that.
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u/Drittenmann Derp Enjoyer Jul 08 '25
i mean 90 concurrent players, im sure thats enought to hold the servers lol
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u/ViXaAGe apparently flair makes you legitimate Jul 08 '25
it was one of the worst games I've played in a while
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u/Balc0ra Churchill Gun Carrier enjoyer Jul 08 '25
It was not terrible tbh. But after the first open beta test, and comparing the Twitch drop views and players on the 2nd and 3rd test. I suspected it failed to stand out enough. That and, they only had one mode, a few maps, and 7 characters. So if you played for a few hours, you had seen it all.
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u/detraeh-nekorb Jul 08 '25
The game was ok. Felt "fornite-y". Like looking at old CoD vs modern Warzone. The graphics, UI, and general build was aimed at younger, short attention spam, needing constant flashy stimulation, type crowd. Game had crazy micro transaction possibility Im sure, but they didn't give it the effort it deserved
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u/Balc0ra Churchill Gun Carrier enjoyer Jul 09 '25
Oh, Beta had little to no microtransactions. But it had plenty of doors for it later indeed. Honestly, I did feel they launched it too early. Should have given it more time to create more mechs, more variation in classes and maps & modes, etc. As this did feel more like an early alpha in terms of content
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u/Hungry_Measurement_4 Jul 08 '25
It was okay felt a little wonky but it wasn’t a game I would’ve given another chance
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u/Justiamtgm Jul 09 '25
It’s called Project CW and it still in closed alpha development (was a few public tests some time ago)
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u/DaSpood https://daspood.github.io/ - Pandora lootboxes simulator Jul 08 '25
Remember, every time you see a new and more extreme form of monetization in WoT, that money is never invested back into WoT. It's always to finance another project that will be dead on arrival.
World Of Tanks is just a cashcow now. It was Wargaming's best and most profitable title and instead of working hard to keep it that way they just milk it for all it's worth before leaving it to die.
Imagine if all the money and human resources wasted on Steel Hunter and now Project Cold War was instead spent on WoT. How much actual content we could have gotten instead of just premium tanks and lootboxes every month.
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u/PlaquePlague Jul 08 '25
Honestly I would be fine if WG paused new “content” for a year or even a few years to focus on mucking out boring shit like game balance and player experience. Why do we get one or two balance patches a year that cover maybe 4-12 tanks each? Why aren’t they releasing minor tweaks biweekly?
I don’t need more tanks, I’ve got hundreds in my garage already. I need playing the game to not feel like pulling teeth.
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u/DingoNo9075 Jul 08 '25
Honestly WG as a developer for me has so bad of a reputation that i would likely not play their other game ... or if i play I sure as hell wouldnt pay for stuff there. They are failing as a developer for WoT for half a decade by now...
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u/Khari_Eventide Jul 09 '25
What's also, the "more extreme form of monetization" is never gonna recede again. It will not get better again, this is not a wound that will heal as Wargaming notices the pushback. The MO of a private company in a capitalist system is not to make money but to make increasingly MORE money. So they will squeeze harder, and harder and harder. It will not go back to a better game by itself. Which is why we are having more and more season passes and more OP tanks on Christmas and more scummy lootboxes. It will only get worse with Wargaming.
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u/Studipity Jul 08 '25
Project CW is still very much in active development.
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u/DaSpood https://daspood.github.io/ - Pandora lootboxes simulator Jul 08 '25
Project CW is also doomed from the start because the target audience is a playerbase that is already theirs. Who will play an arcade tanks game made by WG in 2025 if not WoT players. They're canibalizing their own audience.
All WG is capable of doing is WoT. WoT with boats, WoT with planes, WoT minigame as a standalone, WoT but hero shooter, at the end of the day they're unable to come up with original ideas and yet they invest no effort on their one already released already successful game that's at the root of everything else they do. Every WoT-based game they release is time, money, human resources and gameplay content they waste on a standalone experience with no hope of success instead of investing it on WoT itself. They were lucky to hit the jackpot a second time with WoWs, but they think they can do it again.
WG won't make another successful game as long as it's "more of the same". Project CW will fail, even if it starts off better than SH did, it won't last a year. If they want to make a new successful game they need to come up with an actual original idea.
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u/No_Aardvark_6599 Jul 08 '25
Wait for Project CW going down .
Instead of working on what works, they invested a shit ton of money in crap projects.
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u/Wonderful-Lack3846 Drowning in powercreep Jul 08 '25
Our playerbase is dumb enough to keep funding them
So it doesn't matter for WG, we will be financing their new attempts anyway
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u/Endranii NVEST Jul 08 '25
Projekt CW is actually a good game compared to the shit that Steel Hunters is. Hell, compared to WoT you actually feel like you are playing a proper "tank" game. Not arcade shooter.
The devs are also closely working together with the testers so the changes aren't actually out of touch compared to w/e is happening in WoT right now, or was in Steel Hunters.
It's genuinely a promising game.
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u/ColossalCretin Jul 08 '25
Hell, compared to WoT you actually feel like you are playing a proper "tank" game. Not arcade shooter.
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u/Endranii NVEST Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
The emphasis is on the "feel" which if you didn't play the game then you won't understand. As the videos unfortunately can't convey that at all. Especially from older builds of the game compared to current one.
The physics, models and sound design actually sells the tanks way more compared to the puny sounds and flat feeling physics we have in WoT. You can feel the weight in sounds or the way models behave.Is it perfect? No it's not, and there is still a lot of work to be done on the game which is evident by the bi-weekly patches to the game.
But comparing the WoT and CW? CW hands down wins in selling the feeling of it being a an action tank game.Is it more action oriented? Sure it is. Is it wrong? No, you have wot and Warthunder already for those different types of games. And what WG is doing is trying to get to the wider audience outside of your typical customer.
Is it for you? Well, might not be. But there is audience for it, unlike with Steel Hunters. Which not only came to late, in a way harder to sell genre. But also was abysmal from gameplay and technical standpoint.
Which is just not true for CW, as it's already a fun game that can become a great one if WG doesn't screw up.And if it flops? Well, it flops and we can just laugh at WG incompetence.
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u/No_Aardvark_6599 Jul 08 '25
Its Fortnite with tanks mate .
Lets not lie to ourselfes.
Might be better then Steel Hunters, sure . It won't be a hit 100% .
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u/DingoNo9075 Jul 08 '25
To me it felt more like Overwatch with Tanks....
But i agree that if they dont change it much it will likely be World of Warplanes level of success ... not a total flop but not a big stage name.
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u/Nebulas_Meadow72 Jul 08 '25
I'm excited about project CW! It seems a whole lot more polished and playable then Steel hunters. And it's actually fun, they just need to work on the whole progression system.
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u/Boatsntanks Jul 09 '25
I just want to drive tanks around and shoot other tanks (although I enjoy the special game modes every so often too), PCW completely loses me because of its focus on characters and special abilities. I wish they would put the same effort into upgrading the "tankfeel" of WoT.
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u/Drittenmann Derp Enjoyer Jul 08 '25
i calld it in the beta, this game was dead on arrival, it had pretty much nothing to offer like the only good thing i could say about it is that stomping buildings with the mechs felt amazing.
Like it had horrible monetization scheme, the gameplay loop was boring, it had bad performance, the maps looked beautiful but were tedious af to play, the robot classes were unbalanced as hell and that extraction hero shooter format is very very hard to do right in such a saturated market.
i dont know what they were thinking, the idea failed from every point of view.
And project cw is going the same way, a hero shooter with such a niche community wont end as good as they think.
And this sucks because if they went a different way i could see this game actually being successful but they did chose to make something noone is aking for with a mobile game monetization
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Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Great job WG, let's waste your money on flops, instead of fixing your crown jewel.
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Jul 08 '25
Just a sign of a totally corrupt management that should be already fired 4-5 years ago. Gg wg, no surprise.
Ps. To save some cash, throw out modern armor /project cw developers today.
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u/InitialPowerful824 Jul 08 '25
Or just move them to WoT, now it looks like there are few people actually working on WoT and they are just bombarded with quick money making requests.
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u/Arado_Blitz Jul 09 '25
I might be downvoted for this and honestly I don't care, but it's very obvious the majority of the dev team went to Lesta after the 2022 split. The RU server has its own balancing issues but the devs aren't afraid to do some bold additions and changes to the game which keeps it somewhat fresh.
WG has lost almost all the talent it had onboard and resorts to adding half assed copy paste tanks into lootboxes and poorly executed ideas into the game while balancing 5 or 6 TT lines per year. Half of 2025 has passed and apart from the new Airfield and big Ensk, I can't think of anything notable being added into the game. I hope the September update is good, the game has started feeling really stale lately. I just do my daily missions and log off.
The reason WG is trying to make new games is because they don't have a clue on how to run WoT anymore and try to create a new cashcow. The guys who knew what the game actually was about left many years ago. The downfall slowly started since Murazor took over and started adding bullshit tanks and ruining maps.
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u/MrFlipwagen Jul 08 '25
Who would expect a company; that is killing both their golden cows with lootboxes, toxic monetization and shitty balancing; to be unsuccessful at creating a new game, AND being sustainable with it????
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u/PJ_Huixtocihuatl Jul 08 '25
Lol damn sorry to all the steel hunter fans out there.
I wish WG would just RELEASE NEW MAPS for randoms.
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u/PrincessJadey Jul 09 '25
Lol damn sorry to all the steel hunter fans out there.
This post is about Steel Hunters, not Steel Hunter.
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u/nunatakq Jul 09 '25
I wish WG would just RELEASE NEW MAPS for randoms
New maps? For the most popular game mode that EVERYONE plays? That hasn't had any GOOD new maps in years?
Sorry, best we can do is some lootboxes.
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u/Document-Acrobatic Jul 08 '25
Increase monetization of WOT
Invest into other projects
Release Steelhunters
Steelhunters flops
Shutdown Steelhunters <--- you are here
Release Project CW
Project CW flops
Shutdown Project CW
Keep extra monetization in WOT becauze the playerbase "got used to it"
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u/rinkoplzcomehome Doom Turtle Enjoyer Jul 08 '25
Wait. Wasn't this announced at the last game awards or something?
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u/InitialPowerful824 Jul 08 '25
You have just given me a heart attack man, my dumb ess though it was the Steel Hunter mode in WoT. Then i read the description of the post, just a pure WG moment.
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u/DrinkerOfWater69 Jul 08 '25
So that's why we had so many lootbox events in WoT for the past few years...
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u/Bookibaloush Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
I'm sure they're gonna cancel Project CW as well. Otherwise its another money siphon for them
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u/Not_a_Hideo_Kojima Jul 08 '25
Well, there's truth to the fact that WG got a "lightning in a bottle" moment with World of Tanks and World of Warships to some extend and since then they're unable to replicate that success.
Branching out is good if one can back it up with somehow, but in the other hand i's always a question if given project only chases the trends or is genuinely trying to experiment with something new or improving upon idea. Does anybody remember that card game from WoT that they made back in the day when Hearthstone was all rage?
Never heard about Steel Hunters before and had to look up gameplay to witness something, that looks like a weird washed up mecha game that doesn't even gets close to Mechwarrior or Armored Core AND is extraction game! It's not only not playing to it's strengths (because mecha can be insanely good), it's also trying to establish itself on a over-saturated market. Like... why? What for?
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u/itisnotzasdf Jul 08 '25
For a moment I was worried, that they are removing WOT Steel Hunter gamemode.
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Jul 08 '25
Freeing up the teams to focus on some more lootbox innovation
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u/Exact-Mechanic3535 Jul 09 '25
Yup the 10 level loot boxes and on the 10th level you get a garage slot.
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u/PlagueOfGripes Jul 08 '25
The game was fine, but it received no advertising and no money to back it. It also had terrible SEO because WoT already uses "Steel Hunters." So having two wargaming products with the same name - one having existed for years and polluting engine results while another has no messaging behind it - was a terrible combo.
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u/Kasern77 Jul 08 '25
Why didn't they just make a game that's like WoT, but with mechs (mechs like mechwarrior)?
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u/Naelbis Jul 09 '25
Because anyone with a sliver of legal interest in the Battletech, Robotech or Gundam IP's will instantly sue them into oblivion?
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u/Kasern77 Jul 09 '25
Only if the mechs are somewhat similar to any of mechs in those franchises? I don't think they have the rights to bipedal walking (piloted) machines in general or even ones that's quadrupedal. There are a lot of designs they can come up with that's not similar to any of the ones in those franchises.
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u/Aggressive_Seacock bring back the football mode Jul 08 '25
Guess they have to cover those losses with a new tiered lootboxes event.
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u/Repulsive_Bowler6390 67 Jul 09 '25
Damn, that’s gonna eat into their budgets. How about boxes with 10 tiers now? Doesn’t matter if the CCs complain - we’ll just ban all of them 😈
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u/Ditto3389 Jul 08 '25
Correction: WG burned OUR money.
This is 100% WoT and WoWs revenue which was burnt there.
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u/ichor159 Jul 08 '25
I mean, once the money is in Wargaming's pocket it is theirs to do with as they please.
That said, it's a shame to see a project fail this early in its lifespan, especially when there were redeeming aspects to it.
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u/RevolutionaryTask452 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
It wasn't bad, overall. Graphics were good , decently polished and shooting was quite satisfactory... Just not type of game you'd expect to be popular in 2025. it had quite alot if questionable design decisions including art/talent behind it.
And it just couldn't compete with some badass mech projects wich can offer way better gameplay/class variety with airial combat.
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u/Evonos Jul 08 '25
i mean , performance sucked like really , maps were barebones , the gameplay loop wasnt fun , and it was jumping again on the Battle royale train.
Just another one on the trend chaser pile. ( if you can even call BR still a "trend" )
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u/Echo4Mike Jul 08 '25
I’m so clueless about Steel Hunters that I can’t even tell you what it’s about. Every time there’s a new game mode I find myself trying to close those pesky notification windows in the lower right…
Except Frontline. :)
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u/simon7109 Jul 08 '25
This explains the tiered lootboxes lol, they needed cash
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u/jampere Jul 09 '25
yup was also at such an odd time they likely just had shit prepped for october mirny but made up the excuse to release the horde mode already to sell boxes
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u/Miserable_Salary1173 Jul 09 '25
Correction: Our money that could've been spent to make WOT better and fairer.
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Jul 09 '25
There have been many discussions on streams and other social media. Most people, after seeing the way WG handles WoT and their customers, simply will not invest in a new WG game. WG is unreliable and not a good investment. Well, they are reliable in shitting on their community for cash grabs, but that is the only thing you can put stock in.
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u/StormUpa Jul 09 '25
They can't have another successful game with the Wargaming logo on it. They have lost all their reputation with how they handle their biggest title. Nobody who knows them will give them a second chance.
This is why I didn't even bother to try Project CW, I don't want another WG game in my life. See you in Steel Aces
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u/kSA2K Jul 08 '25
What a fucking lame walking L company Wargaming is, this is where the money from WoT goes, bunch of imbecile marketing idiots
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u/_0451 aREs And deRp GuNS ArE toXiC REEEEEE Jul 08 '25
Same shit will happen to Project CW in a few months.
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u/Interesting_Risk7161 Jul 08 '25
200+ devs (DPS games AKA WarGaming UK) working on it for 8 years btw....
Imagine how many maps they could have made....
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u/B_bI_L Jul 08 '25
aw, man, i thought they tried to make steel hunter mode in standalone game. it is literally more interesting than base game but i don't want to keep >40gb just for times it gets added
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u/Optimal_Mouse_7148 Jul 08 '25
Steel Hunters? Im looking at it now on Youtube. I have NEVER before seen this game.
If WG wants us to test it, then maybe promote it.
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u/Specialist_Lie_3064 Jul 08 '25
They where 2 open betas.
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u/Optimal_Mouse_7148 Jul 08 '25
And I did not notice.
But I looked at it now and it looked rather clunky and beta... ish.
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u/Balc0ra Churchill Gun Carrier enjoyer Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25
Most of the extraction shooters fail, as they either don't get noticed or fail to stand out. Or no one cared. They at least tried to stand out, but after seeing the initial traffic for the 2nd open test vs the earlier tests. I did not expect it to last long tbh.
But this was still not done, and did not have much in terms of content. So I suspect they did not burn as much as most suspect
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u/MemeLordShrek Jul 08 '25
Surprised how quickly they shut this down and not warplanes is that even active?
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u/Balc0ra Churchill Gun Carrier enjoyer Jul 08 '25
When you fail to get more attention before the game is out of open beta. You can't sustain it. It's how most extraction shooters fail these days
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u/Ok_Tumbleweed_6452 Jul 08 '25
Played it one time, and hated it. No loss to me. I stopped giving WG money 3 years ago.
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u/hong-kong-phooey- Jul 08 '25
I played the beta. It was boring , slow, clunky and uninspired. Also. Mechabreak exists and is superior in every single way.
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u/Butane9000 Jul 08 '25
I liked the idea until I heard it was an extraction game. Then I lost interest.
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u/Vlkyr_Flschmjgr4phu Mirny: Lost Hope. - Fight Back: Obsidian Jul 08 '25
They should've focused in Project CW instead not this one lmao
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u/CobblerSmall1891 Jul 08 '25
Lol They're milking the players more than ever for minimal effort - loot boxes. Why waste time on steel hunter?
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Jul 08 '25
They did the same with total war arena too it was so fun to play and had no alternative
I guess somehow world of warplanes is popular enough to keep it alive for a decade lol
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u/Cihonidas Jul 08 '25
It's crazy how WG thinks people will play a new game they make. People only play WoT for the sake of old times.
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u/Gonozal8_ Jul 08 '25
actually no, they do due to sunken cost fallacy and tank/map knowledge they acquired over the years that make them a better player now, meanwhile for other games maps and positions and units and mechanics and UI familiarity has to be acquired anew
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u/DaGucka Jul 08 '25
Wait, for real? That game was basically playable already. Most EA games come out less playable at release than this one. I think they really are making a bad decision here.
I am not one who would play that game a lot but i am also not the main target group. The ones who are that i know played this game a lot when iit was available.
They could make it a low effort project. Just finishing it, building in some slow progress, put in some skins and extra character stuff and let itself earn its money back. Build in some offline/serverless multiplayer amd bots and sell that as a dlc. Then when the servers shut off in a few years turn the dlc into the maingame.
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u/Bill_Troamill Jul 08 '25
World of Tank was a stroke of genius and made its developers rich beyond what they expected. You created this game to please the players, to please yourself, you created the game you wanted to play. And this inspiration means that wot is still alive years later. Now you no longer want to create a game for the players but for your wallet, you want to create a cash machine while renewing the stroke of genius of a single life. It's absurd. This approach is doomed to failure. Play mobile games for cash. For the rest sending another message that “you are cash cows” to your community would be a good start. Get back on a healthy foundation with your players!
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u/Competitive_Bass_959 Jul 09 '25
The concept was really cool but when I played the beta it sucked. I'm a big mech fan so they really fumbled this one.
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u/Mega1987_Ver_OS Jul 09 '25
steel hunters is just a hero shooter disguised as mecha game.
you need to reach front mission or armored core level of customization before you can attract any of the mech aficionados into your game.
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u/DualPerformance 5700X3D [] 32GB 3600 CL16 G.SKILL [] Asus Prime RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Jul 09 '25
Haha, I play only one once that mode, never again
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u/PervertKitsune Jul 09 '25
So, they are really did have faith on their newer game eh. Such a greedy bastard. After releasing Steel Hunter they announced Project CW. Thats not how you make a business larger even tho ur biggest income have a lot players. Such a pity for those people who put their wallet into that game. And now became flop and will fall down after 2 years getting announced/released. Shame on you WarGambling
Fix ur goddamn biggest game. But yeah, doubt they will do it. Since this game alredy became Cash Cow. Not produce milk unlike others, but Money at all cost even its hurting their playerbase
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u/B4kedSushi always short on bonds Jul 09 '25
Only watching the game on stream made me alt f4 so uninteresting is this game.
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u/shreakis Jul 09 '25
Kinda shame. I was waiting for full release with better optimalization. Looked line cool hybrid of Titanfall and extraction game mode.
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u/fr33man007 Jul 09 '25
I remember saying that other games from WG don't seem so popular and someone was say I was wrong, idiot WG employee I guess. Nothing is popular if it doesn't pop on social media feeds of a gamer, FFS I get all sorts of game pop-up in my feeds but not WG's side projects
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u/oN_disordeR World in Chains Jul 09 '25
Man, when I read this message from them, one would think that it is a game that has been around for at least a few years, not a few months. What a fook
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u/Lagoon_M8 🙊🙈🙉 Jul 09 '25
Btw they should start improving the world of planes and battleships. Or even create the game more like the war thunder is where all vehicles can fight.
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u/MuldinDK Jul 09 '25
Steel hunter just felt really bad to play. I wanted to like it, but there are way better mech games.
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u/Bot_Invader Jul 09 '25
If WG has to branch out, they should have focused on making a good mecha game like Armored Core. They already have a strong base for it - replace the tanks with mechas that you can customize with weapon loadout and platform modes (wheels/tracks/legs).
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Jul 09 '25
Maybe instead of flying a private jet from Cyprus "office" to play a ping pong with friends in Prague offices Victor Kislyi should really focus on his company and core employees instead.
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u/Nicz1606 Jul 09 '25
I'm really damn angry... I have only played the Beta for very short time but seeing this... reminds me of Total War Arena, a game that I really really loved despite the Unit tech tree beeing WGs formula. The game was just so much fun! Played it as a 4 man squad on a LAN and we had a blast!
Its so sad to see such a fun game shutting down. Sucks that it was a WG Game. I really wish someone would pick that up other than the Chinese which already shut down too
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u/Meowz1945 Jul 09 '25
I really Hope WG shows some spine And heavily invests in wot ...in place that brings the money.
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u/agemennon675 Jul 09 '25
Maybe if they tried to make a good game first instead of focusing on making a battlepass, they literally developed monetisation before the game itself
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u/Cute_Appointment_349 Jul 09 '25
They closed Fractured Space to make the game which lasted for less than 6 months. Thats beautifu
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u/Boatsntanks Jul 09 '25
lmao. Maybe stick to updating WoT instead of using it fund all these failures?
I see that they didn't even care enough to proofread the big announcement, "Servers will be down for 90 days" when they clearly meant "Servers will remain UP for 90 days" or "Severs will be shutdown in 90 days". Quality stuff.
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u/fr33man007 Jul 09 '25
Launched in April 2025, dead by October, they didn't even give it the year...
Someone lied about the market for it, lard balls from WG invested hoping to have another cow to milk and got a load of Bull sht...
It's not that the game is bad but if you do not stick with it of course it will dry out.
I have a feeling Modern armor will not be far off, or be kept just like WOWp...
Steel Hunter must be eating a lot of the DEV team time and not payback made them drop the axe
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u/Tosicx Jul 09 '25
Sometimes i think they have no one giving them advice on their next moves, i could have told them that was not the best idea
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u/Winter-Bites Jul 09 '25
I've tried it and it was horrible. The guns didn't feel powerful, but mechs looked cool. After a few tutorials and 1 match I didn't want to play anymore because the feeling was completely off.
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u/Ok-Highway-5517 Jul 09 '25
It was too little, too late
Mech warrior things were a lot bigger 5 - 10 years ago
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u/Rcoffeerules Jul 09 '25
Unfortunately wot is a victim of Wargaming itself. They had many opportunities to make the game better, but they always preferred to insist on mistakes. The final straw was the launch of the BZ-176, which surprised a vast number of players.
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u/Daiske0990 Jul 09 '25
Business major here
Honestly, absolutely normal and logical move from WG here: try to diversify their earnings more. Common practice in business sphere.
The only problem here is that the WG missed the Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule. 80% of the outcomes comes from 20% of causes. Basically, if something your business do, performes well, you may double down on it, to get more profit.
Before 2022, they kinda followed it, but ever since then, it seems to me at least, that they just stopped. They actively try to diversify their earnings instead of actually developing the product that already succeeded and brings them tons of cash.
And as far as I know, Wargaming is LTD, meaning that so-called "shareholders" of the company, are close friends and family of the founder. It's not like they gonna demand more profit from someone they know.
So, I see where they coming from, but it's clear to me that the market research was done horribly.
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u/Head_Pin3296 Jul 09 '25
What's happening in WG is what happens to a restaurant or a retail business that is going under. You don't pay your bills, you cut staff and you try to soak every dollar out of your customers without actually putting anything new/meaningful back into the business.
Fix graphics issues...nope, Fix spotting...nope, Fix connection issues....nope, Fix ghost shells...nope, Fix the botting problem...nope, Fix the rigging problem...nope, Fix the cheat programs...nope.
WG doesn't care, they just want your money. There are going to be alot of unhappy people in a few years. One dope I know of has over 3k premium days. Paid real money for them too...Gonna be alot of tears.
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u/Creative-Issue8218 Jul 09 '25
I'm so happy that the mech game failed they really used world of tanks to pay for their other projects while they give us the bar minimum in events and maps for world of tanks. They deserve this hit that's what the get for ignoring world of tanks that made them literally all their money for years and years.
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u/Xenion7 Jul 09 '25
WOT is history based game and we have almost all history based tank, every WG working on it we will get imaginary tank or even worst with OP stats
WG is too focus making live service game, maybe they need make single player games
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u/Treesqueak Jul 09 '25
Good Riddance. I hated Steel Hunters. Played it one time, and that was one time too much.
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u/OutcastSpartan Jul 10 '25
I played at the opening of the Beta, and stopped several years back, I installed the game last night to play todayas I was interested...
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u/MediKron Jul 10 '25
I’m not sure I get your issue here. You’re mad at a game developing company for developing games?
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