There’s no currency like in WOT to worry about so this idea of “premiums should be garbage because they earn more” is pretty flawed.
Your idea for premium squads to be terrible also ensures their market is much smaller than necessary. Buy a terrible XP squad early on in the campaign and then never buy another one because you’ve got high enough in the campaign to unlock MUCH better squad templates/weapons.
I’m fine with premium squads being similar or statistically the same to their free counterparts. Premiums that require a higher skill level to use (Chachaut) but offer a unique experience is fine too. I can make people scream P2W with the Chachaut just as easily.
Comparing MG30 to Chachaut is such a flawed comparison, you might as well compare the MP40 to the TOZ shotgun. You could compare the two, not so long as your entire focus is “wow, why doesn’t this german MG behave like a French WWI gun”
This idea of “premium squads must offer more than just XP bonuses and an unique experience through an unique gun” is flawed. If you want to make it required to pay for stuff to play the game competitively, you might as well make the game pay to play.
And nobody ever said that they should be terrible. Just not OP as fuck. Chauchat is fine. PPK is fine. MP28(ex.mag) is fine. Just the OP guns have to be nerfed.
Then why are you claiming the MG30 doesn’t require a nerf lmfao. It is objectively better than its free counterpart.
That’s thanks to the vitality perk
Except both are light machine guns. Both are part of the premium squadron packs that were released AS A PAIR. So obviously the PAIR is going to be compared!