14K active players is a decent amount. It’s unimpressive for sure, but I’d say it’s not a failure. I wonder how many of them play for what the game has to offer and not for what they imagine it may offer some time in the future.
sadly enlisted get boring very very quickly so i expect a drop soon, i am lvl 22 in normandy and i dont have stimulus to play.
its indeed a very repetitive game that gets boring really quick.
besides the fun (imo) it provides, there is no end goal to acchive.
i keep asking myself what a rts war map like hng would do to this game…
I wasn’t discussing whether it’s worth or not to support the game.
I’m trying to think financially, like producers would.
When they hold an event, they expect X revenue, from Y players buying their way through.
If the revenue turns out to be less than X because there was too little participation, they will consider better rewards or other ways to increase interest next time.
If despite high participation the revenue is less than X because most players were able to complete the event without the need to pay anything, next time tasks will be harder.
oh i see. maybe the reason they announced the option to buy said rewards with gold after the event was done. over all participants, the last reward wasnt acchived by most percentage.
good points indeed. not that i would mind some harder tasks “IF” the rewards are worth and we have enough “time” to accomplish them.
this
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With AI squads or without them? 
Wdym, i heard that the “game is dying” as usual 
(it is sarcasm btw)
Considering all the possibilities to unleash your intellectual on your teammates, it’s hard to estimate. You have zero chance to discuss tactics before, you have no idea what your team is built up of, don’t even know the AI/player ratio, etc.
We lost Maisky Forestry with a team where 3 of the players rushed to build rally point (never happened before), one went to mortar, another two to tank or plane… so first cap zone was nearly empty by the time the Germans arrived. Now if we’d have a 30 seconds discussion before, where we could toss in some “I wish to engineer” “I wish to pilot” “I am master of everything” cards, at least we’d be able to get an idea of what lies ahead, and resistance would not have been only on last 2 points where we finally realized no time to build anything.
Probably would not fix the low IQ problem to be honest. 
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The option to buy the rewards was there right at the beginning - so no, actual participation rates would not be a factor - they would have had the announcements planned regardless.
As I understand these things (2 sons are both software engineers!!) the whole event is completely planned in advance - there are no sudden changes (unless there’s bugs to be fixed) because the team is no longer working on this one - they have the next one almost (or already!) complete, the one after that is having the framework finalized, and the one after that is at concept stage!!
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There was an option to buy and skip tasks to buy rewards untill 19 of July.
Now you can direcly buy the reward, untill July 22.
Its diferent.
Yes… well it would have to be wouldn’t it - since you can’t skip tasks any more!! lol
But that would have been part of the plan from before the event - “So… how long after it finishes shall we try to fleece them for?”
This was almost surely planned since the beginning as well.
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Sure it might be. But wasn’t on the initial plans and rules. The event suposly ended on July 19.
Oh - weren’t you part of that group?? I’ll put your name forward for the next one…
Didn’t bought a single task. But anyway. Its kinda strange that from 200k players only so few reached the last level where only 8 tasks were needed…
Not THAT group - the secret group that looks at all changes coming up… the one with the secret handshake and password “Gaijinisgod” - THAT secret group - doesn’t everyone know about it??
Ahah I wish
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What do you call it when less than half (and I’m being very generous here) of participants in most battles are actually players? I don’t care what it’s caused by - low playerbase or dumb matchmaking - it’s still bad either way. Defeats the purpose of it being an online game.
Nice generalization, this isnt the case at all apart from Germans in Berlin, which is happening for various reasons