This might be a bit late cause I'm right on my marathon Los Angeles - San Francisco - Orlando, but
it is finally happening. WG goes really multiplaftorm with with console project officially announced.
Embrace tank action on consoles! Sign up for the beta here.
it is finally happening. WG goes really multiplaftorm with with console project officially announced.
Embrace tank action on consoles! Sign up for the beta here.
The first questions on everyone's minds:
ReplyDeleteCross-platform gameplay with PC users?
Shared accounts with PC?
General Direction from the NA forums says:
DeleteNo cross servers (childbox in 1 server, Master PC race in the other)
No shared accounts...
Confirm that.
DeleteOverlord, did you know that WoT wont be F2P anymore and noone will buy any premium tank on this? (mabye i exaggerated, but still at some point i am right) It's because extra payed option to play online -.- It's called Xbox Live Gold. Besides who will pay double for: Playing online and Buying premium account time? I am not sure but many people when do have premium account time they play games such as CoD's, Battlefields with friends and have fun. World of Tanks must be streamlined to arrtact at least 100 000 people :)
DeleteWhy 360 exclusive? Especially when the Xbox One and PS4 are both on the verge of being released. I would very much like to see it on the PS4, but unless my tanks etc. carried over to console version I wouldn't be very interested in starting the grind all over again anyway.
ReplyDeleteWe have got established userbase on 360 right now which is a prerequisite for a F2P, while the new consoles will have to fight for audience from scratch.
DeleteThe game is intended for new players mostly. Cross-platform play is not planned.
what userbase?! you didn't even started BETA testing
DeleteI think Overlord meant an established Xbox 360 userbase as a whole, not Wargaming's :)
Deleteand again, XBox userbase will play test their version of WoT because!??!
Deletewhy not PS3 userbase? or is it because it's more mature
why not both X360 and PS3?
mind you WarFrame and WarThunder went straight for PS4
PS: why not XB1?
Deletewas it because MS denied you, or because your money truck wasn't big enough to pay for that
Zme, if i may adventure a guess it's because i think MS and Sony are requiring a certain graphical fidelity for their next gen console games. And sadly wot graphics are very "basic"/bland even compared to flagsip current gen console graphics (i.e.: no DX10 even, no tesselation, ultradynamic environment, no deformable models -damage just leaves a decal-, and look at the trees/folliage and compare them to cry3 ones for example).
DeleteI know i'd do that if i where them, using an old/bland game is not good marketing for your new console.
It's not about the graphics. New consoles will need some time to establish their positions on the market and make their typical mistakes. 360 suited us better than PS3 or, forgive me, WiiU.
DeleteIf everything goes ok, it shouldn't be a problem to go for, e.g., Xbox one version.
And truck of money should also be a solid reason. We are not do games as our hobby, you know.
All these Fireflies used in promotional videos. Its rather epic teasing by WG.net...
ReplyDelete:p
This is the second time the Sherman Firefly has appeared in a WoT trailer. Please don't do a third until the tank has been finally added as this can be very misleading.
DeleteYep, remember the Chieftain video that "The Challenger" did? That got a lot of hopes up, only to be let down shortly after.
DeletePretty sure that Serb said that the Firefly was going to come after other tanks that were promised first....
So that's the German 2nd TD line, the 2nd Russian mediums, the American lights, more French tanks, The Chinese arty and TD's, the Japanese tree and probably the European tree. Something like that?
Ah well.
Pretty much my take on it. You also missed the British arty off that list.
Deletehuge mistake going to X360
ReplyDeletealso, the game is no more free2play since you have to be a gold Live member to be able to play on-line
oh, WG .. SONY just won next-gen
DeleteI think you mean the PC's just won next gen :P
DeletePC never left the throne
DeleteI'm speaking of next-gen consoles, PC is not a console ;)
Next Gen consoles, then I'd go with the Steam box. Cheap and plays games with none of the attendant rubbish.
DeleteThat said going for the 360 seems a like smart move. Very soon the 360 is going to become Very cheap to buy. the only fly in the ointment is the Gold membership cost.
Nothing has been won so far.
DeleteAs for going 360, it's totally reasonable. Audience and technology-wise it suits WoT far better. So, I'd say it's either going both or going XboX
audience wise?!
Deleteyou are heading to the same audience that plays CoD, Halo, Gears
remember with the last game that introduced microtransactions to consoles? it bombed
EA put Dead Space franchise on hold because of Dead Space 3 poor sales
Micro transactions (or F2P) should be an inherent part of game design. That's the only right way to do things. I guess, it wasn't so in case of DS3. WoT is nothing like that. We will see. It's always tricky to enter new platforms.
Deletejust a question for you: how many F2P serious titles have you seen on X360 and how many still people play
DeleteI can't think of any, you ?
Someone has to clean the road. Hopefully we will do that.
DeleteHappy Wars has been doing ok afaik
For me Linux support would mean multi-platform. Currently I have been installing and maintaining Windows only for this game. And it is quite tedious to reboot to Windows each time I want to play a match and then to reboot back to Linux.
ReplyDeleteno... just no.. this is the worst news i've seen from wg in a long time, consoles are the most dumbed down horrible platform ever, and now wot is there... what a waste
ReplyDeleteyour hard earned money well spent .. oh wait !!
Delete360 is the worst platform? Wouldn't say so. The console has been pretty successful
Deletehe said consoles, not "console"
Deleteexactly, i said "consoles" as in ALL CONSOLES, period.
Deletefrom the unusable broken MMI(games are played with your fingertips and palm not THUMBS) to the lockdown(zero customization) to the hardware being YEARS obsolete compared to any modern computer.
i do wonder if all these resources wouldn't have been better spent into advancing wot "prime" with stuff that takes too much time and dawdling to be released right now (client physics, deformable environment, full SMP support, UI improvements(dynamic TRUE tank stats), etc)
Well, if you play on PC. Stay there. 360 game is not for you.
DeleteIn release will Xbox players play vs PC players too? Or this game is as a new different game?
ReplyDeletethx for answer.
Read the first comment & replies :)
DeleteWorld of Tanks on Xbox
ReplyDeleteWar Thunder on PS4
Still no acceptable tank suspension physics (something other tank games have had years ago already) ... FAIL.
ReplyDeleteConsole version will have Havok
Deleteand PC version won't ?!?!
DeleteI don't understand
Console version will have it from the very beginning.
Deleteok, now I really don't understand ..
Deletesince WoT X360 is entering CBT does that mean it already has it?!?!
or the WoT X360 release version will have it
Already has it.
DeleteGood news IMO. The 360 will still be in active use for many years yet, and it exposes WG games more so likely to be a sound decision.
ReplyDeleteWith XB1 launch, X360 is set to die
Deletelike the 1st XBox, MS will discontinue XBox Live services at some point
That's inevitable. However Xbox 360 will live for some time after next generation's launch. That's how thing work.
Deletemind you PS2 on-line play still is alive
DeleteLook at Minecraft PC vs Minecraft XBOX...
ReplyDeleteWoT going console is just to be there, to say that WG are well established console developer, to advertise more mature and more sophisticated PC version and get more new players to it (everyone has a PC and WoT can run on pretty low specs). It may generate some revenue but don't go crazy about it ;) .
Consoles are faaar away from PCs gameplay-vise and playerbase-vise, these are two different worlds, so game "looking the same" is still not the same game.
We always see Firefly act in WarGaming's Video
ReplyDeleteBut they never!! NEVER show in WOT
please kindly give us the Firefly!!
Overlord, Would WG consider giving Xbox users $60 dollars in free gold or a tier 8 prem. tank to make up for having to for Xbox Live Gold. The game is not really a FTP game anymore if I am having to pay just to access the game plus in game gold to have Premium time.
ReplyDeleteThanks
kinda bonkers for WG to expect people to pay 60EU for Live gold and, on tho of that, ~100EU for a year of premium account
DeleteWoT premium account is more expensive than the subscription for XBox Live gold - just LOL
Cantccolor,
Deletei'm not that knowledgeable on console stuff, but afaik this is MS's requirement. Only gold members can play online games.
And it will be same with new generation PS4 also will have fee for you to pay. Clean money people pay you for service that they use they own internet connection and game devs servers.
DeleteNo work on your behalf just full pockets hm sounds like a fraud but who i'm i to say it.
Overlord just tell me WG is not required to give part of income to MS!
@zoran
Deleteoh yes they are!
MS takes their share on every transaction done via XBox Live services, this includes selling of premium tanks, gold, premium time
OMG then that's like money for noting and chicks for free!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteWG please fix the inherent issues w/WoT BEFORE you branch out into new platforms. We've been begging you for 2 years now to fix the problems in the PC game...yet you've ignored our entreaties...STOP before you screw up TWO game platforms!
ReplyDeleteBut screwing up two platforms is 2x the fun...
DeleteIn more serious news I think it will work out ok... Is more likely the guys doing the porting actually play on the XBOX and will take care with it.
...WoT is not even working well on PC and now they release a console version? O.o
ReplyDeleteThis will not ending well.
No relation between the two. Console version is being worked on by a separate team.
Deleteapparently we got this all wrong (!!)
ReplyDeleteEuroGamer.Net: http://tinyurl.com/nvmzw2x
quote:
"As for World of Tanks on Xbox 360 - it's a win-win for Victor at Wargaming, who presumably got a fat cheque to build it, but strategically it's about as forward-looking as a rear-view mirror. What's the next World of Tanks, Microsoft? Buy it or build it.
Looks like they know smth we don't. Good for them.
Deleteform the gameplay videos I saw, is correct to assume the X360 version uses BigWorld engine ??
ReplyDeleteHavoc i think.
Deletehavok is just the physics
Deleteunless .. they licensed the whole package
Or they both company and engine :)
DeleteHavok is owned by Intel
DeleteWG doesn't have enough money to pay Intel :))