I did. But they got deleted by the mods. So. There's that. And to be honest, it's not obvious to everyone. I've already had many of those discussions.

They are linked. Both economic and psychological. All of this has already been studied and Opex has admitted he uses the data from pre-existing studies and online games (and the changes they have made to their games) to make tanki profitable for their shareholders. I mean, that's the sole reason he was hired (in 2015, was it?). For increased profits. Tanki asked: How do you get someone to buy my product vs any other similar product? The answer is: You use psychology and you know what makes your target audience 'work'. Example: It would be useless for tanki to target senior citizens for that demographic is not the majority who play online games. They would never turn a profit that way. They target (mostly) single males 15-35 who have disposable income of some sort and who have a propensity to play online games. It also helps if they have an 'addictive' personality, but I don't think it's a requirement. Increasingly, women play online games, so that's an ever-evolving income stream. Tankionline metrics are very interesting. You might find this interesting: You and I have already discussed the specifics as to what makes players spend actual money on the game, but we don't need to go into that.

Yes, this is a classic definition of addiction. And they already know the psychology behind it.

Fixed it for you again.

Nope. Your logic. You're still complaining about complaints in a complaints thread.

As I have stated many times before, complaining about complaints in the complaints thread is just as futile.

And why does anyone here care one iota if he is wasting his time or not...? Wouldn't everyone elses time be better spent not entering into the (Complaints)/TCSOTO thread? I mean, the title kinda gives away what you are likely to find here.

Except paying upfront doesn't guarantee that it will be completed...

I wouldn't take it personally.

Me: bumps up against another tanki because firebird. Them: moves forward and phases into me. Tanki: remembering physics and that two objects cannot occupy the same space, raises my turret up into the air so that I'm still firing and not hitting the enemy tank, nor can I move away because I'm lifted off the ground. Them: one shots me. Repeat x12 in a battle.

fixed it for you

Well this stuff is theoretically 'free', but you get less of them for the same price as before. It is what it is. It's just the current state of tanki online to some people.

I think the complaint--general-- is spending more for getting less. Whether it's 'free' stuff in the showcase or spending real monies.

The 'no damage' bug still exists. lol

no reason to choose a short range turret. ever.

The matchmaking is the worst I've ever seen it. I guess having no-skill legends is how they "balance" the game. You see all the gear scores and assume they have some skill, some strategy, some proper augs, some idea of how the game is played. But they don't. Instead of actually balancing the game, they make it a 'faux-balance'.

But floating tanks weren't jumping the shark...?

I wonder what happened 30 minutes ago to have only 2 tankers logged in and 62 guests... That must be some kind of record.

bummer. i was hoping this was gone forever.

Shocker. Almost 2 years later and the same problems. I guess it would take a [edited] to not be able to figure out what the constructive criticism would be here.

The stupidest sight in tanki today is turrets aiming in a different direction that scores a direct hit. Lame.

Do we have a release date yet?

My ratio is leaving about 5-6 games vs playing one until the end. *Note: This isn't including games that I get booted out of or else the ratio would be much, much higher.