I came back to Tanki after a few months - New updates ruined it

[tere8 132]

Relax, Pro Battles are gonna be removed soon :)

[Hate 5,582]

 

I wonder who said this?  :huh:

[kaisdf 3,320]

Ah the classic "I don't like this update, so the Devs must be doing it for more money" argument.

 

Always perfectly logical.

[ghost-guns 1,486]

The game has become very, very dull of late. There needs to be focus on utilizing the special characteristics of each turret as well as encouraging tactics, rather than the focus on supplies and overdrive. Players also need to be allowed to create their own battles, as it's just the same maps over and over again.

[Hate 5,582]

 

Nice, picture. Definitely gonna be my background picture on my PC. 

[RTFM 6]

Hi everyone,

 

This week I bought the $1 PayPal bundle and I feel bad about it, so I decided to publicly apologize to everyone. I used to be unashamed to say that I payed TO to help support servers and put bread on developers' table, but that $1 PayPal bundle made me realize that it's not the case anymore... I know that most players won't understand the problem nor will they believe what I'm about to say, but I hope that someone will understand and relate to this. The reason why I wanted to apologize are closer to bottom of this topic, but first I need to explain the situation:

 

I have six accounts in Tanki Online; this one just happened to be the one I use this week. My highest Legend account worth is well over 20M crystals and I clocked using it over 900 hours (all together I clocked about 2000 hours in TO). In the last few years I spent $$$$ (that is "well over $1000 total") on crystals and upgrades because, well, it was worth it! I work in the computer industry and I know how much effort developing any kind of software takes, so I wanted to show my gratitude. I repeat, the only reason I started buying the $99 crystal packs was because I had  a lot of fun at that time and it was a token of appreciation. For comparison: last winter I spent $600+ on two nights in a waterpark hotel and for two days I was in the indoor pool areas, water slides, wild way areas, etc. I mean, I had a lot of fun, but it lasted only two days! With TO when I spent $99 I could micro upgrade my favorite turret and hull to an appreciable level and have a lot of fun for weeks!!! Can you see the difference? $300 a night vs $99 for weeks was a much better deal!!! Some haters may say "you can't compare maintaining a real hotel with pools and such with a game, virtual reality." Well, the fun I had was real to me. I HAD FUN and it was REAL to me! To summarize - I had a lot of fun back in the days so spending real money was a way to show developers that I like what they are doing!

 

Then they separated modules from paints and I missed out by a week to be eligible to buy Clay and Zeus paints with their respective modules (I've got Rock and Graffiti, though; if you don't know why those are significant, you haven't played TO long enough). That was a bad, bad deal for me! Then they removed 1500 supplies kit from garage (100500 crystal) - that was upsetting! Then they removed ability to create battles without a PRO pass. Then they removed ability to complete missions in battles that were created with the use of PRO pass (I still have a 9999 kills super mission pending, but no way I'm going to complete it in "normal" battles)... I stopped playing my Legend account last year because of all of these changes... Even though it has over 10 M4s and almost all alterations (the only one I don't have is the last one for Ricochet) it wasn't fun anymore...

 

On one of my new accounts I specifically decided to only have one turret and one hull with no paint nor protection modules. Also, I was going to micro upgrade smoky and hunter using only the crystals I earn in battles, but that didn't go too far... Another account I got to the Captain, but the name was ugly so I created another one, then this one, then a couple more... Anyways, the reason why I felt bad about buying the $1 bundle is because I am not appreciating the game anymore. I honestly doubt this will get to the Russian developers, but if it will, I want developers to know that the game doesn't appeal to me (and to a lot of players, I hear) anymore...

 

While developers are listening - I have a question: Are you trying to kill TO to prepare way to Tanki X? I tried Tank X before and no way I'm playing that garbage. Now I can barely play TO (with the match making system it became unfair and laggy) nor TX (simply because it's garbage). I guess I'll be looking for a substitution to your games, Alternativa. Do not worry, though, I'll be checking back, because I hope things will improve, but no way I'm spending any more of my time or money on something I don't like.

 

I used to LOVE Tanki Online (like that - "LOVE!"), but all of these new updates have killed my LOVE for the game... Seriously, though, I hope that if not Alternativa, then someone else will create a similarly awesome game as the Tanki Online used to be...

[RedRose 371]

You are forgiven.

[Hate 5,582]

 

Topic merged.

[RTFM 6]

You are forgiven.

Thanks dude! :)

[Barbie_Thug 65]

Man, It's been two years since i last played this game! A lot of things changed in here! The new turret, new maps, and that weird matchmaker thingy. It feels so good to be back! Been quite a while since the last time i was raging over my computer like this lol. What was your longest time of inactivity?

[fe4f3 1,002]

4 years

[delnina2 1,570]

A week ._. 

[Ninja 10,468]

9 months.

[Hate 5,582]

 

Topic merged.

 

It was 2 months for me but not that you are back to the game, what do you think of all these new updates, did they ruin the game or made it better? Some of the things you actually enjoying are...?

[Hanker_Tank 8]

I was just about to post a new thread with this precise subject.  Started tanki in 2014 and recently took about a year away from it.

 

When I left, a typical day had 50000+ online at peak times.  Now it rarely breaks 30000.  That's a loss of 40% in a year!   There should be alarm bells ringing all over Tanki HQ.   Obviously they have been making changes that are driving people away.  If they want the game to fail they can continue on that course.

 

I think it would be better to save the game by undoing the things that have ruined it for people:  pro battles and the inability to create normal battles of our own.  

 

Why must we search, search, search for the maps we want instead of just starting them?  Why are there no night battles?  Why must every map be jammed full of noobs bouncing off each other?

 

PLEASE TANKI, SAVE YOURSELF.

[Hanker_Tank 8]

...

They removed the option to create battles because there was a lot of empty battles.

...

But why was that a problem?

[DontBeGreedy 26]

But why was that a problem?

we could do our missions easily in those.

they want to reduce our crystal income by making missions very difficult to complete, so that players are more pressurized to spend real money if they want to continue playing.

[r_Thorson3 0]

Well, Tanki wouldn't be the first MMO to be destroyed by heedless greed.

Some big brain should write a manual for developers about the basic human traits of incentive and reward.

[Randinu_the_cool 154]

Im just angered that I actually spent 2 and a half years on this game even though I quit for 9 months. I'm just playing to enjoy the last of this game.In 2014 tanki was at full health and by 2015 tanki was at 95% but at late 2016 tanki's health started dropping and the devs became gold diggers $$$. And currently it's about 35-40% and if the matchmaking drops in it might drop to 20%. By 2018 this game would Dead forever and that time is only few months ahead. So Imma get something out of this few months

 

RIP Tanki Online 2009-2018

 

9 years of so many changes,people coming and going and memories shared

 

(Still wondering who has been playing this game since 2010 and 2011 or even 2012)

Edited August 14, 2017 by Randinu_the_cool