[2019] My take on the PR scandal.

Aloha.

Perhaps you should look at the dates of those posts, if you do, you will see the original post was to inform the community of the changes coming up. The second post is an update, with date changes. These changes were based off player feedback. Looking at dates of announcements before reacting will remove most of the confusion.

As for the comments about me asking the community to not make speculatory or questionable conclusions without information, that was based off comments stating on what the balance changes were without any information to base those conclusions on.

I cannot speak for other people but myself I react and form my conclusions based off actual empirical data, context and timing, not just on what I think might happen. This is why I always ask people to wait until things are announced.

-Hapa

Sorry,

But you seem to forget that I have been playing this game since second week of Alpha Testing and I have never really stopped playing it during that time. So If I can play this game as long as I have (PRIOR to becoming the Community Manager), without reacting as I stated above, everyone else should be able to too. Slowing down, thinking and taking some time to do research, or asking questions verses just drawing conclusions is good. Throughout the longevity of World of Warships, every single change I have noted in Dev Blogs, notes, streams, etc, have always made me think about how those changes will be employed in the game. And then I standby until those changes are applied and I can see them.

This happened when we removed the ability to blind fire, this happened when they added blume to ships firing in smoke, this happened to radar balance changes, to MM changes, etc etc etc...

-Hapa

Except, the text was not misleading.... I read the release notes and information on the PR just like everyone did. The difference in my response to everything, verses what I see from a lot of people? I saw that it was going to be for a Tier X ship and had ZERO equivocation on the fact that it was going to be difficult to earn. It was this way when we released the news on how to get the Benham as well.

Furthermore, when I saw everything on the test server and saw videos on the dockyard, I actually thought "Gee, it seems a bit too EASY to get the PR, it's a Tier X, it shouldn't be that easy to get." I did NOT expect what was in test to be exactly how it was in the release.

So um, where did we lie where does it say it would be easy? Where is the misleading part? It actually says in order to complete the ship in time, you will need to use boosters, it explains some are available for doubloons others are available for tokens. I am doing exactly what it says in that text to complete my PR. I am grinding directives, buying boosters, etc etc etc....

Okay, so here is the thing. You have to remember I am replying not only to the OP but also other posts in this thread, as well as posts in other threads. Because, I know more than just 1 or 2 of you are going to read these. I totally understand that some have been surprised by the length and difficulty of the grind for PR. I am not disputing that at all, nor am I trying to downplay the difficulty. Because it is, well difficult.