War Thunder fans organise extraordinary review bombing campaign over reverted economy changes, studio pleads: 'If your goal is not to hurt the game, please use other, less destructive ways'
War Thunder is generally in the news because some of its players, if you'll excuse the phrase, are a little extreme. War Thunder is a free-to-play competitive game where a large part of the appeal is how accurately different military vehicles are represented, and arguments over the depiction of things like a tank's turret have seen actual military secrets deployed in order to win forum arguments. War Thunder players take War Thunder very seriously. And for once they're not mad at each other, but at developer Gaijin Entertainment.
The game has suffered an absolutely extraordinary and sustained review bombing campaign over the last week. It currently shows as 'overwhelmingly negative' on Steam's recent reviews and the overall rating has dropped to 'mixed'. One player who has 2,200 hours on the game left a negative review saying, not entirely convincingly, «look at my hours. How many of them do you think I was actually happy while playing? I will never get that time back.»
The reason for this is widespread resentment about both changes Gaijin has made to the game over recent years and a recently proposed change to the in-game economy that was not implemented. «The community has pushed back about [economy changes] for a long time,» says Hector Sherlock, an avid War Thunder player, «and I'm afraid Gaijin finally lit the fuse which they have no way of putting out.»
What lit the fuse was Gaijin's recent announcement of an 'Economy Update' for War Thunder. The original changes were made on May 16 and have subsequently been reverted, but are essentially a bunch of tweaks to the game's economy, which revolves around the currencies Silver Lions (SL), Research Points (RP), and the premium currency of Golden Eagles (GE). Players can
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