Напишано од Dave, 26.07.2025 at 15:21
Also I have not given up on atWar, despite what the angry Hungarian man says.
The angry Hungarian man is simply stating facts.
I would personally like to believe that you haven't abandoned the game on a fundamental level, but this is the common belief among players, while the game hasn't received a (recorded) meaningful update - not even a minor bugfix - for 3 years and 6 months precisely. At the end of the day, on a multiplayer game with live service, this is what matters. I said I don't blame you because the interest for a game after release usually keep decreasing, so what... you put days, weeks, months of work in, to get 3 people to keep playing longer? I understand it.
I haven't been to this game for nearly 4 years, didn't even talk to other atwar players, I just cut contacts. Now that I returned I see 2 new strategies in the game and that's it. This is an objective fact.
Calling me an angry hungarian man and not outright banning me is already a more respectful treatment than I expected when I created this account, so I guess 'thank you' (?) for that.
By the way, you weren't supposed to do investigations about me, I would've told you who I am, I even used my real name as the account name this time around for transparency, although it wasn't a huge effort to figure me out I assume.
Напишано од Dave, 26.07.2025 at 15:21
I appreciate your suggestions. I think the bigger problem is we have so many high-rank players using low-rank alts and going into the beginners lobby where they shouldn't be. I think we need to crack down on alt accounts... either block people from creating alts, ban them, or at the very least flag them so everyone can see which accounts are alts and who they belong to. Maybe we even combine the ranks to show a users "true rank"? I haven't fully decided yet but this is something I've been thinking about for a long time.
I doubt you've read my post this far but if you did, I'd like to add my two cents to the main topic here, similarly to when couple of months ago you agreed with me on the topic of adding bots to the game...
You should put a limitation on guest accounts in my opinion, such as they cannot join the main lobby for 3 days after creation (the date after which they get automatically deleted I believe), thus forcing them to register new accounts. This has its own pros and cons and I'm pretty sure you've considered it already. It would be a little harder to track alts, but at the same time heavily disincentivize and discourage the use of alts, when it comes to using multiple accounts within the same game.
Regarding the idea of either banning the alts of higher rank players, or merging their ranks to show the 'true rank'; I honestly don't know how you'd approach and tackle this. If it's possible, certainly option 2 (true rank) would be better.
Also, if a player creates a new account or joins as a guest from the same IP (or something like that, I leave it to you) there should be a warning and the main account has to be flagged for checking. The warning is optional, it can scare some people off from a psychological point of view, or you can just keep it hidden. If you get this system to work with a very high accuracy, you can even implement auto-banning that is a little less harsh than actual human moderators with processed evidence.
(Give a small IoT device with raspberry pi to Sascha, which goes off in a loud alarm whenever he's driving or at work, to give him a heart attack as someone somewhere randomly creates an alt. If he survives it, he can log in and punish them. He would enjoy that I think, especially if the suspect is bugs.)
May I ask why we focus on this though instead of developing the game itself? Yeah, on a second thought, forget it... You're the owner, you have different concerns I guess. We're may as well stuck here forever in a time capsule like you told waffel. But then... why bother even responding to suggestions? To keep up the disguise and prove you haven't abandoned the game?
Let's have a deal. I'll admit you haven't given up on the game if you admit that you haven't released a single meaningful update to the game for 3.5 years ('you' refers to the atWar staff/employees/etc. not You personally). I don't know what you're cooking up internally, but this is what we see and experience as players.
I'm not waffel or bugs. What matters to me is results. If there's 1 or 2 new strategies every year (analogy), I'm fine with that too.