How do you get the last 150 Battleship tokens?

[DrMadd]

Promotion event to get a tier 7 Russian BB. You do 10 combat missions for the tokens. I did them all. To get the ship on the last phase you need 500 tokens, but you can only reach 350 tokens. The tokens are nowhere else to be found? Is this an April fool's joke? Wait it's not April!

[76561199533835210]

You have to cough up doubloons and 'purchase' in the 'gamble progression'.
Every WG scheme you have to figure out before you sucked into something :D
It's marketing with psychological (warfare) tactics,/confusion tatctics, especially your desire to have more and focused on the addicion. -The pavlov conditioning.

Creating the false realities (scarcicity-deceit, rarity /scarcicity on digital items but copied to oblivion, free printing or moneyprinting)

Power is in the hands of the company, actionneers and the weaklings are the consumers. Because in the end you never really own anything, you were allowed to use it.

So that explains it all :D

[Jackson]

Short answer: You buy them. There's little gambling. Atoshi way over complicated it. There's no false scarcity. The ship is readily available in the armory. This just gets you a discount on it. You might get lucky, but likely it'll cost you 750*3 = 2250 doubloons. Well over a 50% discount on the ship.

[arjensmit79]

I think he aludes to the marketig tactics playing on FOMO and creating perceived value.

For a normal human willing to spend a few bucks comparable to "buy once" or "pay to play" games, the price of premium ships is so out of whack that even at 90% discount they aren't cheap enough to be collecting all the ships. So you would only want to buy maybe a single premium dubloon/cash ship ever in your WoWs carreer. At 90% discount, if you use your senses, maybe you'd like to buy a handfull of them or something. Of course that means you'd be extremely selective and just buy the ship that you really like a lot,.

However giving discounts on random ships they try to make you feel like its really a bargain to buy it now and try to hit your FOMO button. Making it a bit complicated and letting you "almost" get there for free strongly adds to that.

That said, if this was that ship you really really wanted all along, then sure, its a 50% discount nothing complicated about it !
If they ever do this with the smaland, you bet i'll be paying up.

[76561199533835210]

@Jackson Sorry to hear you have found it way over complicated. I'll try to shorten my first sentence that answered the question in my next helpful post.

The consumer will have to face and participate in the (gambling) random bundle screen and get used to the gambling mechanic from WG. A conditioning method. And once normalized, it will all look easier next time to start spending on the random bundles.

To add to that , a coupon would have been a normal practice as the reward for the missions

[AK]

Just take the free day of premium, the containers and be happy with it. Treat is as a freebie.

[Blue]

Yep yep. Don't get sucked into FOMO or sunken cost fallacy!

If it aint worth your money it AINT WORTH YOUR MONEY.

[76561199533835210]

Sensible reactions

[juujbee]

It is disappointing that they choose to conduct business in this manner but if you want to collect ships you can still get all the tech tree ships at minimal cost ( if you plan to finish the grind for all of them in this life time you will at least need premium account ) and a lot of time playing.

[christof]

İlk olarak juujbee tarafından gönderildi:

It is disappointing that they choose to conduct business in this manner...

This time, I honestly do not understand this sentiment.

You can ALWAYS get the ship. You even get a 25% discount coupon twice a year that you can use on it. There's absolutely NO artificial FOMO pressure here.

The only thing is that by doing the missions, you now have the chance to get the ship at less than half price. Or you get "unlucky" and will pay about half price, but get a second premium BB for that money. Or a bit more than half price, but get two or even three extra.

There's seriously nothing nefarious going on here. Not this time. I would agree on many events they did, but not on this one.

[AK]

İlk olarak BlueBanned tarafından gönderildi:

Yep yep. Don't get sucked into FOMO or sunken cost fallacy!

If it aint worth your money it AINT WORTH YOUR MONEY.

Exactly, and its also not necessary to pay money to have a good experience. I share my account with my kids who I told to NEVER spend $$$ on a F2P game. They created the account 2.5 years ago and without spending a single cent, we got 178 ships in port, 27 silver T10s and 81 golden ships, along with 211 days of premium left. No money involved. Patience and restraint.

[Sotaudi]

İlk olarak christof tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak juujbee tarafından gönderildi:

It is disappointing that they choose to conduct business in this manner...

This time, I honestly do not understand this sentiment.

You can ALWAYS get the ship. You even get a 25% discount coupon twice a year that you can use on it. There's absolutely NO artificial FOMO pressure here.

The only thing is that by doing the missions, you now have the chance to get the ship at less than half price. Or you get "unlucky" and will pay about half price, but get a second premium BB for that money. Or a bit more than half price, but get two or even three extra.

There's seriously nothing nefarious going on here. Not this time. I would agree on many events they did, but not on this one.

I would have to agree. I was a bit disappointed to find out, after doing the math, that the end reward required buying three random bundles. However, the way I look at it, in completing the combat missions, I was doing things and playing ships I would have been doing and playing anyway and received rewards along the way even if I did not spend the money for the final reward. And like you said, this basically just meant I was getting a discount for the ship if I wanted to spend the money.

I wanted the ship, so I did spend the money, and I don't regret it a bit. It is a good ship, and I got coal and what have you for two of the bundles. And I got the Tier VIII Champagne for the third, so technically, I sent 1500 doubloons for a much more expensive ship and 750 doubloons for an even better and even more expensive ship.

Will everyone be that lucky? Of course not, But the bottom line to me is that Free to Play does not equate to Free to Develop/Produce/Publish. They have every right to make whatever offers they want. If you don't like the offer, the solution is simple. Don't buy it. That is the way the free market works. Ironically, most of the FOMO is from those who don't want to pay the money and complain.

[christof]

Oh, right. I forgot the BB drops also give 50 tokens, so the cost for getting the ship in this event would always be 2'250 doubloons. So there's not even a "get unlucky" involved as I wrongly stated at first. It's a very clear and transparent cost. You know exactly how much it would be. The only question is what you get as extra from the drops.

[Jackson]

İlk olarak Atoshi tarafından gönderildi:

@Jackson Sorry to hear you have found it way over complicated. I'll try to shorten my first sentence that answered the question in my next helpful post.

The consumer will have to face and participate in the (gambling) random bundle screen and get used to the gambling mechanic from WG. A conditioning method. And once normalized, it will all look easier next time to start spending on the random bundles.

To add to that , a coupon would have been a normal practice as the reward for the missions

This is just an off-topic gambling complaint. Please keep things on topic in the future. The fact remains, it will not cost more than 2250 doubloons.

[Blue]

İlk olarak AK tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak BlueBanned tarafından gönderildi:

Yep yep. Don't get sucked into FOMO or sunken cost fallacy!

If it aint worth your money it AINT WORTH YOUR MONEY.

Exactly, and its also not necessary to pay money to have a good experience. I share my account with my kids who I told to NEVER spend $$$ on a F2P game. They created the account 2.5 years ago and without spending a single cent, we got 178 ships in port, 27 silver T10s and 81 golden ships, along with 211 days of premium left. No money involved. Patience and restraint.

There's nothing wrong with spending money. I've spent a surprising amount of money on ships over the years and mostly consider my purchases worthwhile.

But I can totally understand a total boycott of spending when there are in fact gambling mechanics and you have children on your account. It's really not worth the risk!

[Dee-Jay]

TBH I never get the mindset of the hardcore cult-like F2P crowd (I WILL NEVER SPEND A CENT ON THIS GAME). It's just a bit odd - if you'd pay money for a fun time on (often expensive) full price traditional model games, e.g triple A titles etc, then why not spend some money on WOWs? And I often chuckle at the thought of the guys sat in front of a 4090 driven PC with 42in monitor, complaining at the idea of spending 2000 doubloons on a ship for a game they play for 4 hours every night...

Anyway, on topic:
To me, this is about SPENDING 2250 doubloons on tokens which gets you the ship. Spending. In addition the mechanics may drop you a T8-T9 premium battleship. And if it doesn't never mind. I think Novorossiysk is a useful ship at a decent price for new players who need T5-6 premiums or players looking to populate their account with lower tier premiums to get them off the santa drop list.