Manni gets banned

Crazy how the Biggest YouTuber on War robots gets banned and he spends all his time and effort and this is how they treat him! Disrespectful how they just ban him for trying to make new solutions to the problems of this game. 

Gotta give it to Manni for sticking to his guns. Pixonic locks out his Press/Battle Rec Account and he makes a video all about Mech Warrior to rub salt into the wound. Great to see people fighting back!

It will be interesting to see how the petition turns out. I read through it and I am curious who collaborated with him, because the petition does read like he wrote it (which is not a bad thing, it just seems like not many others wrote in it). It will be really interesting to see if Adrian gets in on this, because if he does not, that will not help him against the rumors that he under Pixonic’s thumb. I do wish he would at least acknowledge the state of the game, given Manni and Predator and knees-deep in the matter.

I reckon, players signing the petition will have very limited impact. However, if the leading YouTubers promote the petition then Pix has more of a problem on their hands. The promotion of the issues is probably the the most undesired issue for pix. Hence the severe reprisal against Manni which is also a totalitarian type warning for the other tubers.  Those who played for a while  surely know what the game is about but the new players having their eyes opened early would surely reduce spending and participation. 

Tubers who don’t adequately warn their audience are, in my opinion, partially complicit in fleecing new players. Things like Showcasing the viability of retro gear and not speaking up provides the exact narrative that pix wants. 

Adrian and Predator should consider getting onboard. Not sure how viable their channels will be in the midterm if Pix keeps going aggressively  in the current direction. And pix won’t clip all of theirs wings because that would hurt them as well. Pix is probably trying to send a stern message for all tubers and hoping the matter goes away following Mannies punishment. Divide and conquer.

Yes. I think they are.

they can’t give Manni the traditional window or tea treatment so this is their next best move.

Right, I also figured it's a bit of power play by Pixonic especially after what happened with Manni recently. He decided to quit the game only to find out that his War Robots viewer base will not follow him to other games. And since I believe the War Robots YT channel is how he makes a living he had no choice but to come back. So this might be a way for Pixonic to remind them that they all need the game more than the game needs them.

I think they'll still restore his account at some point though of course it didn't help that he defiantly played competitor's game. Hats off to him for sticking to his principles specially given that this will most likely harm his channel.  

Pigsonic relies VERY heavily on general public ignorance and naivete to bring new players into the fold. All that initial spending occurs until those players realized theyre are in a huge grift. This kind of video, and quite frankly much of the info on these forums, is exactly what Pigsonic does not want newbies to see. It prevents them from getting started spending to begin with, and also shows how to take advantage of the game from a F2P standpoint.

Pigsonic has shown time and time again, they dont give a damn what players want. Their entire strategy is about short-term monetary gain, to the exclusion of everything else. The state of the game is exactly because of that narrow-minded thinking. All development centers exclusively around content used for social engineering into spending. Its the reason there are so many ridiculous abilities now, all of which step all over each other, and ruin gameplay completely. They do not consider for even 1 second what some new ludicrous ability will really do to gameplay, it doesnt matter to them, they only question they ask, is "how much can we sell it for". The end result is convoluted gameplay that is a frustrating MESS, and generally not enjoyable, OR becomes so predictably boring its not worth the time.

I often wonder how many uber whales dropped a fat G' on the game, only to realize that its no fun at that level. At some point, its the same level of skill and excitement as you would get shooting a tree.

In the petition, pretty much all valid points. Pigsonic will never do it, they simply cannot think in those terms. Even if they entertained those ideas, they run contrary to their incessantly foolish monetary strategy, i.e. "we dont want to spend 'valuable' development time fixing and balancing things, its too expensive, that time is best used to develop even more ridiculous content to sucker people."

The more people know before they get started with War Robots, the better.

Stop. Giving. Them. Money.

You know I got to say, Manni certainly has my respect. I know some people gave him 「dookie」 for coming back to War Robots after he quit initially, though he got forced by the algorithm to keep making War Robots content to keep the channel going.... He hasn't been afraid to speak his mind and endlessly 「dookie」s on pix's predatory practices with his large platform, he has a lot of reach and that TERRIFIES Pix, this ban is their desperate attempt to shut him up... And I got to say his response of: Lol oh no.... anyways heres some gameplay from one of your competitors... Absolutely beautiful.

Now while I do respect the effort being made with the petition, do I think Pix would ever and I mean ever for a single moment consider change at this point? Of course not, if anything they're doubling and tripling down on their methods and the cycle has sped up dramatically, they'll push the limits as hard as they can until the cash flow dries up. However more players will be made aware of what they're getting themselves into with this game and steer clear, which is certainly a good thing.

Yeah, I noticed that in the vid. Wer'e looking at this through a tube. There's lots we can't see.

Yes, I signed soon as I saw it. Whatever people are saying about it, and him, and whether or not it is of any use, I think he is at least saying what we all are thinking and prepared to speak out and try to do something about it.

I found this post in one of the content creator discords:

Hope he finds something else to enjoy.

Did I write that I think Pixonic will eventually restore his account? WRONG!:



Lol, Manni is like in full war mode with Pixonic. Basically called them a thieves and devoted entire video to berating them for their release OP/nerf cycle.

I need more popcorn!