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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and steel series we've got Chris Cook director of public relations at wargaming and they are showing off not one but two extremely exciting things here at the show we are going to be starting with World of Warplanes so give me the basic concept assume they've never heard of wargaming they've never heard a world of tanks they know nothing so what we're known for as a company is free to play games digital we hit really really well with World of Tanks 70 million registered players around the world a completely free to play game that is really about taking some of the world's most iconic tanks from the world world to era pitting them against 15 verses 15 player matches it's really fun it's been hugely successful World of Warplanes is really our next chapter in this war gaming universe same concept completely free to play 15 verses 15 PvP but really taking a lot of the iconic planes and more birds from the late 30s to the early 1950s and letting players just really get into a game have fun and improve as we got what it takes now let's go ahead let's make it even more basic let's assume they've never heard of free-to-play they have no idea what that means what is your monetization model for World of Warplanes because obviously this booth wasn't free sure so what we're known in for is like you just mentioned free-to-play games we're a digital download game I'm here to download a client installed on your PC but there's no cost for that and there's no cost to play the game where we make money is um in-game monetization we have in-game purchases one thing that really I think sets us apart and what makes us really proud is that none of our in-game purchases purchases give you an advantage in battle so you're buying things from us like skins and customization things to make your your tank or playing look cooler you're buying consumables that you use in the heat of battle that are only temporary but nothing that you buy is going to make you better than player B or C or D we really pride ourselves on making our games all about skill we don't want anyone whether your pain or you're not paying at all to feel like you're better or you have a better advantage anyone else okay so let's talk about balance then the world of warplanes is obviously a completely new challenge in terms of I mean it's a completely different type of game so what have you guys done to make Khan combat interesting tell me at the top to our top three things we know it think we really spent the game up you know World of Tanks is a game that's a little more methodical a little slower a little more strategic obviously when you're in a plane you're moving constantly so you know you're doing things that take a lot more I guess I'm mental recognition of the battlefield and we're all the enemy players are where your teammates are now you know we've done a lot of cool things like really making sure that the geography and the environments are going to play heavily into battle things like canyons cities even things like clouds and Sun light can be used by the player while they're fighting that is incredibly cool now obviously a question that I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask you is is there some kind of a plan to take world of tanks and World of Warplanes and combine them into world of tanks and warplanes and whatever else the case may be I think maybe someday we'll look at that right now we're really focused on getting world of warplanes has done out the door on September 26 to the US and make sure that we really we build it and grow with a lot of cool content like new modes new nations new planes down the road maybe the real challenge is is making sure that it's balanced because what we don't want is a player in a tank to get blown up by a plane that's 10,000 feet above them and have no real way to stop it you know I mean we want the experience to be great whether you're in a tank or you're in a plane or whether you're in a warship because we have a game world of warships coming next year as well we want to make sure that no matter what you choose you're gonna have a fun time it's going to be balanced so we'll look at it it's something that we're always looking at and definitely as you said before lots and lots of people ask us about it so we'll see maybe a little bit further down the line great thank you so much and I enjoy the rest of the show cool thanks