I love this game, I have sunk near 2000 hours into it. There is nothing quite like it on the market, modles are detailed, graphics are amazing. Nothing tickles my monkey brain more than *ping* "target destroyed". However since I started playing in 2020 as a free to play player I have learnt that this game has fallen from glory if it was ever there. To highlight a couple issues: the developers don't seem to take on player feedback, their bug reporting website is letter box wich drops into a bin, gameplay is repetitive and mundane, and the biggest issue moniterisation has become so predatory it makes me feel sick and disappointed in what the games has become. To start, over the past couple years, updates have been introducing more and more premium vehicles in place of free vehicles wich can be researched. While I understand it is their source of income on this amazing free game, the prices are extortionate (£80 for a single pixle plane [copy and paste f14] in the latest update), the grind is so long for f2p (even premium time players!) to reach modern vehicles wich they focus on every update that it feels necessary to put in more money than a AAA game to get only 3% of the game content in a free game. Ontop of this they are either a long awaited unique vehicle, or a copy and paste slop to "fill line ups" with no uniqueness. End game content is the same for every nation at this point. Final on this point, to research from rank 1 to the new shiny plane takes a year of consistent gameplay (2 hours a day) and for tanks 1.5 as a f2p that it feels necessary to buy this overpriced slop to play the vehicles i want to within any 'reasonable' time. Game play while intialy fun and interesting in the low tiers grows very mundane. At low tier there are more maps to play on, more vehicles to learn the strengths and weaknesses of, but as you go higher and higher the less variation there is till eventually you reach top tier where there are only 9 unique patterns of tanks and planes about 8 who all fight echover and they keap adding the same vehicles with a diffrent paint job, a diffrent radar, a diffrent missile but nothing unique, nothing truly new in over 2 years. Game play for tanks consists of capture this location (1-3 per map) and spawn camp, planes is just kill them all no respawns. There is ko other variation. Also, navel... its there but it is literally haha big boat, only shoot eachover in a line with the worst time to reach end of the line vehicles in the whole game, don't bother with it play world of warships if you want the funny boats. There is also a prevalent double standered between nato and Russian vehicles. Russian vehicles consistently get benefit of the doubt when it comes to implementing changes that benefit them, while nato needs near classified info (or for the abrams literal classified info). Russian vehicles conveniantly dont get things added or missibg code that makes them artificaly stronger to there nato counter parts. Russia has the best CAS, best helicopter, best tank, best anti air while nato has technology from the 80s on there modern day vehicles. They are so strong if you have russia on your team, you win however as soon as they get anything decent to fight them their win rate drops like a stone and so the devs "fix" the nato equipment or give russia a new toy that dwarfs anything that came befor it. Sorry for the tirade I needed to write that. Finally, communication with the developers. They are either silent, or give the most out of pocket response that it makes it seem like they don't evan look at the state of their own game. Along with the double standered talked about earlier this makes each update feel like a kick in the groin and the game burying itself deeper and deeper into the grave. I do truly love this game but these issues have been compiling over years. I am tiered of the devs not listening and the onsidedness of the whole game. It can be made grate but the devs are too greedy to care.
Very good just add easier unlocks on tanks it would really make the game better
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