Why so popular ?

[Goritude]

Why is suddenly WT in the top 10 most played games ?

[JuX]

Keep in mind that it's a free-to-play game, so it's going to be partially inflated by bots.

But even so it does have good player count.

[MaDeuce]

There's no other game like it.

[Snacklemore]

Economy rework I guess. And a good roadmap.

[Your_White_Knight]

Originally posted by Goritude:

Why so popular ?

Why is suddenly WT in the top 10 most played games ?

Maybe a lot of people came from Heroes & Generals when it shut down?.... I'm playing more.

[Canadian Guitar]

Lets not forget school and college is out now. Can allow more people to play, and more often. Also going into a holiday weekend in both the US/Canada

[Blamite Delight]

Economy finally got fixed so rewards are decent now instead of going negative.

[xCrossFaith]

As far as I remember it's always been on the top 20 played games here

And currently they are actually making it viable to play the game with the tech tree vehicles instead of only premiums, so to no one's surprise, a more balanced game brings in more players, apparently Gaijin were the only ones that didn't thought about that idea

[DeepSpace]

Originally posted by Blamite Delight:

Economy finally got fixed so rewards are decent now instead of going negative.

Economy didn't get fixed. Not enough to make any difference at least. Still losing money same as I was before the so called fix.

[Boii Fan]

Originally posted by DeepSpace:

Originally posted by Blamite Delight:

Economy finally got fixed so rewards are decent now instead of going negative.

Economy didn't get fixed. Not enough to make any difference at least. Still losing money same as I was before the so called fix.

literally skill issue. most tanks are cheap now, save from a few. Tiger 2 is cheap, msot planes are cheap, Skill issue.

[Graephen]

People have hope with the economy roadmap, just before it gets buzzkilled by another questionable business decision.

[Mania]

- F2P, most players will quit after rank III, those who have some interest in vehicle combat will continue to play and shell out some money.

- Monopoly on the Genre, no other game with comparable graphics, amount of content, physics, and committed development team.

- It's a good game. What I mean is that on paper this is a good game. It has bugs, sure, but it's functional, you can hop into a match and enjoy the graphics and to an extent, the gameplay. (Issues arise after a few weeks to months of playing.)

[YaBoiBeanz]

Originally posted by ToXiC bAnDiT mAiN:

- It's a good game. What I mean is that on paper this is a good game. It has bugs, sure, but it's functional, you can hop into a match and enjoy the graphics and to an extent, the gameplay. (Issues arise after a few weeks to months of playing.)

This is probably what irks me the most. A good game under bad management is worse than a bad game (IMO), If War Thunder got handed off/sold to a competent company then I believe this would be an AMAZING game. It has so much wasted potential.

Originally posted by Canadian Guitar:

Lets not forget school and college is out now. Can allow more people to play, and more often. Also going into a holiday weekend in both the US/Canada

Not to mention the 4th of July holiday is based in celebration of a war, so naturally that would attract people to war games.

I also think a lot of people boycotting Call of Duty are looking for other options.

[frantictictac]

friendly community
thats why

[ArrowViper]

Originally posted by Goritude:

Why is suddenly WT in the top 10 most played games ?

And i still get matched to US servers from EU, thanks gaijin.

[bunny]

Only decent free tank "sim" available. And no, WoT doesn't even come close.