This developer is one of the worst I've ever seen

[Wolfden]

The game itself is mostly fine, solid gameplay and surprising variety given that tanks have such limited variables, but just about everything else is terrible.

The monetization is beyond absurd, with single high tier premiums often costing beyond $60 if sold directly at all and not through loot boxes.

Wargaming is incompetent and dishonest at every possible turn, oh they're finally removing the terrible spare part system, a problem they themselves created, and even giving compensation for it oh how nice of them! oh wait they did it because they were so stupid that they didn't realize that making credits less valuable hurt their bottom line since premium time was probably one of their most appealing transactions and probably only the biggest whales spend money on stuff like timers.

And the compensation? nice but ultimately hollow as the removal of spare parts from crates and missions actually means the regular resource income for players was significantly reduced overall, so the more you play the less the tradeoff was worth it. But they sure don't mention that, do they? because they're a dishonest company to the very core, anyone that has played any of their other games will know this.

Just look at Blitzstars winrate and see how many tiers are dominated by nothing but premium tanks, tier 7 and 8 are almost nothing but premiums at the top. And now they're constantly releasing even tier X premiums.

They know how overpowered the Hellsing and specially the Dracula are and what's their solution? nerf them? don't sell them again to try and limit the problem? nah, just buy 10 crates for 28000 gold for not even a 100% chance at a premium tier 7 but since everyone knows what these tanks really are, pay to win, I'll bet many will do it anyway.

And the final straw is the upcoming removal of over 40 low and mid tier tanks from the tech tree. But they have 3 clowns on stream that can barely speak English trying to explain how it's all good for the game, how "n.o.o.b.s." (the word the lead developer used, goes to show their level of professionalism) get too confused by having any options at all. Ok, then how about all those extra lines are locked until the player reaches a certain level of experience and then they become avialable? no because that's not the real reason for it, it's just another desperate attempt to milk players by forcing them to buy garage slots for fear of never being able to play those tanks again, even while they're absolutely nerfing if not outright destroying most of them anyway, completely butchering any semblance of variety in tiers I to IV by removing auto loaders and high alpha guns.

So now one of the few appeals of the game, the relative variety in tank play styles, is being completely removed from low tiers of play while they keep pumping out those shiny high tier premiums that they sure have no problems selling to new players.

So you may not play low tiers and probably think this doesn't affect you at all? sure, except when you're playing tier X and find a team mate with under 500 games and 40% winrate there because they got bored of how samey low tiers are and are too impatient to grind the tech tree and the game just happened put a giant advertisement for a shiny premium tier X there. Have fun with that because that's fine with WG as long as they made that sale.

They make almost no effort to combat bots or serial trolls and AFKers, you will sometimes come across accounts that when you check them you can see they probably just AFK every single game and have been doing it for years and they're still allowed to play. Military Honor is an absolute joke because players can hundreds or even thousands of valid reports and never face any meaningful consequences beyond pitiful, short bans.

The recent controversy with the Pramo clan match fixing rating battles shows how shady this company is. Remember they recently removed platoons from rating battles? that's not a coincidence, they surely knew what was happening. But did they make any public mention of it? was anyone involved penalized in any way? you can bet nothing happened except them removing the first thread about on their forums, because as anyone who has played any PC WoT knows WG is an extremely corrupt and clickey company and so those precious poster boys from top clans should be protected no matter what.

And finally, the issue is not really the 5.5 update by itself or any of the many other issues individually, it's that they all together show that Wargaming is an extremely mediocre developer that time and time again shows they have absolutely no respect for their player base and itsn't striving to create the best game they can and profit because of it but instead to use every underhanded and pay to win tactic they think they can get away with to milk their playerbase while they can. So this won't be the last issue, this won't be the last update screwing something up. Maybe 5.5 doesn't affect you in any way, fine, but they'll keep doing it over and over until the game closes down.

If this game was made by a decent, honest developer that didn't treat their playerbase as trash I would have probably already spent like $60-120 on it just because it's a fun game at it's core and spending money when you feel respected as a consumer feels much better.

I'm sure they will continue to make plenty of money on it, those Russians are probably like South Koreans and see pay to win and other underhanded tactics in games as acceptable, and there's probably plenty of Western whales happy to spend 28000 gold or more to run around in a Dracula.

But this is a world where Warframe, DOTA 2 and even League of Legends and some others exist. Sure, none of those games or their developers are perfect but they do F2P several orders of magnitude better than this company.

So if you value your money and time at all, it's probably better to find something else made by a better company. They will keep trying to exploit their playerbase until it's no longer profitable and then bye bye to all those shiny, expensive, virtual tanks.

[Neithan]

Ursprungligen skrivet av EolSunder:

Everyone knows its useless, why don't you.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Neithan:

(the system is indeed pretty useless, but still, I am questioning your incitement here)

And the smiley should have told you I wasn't a hundred percent serious but merely mocking you..

[SirLlamaGeddon]

War Thunder does the same stuff and multiple other games do. It's a game and money will be spent.

[graystripe]

Ursprungligen skrivet av G.E.W.P. daminekk:

Ursprungligen skrivet av 404_Gordon_Not_Found:

yes all you have said is true(at least the part I read). Still better than PC version and I'll play this game until it dies

is p2w not play this *****

this post by "G.E.W.P. daminekk" clearly tells he is either new to WOT blitz or he is a very highly unskilled wot blitz player with win rate below 50%.

WOT blitz is not P2W game at all.

i have seen plenty of people using normal tanks destroying premium tanks.

having premium tanks doesn't mean you are invinvicble and invulnerable.

[pzhda'tan]

♥♥♥♥♥♥ f2p game not p2w this statement is obsolete. It's sarcastic how the IS-6 is the autonoob grinder in both wt and wot. I agree wot's not p2w at all, whereas you can swim in a pool of silver coins by just using a premT8 in no time or sweat all day trying to make something extra with a T5/6. It's also ronic how the Pz3/4 and CGC are being removed from the tech, both which had a higher percentage of credit earning in their tier. Let's face it, those of you who have played for long know how absurd the dev team is. The game will keep leading itself towards its downfall, living the dream of dripping some cash off of the new players, and that's about it. Enjoy the game as it is. seriously ever since i started blitz I realized I had much more fun in the previous patches compared to the new ones. Get over with complaining to a russian company, they don't care and won't listen. Get something out of the current game you have at hand coz tomorrow even this you have now wouldn't be there anymore. Game's p2w af but in the most ridiculous way, the walletwarriors are always rekt by the walletbusters easily, yet the pal driving a premium still gets beneficial credits.
You mentioned dota2, I probably shall not talk about this here but I'll do so anyway. Before the dueling fates update, around at the end of the battle cup season, dota was getting kinda p2w for a particular team sicne those with battle cup levels would receive tower buffs on their team, adding more DPM, armor and a new texture to the tower. The players were so against it they lowered the buff to only a different texture for the tower and they eventually removed that aswell. That's for a game like dota which is updated at least twice a week. Also notice most dota updates have recently since 7.18 been nerf updates. literally nerfing all heroes or items. If an update hits wotb it's either new premiums, new maps, new tech or smth similar etc. It's really ironic that they're removing a line of tanks they themsleves added like a year ago. The VK3001H and the VK3002M. Like did they even think why they added them in the first place to remove them now? Notice it's all the low tier premiums that have been added to the collector's list, not the T8s or T10s. After years of playing, participating in events, purchasing tickets in events and opening cases, I only once was able to get an S35. A friend of mine started the game, in front of my eyes he got a sentinel IV in his first 2 hours of gameplay. Literally this is the balance of the game. no matter how great you do or play,(This is to mention those who quote wotb is not f2p), without a premium account or premium tanks you can never really make it, and if you hope to do so you gotta grind really hard. Before I bought my First T10 I had about 13M cash. Now I'm down to 1M and it's taking forever to go up. bruh point is, deal with it. things might get worse but not better.

[404_Gordon_Not_Found]

Ursprungligen skrivet av (kπ)tan pzhda:

♥♥♥♥♥♥ f2p game not p2w this statement is obsolete. It's sarcastic how the IS-6 is the autonoob grinder in both wt and wot. I agree wot's not p2w at all, whereas you can swim in a pool of silver coins by just using a premT8 in no time or sweat all day trying to make something extra with a T5/6. It's also ronic how the Pz3/4 and CGC are being removed from the tech, both which had a higher percentage of credit earning in their tier. Let's face it, those of you who have played for long know how absurd the dev team is. The game will keep leading itself towards its downfall, living the dream of dripping some cash off of the new players, and that's about it. Enjoy the game as it is. seriously ever since i started blitz I realized I had much more fun in the previous patches compared to the new ones. Get over with complaining to a russian company, they don't care and won't listen. Get something out of the current game you have at hand coz tomorrow even this you have now wouldn't be there anymore. Game's p2w af but in the most ridiculous way, the walletwarriors are always rekt by the walletbusters easily, yet the pal driving a premium still gets beneficial credits.
You mentioned dota2, I probably shall not talk about this here but I'll do so anyway. Before the dueling fates update, around at the end of the battle cup season, dota was getting kinda p2w for a particular team sicne those with battle cup levels would receive tower buffs on their team, adding more DPM, armor and a new texture to the tower. The players were so against it they lowered the buff to only a different texture for the tower and they eventually removed that aswell. That's for a game like dota which is updated at least twice a week. Also notice most dota updates have recently since 7.18 been nerf updates. literally nerfing all heroes or items. If an update hits wotb it's either new premiums, new maps, new tech or smth similar etc. It's really ironic that they're removing a line of tanks they themsleves added like a year ago. The VK3001H and the VK3002M. Like did they even think why they added them in the first place to remove them now? Notice it's all the low tier premiums that have been added to the collector's list, not the T8s or T10s. After years of playing, participating in events, purchasing tickets in events and opening cases, I only once was able to get an S35. A friend of mine started the game, in front of my eyes he got a sentinel IV in his first 2 hours of gameplay. Literally this is the balance of the game. no matter how great you do or play,(This is to mention those who quote wotb is not f2p), without a premium account or premium tanks you can never really make it, and if you hope to do so you gotta grind really hard. Before I bought my First T10 I had about 13M cash. Now I'm down to 1M and it's taking forever to go up. bruh point is, deal with it. things might get worse but not better.

tl;dr
he got pissed off by how unlucky he is to not get any high tier premiums from FREE crates

money wise I think you should use some boosters, they are easy to come by (again, FREE) and I have more than I ever needed. Honestly paying to ease the grind is among the better F2P monetization system. Hell, the p2w and p2skipgrind is much less in blitz, after coming from PC version, this is pertty much not A problem

[pzhda'tan]

bruh it's not about being lucky or not it's the balance of the game which is broken af

[Wiesell]

Can somebody recommend me a tank game where the devs aren't greedy? Hell even Gaijin Entertainment started to get bad like Wargaming since 2 years ago.