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bhambullet4 has World of Tanks Blitz

Apr 18 @ 12:17pm

WarGaming is just like PaddyPower

So just like the gambling companies who give you free money to gamble when you join, The Russian company called WarGaming does exactly the same when you play WorldOfTanksBlitz, they give you free tanks at the start let you win lots of battles in 5x5 matches and you get hooked and enjoy winning. This is when they start to draw you in as they soon stop you from playing 5x5 and you have to play 7x7 and start collecting tanks to get up the tank tree, it seems nice and easy at first with all the gold, silver coins, bonuses and XP you have then you start getting tanks and start to grind your way up to better tanks, now things start to get harder and you stop winning battles like you was! So what do you see, you can buy tanks for a small amount of money which you have been told by YouTubers like DroodlesBlitz how's to get lots of XP in and win lots of games so you buy a tank and amazingly you cannot win a game in the tank so you think, it must be that I am learning and will get better. Next thing is you start realising that the tank you bought only gives you EliteXP which you have to turn into FreeXP to use to help you get better tanks in the tree. So now you start buying gold which costs you more REAL MONEY. You now thing great I am getting better tanks and then you start losing game after game 7-0 so you get upset and want your tank to do better like you saw it doing on YouTube and also it shows it on the website Blitzstars how good the tank is which amazingly WarGaming produce!!! So what do you do to get more XP as once you get a better tank you realise that it is useless until you get another 50XP to get it fully upgraded, you buy more gold costing more you guessed it REAL MONEY, now you see all the posts from other players getting annoyed they cannot win a game and then WarGaming people let's say comment and say it's because you are not very good and you need more games to get better surprise suprise which means even more REAL MONEY,........ GUYS THEY ARE JUST A GAMBLING COMPANY MAKING MILLIONS AND DON'T GIVE ADAM ABOUT GAMING ONLY GAMBLING.

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Nik

Apr 18 @ 1:06pm

1000%

Last edited by Nik; Apr 19 @ 2:03am

maviscruet has World of Tanks Blitz

Apr 19 @ 4:34am

The 5v5 stuff is tutorial level play and should be seen as such. There are a lot of bots for early 7v7 matches also, so a lot of new players feel like they are the best player ever with their 75% win rate. These rates are going to drop on contact with real people, but I kind of understand the rationale. WG wants someone new to play more battles. So as an introduction I think this is ok.

What I don't like is the hard selling that is applied. I can see why someone might think a better tank would help them keep their win rate high and I feel sorry for the chumps who then buy a high tier premium almost immediately and then get chewed to pieces by veteran players. A responsible adult can selling tactics that are going on, but we're not all adults. Or responsible. WG are not unique in this. Pretty much every free to play game is set up this way so they can seek to empty your wallet via some nefarious method. Nothing is free.

You can spend money on the game, but without spending a bit of time grinding, learning maps then it doesn't matter what premium tank you buy. You're about as much use as Jack Doherty in his Mclaren. I'd advise anyone starting out to spend nothing on premium tanks or gold and just grind your way down a tech tree you like the look of. Don't spend real money on "better" tanks. WG want you to spend money. You don't have to. If you need to upgrade your tank then the smart way to do this is to fight a few battles, get the experience points in game and improving your learning at the same time.

anytime Apr 19 @ 5:27am

After 4 years of playing, I do not inherently see the advantages of collector (blue) or premium (gold) tanks EXCEPT most earn extra credits in battle. Yes, often times there are some strengths gold/blue tanks have over tech tree tanks, but the reverse is true as well. Even in the professional tournaments, rarely are blue/gold tanks the "meta", having watched the past several seasons. In the last several seasons, IIRC the only blue tank I ever saw as the AMX M4.

At certain tiers, there may be certain gold/blue tanks that are better for one player than others. Annihilator is considered one of the most OP tanks in the game, but that too is still somewhat relative to player abilities and team composition. Some newb will absolutely get trashed in Annihilator, or say a <45% player is still going to probably be at best OK in it, where as in a very good player will abuse the other team unless they get a trash team themselves.

To address some of the OP's points, most of the time the blue/gold tanks are actually CHEAPER, since they come with a garage slot, most often fully equipped, and fully upgraded.
Really, it's tech tree tanks that are expensive.

I NEVER used gold to convert free xp to xp. I can't see a bigger waste of gold. IMO, you just have to be clever enough to figure out the best ways to take advantage of boosters, premium time, sales every 2-3 months, etc. For example, I will often NOT EQUIP or CAMO tanks until a sales comes around. So what? It means I might not use a tank for 2-3 months? Who cares? I get event or free tanks so what, let them sit in the garage so save 2 million credits equipping? SURE DO.

and frankly it's fairly easy to grind up the tech trees. Before I quit recently I bought 2 tanks at the recent auction (1 I never used) and at the recent weekend sale I had like 50 million credits saved to buy several tier 10 tanks, equip many tanks.

Gamers often just want the easy route and that's fine. But there's more than one definition of "easy route". Nobody cares that you just got some new trash tank but you. So who cares if you play it today, or in 3 months? It literally makes NO DIFFERENCE.

Last edited by anytime; Apr 19 @ 6:59am

bhambullet4 has World of Tanks Blitz

Apr 20 @ 12:59am

Guys the point is WG don't let you take advantage of having bonuses, as soon as a player gets them they put them in a team that cannot win regardless of how good the player is. As for grinding up the tank tree, you finally get a tank like the American T29 you then realize to actually have a change of using it in battle against other tanks you need at least another 65K of XP to upgrade it fully! So you spend days getting destroyed trying to grind up only to find the next tank without any upgrades is another 75k and by the time the bots win 7-0 time after time players get so frustrated that they give up. If WG was less greedy they would have a massive happy player base that would spend and enjoy the game against other players and if they made more maps instead of building reforge that is designed to make them even more money you would not have all the negative feedback against them all the time.

maviscruet has World of Tanks Blitz

Apr 20 @ 7:22am

I do get what you're saying. Getting a new high tier tanks and equipping it can beggar you.

The credits to pay for those enhanced modules can be a hefty outlay as well as experience. But there are work arounds. WG gives out "premium" tanks for free quite regularly. Using these gives gold experience which you can use to help get the better modules. I'm lucky that one of these tanks that's been thrown at me suits my playstyle so when I need experience I wheel it out and do a lot of the grind with that rather than another tank that I don't particularly like using and want to move on from ASAP. It takes a bit longer but I'm having more enjoyable battles in a tank i like rather than losing in something I hate.

My only point is that you don't have to sign up to WGs pay to play model if you don't want to and there are plenty of workarounds if you keep your cash in your pocket.

MoyZ3

Apr 20 @ 8:19am

Originally posted by bhambullet4:
Guys the point is WG don't let you take advantage of having bonuses, as soon as a player gets them they put them in a team that cannot win regardless of how good the player is. As for grinding up the tank tree, you finally get a tank like the American T29 you then realize to actually have a change of using it in battle against other tanks you need at least another 65K of XP to upgrade it fully! So you spend days getting destroyed trying to grind up only to find the next tank without any upgrades is another 75k and by the time the bots win 7-0 time after time players get so frustrated that they give up. If WG was less greedy they would have a massive happy player base that would spend and enjoy the game against other players and if they made more maps instead of building reforge that is designed to make them even more money you would not have all the negative feedback against them all the time.

which is why a smart person uses boosters and grinds harder 2 play tanks in silly game modes. boss mode is great. upgrading "something" after the unlock - in a computer game - is pretty level one gameplay, nothing abnormal. why make it out to be

a smart person also uses their free xp to at least unlock the first improved gun. (except on su152 )

overall though, the beaches who just want/expect/demand these days. some players like moi have had over 100k games and it used to be difficult to grind. it was made easier and cheaper and easier and easier and easier and easier and yet new players still want it easier., a whole generation of wombats