This game borders the line of what is a game and what is a chore. It initially starts nice, you got your first paycheck and it's a nice high of money, until it takes so much more for the same high. Now this would not be a problem if the economy was fine, but this isn't the case. The grind is so time consuming and labelling it as free to play is borderline lying, A player without premium cannot play for long without losing the ability to play their favourite vehicles. This by no means creates a healthy gameplay experience for anyone, it forces the game to become a subscription service. But that would be fine if the gameplay was balanced properly but it's just not! Air dominates ground at the mid tier and it get's worse from there, what gaijin has created is a hostile environment to the very core of the game mode. Tanks should be doing the most in tank battles, not a plane with 15 different bombs. Whilst these issues are fixable and with a healthy relationship to the community these would be simplified, this is where Gaijin's biggest problem is. It's extremely tone deaf and tries to tell the player they are at fault, that the company is correct. Whilst the customer is not always right, the customer starts being right when problems are in the game that have been the case for years.


TL;DR: Do not play this game, it has it's moments but those moments become worth nearly nothing when they are buried in so many problems. The community has less of a say which causes tensions to be even higher. Yes it can be fixed but at this rate it's killing it's own game.

This game borders the line of what is a game and what is a chore. It initially starts nice, you got your first paycheck and it's a nice high of money, until it takes so much more for the same high. Now this would not be a problem if the economy was fine, but this isn't the case. The grind is so time consuming and labelling it as free to play is borderline lying, A player without premium cannot play for long without losing the ability to play their favourite vehicles. This by no means creates a healthy gameplay experience for anyone, it forces the game to become a subscription service. But that would be fine if the gameplay was balanced properly but it's just not! Air dominates ground at the mid tier and it get's worse from there, what gaijin has created is a hostile environment to the very core of the game mode. Tanks should be doing the most in tank battles, not a plane with 15 different bombs. Whilst these issues are fixable and with a healthy relationship to the community these would be simplified, this is where Gaijin's biggest problem is. It's extremely tone deaf and tries to tell the player they are at fault, that the company is correct. Whilst the customer is not always right, the customer starts being right when problems are in the game that have been the case for years. TL;DR: Do not play this game, it has it's moments but those moments become worth nearly nothing when they are buried in so many problems. The community has less of a say which causes tensions to be even higher. Yes it can be fixed but at this rate it's killing it's own game.