Unfortunately, the pleasant games didn’t last. I turned off chat and never turned it on again, and had a number of pleasant games. The devs did do the right thing, in my opinion, by finally adding the option to disable all chat entirely, but only after the community had complained on the forums for a very long time. Every game lost was everyone elses’ fault, that guy wasn’t moving fast enough or didn’t support me enough, or that other tank was afk. The first thing I noticed was that the community was beginning to degrade into a bunch of whiners and complainers. I was up to nearly 15,000 games, and it was around this time that I was beginning to pay attention to what the developers (hereafter referred to as devs) were doing to the game. That was all to come later.Īs time went on, I managed to crawl up the tiers and trick out a lot of tanks with all the avaliable upgrades and such. ![]() I was having fun, the community hadn’t turned toxic yet, and the devs hadn’t damaged the game to the point where I wouldn’t play anymore. And, to be honest, I didn’t mind at the time. So, for a free to play game, WoT managed to get me to pony up bucks. For myself, although it has been a very long time since I played WoT, to date I have probably invested around $500-$600 in the game, mostly for garage slots and Premium Time. So, from the get-go, you were invested in the game, both from a time standpoint, and real money. You could not purchase a garage slot with in-game currency, for example. However, in order to aquire more tanks and move up in tiers, you had to purchase slots, or garage space, for each additional tank, and you had to use real money. As I remember, you started out with some garage slots and the first tanks were free. ![]() It was touted as a free-to-play game, but, of course, that wasn’t true. The graphics and such seemed to be on par with everything else that was out there, so I had no problem with that. I enjoyed grinding a new tank, earning upgrades, leveling up, and all the other little things that the game had going for it. It was a fun game, very different from the other games out there, at least the ones that I was familiar with. I started playing World of Tanks many years ago, when one had to be invited to play during the closed beta era.
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