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[RETAC21]

So apparently they are changing Premium for WOT, as far as I can make out that a prem account will no longer apply to both WOT and WOWS. If that is the case, I can see my buying of prem time coming to an end. I won't be able to afford both and I play both equally. A really dumb move.

 

Well, they are trying to milk the cow a bit more. their right, but also a way to drive people away...

[bojan]

You can still buy "universal" premium. WoT premium does give you some benefits however.

[Colin]

universal is the way I will go, basically all i want is a bump in credit and xp making, not really interested in to much fluffy bits and there is no map I really hate.

[Skywalkre]

Was cleaning off my desk and found some notes I scribbled about a month ago.  Back when I was playing WoW and on some long flight paths I went and looked up about 30 of us who have played WoT (was from Paul G.'s Order of Merit list in one of those threads).  I was curious... how many are still playing?

 

Interestingly enough half of that thirty quit in '18 or sooner (five having quit all the way back in '15).  Of the other half that had played sometime in '19 most of those hadn't played in months with just five having played within the current month (this was a month ago).

 

Keep in mind at least one of these players started a new account.  Others weren't on the list.  Still, I found it interesting that on a site called tank-net a game called World of Tanks is largely ignored and forgotten at this point.  Kind of says something about where the devs took it.

[Ssnake]

Meh. Steel Beasts isn't exactly hyped here either even though from most of your criticism one might conclude that it's right up your alley. I acknowledge that it doesn't scratch your specific itch, so I'm not pressing the matter of my product in particular, just using it as a counter-example to your suggestion that it's primarily the WoT developers' fault for taking the wrong turn (more grind, less simulation).

A theory fitting both cases is that maybe TankNetters by and large aren't so invested in gaming, or discuss their games elsewhere.

[Skywalkre]

Steel Beasts has been out almost... 20 years?  (The copy I own I got in the early 00s.)  I have no idea what kind of following it had back here on TN when I was serving as I rarely frequented TN then.

 

WoT basically made this subforum here on TN.  So much discussion here back when it first came out (so much discussion even when the game was in alpha/beta). Started out as a nice balance between realism and arcade/ease of play.  To watch that decline in interest coupled to general decline of the following of the game elsewhere (like on reddit) seems to match quite well with the changes the devs made (or failed to make) over the years.

[Stefan Fredriksson]

stefanfr
Account created: 13/04/2012 Last battle: 21/11/2015 19:34
18,4k matches.
In the end, iirc, it took too much time, I could not get above 53%, and the player-base's mis-guided vitriol got too boring.

[Harold Jones]

To me the question is why so few WoT players migrated to what was at one time a fairly well known Tank discussion board.  As far as I remember we actually contributed at least two WoT staff members.  I quit WoT for the same reason I've all but quit WoWS, I didn't have the time to spend in game to keep my skills (such as they were) up to a level that where I could be a useful team member.  Also, the people I played most with moved on to other games so I did too.

[Edmund]

Haggar started in early 2011.  40K battles.  Last played 11/23/19.  I am not good, but I like tanks so I play it.  I have 190+ tanks.