DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! IF YOU ALREADY DO, DON'T BUY ANYTHING AT ALL! FOR IN GAME MONEY OR REAL MONEY! WE NEED TO MAKE OURSELVES HEARD!

The developers are all scum, ALL OF THEM. You can say whatever you want about there being some "good ones that don't want things like these", but if a change goes through, THEY WANT IT TO. PERIOD. They are all bottom feeders that do not care for ANYTHING other than the money going into their wallets.

The recent changes to the game's economy and also grind (by forcing players to needlessly grind through even more vehicles to progress) are absolute PROOF of that and have made this game absolutely unplayable for anyone that doesn't give in and spend IRL money for premium vehicles or time. Do not waste your time with this ♥♥♥♥. I've been playing since 2012, had my current account since 2013, this is the worst that this game has ever been.

Wallet warriors and chinese bots are RUINING THIS GAME AND GAIJIN DOES NOTHING BUT KEEP ADDING MORE PREMIUMS AND MAKING THE GRIND WORSE TO FORCE YOU TO SPEND YOUR MONEY.

I loved this game. I really did. It was so incredible when it first started. And now it's going down the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, straight to it's own death. I hope things change.

Edit: 15:05 GMT - 18/05/2023
AS OF THE LAST HOUR, THEY HAVE REVERTED THE HORRIBLE ECONOMY CHANGES. THIS CHANGES NOTHING. THEY ARE STILL THE GREEDY BASTARDS THAT TRY THEIR BEST TO MAKE THE GAME AS UNPLAYABLE AS POSSIBLE FOR REGULAR FOLK THAT DON'T WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON IT. WE NEED MORE. WE NEED TO MAKE THEM TRULY UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR PREDATORY PRACTICES ARE NOT OKAY (they know it, but they don't care).

Edit: 21/05/2023 - 18:33

Have you heard us, Gaijin? Have you really, honestly, heard us? Because your response so far has been, to put it very politely, absolutely horrible. I don’t know how many people that reply went through until it got approval, because there clearly weren’t enough of them to stop you from putting it up on your site. You spoke to us in such a condescending tone, as if we were children, who didn’t even know how a F2P game is supposed to work and make money. I assure you, we do know. We know it better than you seem to, at the very least. For that very reason, we are angry. Angrier now than ever before. So, let’s go over some of the things that we have been angry about FOR A WHILE NOW.

First and foremost, the grind (or as you like to call it “progress”, even though it is so slow that using that word feels wrong). To call it “excessive” is an understatement of the highest order. Everyone knows it, even you guys. I have over 4.5k hours of gametime in total, been a player since 2013, and I have not completed a SINGLE TECH TREE, and not just the whole tree, but a single subdivision. I have reached Top Tier in USSR Ground and Air, and US Air. I have reached 7.0 in the German ground tree, 4.7 in the UK Air and Ground trees, 5.0 in Japanese Air tree, 4.0 in the Swedish Ground tree, and NOTHING ELSE. Think about it, that with almost 5k hours in this game, I’m not even close to being halfway done researching everything I could get in game. 5 THOUSAND HOURS, Gaijin. 5 THOUSAND HOURS in ANY OTHER GAME would mean I likely know EVERYTHING that there is to know about it, but in War Thunder? Not even near halfway finished with all the vehicles. I should not be FORCED to buy premium time or vehicles just to be able to progress at a relatively OK pace, not quick, just decente pace. Not to mention all of the overpowered/undertiered premiums you have added over these last few years, like the Su-11, XP-50 (this one is so much better than anything at it’s BR its not even funny). Even if you DOUBLED the rewards and multipliers for EVERY vehicle currently in game and KEPT ALL OF THE PRICES AND RP REQUIREMENTS THE SAME, it would still not be enough to consider it “okay”.
Second, the economy. It is my personal belief that you have either no playtesters on your team, or you willfully ignore any of the bad things they bring up just so you can continue to act like they don’t exist (this doesn’t apply Only to the economy). So many tanks and aircraft in game have such bad modifiers, or ridiculously high repair costs, that it makes playing them inviable. The perfect example is Top Tier Air RB, where the average repair cost for a plane is almost 15k SL for a single repair, meaning a F2P player needs, on average, 4 kills to not lose SL in case he dies. Why does it need to be that high? Why can’t I play the vehicles I want to without going bankrupt from a single death? And I’m sure you know that Simulator is even worse, with those same aircraft costing between 20-25k to SPAWN, not even repair (that mechanic should be changed or abolished, to make it like the other gamemodes. I should not need to pay BEFORE I spawn, especially in a gamemode that is so much more difficult and complex than the other ones). Another example, the E-100, a very rare 7.7-8.0 event vehicle, that has the same SL multiplier as the StuG III F while it costs over 9k SL. Is that something you seriously believe is okay? Or the Maus, at the same BR, that has the same SL multiplier as the first Panther at 5.3-5.7. Explain how that works. Explain why a High Tier vehicle that faces Cold War vehicles has the same rewards as a Mid Tier one.

Third, premiums, and more specifically, the top tier stuff. Why? Why add Top Tier premiums? You once said you didn’t want people to buy their way to the top, so why? If you play any number of matches above BR 9.0, chances are most, if not all of them, will be FILLED with premiums, bought by players that are not even CLOSE to that Battle Rating in the regular tech tree, with account levels varying from 3 to 30 and with about 10 other vehicles unlocked. A few examples are F-5C, A-10, A-6, MiG-23ML and MiG-21 “Lazur-M”, F-4S and the EJ(UK), the A-5C, T-72AV, 2S38, M1128 Wolfpack, Premium Leopards in the German tech tree, ZTZ96A, Challenger DS, and more that I can’t remember at this time. Anything above Battle Rating 9.0 is already considered Top Tier, because you have almost everything that Top Tier has, like stabilized guns, thermal sights, composite armor and ERA, laser rangefinders, modern shells (APDS-FS and HEAT-FS, HE-VT or proximity fuse, ATGMS, etc). Top Tier is not just over 11.0, and we all know it.

And finally, your actions, Gaijin.
As much as you try to spin that change you tried to implement as "beneficial to the playerbase", it is more than obvious that it was not, and it's clear that, at least the leadership of, Gaijin sees us players as nothing but a fat cow that you can milk for all you could possibly want. You have been milking this game for over 10 years now, and we have grown tired of it. Of the increased repair costs, the nerfed rewards and multipliers and also all of the ridiculous things that happen in game. I mean, we even have created an expression for moments when we get screwed over: “Getting Gaijin’d”, and that shows just how often it happens. Remember how you said you would not introduce top tier premiums, because you didn't want players to buy their way to the top? Remember when you said you weren't "the greedy bastards"? What happened to that statement? What happened to the Gaijin that wanted to offer a great game, instead of a " technically F2P, but if you don't spend money you will not progress at all" game. I've been playing since 2013, and even with all of the good that came to the game in this time, I've seen it fall farther and farther, still, with every bad or idiotic choice you have made. I wish the Gaijin I knew back then still existed.

And, even with this wall of text, it still wasn’t enough to bring up all of the bad things you have done over the years. I do wish we didn’t have to reach this point. Review bombing and the whole community up in Arms because of all of your bad decisions and the way you’ve been treating us, but it was inevitable. I hope things get better.

Edit - 01/11/2024
Greedy ♥♥♥♥♥ are back, so another neg

DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! IF YOU ALREADY DO, DON'T BUY ANYTHING AT ALL! FOR IN GAME MONEY OR REAL MONEY! WE NEED TO MAKE OURSELVES HEARD! The developers are all scum, ALL OF THEM. You can say whatever you want about there being some "good ones that don't want things like these", but if a change goes through, THEY WANT IT TO. PERIOD. They are all bottom feeders that do not care for ANYTHING other than the money going into their wallets. The recent changes to the game's economy and also grind (by forcing players to needlessly grind through even more vehicles to progress) are absolute PROOF of that and have made this game absolutely unplayable for anyone that doesn't give in and spend IRL money for premium vehicles or time. Do not waste your time with this shit. I've been playing since 2012, had my current account since 2013, this is the worst that this game has ever been. Wallet warriors and chinese bots are RUINING THIS GAME AND GAIJIN DOES NOTHING BUT KEEP ADDING MORE PREMIUMS AND MAKING THE GRIND WORSE TO FORCE YOU TO SPEND YOUR MONEY. I loved this game. I really did. It was so incredible when it first started. And now it's going down the shithole, straight to it's own death. I hope things change. Edit: 15:05 GMT - 18/05/2023 AS OF THE LAST HOUR, THEY HAVE REVERTED THE HORRIBLE ECONOMY CHANGES. THIS CHANGES NOTHING. THEY ARE STILL THE GREEDY BASTARDS THAT TRY THEIR BEST TO MAKE THE GAME AS UNPLAYABLE AS POSSIBLE FOR REGULAR FOLK THAT DON'T WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON IT. WE NEED MORE. WE NEED TO MAKE THEM TRULY UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR PREDATORY PRACTICES ARE NOT OKAY (they know it, but they don't care). Edit: 21/05/2023 - 18:33 Have you heard us, Gaijin? Have you really, honestly, heard us? Because your response so far has been, to put it very politely, absolutely horrible. I don’t know how many people that reply went through until it got approval, because there clearly weren’t enough of them to stop you from putting it up on your site. You spoke to us in such a condescending tone, as if we were children, who didn’t even know how a F2P game is supposed to work and make money. I assure you, we do know. We know it better than you seem to, at the very least. For that very reason, we are angry. Angrier now than ever before. So, let’s go over some of the things that we have been angry about FOR A WHILE NOW. First and foremost, the grind (or as you like to call it “progress”, even though it is so slow that using that word feels wrong). To call it “excessive” is an understatement of the highest order. Everyone knows it, even you guys. I have over 4.5k hours of gametime in total, been a player since 2013, and I have not completed a SINGLE TECH TREE, and not just the whole tree, but a single subdivision. I have reached Top Tier in USSR Ground and Air, and US Air. I have reached 7.0 in the German ground tree, 4.7 in the UK Air and Ground trees, 5.0 in Japanese Air tree, 4.0 in the Swedish Ground tree, and NOTHING ELSE. Think about it, that with almost 5k hours in this game, I’m not even close to being halfway done researching everything I could get in game. 5 THOUSAND HOURS, Gaijin. 5 THOUSAND HOURS in ANY OTHER GAME would mean I likely know EVERYTHING that there is to know about it, but in War Thunder? Not even near halfway finished with all the vehicles. I should not be FORCED to buy premium time or vehicles just to be able to progress at a relatively OK pace, not quick, just decente pace. Not to mention all of the overpowered/undertiered premiums you have added over these last few years, like the Su-11, XP-50 (this one is so much better than anything at it’s BR its not even funny). Even if you DOUBLED the rewards and multipliers for EVERY vehicle currently in game and KEPT ALL OF THE PRICES AND RP REQUIREMENTS THE SAME, it would still not be enough to consider it “okay”. Second, the economy. It is my personal belief that you have either no playtesters on your team, or you willfully ignore any of the bad things they bring up just so you can continue to act like they don’t exist (this doesn’t apply Only to the economy). So many tanks and aircraft in game have such bad modifiers, or ridiculously high repair costs, that it makes playing them inviable. The perfect example is Top Tier Air RB, where the average repair cost for a plane is almost 15k SL for a single repair, meaning a F2P player needs, on average, 4 kills to not lose SL in case he dies. Why does it need to be that high? Why can’t I play the vehicles I want to without going bankrupt from a single death? And I’m sure you know that Simulator is even worse, with those same aircraft costing between 20-25k to SPAWN, not even repair (that mechanic should be changed or abolished, to make it like the other gamemodes. I should not need to pay BEFORE I spawn, especially in a gamemode that is so much more difficult and complex than the other ones). Another example, the E-100, a very rare 7.7-8.0 event vehicle, that has the same SL multiplier as the StuG III F while it costs over 9k SL. Is that something you seriously believe is okay? Or the Maus, at the same BR, that has the same SL multiplier as the first Panther at 5.3-5.7. Explain how that works. Explain why a High Tier vehicle that faces Cold War vehicles has the same rewards as a Mid Tier one. Third, premiums, and more specifically, the top tier stuff. Why? Why add Top Tier premiums? You once said you didn’t want people to buy their way to the top, so why? If you play any number of matches above BR 9.0, chances are most, if not all of them, will be FILLED with premiums, bought by players that are not even CLOSE to that Battle Rating in the regular tech tree, with account levels varying from 3 to 30 and with about 10 other vehicles unlocked. A few examples are F-5C, A-10, A-6, MiG-23ML and MiG-21 “Lazur-M”, F-4S and the EJ(UK), the A-5C, T-72AV, 2S38, M1128 Wolfpack, Premium Leopards in the German tech tree, ZTZ96A, Challenger DS, and more that I can’t remember at this time. Anything above Battle Rating 9.0 is already considered Top Tier, because you have almost everything that Top Tier has, like stabilized guns, thermal sights, composite armor and ERA, laser rangefinders, modern shells (APDS-FS and HEAT-FS, HE-VT or proximity fuse, ATGMS, etc). Top Tier is not just over 11.0, and we all know it. And finally, your actions, Gaijin. As much as you try to spin that change you tried to implement as "beneficial to the playerbase", it is more than obvious that it was not, and it's clear that, at least the leadership of, Gaijin sees us players as nothing but a fat cow that you can milk for all you could possibly want. You have been milking this game for over 10 years now, and we have grown tired of it. Of the increased repair costs, the nerfed rewards and multipliers and also all of the ridiculous things that happen in game. I mean, we even have created an expression for moments when we get screwed over: “Getting Gaijin’d”, and that shows just how often it happens. Remember how you said you would not introduce top tier premiums, because you didn't want players to buy their way to the top? Remember when you said you weren't "the greedy bastards"? What happened to that statement? What happened to the Gaijin that wanted to offer a great game, instead of a " technically F2P, but if you don't spend money you will not progress at all" game. I've been playing since 2013, and even with all of the good that came to the game in this time, I've seen it fall farther and farther, still, with every bad or idiotic choice you have made. I wish the Gaijin I knew back then still existed. And, even with this wall of text, it still wasn’t enough to bring up all of the bad things you have done over the years. I do wish we didn’t have to reach this point. Review bombing and the whole community up in Arms because of all of your bad decisions and the way you’ve been treating us, but it was inevitable. I hope things get better. Edit - 01/11/2024 Greedy cunts are back, so another neg