I’ve finally had enough

Sorry for the wall of text but for some reason I feel the need to get this off my chest;

I’ve been playing pretty solidly for 12 years, most of which were extremely fun. I even spent most of my high school days looking at weak spots and watching videos on strategies. I spent thousands on the game, happily supporting it because to me, it was the best game I had ever played at that point in time. Sure, I enjoyed Warthunder later on and WoW from time to time, single player games were also very fun to me but WoT always hit the spot. It was always fun playing derps with friends from school and always competing to see who could do the most damage, even having arguments about the best tonks to play. When my mother passed away in 12th grade, WoT kept my head up because at least I was good at something and the drive to be better was distracting me away from the whole situation. I’ll never forget buying the IS-6 as my first premium and side scraping the blues away. It has been an integral part to my life for a very long time, nearly every evening for hours.

I recently quit for a few months a while back because of a real life situation and when I came back, it felt like everything I had known had changed. Not all of it bad, however, not all of it good. It’s the same complaints as everyone else has. The wheeled vehicles are not so bad once you learn how to counter them and the BZs get shredded very quickly by anyone who actually knows how to play, but what bothers me most is how much WG has pandered to the loudest voices like the content creators, etc. Practically anything new that comes out isn’t just good at one thing and mediocre or bad at the others such as the IS-6 used to be with its armor being great for the time but the gun left a lot to be desired; it has to be ridiculously overpowered in one or more categories or else most of the community screams about it being bad. They can’t even be mediocre anymore. On top of that, if you decide to take a vehicle out that you haven’t played for awhile, guess what? It’s going to be outclassed by whatever new flavor of the month, bad player cash cow, meta brings to the table. The games don’t even last long enough anymore to be able to really enjoy them and if you’re playing an out of meta slow vehicle, you might as well go play another game. Then I’m expected to pay more and more money and play boring vehicles to stay competitive because ‘that’s just how it is’? Yeah, sure, I can rack up damage in the old batchat, but I’ll have to plan and play harder than some punk with a TVP because of power creep. All you need is a fat wallet and right click to lock, you’re a Unicum.

Moving on, the community banter isn’t even fun anymore. It’s always been a cesspool of shitposting, racism, insults, arguing, etc. That was always part of what made it for me, but it seems to have went away from that to blatant ganging up on new players. I’ve had a consistent 2800-3200 wn8 daily and very good win rates and if I point anything out on another good player, it’s basically a lynching. Oh and heaven forbid someone curse now, you may get chat banned for a ridiculous amount of time. They never even used to enforce that shit. Clans aren’t even fun anymore. Sure there have always been vehicles that you had to play but now you aren’t worth anything without this ridiculously small list of meta tanks. Hell, I can’t remember the last time I had an almost all arty cw just for fun. Now that it isn’t chieftain or bust it makes me wonder what new fresh hell will come out now.

Also the customer service can go suck a fat one, they never used to be this bad.

These complaints just scratch the tip of the iceberg for me. Most people will think I’ll be back or that I’m trapped in nostalgia; progress is a great thing in a well controlled, thoughtful manner. I broke my keyboard today that I’ve had for years. I am no longer happy playing or excited to play after work. It depresses me to look back at how much this game got me through and meant to me, I can’t do it anymore. I don’t know if I’m getting older or what it is, it’s affecting my daily life and my mental health. I’m giving my account to a friend of mine and using a burner to protect it from wg spies.

tl;dr Thanks for all the memories wg and thanks for letting me down so hard over the years too.