Update: Gaijin has listened and actually released a quite in depth and extensive roadmap of changes on the economy but also gameplay. Honestly, this is more than I expected. The game might actually just be mostly fixed till the end of this year. That said, we still can't be 100% certain that they will keep their promises. I will change this review to positive to signal Gaijin that the community is open to communication and will listen and respond to them.

This game is the personification of torture. It is abolutely unfun. The economy is completely broken. As a currently free to play player I am constantly broke. With the little research points I get I barely progress and even if I unlock a new vehicle I can't afford to buy it or play it. Repair costs are very high, too high. I lose SL in 3 of 4 games. Sometimes I get a really good match and make a decent amount of SL, but that's gone after the next 3 games. And not even skill can make up for this deficit. The maps are usually broken and onesided (often one side will be blinded by the sun), uptiers exist, bad teams exist, cheap revenge bombing exists and simply getting gaijined exists (like when I dropped and exploded an SC250 on the engine deck of a T-54 and didn't even scratch a crewmember). Gaijin wants you to spend money, Gaijin wants you to always come back to this game. The game has an even addicting gameloop and trys to stay in your mind by giving you daily rewards and almost constant grinding events. DON'T spend money, DON'T install if you value your freedom and DON'T play on May 26th.

Update: Gaijin has listened and actually released a quite in depth and extensive roadmap of changes on the economy but also gameplay. Honestly, this is more than I expected. The game might actually just be mostly fixed till the end of this year. That said, we still can't be 100% certain that they will keep their promises. I will change this review to positive to signal Gaijin that the community is open to communication and will listen and respond to them. This game is the personification of torture. It is abolutely unfun. The economy is completely broken. As a currently free to play player I am constantly broke. With the little research points I get I barely progress and even if I unlock a new vehicle I can't afford to buy it or play it. Repair costs are very high, too high. I lose SL in 3 of 4 games. Sometimes I get a really good match and make a decent amount of SL, but that's gone after the next 3 games. And not even skill can make up for this deficit. The maps are usually broken and onesided (often one side will be blinded by the sun), uptiers exist, bad teams exist, cheap revenge bombing exists and simply getting gaijined exists (like when I dropped and exploded an SC250 on the engine deck of a T-54 and didn't even scratch a crewmember). Gaijin wants you to spend money, Gaijin wants you to always come back to this game. The game has an even addicting gameloop and trys to stay in your mind by giving you daily rewards and almost constant grinding events. DON'T spend money, DON'T install if you value your freedom and DON'T play on May 26th.