I haven’t played on console, ever, but I played it on PC for a long time, even competitively in clans and all that. Also World of Warships for years. Quit a few years ago precisely because of Wargaming’s crap. Not so much because of pay to win, because with 12 (WoWS) or 15 (WoT) players a side the random factor is huge, but the overall heavy-handed monetization strategy, horrible treatment of community contributors, and just general ass hattery finally turned me off despite having a lot of years and money invested in both.
From what I can tell from the emails I keep getting begging me to come back, nope, not much has changed, in fact, it’s gotten worse, with battle pass shenanigans now and even more convoluted attempts to leverage FOMO to extract money from players.
I’d give War Thunder a go, though, because while it shares some of the same problems it has at least a more interesting overall metastructure.
