Today we’re going to talk about World of Tank WOT for short. It is real time strategy multiplayer online game created and owned by Belarusian company Wargaming.
I am playing this game for almost 5 years now, and the gaming experience which I had during this time is let’s just say complicated. This game survived for more than 10 years now, which is an achievement itself. This game currently has over 160 million players registered. There have been many changes to the game since its start till now, many new tanks have been added in the game, and they are still realising new tanks every month.
We all know there is no such thing as perfect game, every game has its flaws so does world of tanks so, why this game is still alive even though it has many great weaknesses. The answer is this game has many hooks to it, that’s why this game still thriving.
Let’s talk about its weaknesses first.
Many people left the game simply because it is pay to win which to some extent I agree, there are a lot of premium tank which you can buy from your real money, they are far superior than their tech tree counterparts. There is premium account from that you simply speed run progress through the game compared to if you want to play the game without paying since cent to wargaming. There are lots of tanks when they were added into game, they completely broke the game balance yet, still millions of players actively play this game. This game has many controversial game mechanics which even the few beta players still don’t know till this date.
And for now what are these game's hooks, why are still millions of players still playing this game Many players have many reasons to why they still play this game, for some people they’ve invested a lot of time, and money and they simply just can’t quit. For many players they’ve accepted the fact that this is the game's future which many players question but they can’t change this. For many players, new game balance (which is nonexistent) is more fun for them rather than the old game balance, and it’s gameplay.
For many it is collecting all tanks from all branches from different nations is a goal, which can be quite complicated because there are some pretty darn good reward tanks which you can only get from completion of very complex and extremely difficult missions, which can take years for some players.
As for end, what do you think will be the future of this game. In my opinion, game will not die at least for another 7 to 8 years, unless wargaming does something which might upset wot community on the another level. Yes you read it right company has done many things in the past that angered community quite a bit and many people left the game, but many people joined the game thanks to company top-notch promotion and new ideas from changing the very basic game mechanics to introducing some entirely new tanks to the game.
What do you think what will be its future will look like?
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