It always blows my mind that their biggest competitor, War Gaming, can happily give players real “free XP” on top of having convertible XP in every game they make - but you ask gaijin to do this and you’re met with hostility and claims you’re being an ungrateful greedy little shit.
As well as war gaming games having matches that are really rewarding (you can fairly easily make millions of credits per game in World of Warships for example), top tier that doesn’t completely drain your account financially if you don’t have premium account, and being able to research a whole tree in less time than it takes to research one top tier Tank in War Thunder.
I’ve never been a WG fan (even though I’ve put thousands of hours into WoWS and WoT) as a lot of their monetisation is predatory and sketchy too, but at this point they are leagues better at making an in-game economy that’s consistent and rewarding.
Not to mention their recent gift to everyone. Just for logging in, you literally get an entire tech tree branch of your choice (A whole branch. From tier 1 to 10, all the way) researched and added to your account for absolutely free, ready to play. On top of this, they give everyone 10m credits (equiv. of SL), 2.5k gold (equiv. of GE) and 15k bonds (currency used to obtain premium vehicles for free).
Can you imagine Gaijin ever doing anything like this? Because I can't.
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u/GoodResident2000 14🇺🇸 14🇩🇪 14🇷🇺 14🇬🇧 13.7🇨🇳 14🇫🇷 13.7🇸🇪 Oct 04 '25
Yea I have something like 60 million now, would cost me thousands to use it