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Online scam
April 7, 2024

Worst online scam ever. Everything is rigged or broken. It's all about scamming people and draining their money. Never pay for this company.

Date of experience: April 7, 2024
Georgia
1 review
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Don't bother
January 21, 2024

If you are not paying you will be at a great disadvantage and not worth the time. Playing arty when you target a enemy player they will disappear from screen.

Date of experience: January 21, 2024
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Fixed games.
January 18, 2024

I have been playing this game for 7 plus years and have to come to the conclusion that the games are fixed. This is not a fair online game as they discriminate and allow certain players the privilege of winning and gaining more in the game. Who they discriminate against and what there motivations is probably financial the game is a ripoff and you never get anything fair from the game providers apart from being manipulated. I would not want my kids playing this game because it will only depress.
How can you play this game for a whole week day after day and loose all the matches. It is easier winning the lottery.
Am not sure it a certain region like USA player have priority or players that buy in game products are treated differently. Not sure what the reason is but sure that they are manipulating the game play.
You can loose games in the most odd ways or games that is good as won! Then suddenly something happens and your team looses as always.
Worse online game experience. Waste of time and money.
Very bad customer services.
Very bad policies that only serves the interests of the company.

Date of experience: January 18, 2024
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Not worth your time or Money.
November 7, 2023

W.O.T. Started out pretty fairly balanced about 11-12 years ago...but,and it's a big but...now it's a greed fest,with no support,hackers and cheats running rampant on the platform,and for a game that claims to be "free",unless you spend money,you'll get nowhere,fast. Lower tier light tanks should not be able to wipe out Higher tier heavy tanks,it would Never happen in real life. I'm a Veteran,I know. Here's a free tip,don't subscribe to WarGaming on the net,unless you want the creeps that run the game,crawling all over your profile on whatever console you game with. It happened to me.

Date of experience: November 7, 2023

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Latvia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Unfair game
May 1, 2023

Worst game ever, without donating you can't even penetrate light tanks on to AT with top penetration. If you don't donate usualy you can't even hit tanks and "VBR" devides teams that way, that 1 team is always losing and 1 is winning (basicaly one team have best players and one have the worst, usualy the one's without premium account or haven't bought anything in the game). So yah, totally unfair game by developers and marketing service, until you pay - you don't win!
DON'T DOWNLOAD IT!

Date of experience: May 1, 2023
Iowa
1 review
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No customer support
April 7, 2023

Due to 2 step verification problems, I cannot log into the game. I sent in a support ticket close to a week ago and haven't heard back, other than receiving a email letting me know they did in fact get my ticket. I'm in the middle of Battle Pass which is time sensitive and I can't take advantage of the services I've already paid for. Yesterday I sent them another email explaining this and my dissatisfaction with their "support". As of today, I still haven't heard back from them.

Date of experience: April 7, 2023
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Unbalanced unfair game
March 24, 2023

Not nice to play a game that you are guaranteed that the match you are in...is a loss. Even before the match started you are so handicapped by non penetration, bounced shots, easy damage to your engine, ammo rack...and the list goes on. If THEY want you to lose...you WILL NOT WIN...no matter how you place.SUCKS doesn't it.

Rubbish game if you want to play a fair, balanced game with a 50-50 chance to win.SUCKS

Date of experience: March 24, 2023
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Disappearing Enemy
March 6, 2023

This is getting slickening, playing and being killed by the other team when they are not there. I have tried to keep playing but it just gets worse.

Date of experience: March 6, 2023
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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WoT PC is broken..
February 6, 2023

This game was enjoyable for many years. Over the past year world of tanks has become less than enjoyable. If it isn't the plague of connection issues to the servers, it is the many OP tanks and supposed rebalancing they added to the game recently. If you don't pay for premium account or premium plus account, you will be at a significant disadvantage. Although you can still play for free, just know you are going to be at a severe disadvantage going in every game at tier 5, and above. Especially when they're put against tanks, potentially two tears higher in matchup.
It is sad to say, but I will no longer be recommending this game. It seems your only hope to remain competitive is to get/purchase one of the Over powered (OP) tanks "Like the BZ-176" My hope with this post is that anyone thinking about downloading and playing this game would think twice. Just know that if you want to play at a competitive level with moderate skill you may need purchase or receive a speciality OP tank though grinding hours of achievements.

Date of experience: February 6, 2023
New York
1 review
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No Response
January 11, 2023

I have written four Emails to wargaming.net. All of which, have gone on answered. I have been unable to access my account on iOS for over a month. I have received the automatic emails from wargaming.net, but no one has personally responded. I have spent money on this game, and would appreciate some sort of response from the company. I do not recommend playing games associated with this organization.

Date of experience: January 11, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Bait and Switch
January 10, 2023

Graphics are great and game play adequate and sometimes fun but this game has major issues. Multi player is so hacked. Cross platform, as in all online games, gives huge advantage to pc players. You're bated into playing the game for free then find out earned tanks suck. Unless you buy a tank and/ or purchase the premium pass your basically fodder for other players. To make things worse to equip your tank with needed camo that to costs. Transferring crew cost. Tanks that are actually competitive cost. Not to mention invisible tanks that just show up. They call it camo but it's so abused by players and arbitrary by the server algorithm aggravation with the game is constant. Servers are randomly picked by the game so you never know where they are located and how bad is the lag. Co Op has its issues too. Hit registration is decent but there a lot of? Moments. AI's spawn out of nowhere and swarm you if you're one of the last players.

Scoring is beyond comprehension for the average player. What information that is available seems so convoluted. Nowhere could I easily fine descriptions or explanations. If they exist they're extremely hard to find. I would add a ton of? Vids but they're on my console and have no way of knowing how to post them here.
So, if you don't mind dumping a bunch of money on an average game just to be competitive have at it. Otherwise don't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a shame because this game has potential. Those running this operation need some guidance.

Date of experience: January 9, 2023
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Money grabbers
December 31, 2022

Complete and utter rubbish.they say but a tank earn more gold every game. Spent au$35, earned 9 gold coins over 3 games, that's it.RUBBISH

Date of experience: December 30, 2022
Florida
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Horrible
August 27, 2022

If I could give it less of a rating I would have. It used to be a fun game, but through their updates they have nerfed good tanks and if you don't spend $$ then you get crappy teams. You will spend hours researching and upgrading a tank only to have them nerf it due to kiddies complaining that it isn't FAIR, and it's OP... Played this game for almost 10 years. It used to be a butt load of fun. Now it's crap. Don't waste your time or money.

Date of experience: August 27, 2022
Wisconsin
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Unfair matchmaking in Random Battles
June 27, 2022

Random battles should be set up by player skill, armor, penetration, and speed. To many matches are one sided. The game loses its luster when you are winning only one of eight matches. This has been going on for years. In today's world you can enter every tank and player into a program to even the odds and make gameplay fair.

Date of experience: June 27, 2022
South Africa
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Rigged Battles
May 17, 2022

If a game makes you more angry than happy maybe it's time to delete it! This is so badly rigged you can tell who will win withing 30 seconds of a 10 to 15 minute battle. 15/2 losses are more common than close battles and that's all you need to know. Some pros will say when you bounce why don't you aim, hahahaha when I aim I miss all together because their rigged games uses "RNG" to it's end goal. Then you always get players telling you how to play and when you eventually listen to them to stop the annoyance you die quickly. This game might start off fun while you learn but I promise one day you will regret all the time you put into it. I am so tired of being angry for something that should bring joy. The only reason it gets 2 starts is the graphics, the rigged batttles should score this a 1 star.

Date of experience: May 17, 2022
Bulgaria
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Pay to win/ Terrible MM
December 31, 2021

This game is pay to win. If you don't spam gold no chance to play against other tanks. Absolutely ridicules russian bias - smaller sized tanks have better armor?! Full of hidden stats which ruin the game. Even you play well the matchmaker puts you in total bot team against premium tanks you have no chance to penetrate. This leads to 60% of games ending 15:0 for less than 4 minutes, which you can do nothing against. No effort from Wargaming to improve user experience whatsoever! There is no option to complain and absolutely no feedback from Wargaming on players input.

Date of experience: December 31, 2021
Italy
10 reviews
82 helpful votes
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Nice game, but with some drawbacks...
June 20, 2020

Although I enjoyed it(it's interesting you could try many tanks), I can't understand why someone has to pay... I think it's a bad idea to pay for a game which doesn't have an economic "return" to you. In fact, you play regularly, and when you arrive at 5th level you loose more battles than usual, and you have to buy gold to make ends meet. I didn't test Chinese, Italians and Swedish tanks, in my opinion German and Russian tanks are the best.

Date of experience: June 19, 2020
RU
1 review
1 helpful vote
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BUYING ACCOUNT
December 25, 2018

Bought world of tanks account! The transaction was successful! All happy! Acc is impressive!
Now, you can play on a heavily pumped account, and it's really cool. Earn money for new tanks and sell even more pumped ACC, or game equipment. How can you not be happy?!

Date of experience: December 23, 2018
Canada
7 reviews
24 helpful votes
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I have been a member player since the Beta test days, it used to be a great game until it became so popular and the developers decide that messing with the algorithms, so that bad players can still win and to keep them playing and spending money on the game, was more important than honest and fair skill based play, these days if you don't pick the right time of day to play you have no chance of winning or achieving a decent match score, to bad as it was a really fun game to play.

Date of experience: March 26, 2014
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have played this game for over a year
February 25, 2014

I have played this game for over a year. I played for free for the first 6 months then upgraded to a premium after that. Any transaction I had on their pay site were instantaneous and accurate, but even if I stop paying for premium, I can continue to play and enjoy.

Date of experience: February 25, 2014