Gambeir Bay

I played this game for about 2 years. The game is designed so that in theory you can acquire skills which increase your abilities but there is a strong bias and favoritism given to paying customers. This is somewhat acceptable since Gajin has to make a profit and people paying for special planes, tanks, or ships are important to the survival of the game. However, numerous changes have effected the enjoyment level such that I have made the difficult choice to uninstall the game. These changes include significantly reduced cross country ability with tanks, removing hiding spots which apparently were bugs left behind by programmers, and along with other intentional changes involving geographic formations. One of the secret joys of gaming are finding advantages which in most games are intentionally put into the game. These might include finding houses or tents to park your tank in, or climbing a tall hill, or finding other exploitable terrain which a particular piece of equipment might exploit which others cannot. Somehow Gajin doesn't seem to grasp very basic and critically important aspects to gaming as well are real life in this regard, and so with Gajin you get the opposite where once complaints reach the mods these exploitable features are removed. The game also has a set number of maps that are extremely undesirable and completely unsuited for simple computer keyboard play. If you become a paying customer you can opt out of these maps. All real advantages come with a price tag. The game offers paying players advantages but those are also detrimental to everyone else's gaming experience. I doubt this is a good strategy for long term success. By far the biggest reason for uninstalling this game has been the destruction the gaming experience by the increasing invasion of airpower in armored warfare. If I wanted to fly planes I'd do that instead of trying to play tanks. Gajin's armored warfare is more about playing anti-aircraft gunner than it is about being a tanker. This is an extreme fail in my opinion which has all but destroyed armored battle. Even if you do select to become the suicidal anti-aircraft gun crew, then there's the extremely annoying and unrealistic flying zombie planes, and other annoying non realistic qualities of aircraft like the Brewster fighter which even in ranges out of sight of expert gun crews can destroy your Ack Ack Tank before you have a chance to fire; who knew it was the A-10 Tank buster of it's time? Complete idiocy or the French planes, who knew these were actually war winners? Did the Soviets really have cannon proof aluminum?' The fails are too great to enumerate here but there are many and most all of which are exclusive to WarThunder. Even with extremely high skill sets I've found aircraft are often impossible to destroy. This combined with increasing swarms of aircraft have destroyed the whole armored gaming experience. When you look at downgrades which took years to build, when you're gaming experience is no longer the priority or even acknowledged and is instead dominated by an unwanted interests, and when a game does not fix bugs and whose philosophy is apparently to coerce payment in order to obtain a descent gaming experience conducive to the players available technology, then this is where I have to toss in the towel. No I cannot recommend WarThunder any longer.