Gaijin is GREEDY company. They recently made an economy change that affected both premium and free players alike.
1: It's near impossible to get any SL (silver lions, the in game currency) if you have any deaths so you come out LOSING currency due to repair costs of your vehicles.
2: It's SO incredibly difficult to research as a free player since you get a pittance in research points unless you're a premium player
3: Gaijin wanted to unfolder some vehicles so that way it forces us to research more vehicles in order to progress. Which, forces you to get a premium account in order to make any progress.
4: Gaijin recently made an attempt at gaslighting their community in response to the backlash. Tried to say we don't understand how a Free 2 Play game works.
I want Gaijin to succeed. I love WarThunder. I don't want to play a game where the company doesn't want to respect their players. To them, we're just wallets. So, now we're speaking with what they pay attention to, our wallets.
DON'T PLAY THE GAME OR BUY ANY PREMIUM ITEMS FROM 26 MAY TO 9 JUNE!