I was just installing warthunder again and came to check this video (link on the bottom) to see if the money issue still existed, and oh well, i stopped the download at 32%...

I just can't try to play a game, waste my time and do literally 0 progress towards a goal unless i pay real money.

I've played for arround 400 ish hours, i love the game mechanics but as soon as i reach Tier 4, every time i use those vehicles, i LOSE silver lions, i don't even progress slowly, i just literally progress backwards. If that doesn't sound depressing i don't know what does...

The majority of people that play games either pay for the game or play it for free and from time to time buy skins or some cosmetic to enjoy themselves. What the snail is doing is literally the EA memes where you have to pay real money in order to press the play button itself, or you can choose to be stuck in tier 3 and play forever with the same vehicles...every...time...

To add to this, the decision of forcing players to may past a certain tier, has to be to MOST braindead decision ever made by this greedy company. Instead of letting players stay, enjoy the game, have fun, what can easily lead up to players willingly pay for some premium vehicle down the road, or some cosmetic, or anything...NO, they literally prefeer to lose A TON of potential players and free player marketing just because they want to forcefully bait the players until tier 4 and then it becomes completely F2P unfriendly.

The sad part is that i used to enjoy this game a lot and if it wasn't so Pay 2 Progress, it would have a way way bigger playerbase (just like every f2p community in every f2p friendly game), and probably still make the same ammount of money for the greedy snail purely due to the bigger player base snowballing and turning the game a more recomendable game to others. The current monetization method not only leads to a smaller playerbase, it also leads to making the game less recomendable and more hate towards it.

There is a difference between making a game easier to progress trought paying and making it only progressable trought paying. Not that anyones cares but until this changes im sadly not going to return to this game...just like thousands of others that got hit by the same paywall.

Im linking this 1yo video with the same issue to give more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdFlAdZNq9E

EDIT: All this issues could be solved by making so you can't be in debt after a match.If WarThunder was to make it so players wouldn't end a 20 minutes game, where they did average, with a neutral KDA, be in debt, it wouldn't feel like F2P players aren't literally wasting their time playing a game and getting punished for it. I'd prefeer much much more to win 0 or 1 SL for a bad game, as a limit for how little you can get, then the current flawed system that makes F2P players go away, shrinking the whole community would be slightly fixed.

The premium doesn't make you progress faster. Premium makes so you don't get in literal debt inside the game. Ridiculous

I was just installing warthunder again and came to check this video (link on the bottom) to see if the money issue still existed, and oh well, i stopped the download at 32%... I just can't try to play a game, waste my time and do literally 0 progress towards a goal unless i pay real money. I've played for arround 400 ish hours, i love the game mechanics but as soon as i reach Tier 4, every time i use those vehicles, i LOSE silver lions, i don't even progress slowly, i just literally progress backwards. If that doesn't sound depressing i don't know what does... The majority of people that play games either pay for the game or play it for free and from time to time buy skins or some cosmetic to enjoy themselves. What the snail is doing is literally the EA memes where you have to pay real money in order to press the play button itself, or you can choose to be stuck in tier 3 and play forever with the same vehicles...every...time... To add to this, the decision of forcing players to may past a certain tier, has to be to MOST braindead decision ever made by this greedy company. Instead of letting players stay, enjoy the game, have fun, what can easily lead up to players willingly pay for some premium vehicle down the road, or some cosmetic, or anything...NO, they literally prefeer to lose A TON of potential players and free player marketing just because they want to forcefully bait the players until tier 4 and then it becomes completely F2P unfriendly. The sad part is that i used to enjoy this game a lot and if it wasn't so Pay 2 Progress, it would have a way way bigger playerbase (just like every f2p community in every f2p friendly game), and probably still make the same ammount of money for the greedy snail purely due to the bigger player base snowballing and turning the game a more recomendable game to others. The current monetization method not only leads to a smaller playerbase, it also leads to making the game less recomendable and more hate towards it. There is a difference between making a game easier to progress trought paying and making it only progressable trought paying. Not that anyones cares but until this changes im sadly not going to return to this game...just like thousands of others that got hit by the same paywall. Im linking this 1yo video with the same issue to give more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdFlAdZNq9E EDIT: All this issues could be solved by making so you can't be in debt after a match.If WarThunder was to make it so players wouldn't end a 20 minutes game, where they did average, with a neutral KDA, be in debt, it wouldn't feel like F2P players aren't literally wasting their time playing a game and getting punished for it. I'd prefeer much much more to win 0 or 1 SL for a bad game, as a limit for how little you can get, then the current flawed system that makes F2P players go away, shrinking the whole community would be slightly fixed. The premium doesn't make you progress faster. Premium makes so you don't get in literal debt inside the game. Ridiculous