World of Tanks reaches half million active players

Basically all things that cost gold will be micro transactions... aka you will not get free gold like you do now in closed beta , but you will have to buy it for real life money.

They clasified it MMO because before game goes live it should get clan wars ... something like global agenda stuff where clans fight for territories.

What a dumb post. An alt with a subscription pays as much as a non-alt account. End of the day, all that matters is total subscribers. There's nothing l33t about a game that has a lot of users but very little subscribers.

Ask any MMO developer, they'd gladly take 500,000 subscribers at 15 bucks a pop over 250,000 subscribers who don't have alts.

Logic, you needs it.

Hopefully WoT ends up being really good and they can convert all these free players into paying players once the game goes live.

A customer should care if numbers for a game are inflated. It does matter if developers don’t disclose that their ‘concurrent users’ is inflated by not kicking afkers who stay logged on to mask their log times, and both concurrent and total players is inflated by multiple subscriptions per player among many Eve veterans.

Multiple subscriptions is a deal breaker for a lot of players, so it’s nice to know up front before getting hooked on a particular game.

Also, as far as gaming in general goes, people always seem amazed that more people don’t play various MMOs, like, ‘Oh man this is so cool, people are idiots for not playing this…’. Fanboys of a game fail to see obvious deterents like with Eve, the devs, CCP, pushing multiple subscriptions.

People like to think the steep learning curve in Eve deters people from playing, as if the game is like rocket science or brain surgery, but fanboys neglect more obvious reasons like a game designed to push multiple subscriptions per player on veterans.

Keymapping is one of the things that the devs have said they are planning to implement but it is not in the game yet. I agree it is a necessary feature.

I wanted to mention I am not one of the mods from the WoT website who also uses the forum name 'Overlord' :)

The WoT game/physics engine is far superior to the one that was in Auto Assault. Cars in Auto Assault drove around like they were filled with helium, bouncing off the slightest bumps and banging off of things. It felt more like driving a carnival bumper cars rather than a heavily armed vehicle. Add a terrible UI to that and it's no wonder the game failed.

WoT has an intuitive UI and its engine makes you feel like your driving a massive, metal warmachine as you break through walls or crush parked cars. It is straightfoward and makes no attempt to be more than what it is, which was another failure of Auto Assaults as well. As others have said, this is Counterstrike with big-ass WWII tanks in a game with progression and tech trees and clan warfare planned to be implemented.

I would recommend anyone interested in PvP to sign up to the beta and give it a try. The game is a blast.