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Posted: May 24th 2011 11:48AM (Unverified) said

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Is anyone surprised a tank game is doing exceedingly well in Russia?

I might have to check it out, I goofed around a tiny bit in a very early beta, but maybe much has changed since.

Posted: May 25th 2011 8:58AM Ellitrine said

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@(Unverified) Sorry, can say the same thing about war shooters in the States, The "Is anyone surprised " part of your comment reall made me go "lol whut ?"
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Posted: May 24th 2011 11:59AM Pingles said

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The portion of the game they give away free is phenomenal if you like lobby team shooters.

I stayed in the bottom tiers on purpose just because I heard the top-tiers were a bit more unbalanced to favor paying customers.

The bottom tiers are tons of fun. Very little teamwork but if you are a smart player you can turn the map around with just a few other good thinkers on your team.

Very satisfying game and well worth throwing them a few bucks every month or so just to support them.

Posted: May 24th 2011 3:51PM phatbhuda said

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@Pingles The game isn't too unbalanced at higher levels. After Tier 7 though it becomes difficult to end a match netting positive credits though unless you're a paying customer. Repair and ammo reload costs will often exceed your earnings if you don't perform well. A user who pays for "premium" status earns an extra 50% credits and experience in every battle.

A common strategy is to make your credits down at around Tier 5 which is often quite profitable even without being Premium. That allows you to fund your higher tier tanks.
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Posted: May 24th 2011 12:32PM blix2006 said

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just dont except to play with your friends for free :\

Posted: May 24th 2011 12:41PM SnarlingWolf said

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Can we stop hyping when a developer releases "number of registrated user" in a f2p game? That number is meaningless.

Active online users would be a much more useful number but they won't release information like that as long as the media lets them get away with "impressive" numbers that mean nothing.

Posted: May 24th 2011 11:11PM RedWolf said

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@SnarlingWolf Actually they have released concurrent user information:

http://game.worldoftanks.com/news/general_news/world_tanks_sets_world_record
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Posted: May 24th 2011 1:00PM Enaris said

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No clue on what the number of active accounts is, but most nights, there's 12,500-13,500 online during prime time, assuming that the ingame population count is accurate.

Posted: May 24th 2011 1:00PM Enaris said

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@Enaris Doh! That's on the US server, I should have said that first off.
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Posted: May 24th 2011 2:10PM (Unverified) said

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I had a blast in the beta. I have played the release version but am looking forward to it.

Posted: May 24th 2011 2:53PM Trippin said

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EU servers have around +-35000 users online at once at the prime. I just started but its a fun game, and can be done in short sittings without trouble. Just a game you have on the side for if your bored with other games :P

Posted: May 24th 2011 3:48PM phatbhuda said

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I love this game.

Posted: May 24th 2011 4:51PM Shardie said

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What I like about this game is their banner adverts, the one with the tank blowing up the Orc/s. Makes me laugh every time I see it. Good to see WoT go so well

Posted: May 24th 2011 9:21PM Thrishmal said

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This game has been eating a lot of my time for months. I really enjoyed it in Beta and am continuing to enjoy it at launch.

Posted: May 24th 2011 10:45PM Verus said

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There certainly is not millions of active players but there is certainly already more people playing world of tanks than say eve online and that is quite impressive in this short amount of time.

The game is very quick to get into and addictive as hell..

Posted: May 25th 2011 1:18AM (Unverified) said

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@Verus

cant really compare the numbers from a new F2P to a subscription game thats 8 years old lol...
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