WoT F2P model may be showing great success, but it also shows the direction where F2P tends to end: pay-to-win at first, then fix it by allowing also grind-to-win, upgraded then to lottery-to-win, as shown by the current approach of “even if you hit and penetrate, you can still do no damage”, which is aimed at making gold ammo (better penetration) less OP that it was. A lot of people have complained on the forum…. and for me, well, I was planning to dump 50E in the game and get a premium tank, but now I’ve decided to save my money. I now play WoT purely in PBSE mode (“press button, see explosion”).

Yup, Eve’s numbers are higher mostly because they’ve started counting Chinese subs.

The game is healthy and the (non-Chinese) server is seeing very strong peak concurrent users. I’d guess it’s about where it was at its peak 2 years ago before the monocle patch or maybe a tad ahead even.