I used to work in an IT shop where we sold only intel CPU’s and boards. It followed that everyone there were complete intel fanboys.

Except me. I had to explain to them, over and over that if it weren’t for AMD, their lovely intel chips would cost twice as much. AMD was the best thing possible to exist in the marketplace because – love them or hate them – they kept intel prices down and also helped push the arms-race of advancements.

I’m awesome like that. :D

WT ground forces arcade mode isn’t as good as WoT, and the Sim mode is different enough to exist in its own space.

AW is the best thing that can happen for WoT. It blatantly tries to copy everything that works about WoT, and also offer improvements. This forces Wargaming to have to look at themselves and re-assess priorities.

This damn physics model has been in the pipe a long time, but I don’t think they would have starting hustling on it if not for AW. I imagine they had a meeting and said, “Havok” isn’t gelling, so what can we push out the door now Now NOW?”

I want WoT to improve. I have over 22k games and 12 premium tanks. I like much about how it works so far, but like to wave AW at Wargaming as a warning so they will hopefully STOP FUCKING UP ARTILLERY.

I just wish Wargaming had coders who knew more about real physics. I wish Wargaming designers better understood the effects of they’re actions before they fuck everything up.

But now it all doesn’t really matter. Wargaming have turned out to be propaganda trolls. People like that never read advice without thinking it’s just more propaganda.

As for AW – they started with a great engine. That’s a huge leap ahead of Wargaming since the very beginning. If they won’t screw it up and keep on listening to the community – it might replace WoT easily for those players who like arcade shooters with tanks over anything else.

Time and time again, WG have shown that they are just a bunch of grubs. Their complete contempt for their player base shines through. It is almost like they think what idiots we are for spending money on their game. Attitudes like this come from the top. Hardly surprising when Serb considers the users a bunch of Krayfish and doesn’t hide his contempt for the playerbase at all.

All Obsidian need to do is copy WOT but treat the playerbase with respect and most of the Western players will be happy to transition across.