Was World of Tanks BETTER in 2012?

[@joeynyesss1286]

2012-2015 was peak WOT for me

[@SwedishBroManDude]

2014-2016 that's the nostalgia trip WoT for me, 2012 WoT I barely remember if at all but I did play.

[@retard-qf2ze]

same it feels like 2016 started the "new" WoT :I with the swedes and all

[@benruss4130]

2013-14 was the best years.

[@AlexAlex-mx4jo]

same

[@NFWboY]

same

[@szcs95]

*QB reviews old gameplay, and T30 appears* QB: DID YOU KNOW....

[@SpeedyCraft51]

People did *not* fire gold in random battles *because* it was so expensive. Gold that you earned on the global map was re-invested only for the global map because nobody could afford to waste it on standard battles. Your first replay is from a clan battle as you can tell by every team having players from the same clan and the fog-of-war mechanic. "It was really bad back then" no, it was good, because armor was meaningful in random battles, maybe 1% of players would be using gold ammo there, and if they were it was not much. In exchange we had actual weakspots on tanks. This was by far the superior system because gold was scarce and people had to think about their usage. Now you can just load full gold, ignore armor unless the vehicle you are facing is completely busted, and it's just as pay2win in the sense that without a premium account and premium tanks you cannot afford as much. They added one middle step to the pay2win element that made it somehow more acceptable and the result is it's the only viable way to play instead of a very rare occurence if not exclusive to clan wars.

[@voice7819]

P2W isn't good in any game.

[@filipbitala2624]

Its because people who didnt wanna pay just left, and the rest was okay with bending over

[@BadMuflon]

Pulling out the e75 with 1200hp engine and getting Ruinberg or Himmelsdorf, Ensk...

[@seanm1542]

He literally explained the first battle was from Clan Wars. Please pay attention before you comment.

[@SpectreHD]

Totally agreed. Balance is totally wack now because premium ammo has ruined it. Before all tanks would have the same base stats that were all balance the same and that's armour was balanced to be as historically accurate except for a few exceptions to deal with being overmatched too much. Now due to the excessive use of premium ammo starting from the last couple of years, armour is now a balance able stat which is now fantasy levels but only made it harder for anyone using standard ammo while still only becoming a bit useful vs premium ammo. Apart from balancing becoming worse? Tanks now die so fast that the lopsided matches that everyone criticises occur more frequently and starts quicker because tanks die too fast too early on and tanks meant to hold a flank just cannot do that anymore. So a flank can get steamrolled so quickly that the other flank has no time to adequately react to stop the steamroll.

[@boysenbeary]

There are many quality-of-life features that we have now that I like that we didn’t have in the past. BUTTT…. I believe the core game in 2013-2015 was at its peak. It was slower and unique compared to other FPS games, more methodical and intelligent with regards to armor play, and with more diverse and interesting tank role distributions and battles.

[@kleksriders1772]

I think we need a 2016-2017 replay.

[@okkinmaicordova17]

I started playing WOT back in 2011. The nostalgia of the music, oh man! 😌 Brings back good memories in playing CW.

[@CoiLung-h3p]

Started playing in 2011 to , almost 14 years later still have under 30k battles played it on and of during most of it's major patches , casually dabbled in some clan wars was part of some competitive clans for a bit. Been around the game as a casual player for most of it's existence. The game used to be decent. The game today is a joke , the power creep has made it almost unplayable for people who are not wallet warriors. The huge number of OP premium tanks , the fast pace , the unbalanced matchmaking , the fact that tanks can just fly around the map has removed any sort of tactics and strategy from it. It's just a game for clowns and autists now that invested to much money and time to quit this filth. Back in the day , outdated graphics , and clunkiness aside the allure of the game was it's slow pace tanks that actually felt like tanks slow heavy very hard to penetrate , you had to commit to a zone on the map , once there there was no turning back , you had to anticipate what will happen , had to think in advance what you were going to do. The game required you to use your brain , today that's replaced by using your wallet , spamming gold and buying the latest OP gimmick tanks from all sorts of gambling mechanics , manufactured scarcity and all those garbage business practices most garbage studios do. Tier 8 premium tanks that hit harder than hard earned tier 10's , that's just not right , that's blatant in your face pay to win. WOT and Wargaming = trash The only time I bother with the game is in December because I collected all the annual commanders/ actors after that is done I uninstall and don't want to hear about the game for the next 11 months not even if someone payed me to play it.

[@imma5761]

Og himmelsdorf music

[@villelepoaho4105]

Back when I still played WoT, my favorite WoT era was around 2015 - 2016. Back when there were only a handful of strong tier 8 premium tanks.

[@SwedishBroManDude]

I remember when the super-pershing was super strong.

[@augustgremaud2738]

@@SwedishBroManDudeit was, but it had a weak point on its upper plate and commander’s hatch that a savvy player could take advantage of! Now WG pumps out busted premiums that don’t even have weak points.

[@MrAstronus]

Back then, Premium Tanks were usually weaker than their counterparts in tech tree. Tier 8 play premium only and it will go on that way with Tier 9 and 10

[@edfrancis712]

Then: Thriving community/forums. Regular tech tree tanks. lots of weird maps. Clanwars. Real tanks with (mostly) accurate history. A happier QB. Now: No community. Non stop premium spam. A few maps rotated. Fake tanks! A much darker angrier QB

[@wkcw1]

I watch the occasional old Jingles’ videos to remind me of how fun those days were. They were like David Attenborough nature commentaries and you can’t do that now since the game is too fast…

[@anissyahromi5671]

2016 was the last year of WOT being a good game

[@vojtas08jarema]

Scorpion G marked the start of the downhill. It was the first premium Which was flatout better than its techtree counterpart

[@LoneTiger]

I kind of stopped playing WoT when the Waffenträger auf E 100 became unavailable.

[@Retrofire-47]

@@vojtas08jarema Frontline is when things started getting weird.

[@aidenleary670]

I know that this is PC but I will put this out here that wot console was better in 2019

[@aaronsams8605]

No nightstalker, avre, taran....

[@tuxedoederminenaswall3751]

I agree 1000%

[@bobbill7879]

Also the Cold War mode being a net negative: breaking WWII economy, spliting the already dwindling playerbase, leading to a much higher number of bot matches. Also the only tiers anyone plays really are 8 and 10 but thats just a general WoT problem

[@bobbill7879]

We also used to have more maps with weather mechanics but that storage space was apparently better used for more premiums!

[@chadofchads7222]

And even better in 2016

[@Nekrosmas]

2012's World of Tanks definitely not better, but World of Tanks around 2013-2015 was truely amazing. Some of the QoL changes had been implemented (e.g. Physics post 7.5) and the premium tanks are still largely very contained - not to mention there are an incredible amount of fun meme lord tanks (Light tanks, KV-1S, BL-10 ISU-152 to name a few).

[@Kas1122]

I would say all the way to 2017. Don't remember when the defender came but that started the those OP premium tanks. And a lot of shit updates after but also a lot of good ones, but the past two to three years feel like WG is just milking money.

[@MrTerrorM]

@@Kas1122 nah 2017 is when it was already going to shit

[@animalyze7120]

2016 and prior the game was playable and fun, 2012 included. The game today is a money grab crap shoot and the whales that still buy stuff are toxic to the game and it's players. P2W is a horrible concept but when you look at the player base today it's not a surprise.

[@poianbri]

I have quit the game already for over a year now, but I really do miss the old wot. Its simpler, nicer, and games are longer and more interactive. I really had fun in that retro wot event where they let us play the old wot a few years ago.

[@nemfogadelsemmit]

As a closed beta tester, I was active until 2020. The best era was between 2012-15. Nice selection of tank, but more or less equally balanced. Nice, slow, tactician speed of games. The recent few years however is a mess. Really dont want to go back to play.

[@AetherYes]

I miss the days where wot was fun like having fail platoon vs tier 10s, all chat I miss the rage moments, team damage was fun, having funny guns like the MT-25 or the Walker bulldog autoloader was fun, playing the KV-13 with the derp gun against tier 9 was funny, after the physics was introduce I want to try climbing up to weird angles on out of bounds maps and make the enemies thinking I'm hacking, those battle soundtracks still gives me adrenaline rush, those old gun sounds goes hard, those old HE round I managed to get 2 bombardier medals in my old T82 and best of all is all tech tree tanks no broken bz-176 no Bourrasque no XM 57 those were the fun days .... (Yes I know artillery back then was horrible but I rather get 1 shot than getting stunned over and over again .....)

[@jamesavery3559]

the key word here is FUN...it is missing now

[@georgeadams2555]

if the game wasn't full of scumbags then sure. team damage would be fine

[@yurkafrankvel966]

All chat was peak content

[@TheLtVoss]

​@@georgeadams2555well getting blue wasn't so fun for these scums i nearly forgot that this was a thing back then and about a month ago i have seen sameone with a blue name must have drowned a team mate otherwise that wouldn't work

[@Benjamin67748]

Amen

[@WozWozEre]

Played 2010-2015, had great fun but dutching that addiction was one if the best things I ever did.

[@Edcognito]

Back when the "Meta" was everyone charge into the middle of malinovka and have a huge scrum. hilarious fun.

[@proigr]

World of Tanks started to rot with the addition of the Defender, Liberté and Patriot.

[@avensisverso]

i remember when they added the t44-100, a straight upgrade with 50 more hp. im not sure if that was before defender but i definitely knew the game was over by that point.

[@MiGLifeCrisis]

@avensisverso weird, because the T44-100 is a genuine vehicle so its not like its an insane fictional vehicle. But idk thats just my war thunder mind kicking in

[@avensisverso]

@MiGLifeCrisis i havent played this game in a long time so im going off memory here. theres a tech tree t44 (imagine t44 and t44-100 in one that can also mount a 122mm) which progresses this way 85mm zis -> 85mm d5t -> 122mm or 100mm. but wg made t44 premiums: tier 7 t44 with 85mm (pretty sure thats very rare), tier 8 t44-100 (which is what a spaded tech tree t44 is) and t44-122 (the actual one with that hunched driver port like you see in war thunder as a premium). IIRC the t44-100 premium has 50 more hitpoints, better ground resistance for minimally less engine hp, and sideskirts (like you see in wt) over the spaded tech tree t44. essentially its the same but better. its like the tiger ost pack that released in war thunder, the premium tigers dont have the s-mines that block your gun, more armour, camo nets and the ostwind even has ostketten while the tech tree doesnt.

[@ElGrandeIngenio]

I think the herald of wot's downfall was the Chrysler K which was released in 2017. It marked a change in Wargamings approach to new tanks and new premiums aswell. The tank was overpowered at the time and had no frontal weakspots, making goldspam a requirement and it went downhill from there. Nowadays its kind of COD with extra armor with everyone spamming gold left right and center.

[@MarcioK]

I consider the Mutz being the turning point. It is not OP, but was the first premium tank that was as good as a good regular one - before it, all the premiums make more credits but were worse than the tech tree ones.

[@rogerk6180]

Yeah, that is when it started going downhill ever faster. Stopped playing maybe a year and a half or so after that.

[@vitrous2]

Not sure how it is today, but I remember when they changed gold rounds I felt to need to spend most of my credits on them to be competitive to boost my XVM/WN8 stats. I remember trying to apply for good clans and them having WN8(in past 60-90 days) rating requirements in order to even join. Having gold rounds to boost the average dmg/per game made it way easier. Haven’t played in 7-8 years, but I loved watching this little throw back to a more simpler times in gaming/World of Tanks. Sometimes

[@animalyze7120]

Ah yes the paper stat crunchers, such a lovely addition to the game. XVM did to WoT what Gear score did to WoW and fools like you just eat it up. I wonder if you actually sit around and think of more ways to kill good games. Sad part is you are happy about it. Game went to from over 80k ppl on at once to less than 15k most days and you giggle with glee. Chasing ppl from games is NOT a good thing.

[@vitrous2]

@ Damn right I was happy about it. I like to push performance in games and if you don't like it that's not my problem and I couldn't care less. Play games however you want and let others enjoy what they do. I didn't "push people away" | played my own thing and let others do what they want. Seems sad to get all upset because others play games in ways that different to yours. Youre just as bad as toxic elitist who call out "noobs" by trying and act all high and mighty because you don't find enjoyment in min maxing games.

[@VsUK]

I say yes in a very strong way. Up to October 2012, you could compete regardless if someone dumped a load of gold into their tanks, which was only obtainable with gold until October when it changed to credits. Before this, you didn't have as many players using it because of how expensive it was. Also, they hadn't yet started messing with tank armour by removing all the existing weak spots to make it harder for regular ammo users to pen. Before all that, the game was actually about tactics & team play. Now its just who can spam the most gold & it really made the game boring.

[@demolition4654]

Did you even watch the video his shells were bouncing like crazy. Also, are you saying that P2W ammo is a great thing? To me its much better that you can buy gold ammo for credits. Back then only whales could shoot gold. I think youre just blinded by nostalgia.

[@veikkaluimula3135]

​@@demolition4654 Gold-spammers were so rare it didn't matter. Tanks also had weakspots back then. Also the stupid crosshair showing penetration didn't exist.

[@arkroyal1598]

@@demolition4654 Someone doesnt know how to aim..

[@demolition4654]

@ And you say that based on….what?

[@animalyze7120]

@@demolition4654 No you comprehended nothing he said and made false blanket statements that are pure horse crap. Learn to read then make comments. Your so called whales thrive today in the meta you helped create, which is toxic and no fun at all. Went from 80k ppl to 15kppl on a normal day and you think this is good? The game is trash now all because of Whales like you spamming gold ammo and gold tanks.

[@DerekGrider-kk4bx]

I can’t speak for 2012 but WoT was definitely better in 2015. Slower gameplay without op tanks = fun. I would love to have that game back.

[@Folmand]

I loved the t30 Heavy tank - My first love in the game. I would love for it to be a tier 10 heavy again.. but I know its nostalgia talking - And I could still have it as a tank destroyer...

[@Ivan-yw5io]

Played from 2011 or such in Russia, only got an NA account in 2014. Still extremely nostalgic, the music, loading screens and just memories of the weird times. Loved it every second even though I barely got past tier 6 back on that old account that got lost during the move

[@pedestrianlove]

Remember we used to think batchat was op and broken lol.

[@coltermiller1782]

type 59

[@mvbmatheloesungen]

The maps used to be better: not balanced but more imaginative and playful! Of course they are not suitable for experienced players and professionals, but they had so much more atmosphere and captured the imagination of new players. I wish there was a game mode with these old maps!

[@princeofhyrule2205]

Short answer: yes Long answer: yes Every answer: yes

[@jakabrobert96]

Was the game better then? Probably not. Was it more fun? Absolutely. And games are meant to be fun. I really miss old WoT, way less sweaty than it is now.

[@beckezizou]

It was definitely much much better. I was enjoying a lot that game and playing like 6-7 hours. Now after 2 hours I am bored.

[@animalyze7120]

Yep back in 2012 I could play all day on my days off, now I'm done after 2 or 3 battles.

[@jonathandon2854]

I don't think that has anything to do with the game but with you getting older and ur brain being fried because of TikTok/YTshorts/InstagramReels.

[@petiertje]

It might also be a case of life going on for ourselves too. Combined with how WG has more premiums and new gimmicks every other update.

[@beckezizou]

@@petiertje ı would love playing old game with current graphics

[@armouredsandbox1863]

I feel like a World of Tanks classic based on the 2012-2013 version of game with qol improvements would be very popular

[@robertflint4115]

The game may not have been “better” back then, but the people were. Back then it was teamwork and tactics. Today it’s WN8 and toxic. 🤘😎 Tankers (Sept 2011)

[@robertflint4115]

Even back then we had ALL chat and could chat with enemies. There was competitive banter with a little dogging back and forth. All in fun. Not like today’s vile venom that is spewed. 😢

[@mikeevers9079]

@@robertflint4115 I can remember it being World of Insults at times, but also competitive banter.

[@robertflint4115]

@@mikeevers9079 there will always be a$$holes, but I remember for the most part, not Toxic like today. Today so many get down right nasty, wish evil things on people insulting family and racial comments

[@fr0zty86]

Maaan.. Saw a vid with removed maps couple days ago, and now you drop replay from the "good old days".. Still have screenshots from 2012 and 14.. thanks for the "nostalgia" Quicky :D

[@Wysch]

I started playing in the closed beta on a review account, my personal account is from April 2011. Back then in 2012, 2011 and especially before in the closed beta and alpha you could feel the weight of the vehicle. The tanks turned slowly, moved even more so, the game engine couldn't handle the movement of the faster vehicles, so the truly fast tanks kind of teleported on your screen, and the tier 9 mediums were thus able to outplay tier 10 heavies. The game looked horrible, so you weren't easily distracted. The battles took more time, and because you didn't have any information about the other flanks, people used chat and the game was way more tactical - you had one repair kit, one med kit, you were saving the repair kit for your ammorack and your med kit for your commander, because the sixth sense was a perk you needed to train. Light tanks required a really decent player skill, as you were oneshotted by tier 10 heavies such as E100s or T30s. You needed to be smarter than your opponent to outplay them, not just sit in the hulldown position and spam gold. Plebs didn't have gold. If you didn't get into a clan and farmed gold in clan wars, you didn't have any. Overall, the game was slower and arguably more fun because of all this clunkiness you mentioned. At least to me. So yea, back to your question - the game was better imho. Yes, the game has improved, looks better, arguably is fairer in regards of premium ammunition and how the new players are able to grind (or buy) their way to tier 10s. But in terms of entertainment? The game was more niche, more unique, more fun. Nowadays, in my honest opinion, World of Tanks is way closer to a generic shooter. To me World of Tanks peeked in 2014 with the HD 9.x updates.

[@chrisainsworth68]

Yes, it's much harder now. Games usually end quickly with one team steamrolling the other.

[@olaole8315]

Right now, you either pay to have an overpowered premium tank, or you are simply canon fodder...

[@sorinancuta3934]

No buddy,first u need to play the game.playin requires time while cryin is free;)

[@AmigoAmigo-w5p]

YES it was better. Nothing can beat nostalgia. Nothing can even compare to the excitement when you first unlocked your first tier 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and later X tiers. It was something MYSTICAL being low tier and playing against Tier 8, 9, 10 MONSTERS. When you didn't even know what is that tank.

[@meme._hoe._8392]

I created my account in 2014, I remember the days of unequal matchmaking, it was definitely a more 'pure' time of the game where it didn't feel like you needed to buy a premium tank to win. Playing tier 6-7 lights and getting tier 10 matches was fun, being able to platoon with different tiers, eg I play a tier 8 and someone else in my platoon plays a tier 7 and then of course all chat. Some very good things have been taken from this game, but all in all its definitely better these days over all, I just can't believe how far the game has come.

[@UrSneakyDad]

The music is nostalgic. That made a victory so much more special

[@euronymous85]

The gameplay may not have been better but the maps were. I still remember every map, every part and every one they removed, unlike the new ones...so definitely for me, peak was 2012-2016

[@urban__nomad_1]

I do remember playing WOT back in 2013-14 and Honestly I grinded to get E100 which is still with me... It was the one tank that would not die... The T95 was the TD and no one knew how spotting worked... It was so much fun without those overpowered and fast mediums... just a couple of Autoloaders... the Arty actually damaged and killed heavies..I got the GW Panther and eventually the BC-155-58 autoloading Arty to rule the battles. Now these are merely weak support tanks..Just to sell more tanks for real money, WG released so many overpowered Tanks and eventually Nerfed them to release newer more expensive tanks.... Money corrupts... Greed Corrupts more.

[@2024LexusGX]

i do miss old world of tanks, both console and pc. maybe the games weren’t better but i certainly was happier

[@JAK4444]

It was heaps of fun when I started in 2013. "Armoured" tanks actually had armour that worked. The in-game tanks were historically based. It was epic.

[@dakotacalderon5456]

old world of tanks brings a tear to my eye. i remember grinding on my uncles account and eventually created an account of my own. miss you john

[@Project49Music]

Ohmy those old sounds bring back memories, not to mention the music

[@soopafamicom]

It was a lot less toxic in the player base. It's near enough 12 years to the day that I started playing. Lots of changes, the game does look rough at that time mainly as it was designed to run on one cpu core regardless of how powerful your pc was, probably to keep everyone on par, esp in the Eastern EU and RU regions and the kit they had available. The sweet spot was probably around the time physics were put in and the spotting mechanism was improved as half the time a vehicle could be crossing in front of you and you wouldnt see them until they were nearly in cover.

[@MrCleman1]

Yeah agreed. 2013-2016 was the best time WoT ever had. After that it went downhill. I myself started in 2012, I think it was April or so and that would have been patch 0.7.1 or so

[@Tommy_The_Gun]

Gold ammo for actual gold only.... On one hand it was P2W, but on the other hand it was better as only tiny fraction of percentage of players were using it as "main" ammo, so tanks with armour were actually playable & you needed to aim for weak-spots or lean how to hide your weak-spots. I am not sure, but allowing to buy premium ammo for credits, from a time perspective was a huge mistake... I mean the game is p2w anyway with all those premium tanks... and most of them (better ones) you can not simply go & buy.

[@djrobbe]

Glorious to see a replay from this era! I started to play wot February 23 in 2013! And oh my this brings me back!

[@Rider-lx9fc]

I started playing WOT during update 0.8 , those were some good time at WOT for me

[@I-TENKING]

Shout out to your dedication, QB! As a retired wot tanker, you keep on to impress me! Cheerk

[@acebongboy]

Back then, we used to use the original "side scraping" to bog down enemy tanks. You'd drive side to side to inhibit their movement and just grind the hulls together to drop their movement down to next to nothing. That's how low-tier tanks fighting a Maus could survive -- it couldn't depress its gun enough against some tanks. Or you could lock down turretless TDs. I remember when people began using the term side scraping for shooting, and we were like, 'wtf are they talking about?' People used to call that angling or reverse angling.

[@Joseph-vv6nf]

I started playing back in mid 2012 and would definitely have to say peak WoT ended around 2016-2017 when more and more power creep started happening and the game just became less fun. Havent played in a number of years now but still watch your videos and Twitch streams

[@cruz0reu832]

Maybe not, but back in 2015/2016, before they pushed the limit with the 5A and SConq it certainly was.

[@lestuder]

2012 QB: "Clunky game? Let me ditch my PhD career and start streaming this!" 2024 QB: "Worth it!" 😁

[@NotlostMoon]

As someone who was playing ages ago(I believe I was only an early [Jan] 2014er), I have to say no. The lack of auto intuition and repair kits being automatic made it way more painful. While the average player was weaker, it also meant that spenders had big advantages. I do have to agree that it was almost unmatched year for year. Of course, modern wot has a lot of issues, such as the 30000000 overtuned premiums and relentless gold spam in every tier in every random battle, but I feel like the consumable and crew changes have been very nice. Not having intuition made either grinding a new crew hard or for new players gave them a huge disadvantage.

[@mattshalash]

I started playing in patch 8.2 and I was absolutely horrible at the game. Didn’t make it past tier 5 for over a year as a free player (also just didn’t really know the actual game progression). Still have memories of seeing my first KV1 and thinking wtf how does he have 640 HP?! Pre 8.6 was peak for me personally, before the first arty nerf. As I was playing on a very potato family laptop at the time, arty was one of the only classes I could play somewhat comfortably, and I loved the game. Of course I hated getting hit, but as others already mentioned, it’s so much nicer to just take 1000 damage in one shell from a t92 than it is to take it spread over 3 shells and three minutes, half of which are spent stunned. Made people think more about poking corners and map positioning to avoid arty shells. I still play now, but I always go back and watch some old Jingles videos and cry a little inside, wishing that I wasn’t 13 years old with no money to spend when I started playing, wishing I could take part in early CW and global map campaigns. Alas, all I can do now is play the game I once used to love and can’t seem to let go due to nostalgia. Playing WoT, and by extension watching jingles when I was younger actually helped me learn English as a language.

[@Ttran778]

I started playing World of Tanks back in 2012. I was still active duty. My goodness, where does the time go...

[@lynxxj]

WoT 2012-2015 will always be special place in my heart Thanks to WoT Developers for making the new game modes Frontline, SH, Mirny, Waffentrager events make the game even more fun and traditional for me.

[@mantelio9937]

Matchmaking, balance of the game was better, I remember when I joined in 2013, my friends were describing premium tanks as: "Great credit makers, but usually weaker than tech tree tanks". Other than that, graphics, physics of the game is way better now.

[@zeroyuki92]

Just saying that while premium tanks balance are definitely way better, but old version balancing of other tanks are very wack.

[@oleb.7146]

I started with WoT in 2012 and for me it was more fun than today. Gold ammunition was gold ammunition, and this was fine. Without physics the game was strange, you couldn't fall of a cliff, the game just stopped you instantly. Made a break from 2014 to 2023, but nowadays playin once a week or so...

[@leybean6033]

The main thing i miss is when HE was actually somewhat helpful for talkng out super heavily armored tanks. When derps were viable in most situations

[@doubleutubefan5]

2015-2017 was the BEST years of WOT there was a lot of new things coming in, lots of players, its was better then. now? yeah its a game that more polished but its and OLD game. so there's something to say there I got the game in the fall of 2014 after seeing an episode of Great tank bottles on TV history channel. Sadly The tank I wanted to get, M18 Hellcat, was NERFED that same week just days prior. never got to play the OG hellcat

[@suddenshotty]

2012-2016 WOT was my jam, I loved the hell out of it.. I used to remember all the tank names back then.. it was much easier to keep track. I remember playing on the US servers from Australia before SEA existed, the lag made the tank feel more authentic.. hah! I did like the clunkiness, tanks shouldn't be able to snap shot like they do in the game now. I'd have to agree 2016 was the peak.. :)

[@zathrustheone190]

Great video! I started playing in 2015 and I got to say WOT has come a long way! You have had a lot to do with that QB!

[@johnmoraitis5711]

I started playing WoT.. Hmm, somewhere in the 1st week of Sept. 2010... and still have been till nowadays. I wanted to feel the Thrill back in the day, the Hunt for the unique shiny medals, side by side with your Wingman, sharing the Victory and the Joy! Not just only the kills or the damage, as everyone is today. Clan Wars were a different case, more Strategic, Gold ammo was different, it was something like.. owning Gold Bars being rich in a way, back in the day. I miss those days... Loads and loads of good, nostalgic memories... and the Most important thing.. it was that you had the chance to meet new friends and still be with Them till.. Today! This is..Unique! 🏅

[@maracaibostar]

Back when I enjoyed A LOT playing light tanks since you can find yourself brawling with bigger and bigger tanks. T50-2 was a beast in good hands, Chaffee was the real Chaffee. But most of all armor had a meaning.

[@kirkmyers2116]

I wish I was playing in 2012. I kept seeing adds for wot but didn't have the time as my life was completely consumed by addiction, I was only on warcraft and that ended in 2013. I finally got my life back in 2017 and started gaming again. Got into tanks, ships and planes on 2022.

[@DodoHunter_]

just got goosebumps form the old music

[@Rebel_129]

Besides the polishing part of the game and QoL changes to the game it was so much better back in the days. Mainly because the tanks used to have meaning to their armour. When the armour basically went from “okay every tank has some weak spot” to “every tank is impenetrable or suffers to gold round spam” was when I stopped playing. Also the fact that premium tanks used to be worse counterparts to their equivalent that made more credits. I hated this change because it used to be in a way that when I encountered some strong tank facing me I felt motivated to start grinding that research tree and get that tank. When I lost that option because most strong tanks that looked fun to play were premium I knew that I don’t want to spend that much money just to have fun in a game since to grind some tank used to be fun in itself. After that I kinda lost the motivation to play because sure everybody who was paying had more fun but everybody else suffered.

[@jamesbotha2422]

Started playing WOT Blitz in 2018/9 and only started WOT 2021. So seeing these images, man, cannot imagine what it was like. Must say, very reminiscent to WOT Blitz graphics...

[@luisrichter7562]

we absolutely need to get wot classic back!!! i just quit playing wot 1 month ago and made my first account 2013, those were the golden times.

[@GrayWolfSif9451]

Yes well as a NA player we had about 40-60k players online back then. Meaning every teir was filled with a on of players. So if you were working on a tier 7 the majority of the matches were top tier or tier 8 with the rare occasion of tier 9 battles. Now in days you trying to grind a tier 7 you get into matches with op premium tanks which are now tier 8 and 9

[@johanleivasaldarriaga4366]

I started my account in March 2016, for like 4 months prior to that I was playing WOT Blitz, and I miss for those years is that there weren't that amount of op tanks, it was almost all tech tree... You really needed to know how to play your vehicle

[@AleksandarM987]

Playing since 2011. And yes. It all went down since they started take away all the tanks you honestly grinded and purchased. They took me WTE100 and SU-122-54, two of the best tanks I ever had. Instead of them they gave me some ripoff cheapo craps. I want my honestly deserved tanks back!

[@lucko1111]

Love these old replays and totally agree with the point made at around 17 minute mark.

[@A_Saddler]

I loved it when we had games like this. I quite WoT in 2012 though because of the insane arty damage back then, and the fact that it was pretty common to have 3-4 arties that could one-shot a tier 10 heavy.

[@ReFuGeEsPrAyEr]

The OG M24 with the +5 MM was OP as i think it was the last one standing of the 3 to be nerfed. 2014-2017 were the best years. It hurts to go back and dabble. The game feels like a husk of its former self.

[@stahl981]

I started playing in 2012 and i am still playing it... although the fun part is mostly gone, playing it from inertia, maybe? Definitely a bit of curiosity as to when they will balance the mm if ever. And also for the ever so rare ace medal games. I won't get into the gold ammo topic, all i have to add has been already said above. I will only say that i remember dearly logging in in the evening and the team channel was full with people, there were so many friends, you could fight clan battles or just platoon, we were gathered there from so many countries also... it made the evenings so much fun. Fun lasted up until 2014-2015, i'd say that was the core, the peak of people that were playing it back then. Aftwerwards, people stopped logging in, i also swapped some clans, but it was kind of same, i still have some of those friends in my list but they haven't logged on in years. Moved along. Even my friend who introduced me and mentored me to the game quit around 2016-2017, sold his main account.The game keeps on going with newer players and for me this shows a lot, quicker battles, zero strategy, one flank lemmings etc. Such a shame

[@sheabrockhoff2279]

Another thing hardly talked about is that the starting world of tanks had a much much higher ratio of real:fake tanks. In fact, most of the tanks in original world of tanks either did exist or had at least been prototyped. And this was a real driver in getting people interested in the game.

[@BruceTheSniper]

Compared to when the game was in beta, it's changed quite a bit. Overall it keeps getting better, even though at times became very frustrating with some changes making the game impossible to play certain classes.

[@cjian92]

1 unpopular opinion is, the imbalanced mm back then, (not 1:1 heavy to heavy, medium to medium matchmaking) is actually more unique. If you have all mediums vs all heavies, or you have more French autoloaders than the enemy team, you need to rush early game. These are imo some of the most fun I had in WoT, it is more team based, more tactical.

[@Seltheros]

There is a reason Classic team made a modpack resembling the 8.2 version. It was the best of the best. Graphics, sound, gameplay. 2012-2013 was peak World of Tanks, you could see it in advertisments, TV, etc. Without hesitation I would switch to it in an instant if WG (or smbdy else) would bring it back.

[@cliffrawson213]

Been playing since Feb 2013, vid sure is nostalgic and fun to think about the game back then. Music really brings the memories.

[@gazorgan]

Wow, really takes me back! All scouts lvl 4 anyone? Hanging over cliffs?

[@pipboy2k7]

Honestly, regarding the gold rounds, I'd very much prefer if they stayed for gold only. The amount of premium ammo flying through the air has been absurd back when WG made it available for credits and things only got way worse since then...

[@cbpldc]

I started playing in 2012. Then I quit for a while, just didn't have time to play video games. Then I came back a little before Covid, and I'm like, OMG, this game is now awesome!

[@TheLtVoss]

The mechanics and graphics for sure the meta not so much Back then you needed too learn the weak spots and aim properly now it is just lower plate and gold spam The pen indicator , op t8 premiums ,gold rounds without limitation and the slow removal of weakspots made the game worse The other stuff like physics the minimap circles etc were good but didn't save the fun that the previous noted thinks broke

[@theducking8827]

Everything was better in 2012, sound effects, no gold, diverse maps, no sweaty try hards (only a very small number of powerful well recognized clans such as otter, havok, G, purple, etc), no op premiums, and finally the EPIC opening and ingame soundtracks.

[@pauls3585]

I started September 2011. I'm not sure what were the good years, may be 2012-2013? There used to be fun 5 player competitions with gold rewards - from memory: Tier 5 and Tier 8 5 player comps. They also had competitions that had points based teams. For example; 30 tiers - you might take a few tier 8's, a tier 5 scout (ELC), a tier 5 arty etc. I remember a few games where we took a tier 1 tank because we only had 1 point left. They were fun games.

[@jannek5757]

I actually liked to go hunt with Tier5 light tank in T9-10 games :)

[@Trygvar13]

Oh how I miss the good old days. Back when the game was still good. And fun. It strated getting bad in 2015-2016 and has kept on getting worse. If I could chose which era to play it would definitely be 2011-2015.

[@jarpoog]

Those games during the early days, playing low tiers when no one knew how to play.. That was something else. :D Everyone rushed a single direction pew pew pew

[@swishthemtails5639]

I used to play on console before it was completely ruined in 2020, and similarly I agree that around 2016 was peak WOT. The game was really polished at that point but at the same time we didnt have the crazy amount of overpowered tier 8 premium tanks. I miss the days when people played more tech tree vehicles than premium ones, and it was a great achievement to reach the high tiers.

[@jagdpanzere.onehundred911]

I honestly prefer the physics, mechanics and mm (still sucks though) of modern WoT, but the balance of old WoT

[@idiocracy9530]

What i liked was the slower pace. The fact that gold in randoms was quite rare to see.

[@MaddEndd]

If they would bring back the 2012 version of this game, I would play it again. Much simpler, more focused on the battles instead of all the garage stuff.

[@w0lfyovi294]

My first account was in mid-2012 and I have been playing the game for much of the last 12 years ... my favourite time was from late 2012 to end of 2015. I agree with everyone that not being able to afford premium ammo even after switch to credits made me a better player and learning all the tanks weak spots. Matchmaking was brutal and arty was a killer but these days I feel like I am contributing a lot less to every random battle, I barely get more then 3K damage in most battles because its going so fast and I'm not getting any younger in terms of reflexes. I just finished griding all the tech tree tanks I am interested in and I have enough premium tier 8 tanks to be financially stable (half free half paid for) and most of my focus is on tier 9s and a handful of tier 10s for special events (Kran, TVP 50, Mino, Maus, WZ-114) and 2 tier 10s for pure fun (Sh!tbarn and IS-7 for ramming build). I am done paying Wargaming and grinding after this Xmas, just need to get around 20 million credits.

[@MarkyB-yf9xr]

Just that bit of music in the beginning made the hair on my neck stand up. Yes, I think it was better back then.

[@JuggsMX]

I was 12 years old when I started playing, I'm now 24 and I miss old WOT

[@janmatuszek1790]

I had to hold back a tear.

[@Balc0ra]

Oh I miss a few things about old WOT. But the 10 vs 10 arty matches, my tier 5 lights spotting for tier X, or playing a stock KV-1 vs the old T29 is not high up on my list of things I miss tbh

[@Phil926]

I started WOT in 2018 and it still costed gold for gold rounds. You are quite mistaken that they changed it to credits then. May have been +/-5 match making, but a tier 5 could actually pen a tier 10. Now with +/-3 match making, I've played games with my Patriot where, even with premium the pen indicator is showing orange on the bz176 lower glacis plate ... Both are tier 8. The average tier 6 has absolutely no chance against many tier 8s now.

[@MrCleman1]

That is bs. The change from gold to credits was with patch 0.8.1 which happened in late 2012. First of iggogled it and second I started WoT in early 2012 so I remember the game from bacvk then. It was in 2012, not 2018

[@Phil926]

@MrCleman1 I double checked my info and I do stand corrected. 2018 is when the option to buy premium with gold was eliminated but NOT when the option to buy with credits was added.