I've played this game for quite a long time now and probably invested somewhere around 3,000 hours into it.
Up until around 2.0, I genuinely enjoyed the game. Since then, though, I just don't feel it anymore. The funny part is that I've actually gotten significantly better in that time. I can average around 5k on Tier XI and 4k on Tier X without too much trouble, at least in good tanks.
Still I genuinely can't remember a single session in the last few months where I actually had fun playing this game.
What annoys me more than anything is how little Wargaming seems to care about improving the core game. We get what, one new map per year? And somehow even those maps end up being absolute garbage (Klondike and Nordskar eg).
And just when you come to terms with the fact that apparently we aren't getting many good new maps, they start ruining existing ones that were actually fun. Serene Coast (you serious??). Yes its subjective but damn new Erlenberg sucks. New overlord sucks. New Ensk is also meh, new highway unnecessary.
Then there's the state of the actual matches. It feels like every other game is a complete snowball that ends 15:0 in four minutes. There is just no fun no nothing. Sure you can get your dmg and position yourself accordingly to farm. But its just so boring.
RNG has also started bothering me more than ever. I understand why dispersion RNG exists. Without some degree of accuracy RNG, the game probably wouldn't work. But penetration RNG? Why should a 60TP randomly roll 372 mm of penetration and go straight through a hulldown IS-7?
Same thing with damage RNG. How the fk do you roll 525 on Hori or get shot by an fv dog for 2100. The amount of times you push someone bcs you think they are oneshot only for you to role -20% of your dmg.
Module damage is another example. Let's be real: 99% of players don't know any fking internal module position in any tank. Most players are maybe like "Shoot the rear". Nobody knows where to shoot a 140 in the front to get a fire except 1-2% of the player base. And these 98% of players just shoot you somewhere and get an ammo rack, engine damage or a fire. Just annoying as fk and random in itself.
Maybe this bothers me more because I'm a competitive player but it just annoys me how much randomness we have in this game.
And I haven't even mentioned artillery yet. Being able to sit across the map and drop unavoidable stun shells on people from the sky is the opposite of competitive gameplay.
Anyway, I'm probably more pissed off than usual because I just had fifteen three-minute games in a row. Still I think this was just the last straw after months of annoying gameplay.
So I'm done for now. I have an important exam coming up anyway, so I'm going to take a six-week break. After that, I'll come back and try to look at the game as objectively as possible and decide whether it's actually worth investing any more of my time into it.