World of Tanks is one of the worst games I've ever played. It may be a bit odd on how it's the worst considering my odd taste in games, but this travesty of a game fails so badly at being good.
First, its marketing is very misleading to the actual experience itself. It presents itself as a fast paced action shooter experience, but instead it's a slow boring game that has a serious power creep issue.
My second reason is the before mentioned power creep, and all of that can be blamed on the horrible matchmaking the game has. The matchmaking worked back in 2010, but 2023 doesn't accept matchmaking like this anymore. A tier 6 can get into a game with a tier 2, is that telling you anything?
This horrid excuse of a game is also extremely pay to win. It's so pay to win, it's ridiculous! You can get these special shells that cost gold, and the only way to get gold consistently is to pay for a premium subscription. You also get all of these overpowered tanks that easily overpower the tanks you get when playing normally.
I made a video playing this horrible game for the first time and that was fine right? Nope! The video was 2 hours long, and all of that time was beating the tutorial... With the cherry on top being the fact that the game doesn't tell you half the stuff it's supposed to. Apparently there was a second part to the tutorial that you can unintentionally skip, that second part once completed gives you about 1000 gold. So you miss an extreme reward because the game refuses to tell you anything! All to make kids get mommy's credit card so they can increase sales. Speaking of that, did you know that in order to change your username, you need to pay 2500 gold? You heard that right! They somehow made a game that's more grind built and paid to win than the entirety of Clash of Clans! And that's some dangerous levels of greed!
Avoid this game at all costs, it's really bad and doesn't deserve anything it has received.