How isn't WoT Pay2Win?

It is pay2win. Whenever I see 2k wn8 guys playing type 59s or non premiums like T-54s firing nothing but gold thinking they're good when in fact they're just paying a shitton of money to afford the goldspam. No, you're not good, you just throw money at the game and in return it tells you Oh, you o good, yes yes, here new shiny premium to pwn noobs you'll buy it.

These 2k wn8 shitheads (not everyone with good stats) who spam gold, and I know they do because whenever I play a scout they shoot nothing but gold even at me, their real stats are at least half of what its shown. They skip grinds entirely by pumping money into the game, so no bad wn8 or whatnot because they just skip the shitty grinds, they either cut them in half (Premium account) or simply skip them, buying gold, converting and freexping everything.

Any E-100 with top gun's argument for spamming HEAT? It has no pen, it has more than enough if you'd actually aim, but hell, why waste time aiming and risking taking too much time getting out of cover when you can just click them? RHM borsig with top gun and gold spam, any low pen/high alpha tank with gun choices that say high alpha+low pen OR high pen/decent alpha, with gold it unbalances it to simply HIGH everything.

Scouts are great for wn8 pad, I play tier 8s without using gold (have very few rounds because I can't pen sides of some tier 10s, but use them very rarely) you need some gold rounds in a few cases but there are these players that load up only gold, and of course you're good if you autopen almost anything without even tying, without having to do the roles of a light tank, without having to flank and this translates into high wn8/self esteem for some.

I play scouts struggling to pen, bouncing shots but still rack up 2-4k wn8 games, sometimes even 12+k wn8 games. Now think of pay2win people, they see the huge damage/wn8 potential of using nothing but gold and go for it, you can't afford losing 20-30k credits each game with a standard account (even a premium) without also buying more credits/gold/premium tanks to farm credits, so you are padding safely and getting that I can own everything feeling.

I'm not saying everyone with good stats does that, no, but there are quite a lot that do so and realistically speaking are shit if they remove gold. Think of this, you get test server credits/gold/free xp (which could be achieved if you pumped a shitload of cash into the game) will you outperform a standard account? If the answer is yes, it is pay2win.

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