Is there seriously no damn way to get WOT to play replays from one patch ago?

DeviouslyCursed:  And in typical fashion, you spout off without knowing what you are talking about. They opted for a replay that gives all the data for the match (or at least what your client had access to), and you can look around and see things you weren't looking at before. The replay is actually recreating the game environment. In order to do that, it needs the same game client the replay came from. If they had made it into a simple replay clip, you could always watch them, but you would only ever be able to see what your screen showed while you were recording. Similar to if you used a recorder of your own. Their replays are vastly superior to a lot of replay systems, but the result is the replaying client must be the same as the recording client.