Why isn't WOT as popular in America?

Lert:   I don't really give a crap about the 'professional' side of this game. I'm nowhere near good enough to be relevant there. Personally I would think that the game balance and RNG are what stands in the way of WoT being a competitor in pro-gaming more than WG-NA having a clan offer a small virtual-currency reward for kicking them off of a virtual piece of pixel land ... I still see absolutely nothing wrong with that. In-game gold =/= real money. I realize you mean the campaign rather than pro-gaming, but - tbh - what's the problem with what they did during the campaign?   As for cheating - I don't know whether or not they have ways of detecting illegal mods. I've not seen any actual evidence either way and I'm going to take claims for as well as against this with a grain of salt. I do know that they randomly pick replays to check and if they see anything they can't explain within the rules of the game, that clan is getting punished. This has happened to several clans.   Finally, as far as cheating goes - by making everything that matters (camouflage / spotting, pen RNG, reload, dam RNG, armor functionality, mobility, aiming, in-game currencies, etc) server-side, WG has made WoT as much 'hack proof' as is possible in this day and age. Yeah illegal mods exist. Always will. But the benefit they offer is meager at best. Anything offering free gold, free premium time, etc etc, is 99.9% likely just a key logger / trojan.