Dear EU-Team: We Want Type 59 In The (Gift) Shop!

Ectar:   It's never been available in any region. Not even WG employees have it on their accounts.  

Ectar:   3 mediums of any tank can do the exact same in the same level battles. With the Type 59's it is/was popular with experienced players as their main "go to" tank to generate extra credits.  If you took the same 3 players and put them in any other tier 8 medium the battle results would pretty much be the exact same depending on the map. It's good because it can fulfil multiple roles but doesn't exactly excel in all those areas (for example it's never been good for long range sniping).  It's best role is when used to flank or when to push with heavy tanks as it's manoeuvrable and it still capable of bouncing shots when using terrain to your advantage.  I've said it multiple times in the past and I'll say it here. I'd still take a Pershing over a Type 59 every time.    The Type 59 was last on sale over 2 years ago when a lot of the community wasn't in high tiers and for many players seeing one in battle, it was more likely to be high tier for them. Most players didn't have tier 8 or 9 themselves so they were seeing the Type 59 as a tier 6 or 7 tanks.  Before I started working for WG in May 2012 I had an account with over 2500 battles and my 3 tier 8 tanks only had about 50 battles each.  People didn't know where to shoot it and many players would simply mistake it for a T-54 and try to avoid it.  Basically it was a totally different game over 2 years ago than it was now.