T-59. Adding insult to injury

Ectar: The Type 59 was last sold over 3 years ago. 3 year guys. Think how much all of you have learned in that time and think of the spread of tanks now. The Type 59 was the only high tier medium available to buy and 3 years ago there was no where near as many high tier tanks as there is now.  We only started doing high tier discounts roughly 2 years ago which has helped many players advance up the branches. 3 years ago many of the great players were quite frankly, noobs. You didn't have streamers our youttubers telling you what to do or how to play. The only person really making content then for EN speaking players was Highflyer15 with his youtube videos.   People didn't know where to shoot the Type 59 and many people didn't have the equal tier tanks (never mind higher tier tanks) to deal with it, it quite often got top tier matchmaking. It has limited MM so won't face tier X unless in a troll platoon. It's not been a victim of stealth nerfs - More simply the community learning and growing the past 3 years on how to deal with it and being given a variety of tanks to choose from to help them deal with it. To compare the tank as it is now, to how it was 3 years ago when it was last sold (roughly April 2012) you have to also compare the skill level of the players using it, and for many players the crutch mods they now rely on to help them play.