WOT status conclusions

eekeeboo: As an analyst you will also be aware that the importance of analysis is having as much information as possible. In a non-negative way, you unfortunately do not have all that information on the trend. Yes player numbers are less than they were a few years ago.    But over-all why can that be? Causes? How does balancing actually affect that? Compare that with a natural life cycle of a game etc.    Once you consider all that you then have to look at the fact, realistically a game can literally only be played by so many people for so long, part of WoT isn't just the way you balance but the way you can encourage new players to join and keep them, above all this, not just the number of players but the number of people who will also invest in your game unless you want to run on advertising.