Rein in the gold

montaillou, on Dec 23 2018 - 05:04, said: Gold rounds are just becoming too prevalent.   People say arty ruins this game, frankly I think it's gold rounds.  The cost doesn't mean anything to anyone that doesn't care about spending money to win!   I won't bother playing my tier 10 heavy, or buy anymore tier 10 heavies because almost everyone in an all tier 10 match uses gold and then armour is almost worthless.  Lately I've been seeing more and more gold show up in lower tier matches.  And just like in the all tier 10 matches armour on tanks is useless most of the time.   If WoT is at a point when paying customers can support the entire game then, do nothing and rake in the fat stacks of cash.  But, if you still need free-to-play players, you might want to look at some other options because people like myself (and I have paid some money in the past, but I don't throw money at the game) will begin to leave because we're tired of playing against pay-to-win players.   And I'm sure someone will say that not all gold shells land, and some do bounce, but on average they will more easily pen (and I mean EASY) a tank with a modicum of aim.  It's like when armies moved from the longbow to the crossbow and any idiot can use a crossbow.