How EXPENSIVE is World of Tanks? 

QB, please make this video an annual tradition. It would be great to see a summary every year of how the presented prices increase/decrease according to WG

I do NOT want to know how much money I spent on this game during the last 12 years :D . I would question the financial sense of my life so far as well as my sanity :D

I only buy the loot boxes at christmas. I spend $100 bucks and use my gold to buy premium account when it goes on sale. I stopped paying $50 for individual premium tanks years ago. I'm a 10 year vet, Ive spent about $1.5k over that time. Sounds silly for a video game but consider this; everyone has a hobby, whether its skiing, collecting wine or go karting. You'd spend that money anyway.

One big caveat on the gold from lootbox item is that if you are not a collector the value from gaining gold is less because you will be getting the new tanks and not their gold value to start with.

One small thing I think is worth pointing out for the Econo and Whale player: 250 Loot boxes should get at least 169 days of premium, and three full battle passes should provide an extra 207 days of premium. plus any premium from the two special passes. so those players can reduce their costs slightly by not actually needing to purchase a premium day.

Iam a free2player since 2013 i dont regret it. Respect to the players that spend money so i can keep playing for free. Thank you 😊

Christmas 2020 when I was introduced to the game I spent just over £300 on large boxes and since then I have never ran out of premium days since as every xmas I get a certain amount of large boxes every year, this year I spent £177 and i still have well over a year worth of premium. I mostly get 14k gold a month when i'm low. I don't drink or smoke so this is my only vice and i'm quite happy doing it.

to be fair... WG is developing allot of new content, very often. You could spend the same ammount per month on drinks at the bar. Depends on what you want.

My biggest one time purchase was Bourrasque 30 Euro and I felt filthy but it was worth it. It was a great help in Frontline.

It costs your sanity.

Starting an EU account and playing for free really is a lot tougher than it looks if you have all those premiums on another account. You know which ones you like and which ones are good credit makers, so it makes it tough when you know you have to miss out on it. Makes the grind much more annoying and makes it feel a lot longer.

I've been playing for 10 years now. There has been a lot of years I didn't play much. But I all ways played with premium. But what I spent thousands on was premium tanks and later on just paying to skip the grind just paying for experience for tanks. But just recently I realized that specials like Xmas boxes are the only way to go for gold and credits. I've been missing out all these years. P.S. I spent around 250 on Xmas boxes and ended up with 40k gold and all the new tanks not to mention the credits. Amazing.

Eight years playing this game I have not spent one dime on pixels

And here is me being a free 2 play player... playing this game for 2 years now and yes I don't have all tanks in the game but i got some of the most competitive tanks(tier 9, 10)and equipped it with bond and bountry equipment with best crews and i enjoy as mush as any highly paid player😊😊😊

I like these kind of videos. The scary moment is how much time we invested in this game.

Crazy when you consider how little they do to improve random battle mode. (the core game)

So you can actually request a report through WG/ie submit a ticket that will give you a spread sheet with every chat message you've sent and all purchases you've ever made. I was shocked at how much I've spent over the last decade +. Let's just say it's enough for a down payment on a decent mid size family saloon.

There was another way for purchase gold with a discount. You get sometimes a 30% coupons / Discounts for the premium shop. I used to buy the löwe every time i got this discount. You bought it with 30% discount but got the complete gold compension for the tank. Wg changed it a year ago so i dont know anymore how much i payed for 1 gold with this way.. but i am sure it was a good deal. Now you get only 70% of the gold value of the tank you buy this way.

I had this question on my mind and you made a whole video on it! Thanks.

According to your 250 Box Opening 2 weeks ago, its about 260 Box needed to get hands on 140k gold. Its a lot of money to pay at once.

In my country, min wage is around 400 £, the median wage around 665 £ per month. Probably not too many tank collectors here :D

Yeah, Just blow 100 bucks at Christmas and let that be it. The last time I did that it lasted me 18 or 20 months with all the extra days you get. In the last year I imagine you could stretch that to a full 2 years. But since I don't feel the desire to ruin my experience by grinding through tanks that are no fun to play, I just stick with the ones I do have fun with. And with all the blue prints I randomly get I've free-XPed up a few lines each year without any grinding. Play to have fun, not to get pixels. You'll have a much better experience.

I'm a tank nerd, that's why I started playing WoT 10+ years ago. $ is tight, so the only time I spend $ in WoT is on the Holiday Boxes, probably same for many. But if WG wants me to spend more on Holiday boxes, like QB says - best time to get gold for premium days, then they better fix their tank balance (nerf those OP prems like BZ176, Bourrasque, leFH, etc.), and their MM (incl. player recent performance/winrate) so we don't keep getting miserable experience like constant 3-15,

I honestly forgot some of the tanks I picked up this year and had to go look. I apparently missed the last batch of waffen boxes because I didn't have any of those tanks. I did not get the 283 which still makes me mad. Thanks for the video QB!

A big value of WOT+ is free movement of Bounty equipment. After 3 Battle Pass seasons I have 2 Bounty duplicates for 6 pieces of equipment. Using a equipment move modification I now have Bounty equipment on every tank, every slot!!

Playing for Free is hard, but I find it more satisfying.

You used to be able to get way more premium time free, if and only if you played Warships as well. Missions in both games really added up. Once they changed the multi-game premium I stopped buying it as I play games as I feel like it and if I didn't feel like tanks for a few weeks, at least the premium time was still in warships for me and the other way around.

Very interesting! To complement this study another interesting question would be how much it would cost to get a full (as full as one can get at this point) garage if one would by everything straight up from wargaming?

I've done this for the last few years now, buy around 200-300 boxes depending on what packages they have available. It then funds my entire year of world of tanks, prem days at 500+ gold at 150k, etc

Cost me nothing. Played from beta and quit like 10yrs ago. No competition when you got money your playing against. Game is one sided. Fix that so non paying players get matches against the same and id play again. That and the fact that people suck in this game with the crap they spew out of the mouths.

Thanks QB, I Spent $200 bucks for the winter game, but your videos helped me manage that this is the GOLD to buy Battle Pass as well as JUST in CASE buys. I'm an ECO player

So I did a quick calculation based on QB stats to remove some of the double counting. A tank collector needs to buy 279 christmas boxes (240+25+11+3 = 302.78 pounds). Essentially you would have needed 134500 gold (everything except prem time) as a tank collector in addition to 383.16 pounds for the stuff that must be payed for in cash (Wot+ and all the box content excluding the 5 Christmas box tanks). This would take 251.8 christmas boxes (which gets you the 5 tanks as well 176 days of premium time). If you buy prem time in 30 day bundles then each additional box contains 6.41 days of premium (gold + premium time) which means you need an 26.6 boxes for a total of 278.4 boxes which rounds up to 279.

0:53 I play since 2014 and I disagree. Due to credit inflation (partly due to everyone getting free premium days) gold spamming became far more common, to the point of you being disadvantaged if not doing the same, even down at tier 5. And back when I started premium vehicles were mostly known for earning more credits, not dwarfing the tech tree tanks by being simply overpowered compared to them. It's not just the unstock grind and worse crews which causes first non-arty tank at tier 8 when sorting by WR to be at almost 100th position.* This is also same reason why MM contains less and less tech tree vehicles, especially at tier 8 - why bother playing a statistically worse vehicle being less able to afford spamming gold? I recall having problems with credits in 2014-2017 due to grinding many lines in parallel, but I also remember not having to load any gold ammo and staying competitive in a tech tree tank both against same tank and premium tanks of same tier. I would probably not stay with the game if it looked in 2014 like it looks today - now I can survive because I already have tier 8 premiums and I simply know the game well enough to play above average, but newbie me would be utterly crushed by gold spam and no-food distadvantage.

I've been strictly F2P for MANY years. What frustrates me is not so much the pay aspect (they gotta make money) but the level of disparity between tech tree and premium. And most of the premium vehicles you can earn for free can't compete with the ones you can only get with gold.

Just spend 300€ on Xmas boxes and get yourself 2-3 Premium tanks that are full meta and good credit grinders per year. Use the gold for the battle passes and moving crews up tech trees. at 600€ you come out at 50€ per month. What others play on a fitness studio. You could reduce that to 15€ or 30€ per month as you like. It solely depends on you how much space you want to give WoT as a hobby in your life.

The answer is simple - zero. However, before I bought some large boxes occasionally, it felt fair - as a donation to keep the servers running, bu this year they cost more, thus I'm buying none.

I think I spent money on WoT for the first time on this Holiday Ops. I got nearly 10k gold for 28 boxes + the calendar one. I got a Type 63 (yerk) and bought an ELC EVEN 90 with the rest. I think it's a nice reward for a whole FTP run on the game and intend to do the same next year !

I have a full account with 530days of premium time, all tech tree tanks, most Premium tanks, 40k gold, 200million of credits, 3 million of free xp, 200k bonds. And I have a free to play account. You know which account makes more fun? The free to play account. My standard account is so boring as I have basically everything. Sounds like a contradiction, but if you think about it, it makes sense.

Generally, the only thing I pay for is premium time. While I have bought 5 tanks over the last 10 years, they've always been on sale. The most I spent was during the Xmas sale two years ago when I splurged on the AMX 13 57, the Vanguard, and the Panzer V/IV. The Vanguard was the most expensive at about $15. Many years ago, I bought the Pz S35 for a few bucks, as well at the American T14 for about $5. I don't think I'll be buying any more tanks, even on sale.

It costs your sanity and isn't even a good game because of teammates at the end of the day. Can't buy those.

Hi QB, u have a safe and happy holidays and merry Christmas to u and the whole family.

Would consider myself between the Economy player and Whale. Been playing for 12 years (off/on), average player, have all tech tree researched. I spend $180 a year on loot boxes and get all the new tanks, 70k gold, over 150 premium days. With that gold I purchase all Battle Pass premium. Gaining more. All-in-all that is ALL I spend a year on the game and have most everything.

£1k a year: insane. I’m free to play and have no issues. I could up my winrate by a couple % if I spent money on the game. But who cares about that? I’m at about 53% right now so that’s fine with me

You mention that you (of course) get gold from the boxes, but you don't mention that they also drop premium time which also reduces the amount you need to buy.

I bought Skorpion with gold and IS-5 from bond shop, and only play when events are happening like december period. I have 2 tier X, and 2 tier VIII, playing only on holidays for 4 years, and i am not complaining

buying in-game content in argentinian prices will save you roughly 70% of the money you would've spent regularly. be careful though cause you might get banned if you use this method.

I've spent a few hundred on this game over 12 years, I felt embarrassed that if others knew, they would think I'm crazy. Now we know the truth, there's a hell of a lot more crazier people than me.

The difference is in the period the player plays. After a few years it is much easier and cheaper, when you accumulate everything. Be sure to buy at discounts and play every day, you can get premium days and other bonus equipment.

I bought 160 boxes (275$can) and got 62 000 gold, 100 days of premium, all 5 premium tanks and over 8m in credits. 275$ for the whole year is kind of an amazing value considering most AAA cost as much as 80$ and barely last 30 hours.

I am an Eco player, I get enough loot boxes to get all the tanks at Christmas. And that usually gives me a ton of premium also, and enough for the battle oasses through the year. I may do an assembly shop or auction vehcile here or there but not consistent.

I'm more in the economy player category. I buy the improved battle passes each season, and the extra chapter on occasion. I didn't get either of the ones this year since they didn't interest me at all. During the Waffentrager event, I usually spend about twenty dollars to get some crates, just to see if I get lucky. I've been pleasantly surprised by the WT boxes, because I've been getting almost double my money's worth in goods from them. The only other time that I spend money is the Christmas loot boxes, because me and a friend of mine gift them to each other. I would say on average, I spend about ~$270 a year on World of Tanks. However, the way I see it, I'm getting more worth from in-game goods than the money I spend... so it is a win-win to me. Also, WOT is the only online game I really spend money on besides Hunter: Call of the Wild.

You forgot the community contributor commanders. I spent like $180 on them and right before the Christmas loot boxes.

Though, I do agree with you on the Holiday Ops 4 Tanks, that you needed to only buy a maximum of 200 boxes to make sure you got all of them, the actual number would be 250, as the GSOR 1010 was included as well, and not everyone had that wheeled tank yet. Myself and a friend of mine is included in that. Though, funnily enough, I bought 28 boxes for my friend, and he was incredible lucky, getting 4 of 5 prem tanks from it, the only one he didn't get, was the Tiger-Maus. Though, for myself, I got myself a total of 188 boxes (160+28) and got all 5 premiums + a few of the new and old 3D skins (got both of the artillery 3D skins). But definetly, my friend got the best value out of the 28 boxes.

Been playing since Beta in 2010, have all tech trees fully researched. Currently have 905 days of premium time from Christmas loot boxes, Normally don't put any money into the game unless I need to (spent $20 recently on the new German medium because I got tired of the grind for it) and spend $100 yearly on the Christmas loot boxes each year-this year I got all the new tanks and most of the cooler skins. Not a bad trade off or investment for a game I play an hour or two nearly every day.

Besides paying 22500 for premium Battle Pass, you can also pay real money ($40?) but you also get 4500 (?) gold.

I have never spent a dime. And I’ve been doing pretty good so far.

I rather get real money by "playing" in real life and get entertainment value from QBs RU-vid videos. Cheers mates, stay safe.

yeah but new HE mechanics makes us Free to play players to press the "2" button and use Gold , even if its not with true money

I buy the Holiday boxes and that is it for the year unless I grab a premium tank. I might do a BP season, but it's not too important.

nice break dow ... but remember, when you are "collector" and started not long time ago with this, you easily can spend even more on the boxes to get the new tanks. you need far more boxes as you might need even more boxes as you have to have all other, recurring tanks to be sure to aquire the new ones... so never sell an unused old premium tank tier 8 or higher

I know I’ve spent too much money on this game, and every year I say “ this is the last time!” whilst pulling out my credit card…😅

I don't know, WoT NA was pretty F2P when they gave out tier 8 rentals every week xD. Also it's super nice that you can buy premium tanks outright for bonds.

I am now opening a notepad to keep track of what I spend on the game. If you were to make this an annual video, some viewers could submit their 'receipts' as a comparison

I bought the big lootbox package last year and the gold, premium days etc lasted all year. (i got extra premium days from event and battle pass) But i didn't get all the black market tanks etc. just the loot box tanks the improved battle pass tanks. other than that a lot of the gold went to purchase old premium tanks inside the in game store when they were sold for gold. So getting lootboxes for xmas is enough to play wot very comfortably. (dont even know if you need to get the big bundle)

I'd be interested in a video talking about takeaways from World of Tanks when the game comes to an end. Is there a sensible way to get some value back from all time and funds invested into this decade long adventure? I think it would be good to have a discussion about a possible WoT 2, and the ways it would be possible for all long time players to have some of their legacy turned over to the new era. We see this theme is a hot topic a lot in long-running games, par example GTA Online which is also ancient by today's standard also has whole crowds wondering how all their progress, achievements, cars, and ingame money would see a place in the new GTA VI Online.

Also major note buying premium at black Friday providesfurther reduction to year of premium by 50% less so its only 12k gold gor the year so about £1.50 a month

I spent £85 on Loot boxes in 2019 and that was the last (significant) spend on this game. The premium I bought with the gold lasted 18 months. I now have 480 tanks in my garage including 137 premium/reward tanks and every single Tech Tree Tier 10. This year WG gave me an 89% discount on boxes and so I spent the 85p and got 4. Yesterday I decided to spend another £2.90 on 800 gold and that meant I had enough to buy 1 month of premium. By grinding credits I've made 30 Million this christmas.

In the last 2,5 years I spend £2100 and I don't know for what 😂

That is pretty accurate. I pay for most everything since I don't play enough to grind jack. In 2023 I've spent $1,401.87. Sitting on 1,335 premium days and 166,380 gold as of this morning.

While he was going down the line of new premiums that were released in boxes I was like, wait I have those tanks, oh and those tanks too! Did I really buy all those boxes 😂😂

I bought the £0.89 4 box bundle, that was available recently, didn't buy any others as it's not worth it. Ended up with the x66 on the first box

On my "for fun" account, I bought and E25, a T-34-3, and a Lt-432. (I don't think I paid full price for any of them, but can't remember exactly..) But even if I did, these are the 3 tanks that meet all my playing needs. E25 is the most fun tank in the game, because you can simply dominate - it's my best tank for carrying 14 bad teammates. T-34-3 is really weird, as it's not particulary a great tank. I think the beauty is, that because it's not a great tank, you have to relax and play smarter. It rewards you heavily for doing so. And doing well in a so-so tank is just rewarding. The Lt-432 is also super fun to play. Good speed. Good dpm. Good armor (for a light tank). - Thing is, I don't ever have to buy gold. I don't need premium days. I never grind. I don't care about the events, or getting goodies. Sure, there is a 'slow bit' at the front while you equip/train crew up. But really, that goes pretty darn fast. - At the end of the day, having these 3 tanks just allows me to log on, hit the battle button, and have fun driving tanks...

If everyone plays for free, they would be out of business on the end. If you like the game and wanna support them, I think you have a wot premium account minimum. The rest is optional . With no support, there would be no content, no updates, and no developments. Just look at the random effects recently. How much time and money went into it. We spent the money, but you see where the money goes as there are always new tech tree tanks maps rebalanced etc....

Ah, yes! It's not a REAL video game until one has to bust out Excel and the calculator app! 😆

Time spent playing WOT is time where you don’t risk degrading your health, risk injury or catch viruses. Cheap at twice the price,right?

Hi @QuickyBaby nice video, I think you might have missed the fact that when an economy player buys boxes and participates in some of the events and collects some drops on twitch, you can easily get 365+ premium days. I buy 100E worth of boxes to get enough gold to buy 3x improved battlepass and 'cap out' on premium days. So for 100E I get a full year of premium, a few free Tier 8 tanks, all the bonusses from the boxes and improved battlepasses, and even some gold to spare

You have the free to play account since 2018 ... Damn that means i am following your content at least for 8 years now Feeling old now mate

I don't mind spending money as it supports the game but these days it is mainly the Christmas Boxes and little else for the rest of the year.

9 years and about 268 premium tanks =crazy collector

Im not sure if 360 days of premium is wort it. Most of the days I only have time to play like 5 battles. And if I know I have a lot of time, I purchase some premium time.

You have to have the time to participate on the events. That's an important fact. You forgot Amazon Prime goodies. But I really liked this break down! Incredible expencive. I would consider myself to be a player who wants to have the economical advantages and from time to time a new premium tank, that a fair price I would say for a game I played the entire last year.

Just make an exel table with invoice sums for the year mate.... eazy AF

As always free to play games are the most expensive ones ^^ Most painful for me personally is the amount of crews I have to throw away becuase I dont have enough space :(

I'm a returning player. I bout 90 days prem like 5 months ago. N I have over a year now. Thats because of boxes but before boxes cane out I had over 200 days left

Wargaming has roughly 100€ from me. It's the most i've ever spent on a video game and that was where I drew the line.

7:34 Not sure if someone had already pinpointed this,, but you forgot to account the 56 yp "marathon", which would boot up the price even a bit more

Good job explaining a complicated game.

I feel like I am not the target group of WG. I only bought extended battle passes and loot boxes and everything else feels like a poor deal to me. I bought 50 boxes and got a tier9 premium (40-50€), 30d premium (10€) and 40-ish€ worth of gold. So I got ~100-110€ worth of content for 80€, not including all the other items. So why should I spend 40€ on a single vehicle?

why does 1000€/year or 85€/month sound kinda reasonable. cause the only reason you would pay that much is if you play actively

Video Idea: How much more time does it cost to level a t10 tank if playing f2p.

I'd baulk at whaling if I could see that headline figure... And yet I'll still spend it.

Im honestly thinking of getting back into WoT, but not right now.

Bought christmas boxes for 2 years. Got IS3A, GSOR TD. Thrn cant be arsed anymore Still got the gold leftover. Forgot how i got a kv 220 2 but i just play it for giggles now during Xmas ops so i dont lose credits spamming apcr

Honestly just get 80 boxes on christmas. That way you should be able to get like 40k Gold, which is neough to get all BP + marathons. Then you should get around 60d of premium + prem from BP and you should be fine for the year with around 100€

Surely the collector will be lower since they can get the eco stuff with the gold from xmas boxes ?

I got all the new tanks within the first 20 boxes of the 80 I bought, Tiger Maus was on the 2nd box i opened, then everything else fell in

Only value I add is not $'s but just a body bag for most games for others to benefit.

I am actually shocked at how much this costs… I thought it would be WAYYYY MORE!

I quit the game because I couldn't justify the cost. Having to buy loot crates and new premiums to stay competitive, timed battle pass events that I couldn't always complete due to time constraints, WoT premium account, etc., enough was enough and I just quit. Probably spent $200 on it as well.

I am a console player. I have been playing WOT's since the 360(9+ yrs on different profile's) and in that time I have earned 130+ premium tanks, i have only bought maybe 3 or less with gold. I do spend $ on the game to buy the 6k gold season pass and get tank skins at the end. But yeah it can get expensive if you spend $ on the game.