I rate this game negative albeit I intend to play it further a bit and had some fun with it. It can be fun and is challenging but there are many negative aspects. - Pay to win. All currently available DLC's cost you 223,94 €. You get 4 or 5 AAA Titles for that. - There is a short Tutorial but the game is very complex and most things are unexplained. The Wiki is mostly in russian language. - Grind. All you do is to level up different ships to get a better one with slightly improved stats. rinse and repeat. - You can loot occassionaly usefull things for a certain module but since there are so many modules you can rarely update the stuff you need right now. - Balancing. The balancing is NOT for a fun game experience but solely for generating money for the developers. You will see MANY artifical walls which restrict you from progress when you don't want to pay the "incredible" prices for things that should be in there right away. this appears like extortion to me. And this will never end...

You would think with almost 1500 hours and at least a third of that being money invested I'd rabidly defend this game, but I am not happy with the development direction. I'll probably still play for as long as I can considering what I've invested already, but . . . This game has long deviated from what made me fall in love with it. Remnants are there but I can't help but comparing. What I really take issue with is how I see customers getting treated. Not me specifically, I am the way I am and I've just learned to accept any incoming consequences as a fact of life, to brush them off, and just keep going, but other people who go into things with a certain set of assumptions about their investment both time and money wise . . The latest example would have to be the transition from destroyers to alien ships. I am not a person who likes the idea of destroyers in the game as it has been put into practice. On paper great, but initially they were very strong. Yes they had events to get these...

This is not simply a Pay2Win game. This is a Keep Paying 2 Win. The concept is the next. Make everything available for free but hide it behind a huge grindwall. Recipie: - Add new unbalanced OP content - Make it available immediately for money and put it behind a huge grindwall for free users - Until the average user get the content balance it - Add new OP content and repeate the process The game had an awesome concept during the beta. After the devs implemented all their good ideas, they started to impelent the bad ideas as well. I don't say the game is not enjoyable sometime, but some of the content is seriously unbalanced, all the new ingame content cost crazy expensive and you have no option to buy it on a fixed price. (Some ships cost 2-300 EUR if you want to get it from the lottery packages whats the only way to get it.) Even if the devs made some good steps to support teamplay (again), its still far from the version what they had 4exampel in 2014. The new OP alien ship ...

Mmmmmmmmmmm no. This Pay to Win situation has got to stop for the free to play bullshit. If you are going to do that shit in a free to play game then make it to where the players who dont want to spend money dont get over ran by people who do. OR Just straight up make your whole game $60 for everything then, boom magic -- everyones fucking happy. -1000/10. Nice graphics, and gameplay though.

I can only recommend this game if you like to spend hundreds of Euros (unless you are Russian because then you probably can get GS dirt cheap) with every update or like to grind for hundreds of hours just make a little progress (or no progress because the developer likes to rework the game often wiping out your progress). Patch 1.6.3c is so far the worst update as increased the xenochip required for each step in phase 3 of the moonrace event to 150 while the curve for gaining them remained the same which means you will have to play/grind twice as much as in the previous phase just to get the extra 30 chips (you have to factor in that Open Space missions are refreshed every few hours so if you complete them early on you may have to wait hours for them to spawn again) But the updates didn't stop there they introduced "amazing" quality of life things like: -You cannot use your duplicators anymore to respawn in Open Space or missions but have to shell out credits (up to 5 or 6 figures depe...

Well, I decided to buck the disturbing trend in reviews, talking about this game as overly money-hungry, pay-to-win, and overly poor in the balance department. I even plopped down over $100 for myself and my family for premium accounts, since progress without premium is incredibly, mind-numbingly slow, and the game is really fun and flows smoothly at first. Plus, I like War Thunder (though I've hit a steep increase in the grind curve and haven't played it for quite a while), and so decided to give it a chance because Gaijin did at least some things very well. Well hoo hoo. What a fool am I. Everything they said is true. And I feel like an idiot for giving the devs my money. A quick aside. I used to play Warframe for quite a while. I eventually left it in disgust for what became more and more clear -- the devs' focus on the exploitative aspects of the game, rather than improving the experience for the players and developing the depth of the game, and disrespect of the playerbas...

Until level 6 ships - it's an epic space-battle game But from 6 level ships you would face 2 most ragefull problems 1) Grind (it's everywhere, even quests on grind) 2) Thar'Ga To be fair, you can live with grind and have fun But Thar'Ga would ruin everything You plaing lvl 6 with bad ship? Meet Thar'Ga 9 lvl You died from one-second burst from main cannon? Meet Thar'Ga You trying to dog-fight this bullshit abomination - it would just stop, heal itself and kill you in a moment Guess devs thinking just about MOAR money and less fun for normal players

P2W no thank you. Gonna pass. This is exactly what's wrong with the games industry today. Shame really looks like it could have been good.

Note to self: Take a pass on this for a while. Tried, put a couple hours into it, didn't really like the gameplay or P2W features. Lots of recent reviews blasting pay-to-win and I have to agree. Hoped that it would snag my attention, but I just never got there.

I play the game for many years (3?). It's very nice and fun - until you get to rank 6. Then you either go farm open space or you may continue with arenas which turn into horrible pop-fest where you are the one being popped non-stop - and I'm talking about experience of above-average player. Still the game is free and initially it's fun so you should definitely try it. Pros: nicely designed arena instances (both art and tactical layout); good looking ships; different play style for different classes of ships; quick initial progression; nicely designed combat; interesting open space sectors / treasure hunt / crafting concept; game run well on old PCs; a lot of different weapon types; decent horizontal equipment progression; decent AI. Cons: "PvE" and "vs AI" modes are badly balanced after rank 6 - as rank 6 you'll face L9 NPCs with epic-grade equipment; as often happen in PvP arena games - pre-mades roflstomp casual players, you tend to lose matches much more often than win them; hea...