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World of Tanks: Achievement Progress - Second Golden Joystick Earned!

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
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Wargaming has announced that its inaugural title, World of Tanks, has been honored with a second Golden Joystick award. WoT won the award in the "Best Online Game" category. Golden Joystick recipients are chosen by players around the world.

"This second victory for World of Tanks at the Golden Joystick Awards wouldn't be possible without our passionate and vocal World of Tanks community," said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming. "We're extremely grateful to our players for their continued support and their personal involvement."

Last year the title took home the highly coveted "Best MMO of the Year", further cementing its status as a truly global phenomenon in the video game industry.

Read more on the World of Tanks site.

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Comments

  • SkaldirSkaldir Member UncommonPosts: 48

    Congratulations to them, but these awards have little meaning these days. Last year players received a huge reward package including free premium time, massive discount on store items and so on. 

    Giving people these incentives to vote skews the results.

  • OldGuy91OldGuy91 Member Posts: 7
    Have you played the game recently?  NOT what it used to be and getting worse.
  • ManioxManiox Member Posts: 25
    definetely undeserved, but that's what you get when you enter your forums and tell your players to vote for your game while companies with self respect doesn't.

    no i

  • RoijunRoijun Member UncommonPosts: 1
    they announced yesterday to us on the asian server that we would be getting a free teir2 tank but nothing else was said.
  • skeaserskeaser Member RarePosts: 4,190
    Never heard of a Golden Joystick.
    Sig so that badges don't eat my posts.


  • MMOGamer71MMOGamer71 Member UncommonPosts: 1,988
    An MMO with 30 player battles is like Windows Solitaire receiving an award for best Best Online Game.  Wonder how many people voted like it was the All Star game.
  • RedempRedemp Member UncommonPosts: 1,136
     Why is this even a "thing" ? When developers incentivize(Why do the forums think this isn't a real word?) and purchase votes for these gaming awards they lose all meaning. This isn't the first questionable step this company has taken, they seem to enjoy playing fast and loose with their customers and the industry.
  • LanfeaLanfea Member UncommonPosts: 223
    don't get it. people get crazy about doping in sports but cheer up about a game that have a similar approach. if you spend money you get advantages over others.
  • afoaaafoaa Member UncommonPosts: 578

    Lanfea in world of tanks money only make things easier and faster but there is nothing in the game you can't get without spending any money, except premium tanks which are actually worse than normal tanks except they help you to earn more in game money, so again it is to make things easier.

    There were no rewards promised for voting this year, but the game has over 40 million active players so it only takes a few percentages of them to outvote most other games.

    Golden joystick don't say how good a game is, only how popular.

    "You are the hero our legends have foretold will save our tribe, therefore please go kill 10 pigs."

  • sakersaker Member RarePosts: 1,458
    Originally posted by Maniox
    definetely undeserved, but that's what you get when you enter your forums and tell your players to vote for your game while companies with self respect doesn't.

    Agree 100%! This has always been this companies way. I  feel sorry for anyone who believes there's any quality to this company and it's "products".

  • sakersaker Member RarePosts: 1,458
    Originally posted by Lanfea
    don't get it. people get crazy about doping in sports but cheer up about a game that have a similar approach. if you spend money you get advantages over others.
     

    Agree 100%

  • MMOGamer71MMOGamer71 Member UncommonPosts: 1,988
    Originally posted by afoaa

    Lanfea in world of tanks money only make things easier and faster but there is nothing in the game you can't get without spending any money, except premium tanks which are actually worse than normal tanks except they help you to earn more in game money, so again it is to make things easier.

    There were no rewards promised for voting this year, but the game has over 40 million active players so it only takes a few percentages of them to outvote most other games.

    Golden joystick don't say how good a game is, only how popular.

    Actually the biggest advantage gold (real money) gives you in game is the ability to retrain crews and their perks at 100%.

    Also the game has 40 million accounts half of which (estimated) are never played and probably forum alts for reputation increasing oneselfs and negative bombing others.

     

    Older Sources:

    http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/65256-unofficial-eu-server-statistics/

    "Played accounts: 3 084 681 accounts have played at least one game, 173 418 more than last snapshot. The ratio of unplayed accounts rises further to 47.66%."

     

    http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/91764-unofficial-na-server-statistics/

    "Played accounts:  1 298 559 accounts have played at least one game, 26 870 more than last snapshot. That means nearly 58% of all accounts that were created have never been played."

     

    Feel free to look at http://wot-news.com for current estimates.

  • RazeeksterRazeekster Member UncommonPosts: 2,591
    Never even heard of that award.

    Smile

  • SpottyGekkoSpottyGekko Member EpicPosts: 6,916
    Originally posted by MMOGamer71
    Originally posted by afoaa

    Lanfea in world of tanks money only make things easier and faster but there is nothing in the game you can't get without spending any money, except premium tanks which are actually worse than normal tanks except they help you to earn more in game money, so again it is to make things easier.

    There were no rewards promised for voting this year, but the game has over 40 million active players so it only takes a few percentages of them to outvote most other games.

    Golden joystick don't say how good a game is, only how popular.

    Actually the biggest advantage gold (real money) gives you in game is the ability to retrain crews and their perks at 100%.

    Also the game has 40 million accounts half of which (estimated) are never played and probably forum alts for reputation increasing oneselfs and negative bombing others.

     

    Older Sources:

    http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/65256-unofficial-eu-server-statistics/

    "Played accounts: 3 084 681 accounts have played at least one game, 173 418 more than last snapshot. The ratio of unplayed accounts rises further to 47.66%."

     

    http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/91764-unofficial-na-server-statistics/

    "Played accounts:  1 298 559 accounts have played at least one game, 26 870 more than last snapshot. That means nearly 58% of all accounts that were created have never been played."

     

    Feel free to look at http://wot-news.com for current estimates.

    Lol, the F2P game industry is notable for at least one thing: Hype !

     

    It's an industry that generates billions of dollars in revenue, from 10's of millions of players (often per game !) and consists of 1000's of individual games. Nothing small there, every number is at least 10 times bigger than the equivalent number from the rest of the games industry. And it's all true.

     

    The WoT advert on this site says: "Join 65 million players !"

    One of the recent reports from Newzoo estimates the worldwide population of gamers across all genres and platforms to be around 1.2B. In that case, half of them appear to be WoT players...

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