What do reviewers think of the matchmaking and battle balance?

Many reviewers describe matches as uneven or one-sided, with some saying they are placed against stronger or higher-tier ships. Complaints also mention frustrating win and loss streaks and battles where one team quickly dominates. A few reviewers report enjoying the game when matches feel fair.

Do reviewers feel the game is pay to win?

Many reviewers feel that purchases give players an advantage or that the game puts too much emphasis on paid ships, boosts, and other content. Others say free progression can feel slow or difficult. These are player perceptions, and experiences differ across reviews.

How do reviewers describe the graphics and ship designs?

Some reviewers praise the graphics and ship designs, calling them a strong part of the experience. Others say attractive visuals are not enough to offset frustrations with battles, balance, or progression.

What do players say about submarines and other ship classes?

Several reviewers say submarines, aircraft carriers, torpedoes, or powerful ships have made battles less enjoyable or harder to balance. Some also criticize how ship classes interact in combat. A few players still find cooperative battles playable, but views on specific mechanics vary.

Are there reports of technical problems?

Some reviewers describe disconnections, trouble entering battles, freezing or stuttering, server lag, and installation difficulties. A few say these issues interfered with matches or led to penalties for inactivity.

What do reviewers say about customer support?

Some reviewers say they received no response or found it difficult to resolve issues involving technical problems, purchases, or missing in-game items. Others describe support cases being closed without resolving their concern.

Do reviewers find progression enjoyable?

Some reviewers describe progression as a long grind, with slow leveling or difficulty earning points and resources through play. Others say later updates brought bonuses that made advancement easier, so experiences are not uniform.

Ist World of Warships seriös? Bewertungen & Rezensionen

Merritt

1 Bewertung

vor 5 Tagen

Too much grind

Too much grind... Unlocking ships feels like a slow slog, and the stream of paid extras makes the free-to-play label feel thin.

DAVID VANDERVORST

BE4 Bewertungen

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17. Okt. 2026

Submarine balancing feedback and concerns

1. L'injustice de la détection en immersion Il est inadmissible qu'un sous-marin en immersion totale n'ai pas la possibilité à détecter des navires en surface. Actuellement, la fenêtre de détection est réduite à à peine 1 seconde, ce qui ne laisse absolument aucun temps de réaction. En comparaison, les autres navires de surface ont parfois plus de 1 minute!?? au radar ou à l'hydroacoustique. Comment justifiez-vous une telle asymétrie ? Cela prive de tout moyen de contre-jeu (counter-play) efficace et détruit l'expérience de jeu. 2. La distance d'amorce des torpilles Un autre point d'incompréhension totale concerne la distance d'amorce des torpilles. Pourquoi imposer des contraintes aussi lourdes aux sous-marins alors que les destroyers (DD) en sont totalement exemptés ? Un destroyer peut lancer ses torpilles à bout portant sans cette restriction, alors que le sous-marin est pénalisé dans des situations similaires. Cette incohérence brise l'équité entre les classes de type "furtif". Le manque d'outils de détection fiables pour les sous-marins rend les parties frustrantes et punitives. J'attends de la part de Wargaming une réévaluation urgente de ces mécaniques afin de redonner au jeu un équilibre juste et compétitif.

Tilda

1 Bewertung

16. Okt. 2026

Lovely ships, rough fights

Lovely ship designs. The battles feel exhausting now, and even co-op against bots can be a slog. Hard to enjoy the naval setting.

Wait Here

RU1 Bewertung

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10. Okt. 2026

Wargaming is a money making scam, which exploits people with the dopamine rush addiction.

Wargaming exploits people with a dopamine addiction Their scheme is pretty basic. I'll explain how it works. So, there are 3 types of players\users First type are the "just for fun" players Second type are "skilled but play for free" players And the Third type are "the account flippers" and "whales" Wargaming is making money from all three types of players, but it prioritizes the Third Type(the account flippers+whales) to have an advantage because these players spend a lot of money, at least 300USD per month, so that they could "build" a high stats(high winrate) account with a lot of Premium ships and then sell it online for around 3-4k USD to people who want to have "pretty stats". There's quite a significant market for such accounts. Wargaming has a "shady" paid cheat mods(aim dot) which allow the Third Type of players(the account flippers) to easily achieve high(unicum) average damage. So, let's say they have about 500 account flippers on any server. Each spends at least 300USD per month. Then when these account flippers sell their unicum accounts to "whale" players who simply want to have nice stats. These players to "maintain" their high unicum winrate will have to spend at least 300USD per month too. There are about 5000 unicum players on any server. So now it's 150k USD per month per server. There are 3 servers Asia, US and EU, that makes it around 500k per month total or around 6 mil USD per year in the low estimates. The real number is around 10 mil USD per year from "whales" and account flippers. To maintain the interest of the paying unicum players, Wargaming has to prevent all other players from achiving high winrate, because it would make "paying" for the game redundant. If "skilled but free to play" players could simply become unicum, then obviously the account flippers wouldn't be able to flip the accounts at such high prices because "unicum" status would be redundant and easily achivable by anyone with moderate skills. Wargaming will ruin your gameplay if you are skilled but free to play, by doing three things 1)It will rig your RNG on your salvos where if you begin to do good damage on unicum level, then you will notice how your damage in the subsequent matches drops significantly. You would be shooting the same ships, at the same spots, at the same distance, but you won't be getting good damage. This will obviously affect the outcome of your match, ending up in more losses than wins. 2)It will place you in teams with "bots" or bad players. No way around it. If you are not paying, then your winrate will never remain above 60%. 60%+ winrate is reserved only for paying players. No way around it. Even if you are very good at operating some ship, even if you get first 30-50 games with winrate above 65%, then you will see your ship being placed in teams with "bots" or bad players and you will end up having 56-58% stats at best. So basically even if you are good at playing this game, if you don't pay, Wargaming will keep your winrate bellow 60% and your average damage will be "blue" or even "green". No way around it. 3)Wargaming uses bots which mask themselves as real players, even as good ones. A player may be even online at the moment, while an AI bot will use his name as a "mask" to participate in other matches. These bots will appears with high winrate stats, but will play poorly. You will notice on many occasions that players with good stats on your team simply YOLO. This is not the behavior of a good player, but it happens very often. That is because it's AI using a good player's name as a mask. The loss for that match will not be reflected on actual player's winrate. Wargaming does this to confuse people and make it appear as if losses happen even with "best teams". More than often you will get a "green\blue" team, playing against red\yellow, but then somehow the bad team will absolutely obliterate your team. Bad players with 40-60k average damage all of a sudden defeat players with 90-110k average damage. Wargaming is doing this to create an illusion for skilled but free to play players as though you may win when you are matched against a strong team. Of course in practice this almost never happens to you, even though it may happen maybe once every 300-400 games. But what it's noticeable is that the losses of the good team you are on will happen quite often. Maybe once every 10-20 games. ----- You have to understand that World of Warships is a money making scheme. It's a game technically, since it involves "playing" but in reality it's purely a money making scheme, used to "milk" whales and exploit people's craving for "dopamine rush". Doing big damage can become extremely addictive. Wargaming uses AI bots which play differently from "official" bots who simply YOLO. The bots for high tier random battles will emulate "intellect".

Thomas Baker

US2 Bewertungen

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7. Okt. 2026

It is nothing but a completely rigged…

It is nothing but a completely rigged pay to play games, A total waste of time

clayton

US1 Bewertung

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1. Okt. 2026

been playing this game for 7y and in…

been playing this game for 7y and in the last 2y its gone down hill fast not worth playing wow ships have lost it coop and other parts of this game is for the birds bots hit points are nuts and player hit points get lets just lucky if get any at all . thy just in to it for the money. thy make out the game to be one of the best only to find out it sucks

Grzegorz Kędzierski

1 Bewertung

Verifizierte Bewertung

6. Sept. 2026

Unbalanced and frustrating

I find the battles far too one-sided, with poor matchmaking and frequent blowouts. Progress also feels excessively monetized, which makes the experience frustrating rather than enjoyable for me.

Verifizierte Bewertung

inoob

CH3 Bewertungen

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29. Aug. 2026

Liebe Gamer

Liebe Gamer Besser, Ihr installiert das Game gar nie. Die Battles sind unglaublich manipuliert. Es erspart Euch viel Frust, Geld und freie Zeit für faire Games

julien incegnieri

FR1 Bewertung

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12. Aug. 2026

world of warpigs

1. La quête permanente de nouveaux joueurs ("Casuals") Les anciens joueurs chevronnés maîtrisent le positionnement, l'angle du blindage et la lecture de carte. Pour un débutant, affronter un vétéran est punitif et décourageant. Wargaming a cherché à introduire des classes et des mécaniques "assistées" (comme les sous-marins ou les porte-avions retravaillés) qui permettent à un joueur novice de faire des dégâts facilement sans trop s'exposer. 2. Le modèle économique du Free-to-Play Pour un éditeur, les "vétérans" ne sont pas toujours les plus rentables : ils ont déjà accumulé des millions de crédits, de l'expérience libre et des doublons. Wargaming cherche en permanence à attirer une nouvelle vague de consommateurs prêts à sortir la carte bleue pour débloquer rapidement des navires récents ou premium. 3. Le syndrome des "coûts engloutis" (Sunk Cost Fallacy) Développer les sous-marins a pris des années et coûté des millions de dollars en modélisation, équilibrage et marketing. Reconnaître que la mécanique est mauvaise et tout jeter à la poubelle est une décision stratégique et financière que la direction refuse de prendre. Ils préfèrent ajuster par petits patchs très lents plutôt que de supprimer la classe. 4. L'effet "Bulloch" (La priorité aux données statistiques) Wargaming s'appuie énormément sur ses données internes plutôt que sur le ressenti (le "feeling") des joueurs. Si leurs tableurs indiquent que le taux de victoire des sous-marins est proche de 50 %, ils considèrent que la classe est "équilibrée", en ignorant complètement le facteur frustration que cela génère chez l'adversaire. Résultat : le jeu est devenu un produit de consommation rapide plutôt que le jeu de simulation tactique et exigeant qu'il était à ses débuts. Beaucoup d'anciens capitaines ont fini par jeter l'éponge ou sont partis sur d'autres titres.

Gamer Gang

DE1 Bewertung

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3. Aug. 2026

Ich habe WoWs damals in der…

Ich habe WoWs damals in der geschlossenen BETA gespielt ~ es war himmlisch! Gute Spieler, faire Gegner. Ich habe es sehr gern gespielt, da es schöne Schiffe sind, die Spaß gemacht hatten. Aber seit Jahren und seit dem Thema U-boote, ist das Thema durch. Auch Cheating ist hier an der Tagesordnung. Meine nerven machen das nicht mehr mit. Daher, Coop-Matches. Mensch gegen Bots, das ist noch spielbar.

World of Warships

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