I don’t really know where to start but I think the “grinding” had burnt my passion out toward this game, grinding in this game has become more and more suffered as the amount of vehicle increase and the change of the environment. The grind is so much painful as your BR is rising, after 6.0 you just feel like you stepping on same tile over and over. Personally I don’t count how many hour I gonna take to grind out full tree but just now I just watch a video that counted this (Link of the video for those who also wondered).
Personally I don’t think grind is the only issues in this game and there are tons of problems in this game, but as a player I came here of entertainment and according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, needs of esteem is what we wanted to get here (I don’t think someone play this game to get love and belonging, right?) The achievement (whether is the in-game progression or mental satisfaction) is what we wanted to get by playing the game, but what Gaijin provided is so unnoticeable. According to the video calculation, grinding US ground tree will spend you around 6m - 2y period if you play 8 hours a day and get the RP and SL as his calculated every game.
(The calculation of the video)
And this calculation is not even accurate because it highly depend on players skill, for example I spend almost 4 years to grind and aced most Japan ground and air vehicle which personally think already consider as quite slow as the Japan TT is ways much smaller compared with today and now imagine we have to do the same thing in US TT or any major TT. I don’t know is the devs gonna adjust the RP rate by taking consider of this or they just adding new vehicle without even calculated, but they really had to pay attention to this issue as the grind had become more and more unreasonable as the TT developed. Lastly, I very sorry for my incoherent and disorganized post because I just type whatever that come into my mind😅