People rarely like change. People who have spent money to obtain specific products are obviously annoyed to find that 'product' is no longer available to them. And, obviously, the developers might well be trying to increase their 'monetisation'. All of these things will cause resentment; but what really doesn't work with the rebalance is the game play. The old Tanki offered a range of strategies... if you liked snooping in corners and shooting from a distance, you could. If you liked dashing into the melee at speed with all guns blazing, you could. If you liked mixing it with a team and supporting slow armoured monsters with your Isida, you could. The rebalance, though, simply invites you to spend your crystals trying every type of tank and every type of gun while you wait to upgrade your ranking. If you don't actually want to be a ponderous Mammoth driver, you end up acquiring crystals in your Hornet with nothing meaningful to spend them on. Meanwhile the changes in the game have given nearly all the advantage to the hard-hitting weapons and freeze/flamethrower options... which is just dull. There's no variety. It's all about rhinos and not about foxes. Obviously you can buy experience (and it's telling that the restriction on buying experience only up to Staff Sergeant has been removed) and then upgrade in the way that suits your playing temperament... but there's no moral pleasure or sense of achievement in doing this - and that's what on-line games are all about. I'll probably give it a few more tries but I suspect you've lost me to 'World of Tanks' as well! So long and thanks for the fish...