It's not only that people don't like the change and that this is supposed to be a test. What riles everyone is the knowledge, based on past experience, that TO will go ahead and PROCEED with this despite the overwhelming opinion of their customers. If we knew it was a test and that tanki wouldn't implement it if we hated it, no one would be upset. It's just the track record of community opinion getting bulldozed that has everyone up in arms.

First they took away our ability to CREATE battles. (not including pro, which 1) you have to pay for and 2) can't do missions in, which is STILL true with this update on created battles) Now they take away our ability to even CHOOSE battles (again, where you can complete a mission). So is it that you hate missions? Then get rid of them altogether. Get rid of crystals, too except for the top two players on winning teams -- oh, you did that already? OK, next, get rid of our ability to choose the tank we play in. Just dump us in a random battle, at a random time in the battle, and with random people on random "teams" with randomly selected ranks -- in random tanks, and no rewards! Yeah, that's the ticket!! Hey, can I be a dev? I stuck with it after the "create battle" button was taken away. Not sure I can stick with it any longer. :(

“Create Battle” button will now become a Premium/PRO Pass feature. This is the last straw with this game for me. :o The constant revamping of turret properties was getting annoying enough... many of my accounts best turrets were nerfed. Now I cannot even create battles anymore. This is ridiculous. I don't give a damn what your statistics showed... it is totally unnecessary to take this feature away. It was one of the most important features to me. Sick of this crap. I'm out for good.

Well, it's one thing to say you can't continue the mission after a given time, something else altogether for tanki to dump your completed (or partly completed) mission and all the crystals you've earned. THEN they go ahead and keep the map, even though you cannot continue -- or even claim a completed mission. I keep seeing the mods trotting out the notification that the mission and map would no longer be available after 2:00 UTC -- that doesn't excuse actually deleting completed missions after that time. THAT is not in the notification, and it is NOT the usual way that missions work. we can always claim done missions later -- there was even a video explaining that. Not a happy tanker.