Wrong end of stick.....lol ok HTML5 isn't new and has been around or the industry standard for 3 years now. If they haven't switched by now i doubt it will ever happen with a shrinking user base. The development they are doing isn't costly by comparison and if they expect users to fork over $40-90 they have a truck load of bugs to fix. Have they corrected many of them.............no because they don't care. Their revenue may hold for a bit but without new blood it wont last as a business model you need 25% new users to maintain profits and they are a longways from that.

Based on how fast users are leaving the developers have lost all their sense. Say what you want; the real success or failure of updates is does it make the game more successful? Users leaving not attacking new ones and most of the core base is angry...... Developers could focus on the fact Tanki is running on a ancient flash backbone instead of html5 but instead they double down on trying to milk their user base. Tanki will be dead or mostly gone within a year or two and they are just milking the cow one last time.

I'm guessing you didn't get by Warrent officer on you're FTP account? Its starts off pretty easy but the players that stick it out start buying and its a different story.

They already tried it once before and everyone hated it. Slowing game play down for stupid reasons like this is just poor management.

Most are right that it is a business and should be run like one. What they miss is like any business they must develop their product to make people want to buy it. I wont spend a dime on this game as they have no respect for money their customer spend on it. Like nerfing equipment, fixing bugs, rewarding loyal players, keeping the game focused on skill, or simply making it enjoyable/addicting to play. The game has become more and more frustrating to play IMO as skill really isn't important anymore. When something as stupid as lag hacking actually benefits players you got issues with you're game. You don't see Fortnite changing their game to force players to spend more $$$, they know that making changes to improve the game itself will bring in new revenue. Coming up with stupid junk like matchmaking that has no added benefit to the game itself is a sign of poor management. Everyone can see through the update that its simply frustrates the FTP players as they sit and wait to join battles. FTP players have been forced to rely on containers to be competitive which is fine but then making those containers boring to get is just stupid. The developers knew the community hated it as they tried it before. RIP tanki

The use of drugging bots to get users to spend more $$$ on supplies to keep up. I'm done with this game as there is no skill needed anymore, just a credit card and bricks on the supply buttons. Once the buyers realize they are spending money against bots this game is over. The level of heal drugging is just insane and its boring to sit around and shoot the same tank for 3 min. as it heal drugs and overdrives.

i cant fathom why people give a tinkers damn about their paints? They no longer serve a purpose in the game.

The vast majority of players that have been here for years think its gone down hill that's a bad sign in my book. I never use my oldest account anymore as all my friends left and tanki nerfed the equipment. Never had a problem with lag until the last couple of big updates. Now its such a problem their are hacks and people slowing their speed down for advantage. I cant count the number of battles that where fair, fun, challenging, and balanced only to have a noob buyer come in and completely screw the battle up and the other team leaving. Very few battles end now with close scores as once its clear someone is buying the win everyone leaves. I get they have to make money but charge for the game download then or something else besides selling out the game itself. No one enjoys playing against the $100+ credit card tanks with bricks on their supply buttons.

This is the same response as someone telling you to reboot if you have a computer issue! Doesn't help or solve the issue just lets its fester and get worse. I run a fiber 1GB connection and assure you the lag is not on my end as most companies aren't lucky enough to have the speed i have access too. I actually purposely slowed my speed down only to learn it is easier to play with crappy speed and i cant understand why tanki developers allow it. This never use to be a problem until the big update with the battle button. If your ping and fps are bad for fixed amount of time you should be kicked from the server its actually very easy to program this rule set in and most online games do. Sadly it seems they are just interested in updates that force more crystal use (or money) and don't give a damn about performance or a solid gaming experience. There are so many crazy bugs like the vulcan overheating glitch that they don't seem care about and many they should be embarrassed exist. Instead of fixing things the change maps and add new bugs. If your a buyer its a actually crazy expensive IMO for them to expect $30-100 for a flash game thats riddled with glitches.

Seems like Tanki is the only online game where lag or poor internet is a benefit. So much so they actually have a lag hack to create it. The game is becoming a joke as you duck behind a wall only to die anyways from the mysterious rail who can shoot through walls or you lineup on a tank only to find out it jumped the other direction in a instant. The ping and fps stay as low as possible but tanks still jump around like magic and mysterious shots take you out without any sign.