Hall of Fame, December 29th - January 4th (2021)

Lookss like WG, despite years, is still looking, what makes player play. Play more, that means.
On EU server, still keeping up event kept 5946 players doing 20 or more battles, 1% and 71 players more than during previous week. Not much change, there still were tokens to grab.
Contrary, on RU server there were 11372 such players, which means 25% drop comparing to previous week - 3801 players less, more than half of the influx noticed 2 weeks before.

It's really hard to believe, that nobody in WG understands what's going on, but the pattern is evident. Constant inflation of pay for play approach makes players more picky. The thing that drags them to play is constantly free gold that can be spend in WoT. Period.
Tokens work only for WoWP players, because for WG premium account one needs a shitload of them. And premium account for tokens got watered down - in WoWP it's barely noticeable, due to beancounting additive way of applying bonuses, and in WoT and WoWS it's watered down, as these games got own kind of premium account. Beancounting strikes back. And to get such acocunt, player needs to invest a shitload of time, to gather 150 tokens. So much, that there is no time to play other games during grind, and going one month in WoWP and one in WoT doesn't make WoT grind faster.
Free exp is just a mere bonus, nice to have, but nothing worth time investment needed to maximize the amount of.
Other drops from crates, like WoWP materials, is barely worth mentioning - it's only used to play WoWP more, and here we are again at the lack of endgame and team mode topic - there is not much reason to paly WoWP more.
Pay for play doesn't work. Didn't work in WoWP 1.x, even more doesn't work in version 2.x. Endgame content or life support, and WG constantly chooses the worse option. Kind of funny, as it looks like beancounting paper looses from free gold, free exp, free premium planes and other free shitt are now much higher han could be from team mode, even with 1.5 exp and credits multiplier (oh my, players could grind faster, and remember, its + in WoWP, not *) and from WoWP Stronghold-analogue.

So new year is going to look as previous one: life support with skeletal crew, to avoid a major PR fuckup by admitting, that Wargaming.net is in fact a company of one game (and a half).

For me - ok, there will be more pay for play, so more free stuff to hoard.