Hall of Fame, May 2021

So, last weekend of April ended with 4152 weekly players on EU server and 6530 players on RU server.

For the beginning of May, WG prepared piss poor event - discount for a line that is hard to start and ends at tier VII - US bombers. Main prize - turret gunsight, was obtainable for 20 victorious battles. Players said understandable fuck off, and that doesn't impress them much. Which in terms of player numbers meant virtually no change on EU server - 4113 players (39 less, 1%). Russians weren't impressed even more, 6162 players, drop by 6% and 368 heads.

Another week 3rd-10th, another try. Especially that it includes end of II WW in Europe. So event was usual - another emblem and whole day of premium account and 3 crates. Plus discounts for shit that can be bought with money and for planes.
Which in a week between 3rd and 10th of May, such generous event brought 4231 players on EU server (118 more palyers, 3%). Opportunists on RU server as usual apparently were more eager to grab crates, 1599 players more (26%) bumped number of players with 20 or more battles to 7761.

There can't be two generous events in a row, so week 10th-17th had an event, because weekends have events. Immediate and not really surprising reaction were drops on EU server to 4029 players (-5%) and on RU to 5914 (1847 players, 24%).

But WG didn't give up trying, and introduced a moronathon for a totally unneded premium plane - tier VI heavy fighter. In fact - quite OP, 2 37mm cannons with ridiculous 3.5 autoaim degrees, same as other ridiculously OP in terms of firepower Ki-43-II. Anyway - it's tier VII - not the top nor the bottom of middle tier group.
Moronathon had again 4 modes, one printing medals like there is no tomorrow, others sucking balls hard. Grind to get crates, which among other stuff, may contain operation order to start a series of missions to get plane itself. And these missions were a gem, especially that they were to get tier VI plane.
20 missions, a mixture of utter grind and utter luck (or for those playing in the middle of night with a bunch of friends). Or for those who help themselves with a wallet, to collect another useless but power creept tier VI premium plane.
That made in weeke 18th-24th player numbers up to 4639 on EU (610 players more, 15%), and 9121 players on RU server (yep, crates again, bump by 3207 players, 54%).

During last May weekend, moronathon is topped with another event, kind of grindy, but not so hard, with a nice reward (crates, hangar slot).
Which brought no changes for week 25th-31st on EU server - 4644 players, 5 more than during previous week, but on RU server even more opportunists came, bumping headcount to 10288 (+1167, 13%).

Funny, how the same prizes work different on EU and RU servers. EU players barely care: +500 players, with bigger bump during moronathon for a plane started, while RU players hope for stuff that can be spent in WoT - increase of 2/3rd players.