This year World of Tanks set many anti-records and one of them is new maps.
Never before in the history of the game has there been a whole calendar year without a single new map added for random battles! At first, WG stuck to the plan of 2 new (or returned to HD) maps per calendar year, then the bar was lowered to 1 map, and what do we have now…
The last NEW map introduced was “Oyster Bay”, dated February 2023, patch 1.20. And that’s it. In 2024, we will NOT get a single new location for randomness. And in 2 months, in February 2025, it will be 2 years since the introduction of this last map.
Here’s what adding NEW maps to the game used to look like (by calendar year):
- 2010 (4.5 months, starting from August) – 8
- 2011 – 9
- 2012 – 9
- 2013 – 6
- 2014 – 5 (visual map clones are not included here)
- 2015 – 2
- 2016 – 2
- 2017 – 2 (1 of which is for “Grand Battles,” included in random battles)
- 2018 – 10 (1 is for “Grand Battles,” 1 is an HD remaster, included in random battles)
- 2019 – 2
- 2020 – 1 (the test map “Recon Missions” is not included here)
- 2021 – 1 (the test map “Recon Missions” is not included here)
- 2022 – 1
- 2023 – 1
- 2024 – 0
Draw your own conclusions. And at the same time, look at a couple of posts above, how Wargaming managers waste development resources and their hours.
