However, upon the arrival of the said event in december 2019 many players and community contributors noticed that the conditions required to obtain the reward were drastically changed without notice, with mission objectives so hard that they were practically impossible to complete within the timeframe, and offering instead to directly buy the ship for $300 worth of in-game currency. In november 2019, Wargaming announced that the annual New Year event for late 2019 and early 2020 in World of Warships would be an centered around a new mechanic, called 'the Dockyard' in which the players would be able to accomplish missions in game to build and recieve the (fictional) american cruiser USS Puerto Rico for free as the ultimate reward. planes permanently spotting the enemy, lack of efficiency of the anti-air defence mechanics and general lack of balance disadvantaging certain other ship classes, such as destroyers.) 2019 – 2020 USS Puerto Rico Controversy The update was poorly recieved by the community, which percieved that the problems the update was supposed to fix were actually made worse (i.e. In January 2019, the game recieved a major update that radically changed the gameplay of the aircraft carrier class (known in-game as 'CV'), shifting from a top-down view in which the player gives directions to the airplanes squadrons similarly to a real-time strategy game, to a third-person view in which the player directly controls and aims with the airplanes weapons.

A console version of the game, called World of Warships Legends was released on august 12th, 2019 for Playstation and XBox systems. Console and Mobile portsĪ version of the game developped for mobile devices, called World of Warships Blitz was officially released on january 18th, 2018 for iOS and Android devices. The game was later released on Steam on november 15th, 2017. The game, who was renamed to World of Warships in 2012, went into alpha testing phase in 2013, then on open beta in july 2015, for a final release on September 17th, 2015.

The developpement lead was given to Wargaming's office in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The game was meant to be a sequel or spin-off franchise to World of Tanks, and use the same mechanics than its predecessor and the less successful World of Warplanes. In august 2011, Wargaming announced the developpement of then titled World of Battleships during the europan Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany.

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