* DuelingGames:
** Wargaming's ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' and its derivatives ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarplanes'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarships''. Whereas Wargaming's games are separate standalone titles, Gaijin's game combines ground, aerial, and naval warfare into a single title.
*** In turn ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' ground forces leave out player controlled artillery in favor of player controlled mobile AA guns. Light tanks and AA can call in artillery support against immobilized targets (such as heavy tanks with their engines damaged.)
** Probably even more directly with [=HiTech=] Creations' ''VideoGame/AcesHigh''. The rivalry between the fanbases is...bitter...to say the least (see below).
* NoExportForYou: The Chinese version of the game gave players access to China as a playable faction with both air and ground tech trees. This was only available to Chinese players however and nowhere else. Not even in ''Russia'', where the game ''was created''. Most players don't care too much, since this Chinese tree is mostly clones of other nations' tanks (China didn't start making their own tanks until 1958, and even then most were only slightly different from equivalent Soviet tanks up until the late 1970's when China started mixing their Soviet-derived tanks with technology imported or copied from the US and Western Europe). This changed however when update 1.91 added the Chinese air and ground tech trees to the normal version of the game available to players worldwide.
* OfficialFanSubmittedContent:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6z3c4Hz3M Viking Fury (1.97)]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDAayBocPxg Starfighters (1.99)]] teasers were made by Pandramodo. Cinematics of subsequent update teasers have led fans to think Gaijin [[PromotedFanboy hired Pandramodo.]]
** A few vehicles and skins have been incorporated into the game as part of their revenue share program.
* RealSongThemeTune: The game previously used several notable pieces of classical music in its soundtrack, including Music/RichardWagner's ''Ride of the Valkyries'', Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's ''Symphony No.7 in A Major'', and ''The Death of Åse'' from Act III of the ''[[Theatre/PeerGynt Peer Gynt Suite]]'' by Edvard Grieg. Sadly, these pieces have since been removed in favor of more generic music.
* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
** Gaijin slapped a 500 GE price tag for flag decals because of [[{{Troll}} some players abusing flag decals]] to [[UsefulNotes/MisplacedNationalism offend nationalities or religions.]] Some thought the reason behind this decision was due to [[UsefulNotes/MisplacedNationalism Russian and Ukrainian players]] [[UnfriendlyFire team-killing]] each other on the sight of their flags, as back then the [[RealitySubtext annexation of Crimea was fresh in everyone's minds.]] This event was also the reason team-killing (by ground vehicles) was permanently disabled in Ground RB.
** In-game chat was disabled in late February 2022 in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
*** Two months later, the use of certain decals was restricted to existing and/or qualified accounts due to griefers using them to recreate the "Z" symbol used by Russian vehicles partaking in the invasion (criminalized in some European and Central Asian states).