History YMMV / WorldOfWarships

** Like ''VideoGame/KanColle'' above, ''VideoGame/AzurLane'' players also count, albeit in lower numbers. It also help that developers of both games announced collaboration effort in April 2, 2018.

* FandomRivalry:

** "You've Destroyed an Enemy Battleship!" or "Enemy Aircraft Carrier blown up!". Extra points if you did so with a Destroyer. Or bonus laughs if it sank due to flooding and/or fires.

*** The First thing people found out, was the costs to unlock the Dockyard upgrades and boosters were jacked up massively from their test server iterations. Notably, the Premium Boosters went from 1000 Doubloons each to 6000, 8000, and 10,000 Doubloons. There are Tier VIII Premium Destroyers that cost 8000-9000 Doubloons, and for 24,000 Doubloons, one can buy several Mid to Higher Tier Premium ships for that money. Buying the 25,000 Doubloons Package from the Premium shop cost $99.99 USD on its own, 24,000 Doubloons from the "Any amount of Doubloons" option is $96 USD and doesn't gurantee you'll earn enough build points to complete Puerto Rico in time. By Comparison, the Test Server version of 3000 total for the 3 ship-building boosters would've cost a much more easier to swallow $12

*** Wargamming's Sub Octavian drew the short straw to provide the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/ea4brb/psa_an_apology_for_poor_event_presentation_and_a/ Official Response on the World of Warships subreddit]]. Rather than an apology for how awful the event's Directives were designed and laughbly false the "free" path was, [[BackhandedApology the response instead is incredibly dismissive of the point of the players complaint and issues with the event, writing it off as poor communication]]:

** A lot of ''VideoGame/KanColle'' players play this game as well, as evidence by the extensive use of ''[=KanColle=]''-related memes in the text chat, most notably ''Yuudachi'''s [[VerbalTic "poi~"]] (As elaborated by this article on ''[[http://kotaku.com/animes-latest-catchphrase-leads-to-superior-trolling-1693773719 Kotaku]]''.) Opinions are divided on whether this is hilarious or irritating, with those in the latter camp referring to ''[=KanColle=]'' fans as [[AnythingThatMoves "shipfuckers"]]. Moreover, in Russia both franchises actually share their FanNickname, both being dubbed "Lifeboats" ("Шлюпки"), as their fandoms indeed heavily overlap.

* TierInducedScrappy: [[TierInducedScrappy/WorldOfWarships An entire page's worth]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: As Wiki/TFWikiDotNet [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/World_of_Warships:_Transformers notes]], the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' collaboration doesn't involve [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1]] Broadside or ''Anime/UnicronTrilogy'' Tidal Wave, Transformers with warship alternate modes.

** The tier 2 skills Torpedo Acceleration in particular, and Torpedo Armament Expertise to a lesser degree are uncommon to see even on destroyers that would get the most use out of them. The Acceleration skill was nerfed into the ground for being too good, where it now takes away 20% of a torpedo range dropping 1km of range per 5km, for a tiny 5 knot speed boost. Expertise is uncommon for two reasons, firstly because it only saves 6 seconds per minute of reloading time, and because of the Inertia Fuse for HE Shells skill, which is very useful for Cruisers & Destroyers by greatly assisting their guns HE penetration, for only a small reduction in fire chance.

** "Animal Research": When the very divisive Youtuber Flamu[[note]]A super-unicum player who's probably got the largest audience among World of Warships streamers. Some hate him for sometimes being toxic both in chat and his commentary, while his fans feel he "tells it like it is" and love how he pulls no punches when calling out Wargaming over elements of the game he doesn't like.[[/note]] got kicked out of the community contributor program allegedly for stat-shaming other players[[note]]Something he freely admits to doing, but which he'd ''been'' doing for all the years he'd been in the program, so it's widely perceived as being just a pretext. It's widely assumed Wargaming wanted him out because of his intense criticism of many aspects of the game, and especially the aircraft carrier rework which he (and a huge portion of the playerbase as a whole) regard as a disaster.[[/note]] This resulted in much repetition of an old line of his where he referred to looking up the stats of bad players as "animal research".

*** In addition, his usage of the main theme for ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' (particularly the epic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jnNqBHqnA remake]] for ''[[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 2199]]'') for videos involving the said Tier X Japanese Battleship (which also was adapted by WebVideo/TheMightyJingles) makes such video montages more epic.

* CreatorsPet: After the implementation of the CV rework, many players began to feel that the developers were devoting disproportionate attention to carriers at the cost of every other ship class. Many players have cynically theorized that in order to avoid the image that the rework was a failure, Wargaming deliberately made carriers [[EasierThanEasy incredibly easy to play]] and [[{{Gamebreaker}} overpowered]] in order to artificially boost the carrier population. Some of the changes the developers made to ensure carriers had an edge on every other class include: