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Wargaming: Free-to-Play Will Dominate in 5 Years
Aug 24th 2013, 17:09, by Andrew Goldfarb

World of Tanks has been a runaway success for Wargaming. Since launching in 2011, World of Tanks has gathered 77 million registered users worldwide and will soon come to Xbox 360.

In an interview at Gamescom, Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi discussed that success, plus provided his thoughts on free-to-play, mobile, and the future of the gaming industry.

"World of Tanks, as you might have heard, took the world by storm on the PC," Kislyi told IGN, proudly pointing to a map of the company's worldwide offices. "Today we have more than 2000 employees. We have more than 16 offices. We span from Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, a bunch of these European development centers, Paris for European operations, Berlin for German-speaking countries, and then San Francisco covering North America for customer support, PR, marketing, that sort of thing. We've recently acquired a Seattle studio, Gas Powered Games, with Chris Taylor. They're doing something for the future. And in Chicago there's Day One Studios doing the 360 version. In Austin there's our technological center working on our unified platform."

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