Got quite into War Thunder over the last few days. It's an online MP game with tanks, planes, and naval units. It's free and quite addictive once you get past the initial "too easy" (I think they use bots) missions. I think it’s the first time I'm actually enjoying a non-FPS multiplayer game.

A big plus of it is that you can have a game or two inside 15 minutes. Yes, the TTD can be quite short (you only have 3 respawns per match), but that's ok with me - these games are too much of a time sink. I actually had to delete Delta Force because of that recently, it just took too much time out of my madcap IRL schedule.

Is this a pay to win kind of game? How are they making money if it's free to play?