I’m done.

Did you try to exit the game and then restart it? this happened to me once (I didn't pay any money though), I won a weapon from the gacha free tokens and then went to inventory to sell it, but couldn't find it. It then appeared there after I restarted the game. Maybe the same happened to you too?

Mantis, thx.  Save my money...lol.  Money is not an issue, however I do not just wantonly spend it.  I do want a meaningful return.  War Robots was just never returning enough meaningful stuff.  My tenure in War Robots was less than six months and was always an investigation, hoping to find a favorable review.  It never was substantial enough to keep my business.  These games are my hobby.  Some invest in hard goods like electronic equipment, hunting and fishing, craftwork, etc.  I purchase those as well, but being disabled, these gaming ventures are my escapism.  Entertainment.  Enjoyment.  I am retired, so I can do many things at any hour of the day.  And I do not have much longer to remain on this planet, so I fully expect to have some quality entertainment and enjoyment.  And if my experimental hobby, like War Robots, does not provide it, I have zero intentions of encouraging my money to jump into it.  I think about three or four months is enough to accurately ascertain the value of any hobby.  I climbed rather rapidly to in and out of Chimps, so I’m not the best in experience, strategy or tactics.  But this game is quicksand.  With over 50+ million downloads it is gonna be here for a long time...without me.  There is more value in flies mating on the Serengeti, so my corner, the wallet, has tossed in the towel.  Peace, my friend.

Mech warrior is cool. Haven't tried the newest one, but i did MWO. It was pay but not as bad as War Robots. But i got out out of it because my comp is tooooooooooo weak. I have what is called a potato lol.

The biggest shame is that you were still dumping money into it right til the end, even as the camel’s back was breaking. I stopped paying long ago. Maybe $1 for 600 gold, but those stopped showing up, so my wallet is completely closed. Building a Blitz and now trying to level it to usability is all that’s keeping me around now. They’re about to nerf tasers, the only good weapon set I have for my favorite Tyr, so that and these stoopid crones could easily end up being my final straw.

But all is not lost, because .... CLONK. 

Not only is it not a very worthwhile ‘investment’ for the reasons you stated, but most of the time it’s not even fun, even if you do dump money into it. All I’ve learned years ago is that, unless you have played countless hours early on in the game to pile up resources and/or spent a lot of real money to get yourself to the top of the food chain, spending small amounts only quickens and deepens the frustration level.

Say you drop $50 on Premium, Au offers, the odd bot ‘bargain’ offer, or whatever, your expectation becomes that you’re going to go into most games from here on out and kick some serious tail. Except you don’t. Maybe it lasts a few games, but you’re pretty quickly fed to the next tier of higher-end players. It usually never delivers what you expect to receive for your ‘investment’, and even if it comes close, there’s always the impending inevitable nerf right around the corner. 

Older whales (usually) catch onto this and stop spending, but there’s always a constant influx of new players, and some portion of them have deeper pockets and aren’t aware of this constant cycle of bait-and-switch, and so the cycle repeats. I’d say it’s repeating in smaller snd smaller numbers, because the game is slowly running out of new players. But Pix doesn’t care, as long as there are any new suckers to part with their money, they’ll just keep this crap up. Case in point: the q&a with the drone designer. 

Oof, sorry about the lengthy rant.