Used to play this casually all the time with friends, apparently with everything Gaijin's done, that's not possible. Where I used to be able to just hop in with friends, grind a bit and walk out with better planes, I now have to pay for any real progress. Over all, used to be a great game. Now? Now it's a shell of what it used to be. Fix it, Gaijin, or your player-base will forsake this game and never return.