Two decades later, Kislyi's twin obsessions with military history and strategy games have made him a billionaire. His company Wargaming.net has a highly lucrative line of accessible, historically accurate MMO combat games. It isn't just the largest game publisher to emerge from the former Eastern Bloc – it's one of the most popular and profitable publishers in the world.
Wargaming.net's line of "freemium" PC titles – World of Tanks, World of Warplanes and World of Warships – have 150 million registered players who purchase over four million in-game items every day. The most expensive are authentic recreations of vintage military hardware: A rocket-powered Japanese J8M interceptor aircraft for $54.99, a 1930s Leningrad-class Soviet destroyer for $25.99 or a WWII-era British Black Prince tank that never made it past the prototype phase for $10.49.
A bit of backstory on Wargaming.net, creators of World of Warships.
Nick Moran, noted later in the article, has a great series of videos on YouTube, and I encourage you to subscribe.
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