This game is a meme that never ends.
Also, yeah, potential sales. Keyword is potential. 1,000,000 credits is nothing. The 1,000 gold is kind of useful? The biggest things for a player would actually be the premium time and premium tanks. For a new player that would be grand. Most of us old folk have years of premium and tanks much better than those low tier freebie ones.
But for a new player they would mean the ability to actually make progress in a manner that doesn't make you want to lobotomize yourself. I can't imagine trying to progress through this game as a new player without premium time or premium vehicles because they made payouts so god awful that you basically NEED that to progress anywhere within acceptable time frames.