Is the community toxic?

[Sellox]

There are so many wannabes in my opinion.

[Ghostiq]

I think over time as more players want to be considered good at the game, with popularisation of tomato.gg, etc. it can be that players overall become more toxic. I suggest reporting players who are crossing the line, and in some cases turning off chat also helps to play better and abstract yourself from the negativity. The most important in games is to have fun!

[Ivosaur]

Depends very heavily on the tier played, time o/a on the game and how the match is being played. I've seen very toxic players with thousands of matches raging at tier V only to pair with Tier VIII players with the same playtime being very gracious in defeat.

[StronkiTonki]

Yeah it is. That's because of the game creating a pretty toxic environment.

Stuff like arty is generally toxic, which causes frustration, and therefore causes more people to be more toxic as well.

Then there's the game actively rewarding bad players who are passive, where players sit and camp in 1 spot all battle long, providing no help for their team, to where their entire team dies, and they are left all alone in a strong camping position at the end. Giving them the impression that they did well, while in reality they did nothing to help the team win.
This educates bad players into passive gameplay, and creates an even bigger conflict between good and bad players.

The good, or more "try hard" players can be very toxic against bad players. While a lot of criticisms towards bad players can be justified, it often does go too far with toxic behavior aimed against them.
At the same time there are a lot of bad players who are clueless about their own lack of skill in the game, and will call anyone better than themselves either a nolifer or cheater.

On top of all that, there's also the premium ammo. Where skilled players know when to use them. It is a tool in the game after all, and the game is balanced around the usage of premium ammo. There is no denying that. And then plenty of people swear against using prem ammo. Which are basically people who just shoot themselves in the foot, and then get angry at people who do use prem ammo, or even call them cheaters for doing so.

In the end, it's best to just ignore or make fun of toxic people and move on.

[Fat Atom]

I think the game, developers, and company are toxic .. So that just vents out into the community ..

[Stevo]

Well said, StronkiTonki, probably one of the most intelligent posts iv'e seen in a while ...

[Badhabit]

In my 20 years of gaming, I would say there is very little and very few community that is actually toxic, ppl like to use it tool to trying dismissed other's that had different viewpoint then their own.

[Badhabit]

Originally posted by StronkiTonki:

Yeah it is. That's because of the game creating a pretty toxic environment.

Stuff like arty is generally toxic, which causes frustration, and therefore causes more people to be more toxic as well.

Then there's the game actively rewarding bad players who are passive, where players sit and camp in 1 spot all battle long, providing no help for their team, to where their entire team dies, and they are left all alone in a strong camping position at the end. Giving them the impression that they did well, while in reality they did nothing to help the team win.
This educates bad players into passive gameplay, and creates an even bigger conflict between good and bad players.

The good, or more "try hard" players can be very toxic against bad players. While a lot of criticisms towards bad players can be justified, it often does go too far with toxic behavior aimed against them.
At the same time there are a lot of bad players who are clueless about their own lack of skill in the game, and will call anyone better than themselves either a nolifer or cheater.

On top of all that, there's also the premium ammo. Where skilled players know when to use them. It is a tool in the game after all, and the game is balanced around the usage of premium ammo. There is no denying that. And then plenty of people swear against using prem ammo. Which are basically people who just shoot themselves in the foot, and then get angry at people who do use prem ammo, or even call them cheaters for doing so.

In the end, it's best to just ignore or make fun of toxic people and move on.

-Element part of the game, like arty, is not cause of frustration. PPL dont like to loose, that cause frustration. Just like ppl whining about some tank is OP. In most case, I dare to say, 1 on 1, with same tier same class, its driver that matters.
-Most are mad like my self, about WG legendary bad MM(partialy rigged system). as WOT suck because it system is design to be broken on purpose, its team game without team play(as you also point out)! The game is much better in Clanwar. Just like Onslought is only fun to watch on twitter because those are pros and play like team. In random (and even worst in Onslought, at lower level), its just DMG farming, which mean, means ppl dont care about winning but dmg. And that cost Onslought to be very much Lottary.
-Ofc in general f2p game have more "useless" player, because, they didnt pay anything, its about have moment of fun. So many dont know how the game is, how the game plays. They just jump in from time to time and play a few game then log out. Some of these player can have even 100k game behind them, but never become even "averge" player.
-So, there is no such thing as toxic player, because those "toxic" players anger is very much justify, as these "sunday" players and WG bad/rigged MM system ruin other player gameplay. Saying their toxic, is like you been playing a SP game, then your sister run in, and pull the plug from your pc...and she keep doing because it is fun for her. Would your reaction to it make you a toxic person?
-WOT is lottary game. Lootbox fit it very well, as whole game is about luck. With the teams, the map(compare to the tank you happen to choose), does round hit, can it pen, and if it did then how much dmg. And in Onslought, one see the WORST what WOT is like, when WG actively punish the team that lost,but not those with most dmg, and that ofc means, then teamplay value is around zero as most ppl think for them self and not the team.

Ps.Anyone that complain about premium ammo has not been playing the game. as its has been YEARS when premium ammo cost gold(=real money) which very much making WOT a pay to win game. Also many dont get most Premium tank(with very few exception ofc, BZ176,ELC,E25...), around 85-90% are actually not OP in anyway(ofc most Premium are also not bad tank unlike techtree tank). Premium tank is just the main way WG to milking those player with money.

[Johnsin]

I don't think artys cause frustration, however, the irrational RNG, the absurd MM, the obvious pay to win, losing 10 or more games in a row without it being your fault, that's what creates frustration... And that's what It makes you want to kill any idiot who says that the game is fair, or that there are no cheaters... But there will always be stupid people who will defend the game, I don't know why, they will wait for a pat on the back or something. Fangirls...

Don't play it, or if you play it, don't buy anything!!!

[Fat Atom]

Originally posted by Johnsin:

I don't think artys cause frustration, however, the irrational RNG, the absurd MM, the obvious pay to win, losing 10 or more games in a row without it being your fault, that's what creates frustration... And that's what It makes you want to kill any idiot who says that the game is fair, or that there are no cheaters... But there will always be stupid people who will defend the game, I don't know why, they will wait for a pat on the back or something. Fangirls...

Don't play it, or if you play it, don't buy anything!!!

I agree that the game has become more stupid and pointless over the years .. but the number one reason, based on what other players are saying is, that they are fed up with some idiot at the back of the map getting free kills ..

Artillery .. uses no skill or tactics .. or some would say no brain ..

It was simply a mechanic from WG to whittle away peoples credits in game ..

[Brohan Creates]

Game overall is Toxic... Community just makes it worse.

[DJ_badass]

Game makes players toxic, War Gaming are making WOT toxic,

[GinsengSamurai]

Every game that has a PvP element to it, has been toxic to a point. So to ask if WoT has toxic players, is like asking if players ever get angry.

You know little league baseball? Yeah, one of the most toxic games in the universe. Parents will go out of their way to bully the child players and their parents, just to prove their superiority.

However, in the three months I've been playing WoT more actively, I would say toxic screamfests between players happen about one game out of fifty. So that's about 2% of the time. I see more toxicity in World of Warcraft PvP Battlegrounds (about 30% of all games) and the Battlefield franchise (~45% of all games), than WoT. I play tier 5-9.

[Fat Atom]

Originally posted by DJ_badass:

Game makes players toxic, War Gaming are making WOT toxic,

Yeah .. until they fix this game .. the toxicity will get worse ..

[Brohan Creates]

Originally posted by Neo:

WOT is Toxic and ripping off the players is main goal

Amen!

[Tatts87]

just turn off chat and you never have to deal with toxic people. makes the game more enjoyable