Post by nittany224 on Jan 31, 2023 4:59:35 GMT
I was hoping this place would become the spiritual successor to our once-beloved forums, but that certainly has not happened. I guess the only true remaining community grouping that feature veteran players from "the days of old" is the JOCO discord. The official subreddit is, I guess, another option, but since 6.0 it has become overrun and infested with Cold War apologists and WG defenders/scumbags.
Of course, there is also the authoritarian Official WoT Console discord, but that is a disgusting collection of pro-WG fanboys and scum. And even worse, anyone who even dares to speak out against WGCB is pretty much instantly silenced.
And, yes, we have the total joke that is the WoT Console(s) Facebook group ... that by itself is another animal.
All I can say is that, since 6.0, and especially over the past year or so, with the playerbase either continuing to decline or remaining stagnant, the feeling of "community" has been mostly lost, in my opinion. Players are now divided into two camps: those who support the original, true WoT (WW2) and those who support WGCB's physical embodiment of their betrayal with 6.0 (Cold War).
This is the sad reality that we find ourselves in now with this game. Don't let the yes-men fool you. This game still hasn't recovered from 6.0. Is it playable? Absolutely. Is it enjoyable? Depends on what you find "enjoyable" ... are 2-3 minute blowout losses enjoyable? Are 3-man platoons of Bourrasques that dominate your entire team enjoyable? Are rockets fired from across the entire map that one-shot you enjoyable? Is the copy-paste BS of Cold War - which forces you to grind through some of the SAME TANKS as WW2 - enjoyable? Is half of your team doing zero damage AT FUCKING TIER 10 enjoyable?
Tiers 8-10 have become practically unplayable most of the time now as the standard of gameplay has somehow become worse than the mid-tiers. Tier 10 was supposed to be the game's crowning ending. It's become the #1 running joke in the game. For far too long players have been able to fail their way to tier 10 via the tech tree, but now they don't even have to do that. Without even playing a single TT tank, they can just stroll into the Store or the Premium Tech Tree and buy themselves a tier 8, 9, or 10 premium tank and poof! they're on your team now and there is NOTHING you can do about it. There are ZERO roadblocks to keep terrible players from reaching the high tiers without forcing them to at least master the fucking BASICS of this damn game. That's just plain wrong and ruins the game for experienced players like myself.
I have played this game for 7+ years and yes, I know bad players have always been a part of this game. But it's the pure number of them now that simply send me over the edge. They're inescapable. They've become the overwhelming majority of the playerbase - so much so that all it takes now is for 2-3 players on the enemy team to be able to think and breathe at the same time, and you're pretty much destined to lose.
I didn't mean for this to become a rant, but as I was writing this I really just wanted to pour my thoughts out there. I love this game deeply and to see it become the corpse on life support it is transformed into has just hurt so much. I've wanted to quit playing this game time and time again but I've simply put too much time and money into it to let it go. So as it stands, I'm simply here to ride it out until the servers inevitably shut down sometime in the near future.
I have always held out hope that the game might be able to make a miraculous turnaround, but let's be real ... it's been two years now since 6.0. Cold War has done nothing but divide a still-dwindling playerbase and has offered nothing unique or exciting. Most of the game's content creators and streamers are now gone. The official forums are history.
Jeff Gregg and PAINGOD leaving was nice, but the damage that those two utter cunts have done to this game since Mercenaries - and especially since 6.0 - is simply irreparable. Their honestly sudden departures may have been far too little, far too late.
At this point, I'm just here to see how long this game will last. I'm just saddened that the game I grew to enjoy and treasure has become a complete joke and a shell of its former self.
Of course, there is also the authoritarian Official WoT Console discord, but that is a disgusting collection of pro-WG fanboys and scum. And even worse, anyone who even dares to speak out against WGCB is pretty much instantly silenced.
And, yes, we have the total joke that is the WoT Console(s) Facebook group ... that by itself is another animal.
All I can say is that, since 6.0, and especially over the past year or so, with the playerbase either continuing to decline or remaining stagnant, the feeling of "community" has been mostly lost, in my opinion. Players are now divided into two camps: those who support the original, true WoT (WW2) and those who support WGCB's physical embodiment of their betrayal with 6.0 (Cold War).
This is the sad reality that we find ourselves in now with this game. Don't let the yes-men fool you. This game still hasn't recovered from 6.0. Is it playable? Absolutely. Is it enjoyable? Depends on what you find "enjoyable" ... are 2-3 minute blowout losses enjoyable? Are 3-man platoons of Bourrasques that dominate your entire team enjoyable? Are rockets fired from across the entire map that one-shot you enjoyable? Is the copy-paste BS of Cold War - which forces you to grind through some of the SAME TANKS as WW2 - enjoyable? Is half of your team doing zero damage AT FUCKING TIER 10 enjoyable?
Tiers 8-10 have become practically unplayable most of the time now as the standard of gameplay has somehow become worse than the mid-tiers. Tier 10 was supposed to be the game's crowning ending. It's become the #1 running joke in the game. For far too long players have been able to fail their way to tier 10 via the tech tree, but now they don't even have to do that. Without even playing a single TT tank, they can just stroll into the Store or the Premium Tech Tree and buy themselves a tier 8, 9, or 10 premium tank and poof! they're on your team now and there is NOTHING you can do about it. There are ZERO roadblocks to keep terrible players from reaching the high tiers without forcing them to at least master the fucking BASICS of this damn game. That's just plain wrong and ruins the game for experienced players like myself.
I have played this game for 7+ years and yes, I know bad players have always been a part of this game. But it's the pure number of them now that simply send me over the edge. They're inescapable. They've become the overwhelming majority of the playerbase - so much so that all it takes now is for 2-3 players on the enemy team to be able to think and breathe at the same time, and you're pretty much destined to lose.
I didn't mean for this to become a rant, but as I was writing this I really just wanted to pour my thoughts out there. I love this game deeply and to see it become the corpse on life support it is transformed into has just hurt so much. I've wanted to quit playing this game time and time again but I've simply put too much time and money into it to let it go. So as it stands, I'm simply here to ride it out until the servers inevitably shut down sometime in the near future.
I have always held out hope that the game might be able to make a miraculous turnaround, but let's be real ... it's been two years now since 6.0. Cold War has done nothing but divide a still-dwindling playerbase and has offered nothing unique or exciting. Most of the game's content creators and streamers are now gone. The official forums are history.
Jeff Gregg and PAINGOD leaving was nice, but the damage that those two utter cunts have done to this game since Mercenaries - and especially since 6.0 - is simply irreparable. Their honestly sudden departures may have been far too little, far too late.
At this point, I'm just here to see how long this game will last. I'm just saddened that the game I grew to enjoy and treasure has become a complete joke and a shell of its former self.
