Insider On Wargaming Meeting – WoWs, WG EU, More Random Stuff

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Continuing from where we left off.

World of Warships

- WG expects a large amount of NA players, as NA is most enthralled with naval warfare historically speaking and has already made a number of players sign up and wishing to try it out, one video in particular has caused a certain degree of hype (it’s on Youtube, it’s a battle with a player using the Yamato)
- Generic player whiner: “OMG carriers are the arty of WoWs!” Developer answer: “Sail with AA boats near you, problem solved and piss off whiny bitch” (SS: before you get outraged, this is an INTERNAL discussion, you are not even supposed to see this)
- WG is aware of certain shortcomings of the WoWs staff and expects to have such shortcomings solved properly (Insider: “I’m guessing this concerns someone called “Challenger”)
- German tech tree will be redesigned to add more boats
- posting the “rising sun flag” in the EU/NA forums? Here’s an answer straight from a developer:

“With respect to history, the Kyokujitsu-ki, or “Rising Sun” flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy, has some negative connotations as a war flag, that makes it controversial throughout the world. At Wargaming, it has been our policy to substitute these flags in-game with the Hinomaru flag (red circle representing the sun upon a white field).

On the forums, you are permitted to post any historical photograph that depicts the Rising Sun being flown from a ship. You are NOT permitted to post any imagery of the Rising Sun flag otherwise, including vectors, gifs with just the flag itself, drawing the Rising Sun flag in fanart or contest entries, etc.”

- posting Kriegsmarine swastika is banned on any forum

Discussed changes to WG EU staff (support) mechanism

- players will now have the option to escalate the ticket if not solved properly (as long as it’s not something as retarded as discussing a game mechanic or a gun’s penetration). Wscalating means to actually have the supervisors and even the developers read your ticket (don’t expect “why im banned?” tickets be read by “daddy” SerB or his peers), this applies to technical situations and game bugs
- reports of fraud/scams will have a much lower treshold to make a moderator check the player, however – if the player is found not to be guilty and was just reported like that just because a fit of rage such as “I must report you because u hax!” the reporter will be punished instead
- if a player gets a retarded answer for their tickets that does NOT correspond to your problem (ie: having a problem with your ingame tank not showing up and suddenly getting an answer about a credit card payment and forms of payment), you can escalate the ticket and make sure the ticket gets read by a supervisor
- forum mods will now have a general rule on certain topics, no more “at your discretion” policy. This means that for example, a mod cannot act on his own accord beyond a treshold, offensive content will be punished
- technical problems are the most hard to solve. As such, players will be asked – when opening a technical related ticket – to provide their system specs file (they also will be provided a small miniprogram, that will do it for you, so you just have to click on “scan” and get the log file generated)
- “fits of rage” tickets are ignored and so will the players for future tickets
- moderators must check a list of banned mods before answering which mods are banned, anything related to Warpack is “insta-ban”. To quote one developer: “Any moderator telling you these mods arent bannable is just being retarded and the ticket can be escalated.”
- a proper list of banned mods on EU server will appear (pretty much the same as the NA one)
- in time, WG will develop something to detect mods too and will warn you of bad mods, it will also endorse certain mods
- offensive moderators can be punished, open a ticket when you see a moderator in a fit of rage and provide a link/picture
- tournament Cheaters/riggers and so on can too be reported, however there will be a threshold for that and a special section for it, e-sports, will be put under the magnifying glass as well
- clans will get moderation as well (their embassy forums/rivalry are usually a nest of rats and racist remarks) and also will be put under check if they are suspected of hoarding and cheating trough regions/strongholds
- lower threshold numbers for all reports ingame
- SEA server is getting new staff and more moderation, WG is aware the forums there reek of racism and worse. WG might replace a few guys and heads will start rolling “soon” for both troll players and moderators that don’t do their job
- likewise, EU is getting fresh meat and will make the heads of innefective moderators and PR/tech staff roll, they have already SEVEN under the scope, two being from Czech forums

Random Stuff

- developers half-joke that anti-arty-jihadists there should “all be cleansed by god’s hammer” (banned)
- thanks to the net neutrality act in NA, a deal with Timewarner was cancelled. It concerned “fast-laning” to a server, WG is thanking the act for making the internet an actual “free” thing (politely)
- XVM: shunned, but not banned: “play to have fun, not for purple numbers”
- confirmed: server cluster for Latin America
- arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game: “SerB needs your tears to bathe in his goldilocks tub”

157 thoughts on “Insider On Wargaming Meeting – WoWs, WG EU, More Random Stuff”

  1. - arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game: “SerB needs your tears to bathe on his goldilocks tub”

    Thank you Jesus SerB.. Playing arty and making peoples life a living hell is the only pleasure I have when playing WoT… Oh T92..bless you

        • This whole clicker comment is so weird. I barely play arty ( Less than 1k battles in 30k total) and yet I get called a clicker when I do my 1 battle a month.

          Doesn’t everyone have to click to play this game? I would love to see someone with decent stats that doesnt click.

    • Asshole definition by an arty asshole. And people ask why artys are so hated, well, start with those dicks who only pleasure is to ruin other people game

        • This. No matter what you are playing, if you got half a brain, you will do everything possible to make sure the other guy cannot hurt you. The insane amount of moaning and bitching about a lack of fair fights never stops to baffle me. Nobody wants a fair fight, because fair fights hurt.

          • Why imbecils cry about arty?? Why not those little fast sh*t called LT, like Bulldog, T49 etc. They do more harm than arty and pissed of many players. If you get hit by arty, that only means you are in wrong place at the wrong time so gtfo.
            Every tank class on this game have they own purpose so please, if you have to cry… leave this game.

            • You can do tons of stuff to counter all classes.
              Except arty. The only way to avoid getting killed by them is camping, while all they have to do is sit at their base and click once a minute.
              How in the unholy name of fuck is that good design?

    • I’m with you. I actually nerf myself with sticking to the pzslfb/german turret arty. last time i played T57 arty i wrecked the enemy team on himmelsdorf.

  2. - Generic player whiner: “OMG carriers are the arty of WoWs!” Developer answer: “Sail with AA boats near you, problem solved and piss off whiny bitch” (SS: before you get outraged, this is an INTERNAL discussion, you are not even supposed to see this)

    They should give this king if answer to those who ask for RNG reduction,….

  3. - arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game: “SerB needs your tears to bathe on his goldilocks tub”

    As AW arty can and will be better, WoT one is kind of one trick pony forever (what can they do is to copy AW – nothing else) :D

    • Serb made a time machine in 2010 and travelled into 2016 to copy AW, which copies WoT, but if there’s no WoT, there’s no AW either, so Serb can’t copy AW with WoT, and neither WoT nor AW will ever be made.

      • Oh wait, so when there is no real time strategy (top down god like view controling field) – then there is no arty in Wot..or maybe even no Wot (cos it seems they cant imagine their precious game without artillery), putting this facebook simple real time strategy component into fps shooter was the greatest idea ever (so the old russian farts that cant coordinate their hand-mouse-keyboard eyes movements are happy too)

      • Well said mate. And all that makes perfect sense to the little Lithuanian troll… :)

    • As long as AW devs won’t be retarded as fuck and they will remove or completely redesign the artillery (so it takes ANY skill for a change…), it will be enough for a massive exodus from WoT to AW. And then just watch how suddenly WoT devs will get humble about arty and “reconsider” doing something with it.

      Artillery is really the main problem of WoT right now, it is the cause of most of the game toxicity.

  4. WoT is a one hit wonder, WoWp was a fail and WoWs will be good for about a week then flop or just get some annoying updates which ruin the game

      • Can see it being niche market, to be honest. I feel that those with an interest will go for it, but Wg are overestimating the market. It might end up being a great game but can’t see it being huge, not even close.

        • The problem is that tank look incredibly different, and play really different, which will be the case with ships, but just less (all slow big iron machines), and tanks is just more appealing to people

  5. “With respect to history, the Kyokujitsu-ki, or “Rising Sun” flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy, has some negative connotations as a war flag, that makes it controversial throughout the world”

    Just like the Soviet hammer and sickle / red star in some EU countries, it’s forbidden in my country for example but I suppose they won’t remove it despite that it’s the same case.

    No offense, just nitpicking but still.. :)

    • i guess its tabooed in russia or somewhere.
      its kinda funny cause they still use the flag and US Navy have no problem cooperating with Japanese fleet now, even though it was mainly the US Navy that fought against IJN during WWII the most while USSR didnt have naval battle with Japan(at least nothing major)

      • And what’s more, the current JMSDF (“Navy” of Japan) is still using the very same “Rising Sun” flag on their boats officially, even when participating in various joint exercises.

        And no, unlike swastika which is banned from several European countries, the “Rising Sun” flag has never been banned from any country in the globe, including US, Russia and even China. No it isn’t forbidden.

        The nearest “ban” is that a congressman of South Korea made a proposal of it 2 years ago…yet no more further news is heard after that till now.

        So I wonder why WG considers that as “controversial”… It just contradicts to the facts.

        • Because the Japanese army also used the “Rising Sun” flag and its atrocities are well documented. In other words, the “Rising Sun” flag has swastika levels of hatred throughout Asia.

          • Asia my ass
            for so many years the only two country I’ve heard continuously bitching about Japan were Korea and China(so I guess they see themselves as the whole Asia),and you can kind of see why because those countries are still doing anti Japanese propaganda these days

        • Because over 40000 Koreans whined about it after the first trailer came out,after that,all of the videos had the rising sun flag replaced by the Hinomaru flag .
          so, koreans proved once again that if you whine hard enough ,you will get what you want.

    • Indeed, the hammer and sickle / red star stand for things that are just as horrible as the things associated with the swastika…

    • Exactly correct. WG has a problem with the “Rising Sun” flag, but has no problem using Nazi or Soviet flags, which many people in various parts of the world no doubt find offensive? Personally, I don’t give a darned. Use’em all. They’re historical flags and represent the nations in the time period (mostly) of WoT, though I suppose to be fair and accurate, the German and Japanese tech trees include some post WW2 era tanks that aren’t associated with the WW2 era and their flags. Still, why refuse to use the Japanese WW2 era flag, but keep the flags of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union? Are the people who find the Japanese WW2 flag offensive just more touchy than those who might be offended by the Nazi or Soviet flags?

      • A direct attack on free speech, omitting small details over a period of time information gets forgotten or lost. You are easily divided, conquered, controlled and distracted by bread and circus’s if you do not know your history
        Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

      • WG using nazi flags? What? Where?
        As I know there is not a single authentic nazi flag in WoT or WoWS.

    • All bullshit. All flags should be allowed..fuck germany, try as they might naziism is part of world history…same as soviet history.

      • I agree with you on this but the fact is, Germany has banned the swastika so if WG used it, the game would be illegal in Germany. From an economic point of view, WG is just maximizing their market, same as any other company would do.

        • ZOMG YES, cause it would be so hard to localize it for the German market.

          Judge for yourself what you think of WG’s spin on things. (By the way SS, Gunlion is the WoWS and WoWP Community Manager, not a “Dev”. Certainly not setting policy for all of WG.)

          From here – http://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/46/historical-content-world-tanks/

          “As such, we will not remove from our games any historically accurate content that is not prohibited by international or national law.”

          Now, granted that was in reference to the Stalinist slogans on tanks, but it is interesting that protest from a small section of WG’s market (KR office) has lead to WG, IMO, contradicting itself. While the uproar about the Stalinist slogans was pretty widespread from what I remember. Of course everyone will say, but that’s Japanese, not Russian, so… (blah blah blah, insert Russian bias conspiracy theory here (or are they ).

  6. So now I’m interesed in the list of banned mods, because Aslain’s modpack contains “ennemy sight direction on minimap”, that i use, and I’ve seen a lot of russian players use it on RU, but in the installer it says “forbidden on NA server”…

    It doesnt really gives unfair advantage as it gives you this info only for tanks in the print range (500m square around you), so what it tells you can be seen by dezoom, but still, worried :x

    Anyway, greatest new ever :) now we will be able to get real answers to our tickets :)

    • It gives you a certain advantage as there are times you could not tell which way the enemy is pointing, even if he is within render range. If the enemy is far beyond a house and you can’t rotate your camera around to actually see him you will never know if he’s pointing at you or the other direction until you go around the corner. Likewise, if the enemy is far beyond some vegetation you can only see his highlighted outline but you can’t tell the way he’s facing. Also even if all the tanks were in plain view, you can only see a certain bit of your surrounding (a field of view) and you won’t know what is happening behind you until you actually move the camera there. A minimap with enemy direction will provide you constant information about any enemy in the draw range, regardless of you being able to see them through obstacles or even regardless of looking in their general direction.

      If this is too much of an advantage to make it illegal is not for me to say, but it’s pretty clear to me it does give you an advantage by providing you data not available to unmodified client user.

    • It does show you as well where the enemy is looking even though he is behind cover and you wouldn’t be able to see him by zooming out no matter what you try. It IS an advantage.

  7. - arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game: “SerB needs your tears to bathe on his goldilocks tub”

    And I will bathe in SerBs tears, when AW’s arty mechanism turns out much more livable, and WoT and WG goes to shit. Seriously, been playing this shit for bout five years now, never was the typical “WG hater”, but what they’re doing is starting to get outrageous. If they want their game based on noob-friendliness that’s fine, but I’m out, and I won’t be the only one.

        • EFE clan :)

          Arty: you never get bored of how much killed babies rage.

          EFE: how would we complete a hallf of shame without them :)

        • Regardless whether arty is bad or good aspect of the game, insults do not give you much weight in an argument. Quite the contrary, you just shed negative light on yourself.

      • Please explain what is good about having a class that can destroy you with a single click across the entire map, while there’s nothing you can do about it except camping hard, which is supposedly the thing arty is supposed to prevent…

          • Everybody knows that. These are the same tactics that makes arty-apologists bad and turns the game into a campfest.

            • In AMX13-75 I´ve seen quite a lot of games without even a single arty. Guess what? The idiot heavies and TDs are still „camping hard”.
              As long as the random battles are played in 15vs15, you cannot really hope for a coherent attack. Some people will always be cowards looking for lazy ways to camp and click, exactly what you’re accusing arty of.

        • I would fucking love to have all those one-shot arty you all keep moaning about.
          Despite having 210mm HE, mine only ever do 1k damage MAX. After having missed you at least once. While you were immobile.

        • I play arty quite often lately because my clan needs some more artys for CW…and the best you can do to avoid arty is…honestly you wont belife me if I tell you…moving….right if you move it’s 4 to 5 times harder to hit you…well if you go at atleast 20Km/h.
          eaven my Bat 155 51 with it’s rotating turret and high accuracy has problems following and preaiming tanks in time…now go and imagine what it is like in a GW E or T92…great fun.
          I’m not saying that I’m not mad when arty ruins my game but thats part of a game like WoT and beeing onehittet or penetraded by an arty is a really rare case I belive more players get ammowrecked than onehitted by arty

      • Yesterday I one-shot a Jagdtiger, tier IX Tank Destroyer in my S-51, tier VII Soviet SPG.
        I would say well balanced. It was only possible because I pressed my left mouse button really hard.
        10/10
        Would Point and Click again…

  8. Very interesting information :)

    SS: Do you know if EU will get the T34 marathon aswell?

  9. I think these are good changes, especially the escalate option for support tickets. The EU Support Team is in 90% just useless …. The escalate option is very promising in my opinion as it should force ever support “manage” to read the tickets more carefully and not just copy & paste something due the subject only without even reading the whole support ticket. At least this is my opinion after exactly 24 support tickets in 3 years of game play

  10. So Rising Sun & Kriegsmarine Swastika flags are “no go”, but the Soviet Union “Hammer & Sickle” flag is A-OK.

    Either you respect history and portray it as it actually was – OR you’re a chauvinistic, Soviet-apologetic swine

    I swear someone should bring an ACTUAL history book (not the ones written in the USSR), a very thick & heavy one, and bring it to WG HQ – just to show them the actual horrors that USSR has done in half of Europe and bludgeon their heads with it until they get it through their vodka-infused skulls.

  11. - Generic player whiner: “OMG carriers are the arty of WoWs!” Developer answer: “Sail with AA boats near you, problem solved and piss off whiny bitch” (SS: before you get outraged, this is an INTERNAL discussion, you are not even supposed to see this)

    Sorry I Literally Laughed. Brilliant Reaction there.

    • Since WG doesn’t actually give 2 shits about realism, why not give regular tanks the opportunity to buy consumables that will shoot down any arty shell that would land near you?
      I’d buy about 10 of them per battle

  12. Heads rolling on SEA?

    Not even surprised any more. I dont think theres actually a community manager for the English section, just a stressed out producer trying to wear more hats then he can juggle.

    Interesting to hear that the forums are getting cleared out as well though. RIP us.

    • Tempted to say “better late then never”, but I really think it might be too late. Ironic considering most of the “clearing out” should be in the other language sections.

    • And there I was thinking that (baring the usual suspects) the English speaking portion of the SEA server and forums were not that bad. Some days on the NA server, I thought I was playing “KKK the MMO”.

      • seriously. some days nothing, other days i’m like who knew so many inbred rednecks had internet? i guess now that calling somebody a racial slur will get you fired from your job and/or get your ass kicked in real life, the only recourse for the sheet wearing knuckle draggers is to spout their filth anonymously online. pussies.

  13. “With respect to history, the Kyokujitsu-ki, or “Rising Sun” flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy, has some negative connotations as a war flag, that makes it controversial throughout the world. At Wargaming, it has been our policy to substitute these flags in-game with the Hinomaru flag (red circle representing the sun upon a white field).

    On the forums, you are permitted to post any historical photograph that depicts the Rising Sun being flown from a ship. You are NOT permitted to post any imagery of the Rising Sun flag otherwise, including vectors, gifs with just the flag itself, drawing the Rising Sun flag in fanart or contest entries, etc.”

    - posting Kriegsmarine swastika is banned on any forum

    Yeah…..but Hammer and Sickle is totally okay….because…..um….they were the good guys…? Oh wait…well….historical accuracy failed right at the beginning before the game is even out yet :(

    As much as political correctness forces one to ban svastika pretty much anywhere i have no idea what is wrong with the imperial japanese flag….like….by that logic all 3 should be banned. Svastika/Japanese Rising Sun and Hammer & Sickle. Oh and if we are getting Italian tanks lets ban their flag too just for shits and giggles!

        • i believe by the time andrew jackson became famous for his exploits as a serial killer of native americans the usa had long since been established. you think the genocide magically stopped at the end of the revolutionary war?

    • Depiction of the swastika is illegal in many European countries, Germany included. Thanks to the invasion and atrocities committed by the Japanese armed forces during WWII, the “Rising Sun” flag is hated in many Asia countries with both China and Korea the main haters, but you can also add Taiwan, Philippines, etc.

      So far no country has banned the Hammer and Sickle flag and by this time the countries that lived under soviet oppression are just happy of being rid of them.

    • Unlikely to be any South American ones. Not much indigenous tank industry in the area during the period WoT covers, so its unlikely enough stuff could be found to completely flesh out many lines.

    • Server cluster means that South America gets their own servers. Sorry but this Ecuadorian will remain on the NA Server cluster.

  15. It’s so stupid that games (not WoT only) are not using historical symbols like Swastika and the Rising Sun flag.

    It’s fucking history, what the hell is wrong with you?!

    It’s ok to have people kill each other in all ways possible, but OMG boobs or Swastika, the game rating jumps to +18…

    • Depiction of the Swastika along with other Nazi imagery outside of historical photos is forbidden in many countries in Europe, specially in Germany.

      • I know and it is stupid. Everything that is history related should be allowed to depict history as it was.

        I know many countries have very harsh lows against neo-nazism and that is a very good thing but this laws should not interfere with the depiction of history.

      • By that mentality, it’s not past history when you have Putin crying about the fall of the USSR AND that happened only 25 years ago…

        Also, you have neo-commies venerating those symbols. After all, Lenin is STILL revered in Russia (and to a certain degree, Stalin as well)

        TL;DR – The West were able to learn from the mistakes of the past and are able to view history objectively, while the Russians are not only still incredibly biased, but they actually still believed they did nothing wrong at all (Finnland attacked USSR, right comrade?)

  16. ,offensive moderators can be punished, open a ticket when you see a moderator in a fit of rage and provide a link/picture’

    I wish I would of made a screenshot when BigBadVuk lost his shit on one of the gameplay sections of the forum xD [late 2013]

  17. “developers half-joke that anti-arty-jihadists there should “all be cleansed by god’s hammer” (banned)”

    And I think anyone defending arty should be repeatedly kicked in the nuts.

    • Wait for AW.
      We can then leave all the arty gaylords to play on the empty servers against themselves.

      • Please do so. That way I can play in peace without hearing a teenager ranting like a 3 year old because he was one-shot by an arty shell and his precious stats got clobbered as well.

        • Luck should not beat skill. In any game.

          Arty does exactly that. Therefore, arty needs to be reworked from scratch or outright removed.

          • I’ll grant you that, but my problem is not the allegedly “broken” arty mechanics but the man-babies that make a tantrum because they got hit by arty shells, even if the shell fails to make any damage.

          • Then don’t play backgammon, or roulette, or blackjack, or any other number of games that involve chance. Why aren’t you a hardcore chess player? That’s a real game of skill! Come on! Step up to the plate and work to become a grandmaster in chess!

          • Exactly, when you see a bad player in a regular tank, you can expect from him, that he will play badly, but bad player in an arty ? No problem what-so-ever, he can hit you on the move, for full dmg at 1km ……

          • In about 17k games I’ve rarely been one-shot by arty. In fact, most games they don’t hit me ever because I’m positioning myself in the arty shadows as any skilled player does.
            When I do play arty, I mostly feast on idiots who sit in the open, campers and those who don’t know how to position themselves. Of course it’s a whole lot less effective with arty as opposed to a td.

            If you’re getting messed up by arty, you’re not that good. Screw this “I’m skilled, he’s just a clicker”. Obviously you ain’t so shit hot after all.

            I hope they make arty in aw similarly an exercise in feasting on idiots. Perhaps they’ll stop playing these games and the rest of us can get on with having fun whilst they return to being breastfed.

  18. We ALL KNOW where the flag with swastica and rising sun stand/stood for. Whats the point of censoring it?

      • Well, even as someone who dislikes soviets very much, Id still hate not to have the proper hammer and sickle flag in the game. I just like it accurate no matter what

        • The thing is – If you have Hammer and Sickle in game then you should have other flags/symbols/insignia as well since it is either historical accurate or you try (in case of WG here) to shape history in a way that it suits you (By you i mean WG)

    • Mostly because of some rather serious laws in parts of Europe relating to the Swastika.

      Not 100% on the rising sun thing, but Id hazard there was enough political opposition in some sectors to keep it out. Remember that Japan is considered a fairly large and important customer base for WoWs.

      • No one asks for the actual Swastika, though, unless it WAS officially flagged on a ship or ship class.
        On tanks the Balkenkreuz suffices, since AFAIK it was the actual marking of German tanks, like the Red Star was on Russian tanks.

        This whole issue stems back from the major shitstorm when Stalinistic inscriptions in WoT (like applying “For Stalin!” decals) were initially removed from EU server, then forced back by WG HQ, because “historical authenticity”, meanwhile citing that German inscriptions like “Gott mitt uns” (which had absolutely nothing to do with Nazi-ism) were not OK.

          • Imho whole WoT/WOWp and the soon to be World of Warships should be banned cause all these tanks/planes/ships killed people! And it offends me! WG should be banned for making such an offensive game that makes one relive WWII by destroying each other in game! Either that or replace everything with unicorns! (Sarcasm >.>)

            • Yep.. the Swastika is banned in many countries..

              …and considering one of those countries happened to make some of the most iconic tanks, is a main pillar of the game (tech tree) and has a massive following (warranted or not)… you need to cater for the masses.. that means removing/banning said items that are “illegal” where the game is played… ….otherwise a serious political and financial shitstorm could ensue..

              Not just “a storm in forum…”

          • “That is why the swastica is replaced by the Eiserne Kross in WoT’s German flags.”

            Kross … is that like Kreuz, but not quite?

            • “Kreuz” is just the German word for cross. I think he started to write kreuz and was thinking the word cross, so it came out as a typo.

      • Let me recall again, unlike Swastika which is against law in parts of Europe, the rising sun is totally LEGAL in all nations, including China and Korea, which bitches Japan the most.

        Moreover, the flag is officially used on every modern Japanese naval ships, while Swastika has obviously been discarded after WWII.

        Thus the excuse on Swastika is simply not valid to apply on rising sun.

  19. South American server is a bad idea. Splitting up an already small playerbase is a terrible idea, and people know this, which is why many latin americans will remain in NA server.

    • We’re better off without them, especially the Brazilians (they are US server’s equivalent of siemka kto PL … constantly looking for a date at the start of each battle, then they go full retard with top tier heavy and die before dealing a single point of damage to the enemies).

    • NA MM having problems to have tier 2 battles? Like one day i picked a tier 2 just to see how it was (long time didnt play there) and was a 7vs7 battle. Solution? Reduce even more the players by making another server. Brilliant!

      Yes i know the benefits, reduced lag for them, more players for that etc… But NA server is not that big to scatter its players

  20. - SEA server is getting new staff and more moderation, WG is aware the forums there reek of racism and worse. WG might replace a few guys and heads will start rolling “soon” for both troll players and moderators that don’t do their job

    RyZy Wave??

  21. Cant believe no-one’s quoted this bit…

    To quote one developer: “Any moderator telling you these mods arent bannable is just being retarded and the ticket can be escalated.”

    Now…

  22. “if a player gets a retarded answer for their tickets that does NOT correspond to your problem (ie: having a problem with your ingame tank not showing up and suddenly getting an answer about a credit card payment and forms of payment), you can escalate the ticket and make sure the ticket gets read by a HUMAN”

    Fixed :D

    - arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game: “SerB needs your tears to bathe on his goldilocks tub”

    OK, ok, but first they need a rebalance (to restore Zlobny’s 8.6 epic fail)

  23. “- German tech tree will be redesigned to add more boats”

    Well well well, that’s good. Hopefully we’ll be able to see the Lead Ships of Graf Spee, Prinz Eugen, Max Schultz and a Lol-Boat XD

  24. - WG is aware of certain shortcomings of the WoWs staff and expects to have such shortcomings solved properly (Insider: “I’m guessing this concerns someone called “Challenger”)

    This one has me confused. Is the “Challenger” in WoWs staff or are you referring to WG EU staff?

  25. “- WG expects a large amount of NA players, as NA is most enthralled with naval warfare historically speaking and has already made a number of players sign up and wishing to try it out, one video in particular has caused a certain degree of hype (it’s on Youtube, it’s a battle with a player using the Yamato)”

    I played in the weekend beta and I can say that they got me hooked. My only problem is that I can only play 2 to 3 hours a day and I will be forced to choose which one I want to play. :(

  28. “- likewise, EU is getting fresh meat and will make the heads of innefective moderators and PR/tech staff roll, they have already SEVEN under the scope, two being from Czech forums”

    I hope the ones that infuriated me enough to leave EU server are among them. Revenge is a dish best served cold :)

  29. Every now and then I think about going back to WoT but then I come here and remember just how caustic the player base can be. People bitching about the opinion of others as if their view can be the only true opinion, remember this; opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one.

  30. Latin american server??
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT SEND WITH THEM
    PLEAE DONT, can i stay please
    i have green stats, ill behave
    BUT PLEASE DONT SEND WITH THEM, THINGS re diferent here, the player base are not adults
    MUST OF THEM here ARE TINY LITTLE KIDS WITH NO respect or BRAINS TO PLAY!
    PLEASE LET ME stay in NA

    • you will surely be allowed to log in to whatever server you wish. folks in russia and the eu play on na all the time and vica versa.

  32. - arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game: “SerB needs your tears to bathe in his goldilocks tub”

    muhahahahahahaha

    cry moar bitches!!!

  33. - XVM: shunned, but not banned: “play to have fun, not for purple numbers”

    Rather should be, play to not have red numbers…… it’s not fun to do in avg. no dmg (2 penetrating shots) and die. I don’t mind regular average players, but really I mean really stupid players I don’t understand how they can have fun without trying to understand the game, learning something new.

    • i see players with between 5k and 40k games with 42% to 46% winrate and wn8 of 300 or even as low as 13. how can it be fun to play if you have a wn8 of 13 at 8000 games? i think many of them are actually mentally handicapped and had an account set up for them by their caregivers. i am not trying to be snarky, my whole family was in the developmental disabilities field growing up and i saw many individuals who had video game consoles and would play all day, having the time of their lives. did they ever get anywhere or accomplish anything ingame? no. but they didn’t even know it, they just knew they were driving or flying or fighting monsters like regular people and they loved it. this was, of course, before the internet and multiplayer online games so it had zero impact on anyone else. i think because of the simplicity of the basic operation of wot (wasd, click to fire, hit battle) this may be a somewhat common choice for folks in this situation. a lot of families probably have a computer but not the extra cash for a playstation. having a handicapped child can be expensive and they are often at home for the long haul.

  34. XVM is simple. As it IS A MOD, you tread it like a mod. if u no likey, then why worry mate?

    dont want to see “tomatoes”? disable stats. actually reduces load on your comp. did that once, it actually feels rather depressing. note that i play on SEA server, where even in tier 8s you’ll see ppl with worse stats and gameplay than a tier2. we have enough tomatoes to get you sick of the real thing =D

    I only kept it on so I don’t get jumpscared by a passing unicum.

  35. “arty will stay forever: never will be removed from game”

    Good enough. Maybe the players leave instead. But WG will have their arty.