Players are now being threatened with permanent bans for engaging in perfectly legitimate gameplay, specifically, shooting at AFK (Away From Keyboard) enemy tanks.
Yes, you read that right.
A recent support message has sparked outrage among players. The message sternly warns:
“We must warn you not to shoot at afk tanks in the future, as this can be treated as participation in Rigged battles, which result in a permanent ban. Please refrain from shooting afk tank and try to win by capturing the base.”
This is not just absurd, it’s a direct slap in the face to every player who plays fair, fights hard, and expects the game to honor its core mechanics. AFK tanks are still enemy combatants. They’re not protected entities. They are, by every game standard, targets. Penalizing players for eliminating them is not only nonsensical, it’s downright punitive.
source: reddit
Cool, three of us can pretend to be afk and the last enemy won’t shoot us as spend 5 mins getting to our base then we can finish him off 👍🏼
If this is real, it’s one of the biggest dogs*** I have heard in a long time 🙁
Time to go after in every game from now on and report anyone for rigging who shoots my AFK tank.
If they would destroy them then, it would be fine. but they prevent you from playing? no way. that has to be a misunderstanding. I think its just a support not knowing what is the actual case.
the updated rules nowhere say DONT SHOOT AFKS.
Just shows you how DUMB WG “fair play system” is….
And for the past 8+ years they are trying to make the game “safe” from forbidden mods and rigged battles.
They (WG) are the definition of USSELESS C#NTS.
How this game survived this long with owners this F stupid is just beyond me.
Just imagine if WoT was treated right…
Scenario: AFK light enemy tank, still in base. We are winning, we just need to clear out the camping TD’s. The enemy TD’s are well hidden and THE ONLY tank providing them with our location is that AFK light tank. And I cannot shoot it. Because it is “against the rules”.
WG logic. Just as one brilliant developer said about bobjeckt, “well, go around it”. Before it was nerfed…
But you can ram them🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sadly in WG’S EULA ramming is considered also as shooting as your tank is considered as a bullet for balancing reasons.
No, I am not joking. EULA Part I, Section 17, Point 3.7, Paragraph 3.
This is not the whole picture! This was an answer by WG Customer Support to a player, who asked: “What to do, if there are 7-8 or more enemy AFK tanks?”, which are presumably rigging the battle. Not when there are 1-2 people, who disconnected. This was cleared by multiple WG employees in the official WoT Reddit and different Discord channels.
Yeah. But the game is going down…
Getting down like I do with your mama.
Well done, bow please say that Tiered Lootboxes are good for the game.
So the crying about the actual topic you’re crying about doesn’t matter because you’re only doing it for the sake of crying about it?
Happens so rarely for a normal player that it will be like drowning or falling off a cliff
Only participating players will do it often enough to trigger any sanctions
rather give warning to afk players for not participating in the battles, if the afk players are having problems with internet connection, they shouldnt play at all at those times.
Well, that also isn’t applicable. For example, I have ~30 ms ping, but I get lag spikes and package losses roughly 1 in 10 battles. So by your logic I shouldn’t play at all
Yes you shouldn’t play at all.
This is how news is written today. A fool for fools. Next time before you write something like this, try to find out a little more information. But you don’t want to inform the players, you want to write tabloid news, right?
At this point I don’t even know what I’m doing here… Every article that’s not a copy&paste from the official news page is complete shit.
nice bait, but this is only like half or even third of the actual story.
Wonder why wot playerbase going downhill rapidly, at low tiers u cant find any new player, only bots
Then you should not statpad at low tiers you buffoon
The easy way that in one team (normal battle) let you just 3 squads in one team. If there are 9 afk, the rest can play. The other way is to complicated. What is afk? Dont move? Then the rig company move any vehicle a little bit, shot once and that is no longer afk. Just look every battle in someone do more than 10k dmg, and if there are more than the half of the players afk, make some sanction. Marks of excelence back to 0% or personal missions back to mission 1.
What a fucking clown show, god forbid they have to do anything but lootboxes. Make the double track tanks have the double track mechanics like Lesta you lazy piles of garbage
nice out of context clickbait article
How ridiculous