Why this community is often called "toxic": divide et impera.

Ectar:   Greed:  Wikipedia will have you believe this is the inordinate desire to posses wealth, good or objects or abstract value with the intention to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power.   What exactly is wealth in this game? It's an abundance of credits, gold or vehicles. Status? Well that's easy. It's having a high win ratio or Wn8 ratio. That's how you separate yourself from the other players Power? That's not as easy to determin with a player. It would come with influence really and an individual player doesn't have much power/influence. Power could arguably be simply having awesome stats.   How do you get all 3 (or at least 2) - You need to be good at the game. If you play well the credits roll in and you can get new tanks, build up reserves of gold/credits and will have respectable stats as you improve your game.  There is no other trick method to having high stats. Everything that any good player has used to get then where they are, is available to you also.    Greed is not just a corporate issue. It's also a massive player driven mentality. It's something that's especially become more relevant over the past 10 years with MMORPG games and 24 hour customer support for those games. Player responsibility and accountability has gone out the window for a horrendous sense of entitlement as players expect that everything they do in-game should be reversible, or content should be available for minimum effort. Players see someone else with something and the want it. More often than not without putting in the same effort the original owner did.    If you want anything in life, you have to work for it. I'll tell you the biggest most relivant piece of information you'll ever hear. - Life is unfair and it doesn't owe you anything. Nothing has to be equal, there is no universal law of balance. Throughout life many people will always try their best to balance things for the sake of others. and others will sacrifice what they have for the sake of others.  That won't always happen however. When you play any game, the system doesn't have it in for you.  There is no unique settings that make you and only you perform bad.  Games work based on skill, a little luck and in most cases a good bit of RNG. RNG you'll never be able to influence nor will the game developer be able to influence:   Your team mates will always be random unless you're in a game with group play. Even then, the skill level of your team mates will always be random. They'll miss shots, they'll hit shots, they'll do things you don't expect.   The one thing, the very one thing you'll ever be able to control is YOU.  If you want to improve, if you want to get better at this game or any game, you need to work at it.  You need to look at how you play and you need to look at how you can improve it.   Examples: Do you rush ahead all the time? Do you spend too long on stock tanks? Are you missing important shots? Is your mouse sensitivity to high/low Are your graphics settings too low Are you listening to music/watching movies and not being fully focused on the battle. Are you shooting at weakspots? Are you really trying to shoot at weakspots? Is your vehicle in the expected area for the map?  (For example never take a slow tanks into the Lakeville Valley) Frustrated playing solo and feeling "up against it"?  Have you tried platooning with team mates at your skill level? (It's a team game at the end of the day and is more fun with friends) Friends don't play World of Tanks? MAKE NEW FRIENDS - We have the forumites in-game chat channel with people sitting waiting to play with. Some of the most helpful and friendly players can be found there every day   If every time you have a bad run of matches, you look to blame something totally impossible to prove, it just shows you can't accept you're the reason you did bad. It also shows you can't accept that maybe, just maybe the people you were up against were better than you.   - I speak from experience here, I rage hardcore when things go against me in any game.  What I've learned though over the past years is to look at how I lost, and how I can stop that from happening again. Everytime I've put serious time into learning a game and trying to improve how I play it, I got better.  I accepted I have control over changing me and I accepted I can't change others.   The power to improve is within everyone as a player. The biggest problem you'll ever have is deciding that you want to change.