Man, The Clubbin' is Realz

Evil_Putin, on Jan 07 2019 - 21:52, said:   Not that I support the idea of seal clubbing, but I disagree with your approach. They can't learn stuff they don't know about and there will be no one to teach them. All being unskilled new players, there won't even be a "hmm...how did that guy do that?" moment for any of them until they hit t5, where they'll encounter the very same noob farmers with 7 skill crews and bond equipment, but at far higher stakes than in t1/t2 and in much less forgiving tanks. To the contrary, being ripped to shreds early on by players that know the mechanics, maps and equipment should trigger many questions and provide ground for learning. Now, it is true that such sink or swim approach might be discouraging to some, but I'm fairly certain that most would still agree that WOT and, especially higher tiers, will be far better off without those unwilling to put their big boy pants on, learn the game and be useful. Furthermore, WoT isn't even that bad in terms of being player unfriendly - take Eve or Elite Dangerous where you can grind for 100s of hours to get and outfit a ship just to have it blown up by a wing of griefers and lose it for good, unless you can pay the huge insurance claim. Relating it to Wot, imagine risking losing your t10 for good every battle unless you have like 1mil in silver to pay every time it gets destroyed. Now that's tough. Being wrecked by more experienced players with the ability to start new battle in like 5 minutes is not tough and is a solid kick in the butt to get the learning curve going. I'm not even talking about FPS games where you don't even have tiers to learn from and just get dumped into the same server with campers, cheaters, pro-players and everyone in between from the first minute and you spend weeks being cannon fodder to enemies you never get to see until you learn to be one of them. Same with life - the sooner you learn to take a hard beating and to get up from it, the sooner you learn how to not get beat down and how to dish out the beating yourself.