After all there is a "military exercise "going on that needs to be paid for,with all the sanctions they gotta bring in money ,wouldn't surprise me to see them selling dormant accounts
It's absolutely clear - WG are doing nothing because they are either running the boosting companies, or taking a cut. This is part of their business model...
Not really, you have to understand that companies like this don't care about issues in the game as long as they make lots of money, and game makes huge profits. Why would WG spend money and resources to fight with cheaters, when they can ignore it, and players will still throw hundreds, thousands dollars on their p2w events, just look at most recent one - Lion, or holiday boxes... Nothing will change if people don't stop throwing money on them on every occasion.
@@Evro_X It is a wickedly expensive game to play now if you buy into the offers. You can get hours of fun playing games off Steam for a fraction of the cost. That's what I do. I will delete my NA account. My EU account has been mothballed for a long time. I log in a couple of times a year to keep it ticking over. The tanks are looking a bit sad as are the crews , all of which I had to laboriously grind. A sad state of affairs isn't it.
As Sherlock Holmes would say, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Therefore, War Gaming is either taking kickbacks or is the boosters themselves.
1) it will cost between $1,000,000 - $10,000,000 USD to solve this issue affectively. + lost revenue. In NA it could be up to 50% of income. (That is not representative of other regions where the game is more popular) 2) Banning multiple accounts in the game that has between 2-7k daily concurrent players in NA and taking away the minority of people that bring probably half of the revenue to the game is how you get the NA server to shut down. Of course, they would be reluctant to do it, and probably don't see the need to. This would be easier done in the regions where there is a larger player base.
@@yushkovyaroslav Makes no sense to keep N A server up with that small player count. Shut it down, and prune the other servers from fraud accounts, and WoT might be a decent good game again.
@@diymicha2 Since I play on the NA server, I prefer it to stay up if it means I will vs occasional rigging. But regardless, it wouldn't really cut the cost of going against the issue. From what I understand. It's a community thing and it actually happens in every game. It's just less noticeable if the game has larger populations (and its harder to do)
One of WG biggest CC's (QB) exposed cheaters once. He seemed legit pissed about it, but then WG (who help sponsor him) said for him to "nip it" do not bring this up again. He never has since then. . Only one CC continues the fight for us, Claus Kellerman. Long live Claus 🤘😎
@@iveneverseensuchbehaviorin5367 So your stand is there is no game rigging, all those accounts just happened to come back to life and their owners all of a sudden suck like never before.... yup... very likely....
Thank you for bringing this up consistently Claus, been following you for years. This is the Most important thing that needs to be addressed in this game, and Wargaming feel complicit with the rigging and cheating.
I used to love playing all the World of games, but lately have been struggling to get a 50% win rate because of things like this. At one point I was posting some of my good games on a youtube channel, but have been so disgusted with the games lately that I stopped posting. I have even been thinking about not only quitting the games, but actively discouraging everyone I know from playing these games. Ty for looking into this. Until I hear from honest people like you that Wargaming is actively doing something to stamp out this issue I will continue to actively discourage everyone I can from playing any and all games made by Wargaming.
For several years I had a solid 52% win rate and some exceptional tanks which were my favorites, now its down to 49% and dropping. I am certain War Gaming owns the boosting companies.
@@feroxk.9266 I'm not too concerned about strictly win rate. I just want a fair match full of real people who are all actively trying to win. Without that even inherently good games simply aren't worth wasting time or money on.
@@shockwavegaming1376 i understand your hate of the game but discourage people because you can't get a 50% winrate? have you considered its your playstyle or decisions over the game?
@@cijj84 i have a 54% wr and i barely can't get a good string of games anymore. RNG became much more of a factor than ever, the times i have games where i cant hit anything or shots dont pen became much more frequent, for every game that feels normal rng wise i get 4 complete shitshows. Its not about wr, its more about the way rng works and yes, matchmaking is part of rmg mechanic from what i know. The game itself always tries its best to keep players at 49% wr anyway.
Claus, when I finished watching this video on my phone just now, I was immediately hit with add from the Team Raptor boosting Company. It was like WG and Game Riggers were giving you a big middle finger. Thanks for all the hard work you've invested into this for the community.
I have recently had a ton of games impacted by what I can only assume is rigging. I would spawn in and there would be an EBR 105 on each team because that is the way tier 10 works now. Usually I think nothing of it when my EBR yolos in and dies in the first 30 seconds but I had it happen 3 times in a row the other night and each time the EBR player said the same thing "sorry I disconnected" and then they would leave the game. When I see that once I just kind of shake my head but 3 times in a row and it seems more like a canned response from a rigging company or bot. It seems odd until you think once in a while these guys are going to land in a game with each other on a good light tank map and if one team has a light and the other doesn't it is basically a free LT15 mission.
Hey Claus - Not to diminish the ruinous nature of the game rigging itself, and the likely complicity of WG in the practice, I feel the CC community except yourself of course also shares a significant portion of the blame for the lack of any action to stop this cheating. If the major CCs were to speak out against these boosting companies loudly and often WG might be pressured to take some action. SILENCE IMPLES CONSENT!
Im pretty sure WG is doing 2 things: Making money from boosting companies, and laundring money (and/or giving precious € and $ to the russians). The level of opacity and corruption of this company is awesome...
There are quite a lot of rigged battles recently, even here on the EU server. Very few CCs mention that topic in their channels. Skill lately even said he doesnt really care about it... The compromised accounts are most likely sold by WoT employees to the boosting companies. They seem to check inactive accounts with Tier 10 vehicles and offer them to those boosting companies. I lately got into more and more high tier battles where platoons did 0 damage, it's really destroying the game ...
I've given up playing the game. But I still watch claus because he's entertaining. Now when wargaming fix this. And claus says it's safe now. It's fair now. Then I may start playing again.
it'd be easy to fix: if you were afk for 3 battles in a row, you get a 24 hr suspension. Another 3 battles 72 hrs suspension. Another 3 battles a week and so on. Same as if you do zero damage.
going back in the same places on the same maps depending on the tank you play ? TD, LIGHT, etc with WG shit MM and RNG ? you can go back in this shit game where your brain don' t work at all and have fun ? Ok, maybe one game on ten...the rest...
I think we need to take some action as a community. Perhaps a 24hr period where we don’t play the game but all send in tickets stating why we are refusing to play. This could be increased if we still got no response from WG. 😮
I've been seeing a lot of inactive players but as soon as you ping the map they head to exactly where you ping. If you change where you ping, they change directions. I probably have a replay of it somewhere. Most likely bots.
I have sent a couple of tickets concerning this to WG NA. Getting no response or a canned answer was not surprising. When is comes to chat banning, however, they are on the edge of their seat!
The chat ban thing is a joke and you're 100% right about their attitude toward it! I was recently chat banned for swearing. Honestly, I NEVER SWORE! I know this because I make a point of it. I don't even abbreviate i.e fck..cnt..sh*t etc... I do however have a ticket that hasn't been answered for about 5 months now as it concerns a player abusing my 9yr old son who plays my account (haha, it's true, my stats are 48% winrate) I add to it at least once a week and WG doesn't even put a bot response in return? Why...? THEY ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN AND IT WAS A WG EMPLOYEE! I still have screenshots of the threats. Anyway... I agree with you
Isn't banning done by how many people actually report you , I imagined they just use a bot that registers the negative reports against you then issues a standard ban.obviously there is a list of banned words it takes into consideration regardless of the context. I got banned for using the word mongol lol wasn't used in a derogatory context but got banned anyway.
@@007KURGAN I can only guess that the 5 woke employees, fired from McDonalds, in the NA are doing this while a bag of cheetos is sitting on their desk. It's pathetic really. The illegal mod use, multiple - multiple game issues, chat banning, banning for bumping into a immature troll, and now the game rigging. It's sad because the game had something going for it, only to have a company destroy it with greed and contempt for it's player base. Sir Foch could see the writing on the wall. The EBR's was the tipping point for him. Victor Kislye's news article was nothing but bullshit propaganda - what a shit-tard he is.
@@007KURGAN if you have screenshots of threats to your son you would be needing to be involving the police my man and include your emails to wargaming... Although they are so petty they would probably ban your account
I have just googled for boosting service. Mostly russian based. Pretty expensive. Not expensive enough to make a living (time consuming tasks) - I can imagine that sweatshops are involved. Or just really poor/broke russians etc. But none of them seem to use the method that is mentioned in the Video. At least they claim that for certain services you have to pay more because it will be unicums that will play. Since these (video) are all (most likely) hacked accounts - I am convinced for that huge number, employee's are involved. Otherwise they are all sold - but I doubt it. To prevent a crackdown on this - involvement of employee's is almost a must. I worked in a BPO/Callcenter myself. For that level there must be higher management be involved. That is not the work/help of just a regular Ivan on the lowest job position. That's for sure.
In other words - the only chance is get the email of the CEO, sent him an email and wish for the best lol. Otherwise nothing will happen. I bet in the forums all postings on that topic will be deleted/locked.
The acc owners sold the accounts people have been doing this for years in any game with demand for it cash is king as a matter of fact some people live like kings just from R.W.T RuneScape is a perfect example besides what is W.G supposed to do if someone quit years ago and returned only to see their acc is gone W.G could be held accountable
This is exactly why I stopped playing the game: It's just not fun anymore. Shitty riggers, shitty tube maps, shitty OP tanks and a company doesn't caring at all. It's so sad, because I used to love this game and put a lot of time (and money) in it.
Wargaming doesn't care about this, matter as fact I think they make money off it. If they didn't and they cared they would've already at least said something. But this must be happening primarily on EU cus I do 20-30 games every day on NA and have yet to run into any of this.
Great to see the old school Claus hairstyles coming back 👍👍 Wgs blatantly involved in the rigging and are probably earning very well from it so I don't expect any action at any point soon unless they find another scam to replace the income.
This is happening in lower tiers as well. Played Lakeside in my Matilda and went up the valley. good fight and then noticed that the ones who went to the city had all been killed. I returned to defend the base and fought like hell but was overwhelmed. Got high calibre and lost. checked the ones who had scored most for the enemy on wotlabs and they were reactivated accounts. The ones in the city on my side did zero damage. Not the first time I have seen this happen and I am getting fed up with it.
I have played wot pretty much everyday for the last few years but for the past month i have played it like 2 times.. It is SO much better not having to stress out because of other peoples ignorance and I am seriously in a better mood. It is INSANE to play a game that only puts you in a bad mood, lol.
Just sharing, have same experience, laughing as I'm wearing a WOT shirt, to a game I stopped enjoying. When I have to start using Gold, it stopped being competive, so working to get better, doesn't work, when you can buy experience. SAD
@Claus Here's a thought for you - Wargaming as a company is judged by how many active players they have. What if, since we know war gaming has invested in bot technology, they themselves are using accounts that are old and obviously abandoned as bots to prop up their failing game? 🤔 Think about it.
Not played one game since January, it's almost pathetic, there were times when I entered battle and in 3 seconds my tank was blown up, 6 tanks AFK, cheating, bots etc. I check on RUclipsrs to see if they fix some of the problems from time to time and then I might play.
It seems like this is something that happened low key for quite a while. Clan members & friends helping each other out a little. Now it's entirely out of hand & wg just doesn't know how to get it back under control. Take the need for immediate gratification (without putting forth any effort) & add some greed = here we are
Thank you so much for showing this do not stop . I HAVE GAMES LIKE THAT EVERY DAY AND HALF OF MY GAMES 5 OR MORE PLAYERS DO O DAMAGE . THE GAME IS RIGGED . THERE IS JOT PURPLE PLAYER ONLY CHEATERS.
We know that East Europe, Baltics, many in Asia have a sh^t culture where corruption is a big part of their culture. It is to be expected. In many of these countries Yes might not mean yes. It might mean maybe, or yes under certain circumstance, or even no. When we saw this game came out of Belarus and Russia we should have never started playing. WG has to be helping these companies, or ARE running some of them, to get access to these old accounts.
They should add a match manipulation option under complaints to at least flag these accounts. Enough complaints and they can pull up the recent battle results and investigate.
I remember from the beta days of the game, when you finally unlocked the IS-7, you couldn't afford any more ammo. In your video, the accounts are from the years 2012 - 2013. It occurs to me that these are exactly the kind of free to play accounts that have received a couple of good tanks, but the owner has given up on them because there has been no more ammo. Although the game is so-called free-to-play, so to succeed you have to spend real money on ammo to penetrate enemy tanks and thus win battles.
Since the RU server came over to the EU server the overall gameplay has gone down the toilet. I don't stay until the end of battles but I do look at the post-battle stats. The number of players with zero damage, no shots fired, and very little distance traveled has gone through the roof. I'm not pointing fingers here but it doesn't take a genius to work out the obvious change in the demographic of the server that has contributed here...? Thanks Claus, I appreciate your efforts.
How much do a boosting company charge for the 279E? WG could sell it half the price these companies charges, it will make their business plan useless and WG would get those incomes back while getting rid of these cheaters.
Now there you go, such a simple solution......... Makes it look even more likely WG are the ones behind it 😡. Why sell them for £100 when you can pretend to be a boosting company and charge £300 to get it for you
Why are WG not doing anything about game rigging? Because WG employees are selling the dormant accounts. Too many abandoned accounts are involved in this scam. Someone is selling the accounts to the boosting companies. They are not purchasing them on E-Bay. WG does not want to expose the internal fraud that is ongoing as it would affect the share price / value of the company. So they ignore the problem. I stopped playing this game a while ago but I'll be damned if my account gets sold to the highest bidder. I check in every 2 months, do the game updates, play a couple of matches then leave. They can sell someone else account ... but not mine. Thank you for highlighting this issue Mr Kellerman.
I've had several games over the years like this. I did stay in the game for some and, have looked later for others. You have a good point here. Hope WG does something.
Not surprising to see clans doing this. They trying to get those reward tanks to use in the clan wars... Wargaming keeps pretending nothing is going on.
A member of my clan had his account hacked, his account had been inactive for a year. When he tried logging on he couldn’t. It took him over 6 months to get his account back. It seems that all these old accounts that get hacked into and then are used by these boosting services.
I am glad you are exposing these as holes. The big streamers dont think its a problem because if they do, it will spill the gravy train. Wargaming wont do anything about these cheaters, but be 400m from some as hole that got pushed off a ledge and you get banned for 3 days.
I've played for 8 years to this, had enough a year ago when I started to noticed rigging like this one, actually confirmed 100% by a Serbian guy with whom I used to play platoons quite often, he payed to boost his account, even sent me the link of the "company" offering the service, couldn't believe it... I started playing less and less, until I totally left the game couple of months ago. Best thing I ever did for my mental health...
I'm not going to stop playing, I love WOT, but they won't get any of my money. No premium tanks, no premium account, no gold, nothing. Not until they do something about this. Since they won't, I assume they're making money off of the cheating some how.
Wargaming HAS TO KNOW more information than any of us... Common denominator type information like IP addresses, email accounts, recent simultaneous new premium tank purchases (setting up the new boosted account), etc. Whatever we know, they know more... and STILL, they do not act!
been watching you a couple of years claus, for some reason i thought you had like 200K+ subs already, now that i see 91k i know there is room for huge growth! good luck man!
You should be able to easily determine how extensive the issue is by having tomato make the game database available for analysis. Even though they don't provide the ability to search for things they would have the raw data.
*The fact is -* when boosting companies do you a favour, they use a HUGE amount of your various forms of credits. Wargaming likes this. *The other factor* is that Wargaming has had a security breach. Somebody has gained access to these 'idle' accounts. Wargaming probably doesn't want to acknowledge that.
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. The anonymizer makes this much easier. I think people drop in together and give away positions or just don't support players on their team and let their friends or clan members on the other team swarm and kill them off. I know you should assume stupidity before malice but goodness sake some vegetables must play this game.
LOL. Yeah they do. But the pushing people out into fire, the getting blind fired by multiple people, etc. etc. Not every game or situation because stuff happens and I've done things that highly unlikely but still possible. Just some head scratching situations.
Thanks Claus for looking at this. This was the only game I played for many years. Gave up about a year ago because things got too lopsided. This made me check my account stats to see if it was truly inactive (it is). Its unfortunate that Wargaming won't fix the issue. It makes me think that WarGaming is the boosting companies.
WG is getting a piece of the cake from Them riggingcompanies. If I leave a battle before its ended or my tank killed, I get a warning. Thx for adressing the gamespoiling issue in this game
This made it to the NA forum and met with the expected crucify the messenger scorn and derision from the cheating condoning advocates. What they want is for you to show a game replay that you were in with booster rigging cheating.
I just seen a youtube ad for a boosting company. It literally said "Stop grinding and start playing". I couldn't grab the link because it was an add but I am sure someone else either has seen it or will see it very soon. I honestly think WG is getting paid by these bigger boosters to let this happen.
Do u notice that the other content creators are dead silent on this issue? QB, covered it briefly but that's it. The have sold out to Wargaming to make money. Wargaming themselves are involved in this. Its the same as Ticket Master scalping their own tickets.
Over time, this is exactly the type of thing that slowly erodes the player base because at some point casual players don't see a point in playing an unfair game anymore. I also agree with many of the comments that say the big reason nothing is done is that WG is directly or indirectly profiting from the game rigging economy. If they weren't they would see how rigging degrades fair game play and address it.
I had a WOT rigging firm advertise on my timeline of Facebook. These firms are blatant and WG does nothing. When I sent a game I thought was rigged to WG, they told me that there were processes in place to detect them and to not bother them with replays again!
one or two eggs, smallest pan, small cooker, highest possible heat, no lid. Just make sure they are just about under water or 90% submerged. Gas stove ten and a half minute from cold or induction for me is nine minutes to get it to be soft boiled.
For me, there's been a trickle of "video card error" drop outs that I can recover from by going back in and relaunching the game. Sometimes the tank is still alive, sometimes not. Normally, the game is lost by the time I'm back. The frequency is maybe two to three times over the course of a week. There is an older account of mine that I was locked out of some years back that's likely a zombie account by now. I figure the next scam will be paying for opponent lag. WoT is becoming an ego booster for sociopaths. These are the death throes, the stentorian breathing.
Hi Claus. For the first time I saw this style of cheating in WOT Blitz the other day. 2 Platoons - 1 on each team - 3 tanks of the four did absolutely nothing - one got crazy high damage. - I called it out in game. - I checked the stats of the tanks in question. - They were in tier 10 but all the accounts were less than 1000 games. - All dummy accounts.
It's quite possible that 10 to 20% of the player base would disappear if the old accounts aren't recycled and farmed in pub battles. What I find more frequently nowadays are noob high stats players, individuals who have clearly purchased their tank and learning to play.
Other CC's should say something about it but they don't want to rock the boat. Gotta run your buisness I guess but at least have a little integrity. Money makes the world go round but having a spine keeps you standing tall. Good on you Claus for telling it how it is.
I'm a beta tester... I've been saying this for a long time and I've been ridiculed on the forums when I say this... now you're showing everyone how dirty this company is and why I stopped spending money on this game I love after 11 years...
Hi Claus, if you want to find these boosters, login into the NA server after 1am PST. I am constantly in games that are 2 -15 or 3 -15. One game I was in last week had half the team get 0. The cheating is out of this world at that time. Keep up the good work! and all Wargamming will do is nerf tech tree tanks so that they don't have as much hp.
I’m always playing late at night. I’m not talking about 5 battles an get off I’ll play at least 50 or more. Every night an never once have seen any games rigged. Yes I play on the na server. 2-15 3-15 battles are the new normal
WeeGee would be upsetting themselves because if they clear the old, forgotten accounts, if they clear the hacked accounts it would actually give a true representation of the level of interest. And that interest might not be as strong as they want it to be. Anywhere near as strong as they want it to be.
few weeks ago... I got an ad on you tube for a company who sell this kind of services... boosting and all... Those freakin companies do it in plain sight... WG seems not to care about Ebay sold account (which is illegal btw) and about boosting/stat padding companies...
Totally agree. WG is in on this. They are making money on this ! And thats why they dont do anything to stop this.
It wouldn't shock me if they boosting companies were or are financially linked to WG
or someone at wargaming who can access accounts has a side business
Nah
they have to be
After all there is a "military exercise "going on that needs to be paid for,with all the sanctions they gotta bring in money ,wouldn't surprise me to see them selling dormant accounts
It would be straight out their playbook of greed
It's absolutely clear - WG are doing nothing because they are either running the boosting companies, or taking a cut. This is part of their business model...
I said that in the begining ..it has to be
Not really, you have to understand that companies like this don't care about issues in the game as long as they make lots of money, and game makes huge profits.
Why would WG spend money and resources to fight with cheaters, when they can ignore it, and players will still throw hundreds, thousands dollars on their p2w events, just look at most recent one - Lion, or holiday boxes... Nothing will change if people don't stop throwing money on them on every occasion.
@@Adam87521 but the fact that these cheaters have access many many old accounts strongly suggests that WG are complicit...
@@Evro_X It is a wickedly expensive game to play now if you buy into the offers. You can get hours of fun playing games off Steam for a fraction of the cost. That's what I do. I will delete my NA account. My EU account has been mothballed for a long time. I log in a couple of times a year to keep it ticking over. The tanks are looking a bit sad as are the crews , all of which I had to laboriously grind. A sad state of affairs isn't it.
@@stevewebster5729 you can buy account from 2012 with one tier X line unlocked for less that 20$ on g2g or ebay, thats how they get it.
As Sherlock Holmes would say, when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Therefore, War Gaming is either taking kickbacks or is the boosters themselves.
Maybe not the company WG, but definitely some employees of WG.
spoc said that as well!!
1) it will cost between $1,000,000 - $10,000,000 USD to solve this issue affectively. + lost revenue. In NA it could be up to 50% of income. (That is not representative of other regions where the game is more popular)
2) Banning multiple accounts in the game that has between 2-7k daily concurrent players in NA and taking away the minority of people that bring probably half of the revenue to the game is how you get the NA server to shut down. Of course, they would be reluctant to do it, and probably don't see the need to. This would be easier done in the regions where there is a larger player base.
@@yushkovyaroslav Makes no sense to keep N A server up with that small player count. Shut it down, and prune the other servers from fraud accounts, and WoT might be a decent good game again.
@@diymicha2 Since I play on the NA server, I prefer it to stay up if it means I will vs occasional rigging.
But regardless, it wouldn't really cut the cost of going against the issue. From what I understand. It's a community thing and it actually happens in every game. It's just less noticeable if the game has larger populations (and its harder to do)
One of WG biggest CC's (QB) exposed cheaters once. He seemed legit pissed about it, but then WG (who help sponsor him) said for him to "nip it" do not bring this up again. He never has since then. . Only one CC continues the fight for us, Claus Kellerman. Long live Claus 🤘😎
How do you know WG told him to nip it?
@@iveneverseensuchbehaviorin5367 Do you have a better explanation to why he never revisited the topic again??
@@dockingtroll6801 Ya, he just stopped talking about it. No need to make up a lie
@@iveneverseensuchbehaviorin5367 So your stand is there is no game rigging, all those accounts just happened to come back to life and their owners all of a sudden suck like never before.... yup... very likely....
@@dockingtroll6801 you trolling
Thanks Claus full support for exposing cheats shame you have to be the only CC bothering to raise this
the other CC know and are covering it up
4TankersandDog has done a vid on this at least
QB was the first to do a video on it
He is the only content creator talking about this because the other ones don't want to mess with the revenue share on the in game commanders
The other CC who has done a vid is Mailand.
Thank you for bringing this up consistently Claus, been following you for years.
This is the Most important thing that needs to be addressed in this game, and Wargaming feel complicit with the rigging and cheating.
you are surprised a company that gives 0 fucks about its customers might be complicit with cheating.
@@vonn4017 Never said I was surprised lol
I used to love playing all the World of games, but lately have been struggling to get a 50% win rate because of things like this. At one point I was posting some of my good games on a youtube channel, but have been so disgusted with the games lately that I stopped posting. I have even been thinking about not only quitting the games, but actively discouraging everyone I know from playing these games. Ty for looking into this. Until I hear from honest people like you that Wargaming is actively doing something to stamp out this issue I will continue to actively discourage everyone I can from playing any and all games made by Wargaming.
its not because like this, its mainly because RNG is how it is.
For several years I had a solid 52% win rate and some exceptional tanks which were my favorites, now its down to 49% and dropping. I am certain War Gaming owns the boosting companies.
@@feroxk.9266 I'm not too concerned about strictly win rate. I just want a fair match full of real people who are all actively trying to win. Without that even inherently good games simply aren't worth wasting time or money on.
@@shockwavegaming1376 i understand your hate of the game but discourage people because you can't get a 50% winrate? have you considered its your playstyle or decisions over the game?
@@cijj84 i have a 54% wr and i barely can't get a good string of games anymore. RNG became much more of a factor than ever, the times i have games where i cant hit anything or shots dont pen became much more frequent, for every game that feels normal rng wise i get 4 complete shitshows.
Its not about wr, its more about the way rng works and yes, matchmaking is part of rmg mechanic from what i know.
The game itself always tries its best to keep players at 49% wr anyway.
WG is doing the boosting directly. They will never ban this.
Who would be upset?
The War Gambling management who are making money out of this.
Claus, when I finished watching this video on my phone just now, I was immediately hit with add from the Team Raptor boosting Company. It was like WG and Game Riggers were giving you a big middle finger. Thanks for all the hard work you've invested into this for the community.
Claus you put a lot of work into these types of vids, I wish WG would take notice.
They dont care about that...its all about money.
I think the booster companies are paying War Gaming to do this,
Ofc they do, they are mafia
I have recently had a ton of games impacted by what I can only assume is rigging. I would spawn in and there would be an EBR 105 on each team because that is the way tier 10 works now. Usually I think nothing of it when my EBR yolos in and dies in the first 30 seconds but I had it happen 3 times in a row the other night and each time the EBR player said the same thing "sorry I disconnected" and then they would leave the game. When I see that once I just kind of shake my head but 3 times in a row and it seems more like a canned response from a rigging company or bot. It seems odd until you think once in a while these guys are going to land in a game with each other on a good light tank map and if one team has a light and the other doesn't it is basically a free LT15 mission.
Hey Claus - Not to diminish the ruinous nature of the game rigging itself, and the likely complicity of WG in the practice, I feel the CC community except yourself of course also shares a significant portion of the blame for the lack of any action to stop this cheating. If the major CCs were to speak out against these boosting companies loudly and often WG might be pressured to take some action. SILENCE IMPLES CONSENT!
The CC are probably involved. Much quicker missions if the player is good. Don't have to rely on the MM as much.
Im pretty sure WG is doing 2 things: Making money from boosting companies, and laundring money (and/or giving precious € and $ to the russians). The level of opacity and corruption of this company is awesome...
I always watch how the game goes after my demise. Occasionally I learn something, but I just want to see how it turns out.
There are quite a lot of rigged battles recently, even here on the EU server.
Very few CCs mention that topic in their channels. Skill lately even said he doesnt really care about it...
The compromised accounts are most likely sold by WoT employees to the boosting companies. They seem to check inactive accounts with Tier 10 vehicles and offer them to those boosting companies.
I lately got into more and more high tier battles where platoons did 0 damage, it's really destroying the game ...
I've given up playing the game. But I still watch claus because he's entertaining.
Now when wargaming fix this. And claus says it's safe now. It's fair now. Then I may start playing again.
it'd be easy to fix: if you were afk for 3 battles in a row, you get a 24 hr suspension. Another 3 battles 72 hrs suspension. Another 3 battles a week and so on.
Same as if you do zero damage.
@@muskokamike127 afk 3 battles in a row ? 1 month suspension !!!
going back in the same places on the same maps depending on the tank you play ? TD, LIGHT, etc with WG shit MM and RNG ? you can go back in this shit game where your brain don' t work at all and have fun ?
Ok, maybe one game on ten...the rest...
@@regularsapiens8060 yeah I was trying to be a little soft as some people have crappy internet connection.
I think we need to take some action as a community. Perhaps a 24hr period where we don’t play the game but all send in tickets stating why we are refusing to play. This could be increased if we still got no response from WG. 😮
The wg kgb says "don't move, ve vill be there momentarily"
Your hard work is appreciated Claus.
I've been seeing a lot of inactive players but as soon as you ping the map they head to exactly where you ping. If you change where you ping, they change directions. I probably have a replay of it somewhere. Most likely bots.
WG employees makes sense. Making side money for sure.
I have sent a couple of tickets concerning this to WG NA. Getting no response or a canned answer was not surprising. When is comes to chat banning, however, they are on the edge of their seat!
The chat ban thing is a joke and you're 100% right about their attitude toward it! I was recently chat banned for swearing. Honestly, I NEVER SWORE! I know this because I make a point of it. I don't even abbreviate i.e fck..cnt..sh*t etc...
I do however have a ticket that hasn't been answered for about 5 months now as it concerns a player abusing my 9yr old son who plays my account (haha, it's true, my stats are 48% winrate)
I add to it at least once a week and WG doesn't even put a bot response in return? Why...? THEY ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN AND IT WAS A WG EMPLOYEE! I still have screenshots of the threats.
Anyway... I agree with you
Yes, just type noob in chat and your done 😂😂😂
Isn't banning done by how many people actually report you , I imagined they just use a bot that registers the negative reports against you then issues a standard ban.obviously there is a list of banned words it takes into consideration regardless of the context. I got banned for using the word mongol lol wasn't used in a derogatory context but got banned anyway.
@@007KURGAN I can only guess that the 5 woke employees, fired from McDonalds, in the NA are doing this while a bag of cheetos is sitting on their desk.
It's pathetic really. The illegal mod use, multiple - multiple game issues, chat banning, banning for bumping into a immature troll, and now the game rigging. It's sad because the game had something going for it, only to have a company destroy it with greed and contempt for it's player base.
Sir Foch could see the writing on the wall. The EBR's was the tipping point for him. Victor Kislye's news article was nothing but bullshit propaganda - what a shit-tard he is.
@@007KURGAN if you have screenshots of threats to your son you would be needing to be involving the police my man and include your emails to wargaming... Although they are so petty they would probably ban your account
I have just googled for boosting service. Mostly russian based. Pretty expensive. Not expensive enough to make a living (time consuming tasks) - I can imagine that sweatshops are involved. Or just really poor/broke russians etc.
But none of them seem to use the method that is mentioned in the Video. At least they claim that for certain services you have to pay more because it will be unicums that will play.
Since these (video) are all (most likely) hacked accounts - I am convinced for that huge number, employee's are involved. Otherwise they are all sold - but I doubt it.
To prevent a crackdown on this - involvement of employee's is almost a must.
I worked in a BPO/Callcenter myself. For that level there must be higher management be involved. That is not the work/help of just a regular Ivan on the lowest job position. That's for sure.
In other words - the only chance is get the email of the CEO, sent him an email and wish for the best lol. Otherwise nothing will happen. I bet in the forums all postings on that topic will be deleted/locked.
The acc owners sold the accounts people have been doing this for years in any game with demand for it cash is king as a matter of fact some people live like kings just from R.W.T RuneScape is a perfect example besides what is W.G supposed to do if someone quit years ago and returned only to see their acc is gone W.G could be held accountable
This is exactly why I stopped playing the game: It's just not fun anymore. Shitty riggers, shitty tube maps, shitty OP tanks and a company doesn't caring at all. It's so sad, because I used to love this game and put a lot of time (and money) in it.
Wargaming doesn't care about this, matter as fact I think they make money off it. If they didn't and they cared they would've already at least said something. But this must be happening primarily on EU cus I do 20-30 games every day on NA and have yet to run into any of this.
They do it in North American servers as well it's just not as blatant and no one notices
Great to see the old school Claus hairstyles coming back 👍👍
Wgs blatantly involved in the rigging and are probably earning very well from it so I don't expect any action at any point soon unless they find another scam to replace the income.
This is happening in lower tiers as well. Played Lakeside in my Matilda and went up the valley. good fight and then noticed that the ones who went to the city had all been killed. I returned to defend the base and fought like hell but was overwhelmed. Got high calibre and lost. checked the ones who had scored most for the enemy on wotlabs and they were reactivated accounts. The ones in the city on my side did zero damage. Not the first time I have seen this happen and I am getting fed up with it.
They're worried they won't get there cut from boosting companies.
I remember when the worst problem was assholes - thanks for exposing this
I have played wot pretty much everyday for the last few years but for the past month i have played it like 2 times.. It is SO much better not having to stress out because of other peoples ignorance and I am seriously in a better mood. It is INSANE to play a game that only puts you in a bad mood, lol.
I agree...
I'm with you I haven't played for a month my mood has improved
Tired of being a rich sociopaths target, are you?
@@jefftheriault5522 lol ya.. I have realized I would rather play a game where MY mistakes screw me over, not someone elses,, lol
Just sharing, have same experience, laughing as I'm wearing a WOT shirt, to a game I stopped enjoying. When I have to start using Gold, it stopped being competive, so working to get better, doesn't work, when you can buy experience. SAD
I think one of the models is to stuff new fake accounts with wn8 and reward vehicles and sell on. It's not just boosting.
A welcome honest face for many years, GG for keeping the faith.
It's not that WG are having issues with identifying these accounts. It's much simpler than that.
They don't care.
@Claus Here's a thought for you - Wargaming as a company is judged by how many active players they have. What if, since we know war gaming has invested in bot technology, they themselves are using accounts that are old and obviously abandoned as bots to prop up their failing game? 🤔 Think about it.
Not played one game since January, it's almost pathetic, there were times when I entered battle and in 3 seconds my tank was blown up, 6 tanks AFK, cheating, bots etc. I check on RUclipsrs to see if they fix some of the problems from time to time and then I might play.
It seems like this is something that happened low key for quite a while. Clan members & friends helping each other out a little. Now it's entirely out of hand & wg just doesn't know how to get it back under control. Take the need for immediate gratification (without putting forth any effort) & add some greed = here we are
Thank you so much for showing this do not stop . I HAVE GAMES LIKE THAT EVERY DAY AND HALF OF MY GAMES 5 OR MORE PLAYERS DO O DAMAGE . THE GAME IS RIGGED . THERE IS JOT PURPLE PLAYER ONLY CHEATERS.
We know that East Europe, Baltics, many in Asia have a sh^t culture where corruption is a big part of their culture. It is to be expected. In many of these countries Yes might not mean yes. It might mean maybe, or yes under certain circumstance, or even no. When we saw this game came out of Belarus and Russia we should have never started playing. WG has to be helping these companies, or ARE running some of them, to get access to these old accounts.
This explains a lot. This will kill any game. Thanks Klaus I was trying to decide to buy in tier eight and above.
They should add a match manipulation option under complaints to at least flag these accounts. Enough complaints and they can pull up the recent battle results and investigate.
they simply will not. they don't care after all lol
This runs from high levels,and deep.
Before you started this series, i did not know about booster companies at all. You may did them a great advertisment
keep doing the videos, please. Its bad enough I suck at this game, I dont need help from them to have a bad game.
What Fred said!
I remember from the beta days of the game, when you finally unlocked the IS-7, you couldn't afford any more ammo. In your video, the accounts are from the years 2012 - 2013. It occurs to me that these are exactly the kind of free to play accounts that have received a couple of good tanks, but the owner has given up on them because there has been no more ammo. Although the game is so-called free-to-play, so to succeed you have to spend real money on ammo to penetrate enemy tanks and thus win battles.
Since the RU server came over to the EU server the overall gameplay has gone down the toilet. I don't stay until the end of battles but I do look at the post-battle stats. The number of players with zero damage, no shots fired, and very little distance traveled has gone through the roof. I'm not pointing fingers here but it doesn't take a genius to work out the obvious change in the demographic of the server that has contributed here...?
Thanks Claus, I appreciate your efforts.
We might wonder, how these old inactive accounts come into game rigging hands? WG has some explaining to do. THX Claus, you are a hero.
Thank you. Hopefully WG will do something.
wg is doing a shit
How much do a boosting company charge for the 279E?
WG could sell it half the price these companies charges, it will make their business plan useless and WG would get those incomes back while getting rid of these cheaters.
Now there you go, such a simple solution......... Makes it look even more likely WG are the ones behind it 😡. Why sell them for £100 when you can pretend to be a boosting company and charge £300 to get it for you
Why are WG not doing anything about game rigging?
Because WG employees are selling the dormant accounts.
Too many abandoned accounts are involved in this scam.
Someone is selling the accounts to the boosting companies. They are not purchasing them on E-Bay.
WG does not want to expose the internal fraud that is ongoing as it would affect the share price / value of the company.
So they ignore the problem.
I stopped playing this game a while ago but I'll be damned if my account gets sold to the highest bidder.
I check in every 2 months, do the game updates, play a couple of matches then leave.
They can sell someone else account ... but not mine.
Thank you for highlighting this issue Mr Kellerman.
I've had several games over the years like this. I did stay in the game for some and, have looked later for others. You have a good point here. Hope WG does something.
Claus in a good mood, i love to hear it.
Not surprising to see clans doing this. They trying to get those reward tanks to use in the clan wars... Wargaming keeps pretending nothing is going on.
A member of my clan had his account hacked, his account had been inactive for a year. When he tried logging on he couldn’t. It took him over 6 months to get his account back. It seems that all these old accounts that get hacked into and then are used by these boosting services.
Recently, I saw an ad on Facebook for a world of tanks boosting company.
I am glad you are exposing these as holes. The big streamers dont think its a problem because if they do, it will spill the gravy train. Wargaming wont do anything about these cheaters, but be 400m from some as hole that got pushed off a ledge and you get banned for 3 days.
Keep up the Good fight. If you devote years learning to play a complex game, you deserve it be fair!
I usually alt f4 when i see this not even escape , Keep it up Claus i love your videos !
Should try to see who's trying to do the mission and target/denie them. If they are on your team try to get them dead 😂
No, because it's their people earning a couple bucks on the side.
But they're worried about you carrying on about it.
I’ve now joined the ranks of those who have successfully walked away from this corrupted shit-fight of a game, but still watch Claus.
Great video Claus... KEEP DOIN WHAT YOURE DOIN!!!!
Keep it up mate! None of the CC's are willing to weigh in and admit this for fear of biting the hand that feeds them....
I've played for 8 years to this, had enough a year ago when I started to noticed rigging like this one, actually confirmed 100% by a Serbian guy with whom I used to play platoons quite often, he payed to boost his account, even sent me the link of the "company" offering the service, couldn't believe it... I started playing less and less, until I totally left the game couple of months ago. Best thing I ever did for my mental health...
And this is one of the reasons why I rarely play tier 10 games. The other is the cost to play at tier 10, it is pretty much a loss on every battle.
Yep, WG is involved in this boosting companies! Greedy WG
I'm not going to stop playing, I love WOT, but they won't get any of my money. No premium tanks, no premium account, no gold, nothing. Not until they do something about this. Since they won't, I assume they're making money off of the cheating some how.
Agree 100%
Wargaming HAS TO KNOW more information than any of us... Common denominator type information like IP addresses, email accounts, recent simultaneous new premium tank purchases (setting up the new boosted account), etc. Whatever we know, they know more... and STILL, they do not act!
been watching you a couple of years claus, for some reason i thought you had like 200K+ subs already, now that i see 91k i know there is room for huge growth! good luck man!
Good work Claus. Players should boycott this game until WG make a statement on this rigging and what they intend to do about it.
You should be able to easily determine how extensive the issue is by having tomato make the game database available for analysis. Even though they don't provide the ability to search for things they would have the raw data.
We've already crossed that line, Claus. Everyday, it gets harder for me to keep playing this game.
*The fact is -* when boosting companies do you a favour, they use a HUGE amount of your various forms of credits.
Wargaming likes this.
*The other factor* is that Wargaming has had a security breach. Somebody has gained access to these 'idle' accounts.
Wargaming probably doesn't want to acknowledge that.
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. The anonymizer makes this much easier. I think people drop in together and give away positions or just don't support players on their team and let their friends or clan members on the other team swarm and kill them off. I know you should assume stupidity before malice but goodness sake some vegetables must play this game.
The entirety of the vegetable garden plays this game...
LOL. Yeah they do. But the pushing people out into fire, the getting blind fired by multiple people, etc. etc. Not every game or situation because stuff happens and I've done things that highly unlikely but still possible. Just some head scratching situations.
Thanks Claus for looking at this. This was the only game I played for many years. Gave up about a year ago because things got too lopsided. This made me check my account stats to see if it was truly inactive (it is). Its unfortunate that Wargaming won't fix the issue. It makes me think that WarGaming is the boosting companies.
Clauss. Free camera mod from WGs page would really help you to analize replays more. U can move around in free camera and change perspective. Try
WG is getting a piece of the cake from Them riggingcompanies.
If I leave a battle before its ended or my tank killed, I get a warning.
Thx for adressing the gamespoiling issue in this game
This made it to the NA forum and met with the expected crucify the messenger scorn and derision from the cheating condoning advocates. What they want is for you to show a game replay that you were in with booster rigging cheating.
Was that an attempt at "Everybody is Kung Fu fighting" ? 😂😂😂
I thought it was a fairly decent attempt
@@jethrolionheart182 yes it was.. but he'd be kicked out of a Korean karaoke bar 😂😂😂
I wondered that everyone forget about them, and here is another topic on boosting leechers,very good and informative :o
Love your reference to the old Kung Fu theater musical sounds Everybody was Kung fu fighting!
I just seen a youtube ad for a boosting company. It literally said "Stop grinding and start playing".
I couldn't grab the link because it was an add but I am sure someone else either has seen it or will see it very soon. I honestly think WG is getting paid by these bigger boosters to let this happen.
Do u notice that the other content creators are dead silent on this issue? QB, covered it briefly but that's it. The have sold out to Wargaming to make money. Wargaming themselves are involved in this. Its the same as Ticket Master scalping their own tickets.
I used to see boosting company ads on RUclips prior to you starting this cheating series. Now I don’t see them anymore.
Over time, this is exactly the type of thing that slowly erodes the player base because at some point casual players don't see a point in playing an unfair game anymore. I also agree with many of the comments that say the big reason nothing is done is that WG is directly or indirectly profiting from the game rigging economy. If they weren't they would see how rigging degrades fair game play and address it.
Saw an advert on here for a company called Team Raptor offering to boost players stats
Funny I don't see any other CC's bringing up this issue anymore.
I had a WOT rigging firm advertise on my timeline of Facebook. These firms are blatant and WG does nothing. When I sent a game I thought was rigged to WG, they told me that there were processes in place to detect them and to not bother them with replays again!
one or two eggs, smallest pan, small cooker, highest possible heat, no lid. Just make sure they are just about under water or 90% submerged. Gas stove ten and a half minute from cold or induction for me is nine minutes to get it to be soft boiled.
I love Claus’ videos. He was talking about boosting companies, then I skipped ahead 10 seconds, and he’s talking about eggs. 😂 amazing work as usual.
Not even a minute into the video and I was already able to determine the best part of the video was the hair!! LOL
Thank you Claus for continuing to expose the riggers.
For me, there's been a trickle of "video card error" drop outs that I can recover from by going back in and relaunching the game. Sometimes the tank is still alive, sometimes not. Normally, the game is lost by the time I'm back. The frequency is maybe two to three times over the course of a week. There is an older account of mine that I was locked out of some years back that's likely a zombie account by now. I figure the next scam will be paying for opponent lag. WoT is becoming an ego booster for sociopaths. These are the death throes, the stentorian breathing.
Hi Claus. For the first time I saw this style of cheating in WOT Blitz the other day. 2 Platoons - 1 on each team - 3 tanks of the four did absolutely nothing - one got crazy high damage. - I called it out in game. - I checked the stats of the tanks in question. - They were in tier 10 but all the accounts were less than 1000 games. - All dummy accounts.
It's quite possible that 10 to 20% of the player base would disappear if the old accounts aren't recycled and farmed in pub battles. What I find more frequently nowadays are noob high stats players, individuals who have clearly purchased their tank and learning to play.
Other CC's should say something about it but they don't want to rock the boat. Gotta run your buisness I guess but at least have a little integrity. Money makes the world go round but having a spine keeps you standing tall. Good on you Claus for telling it how it is.
Holy heck! While only a single game sample, 13 out of 30 players were purely abandoned/rigging accounts. That’s unplayable.
I'm a beta tester... I've been saying this for a long time and I've been ridiculed on the forums when I say this... now you're showing everyone how dirty this company is and why I stopped spending money on this game I love after 11 years...
Hi Claus, if you want to find these boosters, login into the NA server after 1am PST. I am constantly in games that are 2 -15 or 3 -15. One game I was in last week had half the team get 0. The cheating is out of this world at that time. Keep up the good work! and all Wargamming will do is nerf tech tree tanks so that they don't have as much hp.
I’m always playing late at night. I’m not talking about 5 battles an get off I’ll play at least 50 or more. Every night an never once have seen any games rigged. Yes I play on the na server. 2-15 3-15 battles are the new normal
WeeGee would be upsetting themselves because if they clear the old, forgotten accounts, if they clear the hacked accounts it would actually give a true representation of the level of interest.
And that interest might not be as strong as they want it to be. Anywhere near as strong as they want it to be.
few weeks ago... I got an ad on you tube for a company who sell this kind of services... boosting and all... Those freakin companies do it in plain sight... WG seems not to care about Ebay sold account (which is illegal btw) and about boosting/stat padding companies...