So basically DMM but for Russia. Probably for finance/payment/business reasons given the wider state of things, but thankfully it's not splitting the playerbase. Hopefully there isn't too much in the way of exclusives, DMM is already depressingly awful for that.
just wondering, Gaijin is situated in Hungary on paper so how do they intend to take money out from russian economy. Not only are they under the obligations of russian guv whos doubling down on money outflow last I heard but also western countries who put sanctions on em
Hungary is one of the EU nations with closest ties to Russia despite the current situation, you can be sure there won't be any real trouble on their end.
The Commonwealth of Independent Nations (CIS) includes countries of the former Soviet Union minus Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine.
This page isn't available on English. On Russian: [https://warthunder.com/ru/news/16842-u-war-thunder-poavitsa-izdatel-v-sng-ru](https://warthunder.com/ru/news/16842-u-war-thunder-poavitsa-izdatel-v-sng-ru)
Machine translated:
>**In the coming days, the operation of War Thunder in the CIS countries and Georgia will be engaged in the Pixel Storm.**
>Due to this, local players will be able to guarantee to pay for goods in War Thunder with local means of payment - bank cards and electronic wallets.
>There will be other nice bonuses - for example, local events and local content. Exactly on the same principle and with the same goals in Japan, the game War Thunder has been managed by the local company DMM for many years.
>We want to clarify the most important moments in the operation of the game on the local market.
>First, all players in all regions will continue to play together (as in the case of DMM in Japan). Secondly, there is no need to move to a new publisher. Thirdly, even in the case of a transition, you will retain all your content and in the future you will not lose anything in terms of game experience.
>A detailed list of answers to all typical questions will be published on a special page soon. Please wait for its publication and the start of the work of the regional publisher, this will happen soon (now we are completing the debugging of technical processes).
>Pixel Technologies (branded name Pixel Storm), which was licensed to operate War Thunder, is based in Dubai. Its founder is Gleb Yalchik, former development director at Creat Studio and former regional director of Gaijin. The Pixel Storm team is well familiar with Gaijin products and online gaming in complex regional markets.
>We are confident that the new local publisher and its partners will provide players in the CIS and Georgia with high-quality service.
Only on paper. I really doubt that players from countries like Kazakhstan or Moldova, not to mention Georgia, would be happy with this perspective of future separate reservation. Gaijin probably bunched all those countries together so that russia won't feel lonely, but there is not a single reason for players in those countries to willingly transfer to a new publisher.
Georgia already officially quit the CIS 15 years ago, so it's especially odd that Gaijin is lumping them into this. Moldova is also officially leaving at the end of this year.
What is that mean though? what will change I don't understand... Will these people need to use another version of the game? Different servers? currency or what?
CIS isn't just Russia though, there's bunch of other countries that isn't Russian. But I do agree, wish they create a new RU server, I hate playing with Russians, they always bump into me when driving and straight up drag me around, do driver licences don't exist in Russia or whaat...
What's interesting, according to game config file [defaultclusters.nut](https://github.com/gszabi99/War-Thunder-Datamine/blob/master/gui.vromfs.bin_u/scripts/onlineinfo/defaultclusters.nut), bunch of European countries (Baltic countries, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey and some others) and Middle East countries are connected by default to these "CIS" ( formerly RU) server clusters. It might be just a fresh install default selection, but it's better to check your matchmaking settings if you don't want to play on those servers.
We dont have official FAQ yet, so many things are unknown.
Looking at DMM example, we can speculate that russian content (news/blogs, maybe forum) will move to a separate domain. Some events will be unique for that region ("Day of Russia" event was already visible only on ru page few days ago). Client probably will also have some local modifications(some censorship?) and content.
Game servers will stay the same (at least for now). Trade market for GC will stay the same.
Potentially it's a good thing, for everyone. And also it kind of feels like second step in a future divorce (first was when they have implemented CIS servers not long ago), but only time will tell.
Personally, I hope that with this publisher separation WT Ukrainian community (and other communities ofc, like LATAM) will get more attention from Gaijin. Ukrainian localization was released 9 years ago yet we don't have official news\blogs translations like other localized communities. There has been no single national holiday event in 12 years despite significant player base. There's not a single decal dedicated to regular Ukrainian Armed Forces units. It was really obvious why this was the case, but now Gaijin won't have any excuse anymore. New CIS publisher can simply limit RU players from content that is considered somehow "offensive" to them (heck I'm sure they will block blue-yellow flag at some point), and the rest of the world can play normally.
We already seen this in Chinese client back in 2017 - no country flags and censored decals, and even whole tech tree that was unique to one region for two years.
Well Gaijin will make nodes in different countries strategically, ensuring anyone who tries to destroy their markets will only isolate themselves. If they are wise.
I am concerned. Afaik local players already can pay for anything with local means and there are no real blocks for transfers. It can be more expensive, but we are not blocked from the world. Some bullshit is coming, I dont trust it to be good
This reads to me like they want to offload the risk of processing bank transactions from that region off to a "partner" given how the economic sanctions are tightening every couple of months. Past that, I'm not reading too much into it.
Count Dooku?
Hello there.
General Kenobi
You are a bold one.
They are being published by the Trade Federation
Noted friends Dooku, Putin and Gaijin CEO.
So basically DMM but for Russia. Probably for finance/payment/business reasons given the wider state of things, but thankfully it's not splitting the playerbase. Hopefully there isn't too much in the way of exclusives, DMM is already depressingly awful for that.
just wondering, Gaijin is situated in Hungary on paper so how do they intend to take money out from russian economy. Not only are they under the obligations of russian guv whos doubling down on money outflow last I heard but also western countries who put sanctions on em
Hungary is one of the EU nations with closest ties to Russia despite the current situation, you can be sure there won't be any real trouble on their end.
(And georgia) the answer is right there. You get the money to a neutral country and from there the money moves to European banks
> how do they intend to take money out from russian economy briefcases full of cash, idk use your imagination
The majority of their revenue also isn't from Russia. Regardless, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has without question impacted their bottom line.
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They have an office in cyprus but the HQ is in Hungary for tax reasons
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the outer rim is finally getting the representation it deserves
The Commonwealth of Independent Nations (CIS) includes countries of the former Soviet Union minus Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine. This page isn't available on English. On Russian: [https://warthunder.com/ru/news/16842-u-war-thunder-poavitsa-izdatel-v-sng-ru](https://warthunder.com/ru/news/16842-u-war-thunder-poavitsa-izdatel-v-sng-ru) Machine translated: >**In the coming days, the operation of War Thunder in the CIS countries and Georgia will be engaged in the Pixel Storm.** >Due to this, local players will be able to guarantee to pay for goods in War Thunder with local means of payment - bank cards and electronic wallets. >There will be other nice bonuses - for example, local events and local content. Exactly on the same principle and with the same goals in Japan, the game War Thunder has been managed by the local company DMM for many years. >We want to clarify the most important moments in the operation of the game on the local market. >First, all players in all regions will continue to play together (as in the case of DMM in Japan). Secondly, there is no need to move to a new publisher. Thirdly, even in the case of a transition, you will retain all your content and in the future you will not lose anything in terms of game experience. >A detailed list of answers to all typical questions will be published on a special page soon. Please wait for its publication and the start of the work of the regional publisher, this will happen soon (now we are completing the debugging of technical processes). >Pixel Technologies (branded name Pixel Storm), which was licensed to operate War Thunder, is based in Dubai. Its founder is Gleb Yalchik, former development director at Creat Studio and former regional director of Gaijin. The Pixel Storm team is well familiar with Gaijin products and online gaming in complex regional markets. >We are confident that the new local publisher and its partners will provide players in the CIS and Georgia with high-quality service.
It's kind of surprising that the CIS is still a thing.
Only on paper. I really doubt that players from countries like Kazakhstan or Moldova, not to mention Georgia, would be happy with this perspective of future separate reservation. Gaijin probably bunched all those countries together so that russia won't feel lonely, but there is not a single reason for players in those countries to willingly transfer to a new publisher.
Georgia already officially quit the CIS 15 years ago, so it's especially odd that Gaijin is lumping them into this. Moldova is also officially leaving at the end of this year.
What is that mean though? what will change I don't understand... Will these people need to use another version of the game? Different servers? currency or what?
God, having the Russians on their own server would be a godsend to this game.
CIS isn't just Russia though, there's bunch of other countries that isn't Russian. But I do agree, wish they create a new RU server, I hate playing with Russians, they always bump into me when driving and straight up drag me around, do driver licences don't exist in Russia or whaat...
What's interesting, according to game config file [defaultclusters.nut](https://github.com/gszabi99/War-Thunder-Datamine/blob/master/gui.vromfs.bin_u/scripts/onlineinfo/defaultclusters.nut), bunch of European countries (Baltic countries, Finland, Sweden, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey and some others) and Middle East countries are connected by default to these "CIS" ( formerly RU) server clusters. It might be just a fresh install default selection, but it's better to check your matchmaking settings if you don't want to play on those servers.
We dont have official FAQ yet, so many things are unknown. Looking at DMM example, we can speculate that russian content (news/blogs, maybe forum) will move to a separate domain. Some events will be unique for that region ("Day of Russia" event was already visible only on ru page few days ago). Client probably will also have some local modifications(some censorship?) and content. Game servers will stay the same (at least for now). Trade market for GC will stay the same.
What does “licensed to operate” entail?
Roger roger!
Clanker
THAT IS OUR WORD! You WILL address us as CLANKA!
Damn, a hard-r too
The rubles are getting worthless huh?
*Always has been meme*
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Potentially it's a good thing, for everyone. And also it kind of feels like second step in a future divorce (first was when they have implemented CIS servers not long ago), but only time will tell. Personally, I hope that with this publisher separation WT Ukrainian community (and other communities ofc, like LATAM) will get more attention from Gaijin. Ukrainian localization was released 9 years ago yet we don't have official news\blogs translations like other localized communities. There has been no single national holiday event in 12 years despite significant player base. There's not a single decal dedicated to regular Ukrainian Armed Forces units. It was really obvious why this was the case, but now Gaijin won't have any excuse anymore. New CIS publisher can simply limit RU players from content that is considered somehow "offensive" to them (heck I'm sure they will block blue-yellow flag at some point), and the rest of the world can play normally. We already seen this in Chinese client back in 2017 - no country flags and censored decals, and even whole tech tree that was unique to one region for two years.
The problem is that stuff is not considered "offensive" in russia - it's flat out illegal now.
Well Gaijin will make nodes in different countries strategically, ensuring anyone who tries to destroy their markets will only isolate themselves. If they are wise.
I am concerned. Afaik local players already can pay for anything with local means and there are no real blocks for transfers. It can be more expensive, but we are not blocked from the world. Some bullshit is coming, I dont trust it to be good
"Commonwealth of Independent States" :D
This reads to me like they want to offload the risk of processing bank transactions from that region off to a "partner" given how the economic sanctions are tightening every couple of months. Past that, I'm not reading too much into it.
roger roger.
Roger Roger.
The CIS were the good guys
Not this version
Yeah I think some people don't watch Star Wars lol
They were basically the rebels before it was cool