“I’ll continue to ping once a week until we get an update.”
Lmao, like it’s a hostage video.
Only way for them to acknowledge it, otherwise they’re just sweeping it under the rug in typical Gaijin fashion. Plus it would become more and more obvious to the community that Gaijin doesn’t want to respond to this. :)
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How about we just compress both flags together and next to each other? This will help represent both TT vehicles at the same time, especially with the addition of the M1A2T.
Kinda like this?
It would make more sense considering the TT its China but both are China with different and appart goverments. I expect they also do this with Korea TT. With West and East germany doesnt matter bc at the end they unified.
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Yes yes yes.
I tried my hand at one too but I feel like lacking the skills for a top left to bottom right diagonal split makes it seem a bit questionable no matter what I do
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Also these shades of red do not go well together at all
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what was the reason they remove it?
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How about flipping one of the flags so one side has the PRC stars and the other with the ROC sun?
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Well, I got an update from one of the community managers, which is they don’t have an update to provide us.
Seems to me they’re just letting this thread exist as a containment zone and are avoiding commenting on this entirely. We could speculate its because they don’t want to upset a certain player base again, but hey until they officially comment on this topic regarding the Taiwan flag we’ll never know.
It is what it is.
I wouldn’t bother keeping your hopes up to seeing the Taiwan flag return as an option. Gaijins downward tumble continues the longer they stay silent on major issues like this.
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I did say something about holding off making a suggestion until Q1 this year so perhaps it’s suggestion time.
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Quite interesting that you cannot choose the Flag of the Republic of China but when you spawn into the M1A2T the Flag changes to the…National Revolutionary Armys Flag…? Which was only used until 1947 by the RoC from what i can see…
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Gaijin have certainly upset another player base.
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Can we try suggesting them?
I think people should stop focusing so much on the flag issue. Unless BVVD is willing to give up the Chinese market, this situation is unlikely to change. Just like how the game avoids using Nazi symbols or the swastika to comply with certain policies — even Finland’s historical good-luck symbol receives the same treatment — while symbols like the hammer and sickle are still allowed to appear.
At the end of the day, Gaijin has its own market priorities and political considerations. Reacting emotionally probably won’t change anything, and given how tense the current global situation is, it’s not surprising that certain decisions are made this way. History shows that those in stronger positions usually have more influence over what is shown.😔
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You’re probably right, it’s unlikely they will change any of this.
Personally I think the closest we could get to a fix is to simply have the simplified Chinese version remove the ROC flag in favor ROCA and the flag selection option censored to just PRC, while internationally both flags would be applied to their respective vehicles to take a politically neutral stance.
This was the same approach done for the Chinese and Korean laws banning the rising sun back when that was the techtree flag, which was changed to the national flag in their languages. If it worked once, it should work here again.
But even that requires Gaijin to retroactively make a change that probably wouldn’t have been controversial if they did it from the start, but will absolutely anger Chinese players if they just changed it now.
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I remember that when the Chinese tech tree was first updated, there was a screenshot of the CM11 using the Five-Star Red Flag. Later, I heard that after a protest from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was changed to the military flag
🇹🇼➡️🇨🇳➡️🇹🇼 army flag
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I still think the best option is to allow client side customization of flags in game through wt live. It’s the same as user skins or sights, gaijin has no liability and everyone is happy.
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I think it might be simpler and more straightforward to forcibly bind the default “harmonized” mode to the user’s regional IP. If individuals don’t mind, they can manually switch it off.
After all, some games in China already localize or censor national representations. For example, in World of Tanks, the Soviet Union is referred to as the “S series,” and the national flags are altered. There’s also a Chinese version of Enlisted, where vehicle markings, kill symbols, and even the red stars, Balkenkreuz, and U.S. and Japanese insignia are all heavily modified. That approach avoids a lot of controversy and trouble.
If someone doesn’t want to see certain flags — for example, Israel, Taiwan / the Republic of China, WWII German flags, South Vietnam, the Rising Sun flag, or the Soviet Union — they could simply toggle the setting themselves. It could even replace everything with fictional symbols if necessary.
As we say in Chinese, “Everyone has their own preferences(青菜蘿蔔各有所好).”
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Oooh me! Me! I don’t wanna see this flag!!!
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After all, if it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind
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