If you link your email to a Gaijin account you can still do it through steam, its just users with Steam AND no linked Gaijin account.
The support article that the post links to says the following:
- Sending gifts from the wishlist is available only when playing the game via the War Thunder launcher. Gifting through the wishlist is not available in the Steam version of the game.
This very much reads like Steam users are left out completely, even if they have their accounts linked.
Its a gimmick to get players to increase buying things that’s all.
It will be amusing to see how it gets hacked and abused.
I want know too. =D
a good addition but they could add 2 step protection when leaving a squadron as there is no protection when you do this same action I know friends who accidentally left a squadron when they got confused and hit that option when they really wanted to leave their accounts and join others
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It’s also a way to see what vehicles players are interested in. It’s clearly a way of collecting data about players to better understand the userbase.
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They can/probably do already collect that info based upon just clicking around the client and marketplace.
Yeah sure, but that wouldn’t differentiate so well. They may not track that. They may want a more detailed metric which distinguishes from random/accidental clicks and so on.
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“wishlist” isn’t necessarily indicative of intent or predictor of purchase, which is what would be important to Gaijin.
Its just a mechanism to reduce “sales friction” because now whales (and hacked/stolen store accounts) can buy for multiple accounts.
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So the 30-45 second delay when researching mods, buying mods, redeeming BP levels, activating boosters and so on, is this unrelated or did the wishlist code bork things?
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IDK. Seems stuff is all messed up.
As said, steam accounts do not have a linked email.
So the question still stands, though clarified: Why are Steam users (who have linked their accounts), left out just because they launch the game through Steam rather than the standalone launcher?
They don’t seem to be? From what I see it works fine in theory, though I’m not spending X amount to test it.
Probably something in the contract with Gaijin that they can’t do anything to prevent Steam from collecting their cut from ingame microtransactions.
what’s the point of adding regular vehicles to the wish list? and do we get increased chance to get a discount on premiums added to the wishlist?
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Probably cause there are players that buy some of the regular vehicles during a sale for saving SL. This way they will have all them on a single list that they can simply check instead of having to look on each tree for them.
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Why there is the SL and GE wish list option if i cant do it? Would be nice if we can add GE vehicle and the friend could gift it using his own GE or if you have friend with 100m of SL that he could buy you SL vehicles you add to wishlist.
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I think the wishlist is primarly for yourself, or else why would they add the option to hide it from your friends?
That would be great but I really doubt they would do something like that(though I really wish they did). I would only add vehicle coupons to that, especially now that we have the SL lootboxes and may prefer to gift a coupon to a friend than use or sell it.
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Because if you thought farming was bad now, you an’t seen nothing yet if MFers could harvest SL and GE from a legion of bot accounts!