So PixelStorm and Gaijin will have 2 Russian-speaking support teams?
yes
And at the same time, no East Slavic subforum is implied?
The FAQ said that they’re working on letting global accounts post on the Pixelstorm forum and vice versa by next week so it’s probably unnecessary at this point, just wait.
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I’ve been told to post my questions here, and I hope @Stona_WT, as the Global Community Manager, can answer them.
Context first:
- Ukraine isn’t part of the CIS region and isn’t listed among CIS publisher-supported regions. This makes the Ukrainian community part of the Global region.
- Since CIS publishers use Russian IT infrastructure (like Yandex Cloud), which is heavily blocked in Ukraine and randomly inaccessible, Ukrainians who transferred to CIS regions without a second thought suffer from connectivity and payment issues.
- Most Ukrainians are bilingual, but if provided with a choice, the majority will now pick and use the Ukrainian language. Even Gaijin acknowledges this by supporting Ukrainian localization, making a Ukrainian landing page for new players ( _warthunder.com/ua/enjoy#/ ), and having the EULA available in Ukrainian.
- The forum.warthunder.ru (now the CIS forum) supports only one language, and it was not possible to do things like make translations of news/dev/patch notes or ask/answer questions in our native language. The Global forum has a place for this in the “National communities” sub-forum, where players from other nations with in-game localization do exactly that (all, except Ukrainian)
So with that context in mind, the questions:
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Will Gaijin add a Ukrainian sub-forum to “National communities,” since it’s impossible to have a place for the Ukrainian community in the CIS forum? Surely, the lack of a fluent moderator may be one thing preventing this, but after a quick look at other communities in the sub-forum, many are functioning even without a dedicated moderator.
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Will Gaijin improve communication with the Ukrainian community by translating official news/dev blogs on the (currently partly translated) Ukrainian WT site _warthunder.com/ua ? Someone in this thread recalled the negative effects of the publisher split in that other game, but I can argue that after such a split, that company drastically improved interaction with its Ukrainian community, which migrated to the Global version, fully translating all community content and news, and even going as far as making Twitch streams in Ukrainian.
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Perhaps it would be possible to add an additional disclaimer to the Migration FAQ specifically for Ukrainian players to dissuade them from migrating to the CIS region due to existing technical difficulties with connectivity and payment? This could help minimize the number of support requests for backward migration from Ukrainian players.
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I hope, that this week, the players with gaijin account, can get access, to russian forum.
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I think it will not happen, in the best case they will remember ancient technologies of the past and restore access to ru forum
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Doesn’t really solve the issue with UA Community though, as other languages were never allowed on CIS forum in the first place.
On the other hand, Global forum allows national communities in special sub-forum and is a better place for that.
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nothing happened, do Gaijin sleep? They promised us, that we will get the access very soon to russian forum with our Gajin account.
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I hope, that you will get here your own Ukraine sub forum. But i think, most of ukrainian people, would stay at russian forum.
when, i waiting, but nothing happen.
Just wait til CIS people try and change their accounts in Twitch to get the report drops next weekend. That was already pretty hard to do before this, taking days sometimes before it took effect.
The Russian forum is basically dead right now, you’re not missing much yet.
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The forum is alive, but many active forum members, have right now, no access to the ru forum.
Do you have news for us? When Gajin plan to give us access to russian forum?
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If we start reasoning, Ukrainian is closer to Russian than Russian or Ukrainian is to English. That makes it easier to communicate. Plus, as far as I know from my acquaintances and relatives in Ukraine, almost everyone knows Russian to some extent.
Nevertheless, I understand the desire to speak in one’s native language
But it seems that the snail forgot about us and decided to ignore this issue. It’s been two weeks already (or how many?), and no action has been taken. I’ll have to improve my English grammar.
IUpd. It’s seems like a something coming
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Nothing happened
Yep and this is sad
Yes, it’s sad, I switched to the CIS region, just to get access to the forum, even though I didn’t have any problems paying on the global account.
Spoiler
(actually, I was really hoping to get a khokhloma skin, but now that I’ve found out that it doesn’t exist, I want to go back to global :) )