So as of today, CIS players still have access to the Marketplace, but have to go through https://trade.pixstorm.ru/ now. And players without CIS accounts can’t go there. This is similar to the splits in store-front and forum-posting that also took effect today, as well as the removal of Steam login as an option in the CIS for PC.
On the other side, the currency is no longer GJN, but PIX, in line with the new CIS publisher PixelStorm. It’s believed players on the CIS side will get their GJN converted on a 1:1 basis to PIX, starting today. This is a little different from what we were originally told (well, Russian-speaking players were told) that the single unified Marketplace would remain.
So my question would be, because no one can see the other side any longer to keep a check, is there going to be any guarantee coming from Gaijin that the 1:1 pegging of GJN to the new Pixels will stay the same? Given that Pixels would have to be refreshed with rubles, that could be hard to maintain, but otherwise there would seem to be a significant risk of loss of market trading information down the road here that impacts players using either market interface.
I mean, it’s not exactly nothing to withhold info like this. When the announcement of the publisher switch was put out in Russian-language social media and not all the other countries earlier this month, everyone saw the GJN value of their marketplace coupon holdings crash about 25% as people dumped theirs on the market after that news, and wouldn’t have known why without access to info on the Russian side.
(And since I came back here, I’ll re-ask the question I asked here earlier… does this have anything to do with squadron research rewards being suspended since the 28th?)
But there will already be a division of events. For example, migrated players will not be able to receive bonuses through links from streamers, registration links, or participate in events (dakimatures, stickers like Eva Elfie, bananas, etc.).
Also in the official group on the social network from the CIS it is indicated that players will NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE PART in global events. This is unfair. I want to receive bananas, pillows, meme stickers and all sorts of fluff content.
“There may be products or discount campaigns that are specific to a region [on the Pixel store].” Should we assume that extends to vehicle variants that will be available to CIS players only as well? I mean there are some other things that qualify as store products besides vehicles, but it would be good to know wherever you play if that’s something that’s going to start happening now.
Here’s being said by russian moderator that they won’t ever consider linking rubles (russian currency) to GJN/PIX as it will ruin the market.
Not a guarantee but still.
The CC decal links are allegedly being worked on as per .ru forum moderators, I’d imagine everything else you mentioned will come back along with them. To my knowledge, DMM players have access to all of that stuff too.
@Stona_WT Can you please tell us where we can still ask questions about migration and some unclear points and ask them now? We don’t have access to our usual place - we were thrown out into the cold without warning. Can you organize for us a general topic here for discussion, asking questions, whining and etc?
First of all, I’m interested in whining. Well, they immediately asked above not to flood. Now, if we were given permission to create a thread where we could communicate in a language other than English, that would be great.
Communication in the format of translating from your language into English, posting it, waiting for someone to answer you as well, translating his message through Google back into your language with loss of context is not cool.
Um, that’s sort of the point? There’s been no news of this at all to the rest of the War Thunder community so far outside of Russian social media, even though it impacts the whole playerbase in some respects I’ve tried to identify. So “waiting for news” was 100% failing us before today, the first time I think a non-Russian mod has even discussed it so far or permitted questions. Nothing wrong with asking those questions once.
If you had 100 GJN in coupons you might have wanted to buy premium with on June 1, today you have around 80, because news that affected you was denied you by the company. That’s not a good look.
We cannot guarantee same prices for GJN on both markets (due to the economy fluctuations, a different currency system, different laws and regulations - for example, there is no market in Netherlands due to their local law!).
Okie. Can you organize a topic in which we could flood in our own language and post funny things while our flood rooms are temporarily unavailable? At least one. Pleeeease
There is a difference between the prices for purchasing new GJN/PIX on the stores, and regional variations in that one-way purchase price, that’s always been the situation.
However if you commit to not changing, or at least commit to advertising changes to the 1 GJN:1 PIX:1 USD exchange rate, then people can still make effective marketplace decisions. To not do so will open up the marketplace further to various forms of currency manipulation and other dodgy behavior.
For instance, if Russian players were to believe that the PIX were to be devalued against the USD or the GJN, particularly because they’re getting info right now the rest of the world isn’t, they might be inclined to drop a lot more product on the market before that happened. That would affect everybody’s prices.
Previous mention of this said there’d be one marketplace. No one said anything before today about their being two possibly depegged currencies on it. That’s new information and I would suggest deserves some expanding upon if you want people to have trust in the current level of market stability.
No. This is English speaking section. I do not speak Russian on level that would allow me to discuss (and follow) topic in Russian and/or Ukrainian, sorry.
As stated here:
If you want offtopic thread, you can use our offtopic thread (if you will use English language there and obey our forum rules).
What does this mean? Will there be additional new equipment/discounts, in addition to the usual ones, like a mouse for a snail’s birthday, a BO-105 helicopter for a day of something in Germany, and so on? Or will it be a complete replacement of regular discounts with new unique ones?
2)What exactly does this mean? For example, one watchman in the reporting service banned me for a month because I attached a replay with an error, where there was no damage from a corrected air bomb, but did not attach logs and a screenshot, although it would seem why. Will there be individual managers there who will politely thank me for reporting the error and quickly fix it or what?
3) What exactly is expected? Continuation of the legendary avatars, titles and other things about the “ancient Rus” or shitty content from Mikhalkov?
4) Why is that? The description seems to say that everything will be great, the main thing is to migrate. But what if it’s a hoax? What if the promised events and collaborations turn out to be disgusting, the content is meager and uninteresting, and there are no price reductions? Why if the publisher deceives us we will not be able to return?
Well, actually, why is there so little information about the situation? Why were we deprived of our forum? Why did this happen suddenly and without warning? Why has no one come to us yet and calms us down?
Of course, except for you. But here everything is scary, the language is incomprehensible, some villains seem to be everywhere. Horror.
When will we get answers to our questions? Why are there no replies from this publisher? If a “wonderful” publisher came along, promising support and promising to be constantly in touch with the community - where is he? Why hasn’t he appeared in this thread yet?
I really want to get all the content from the game. Did you add bananas? Great, let’s connect. Decal from the best actress? Please follow the link and pick it up. Is the unique helicopter back on sale again? I’ll take it. British Armed Forces Day decal? Cool, I’ll farm it.
How can you get the most out of the game?
