**Locked Out of PC Features Because My War Thunder Account Started on Xbox**

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I’ve played War Thunder on Xbox for years (4–5 years, grinding and even buying premium vehicles), and now that I finally have a PC I’m furious to discover Gaijin still treats me like a second-class player. Gaijin’s own support site bluntly notes that “the procedure for transferring console accounts has been temporarily suspended” – meaning my Xbox-born account is permanently stuck on Xbox.
In short, I can play on PC, but I can’t use the PC store, marketplace, or sales that PC players take for granted. This is absurd after years of loyalty and spending on the game.

  • No Marketplace Access: Gaijin explicitly locks console accounts out of the Gaijin Market.
  • No PC Store Deals: we literally miss out on all the normal discounts and sales that PC players enjoy.

This situation is fundamentally unfair. We console players weren’t given a PC option when we started – so we shouldn’t be punished forever for that fact. Just to be clear, I’m not asking Gaijin to somehow make Xbox and PlayStation match PC sales — I understand that those pricing decisions are controlled by Microsoft and Sony. What I am asking is for Gaijin to reopen the option to transfer our accounts to PC, so we can actually access the full features of the game without being locked into the console platform forever.

Gaijin, please treat this seriously: resume the account transfer service. Don’t force longtime players to suffer because they began on Xbox. We want to keep spending money and support War Thunder – just give us the option to transferour accountsand enjoy the full PC marketplace and sales like everyone else.

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This is getting closed in no time…
Yes, I would like it and appreciate it if they opened it again as it has been a year. Moreover, many things are useless as of now for console players, one of them is the tickets to be able to sell the event vehicle to the market, and well, we’re also limited to either grind every event regret not grinding it. Chests are useless (who wants to pay 600 GE to open one) and I currently have a big collection of useless chests. But yeah, it’s been a year so we might as well have to wait for another year.

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I have had the exact same issue for years. I spent a few years on console then bought a pc (after over 100 hours and 100$ on console). I have been playing on my pc now for a few years and the account transfer has never opened. I’m up to 10.0 on two nations and I believe 350 hours. I would very much like to be able to participate in the market and give gajin my business, but I am growing tired of being a long time player with a restricted account only because I started in 2018 or so with an Xbox account.

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