Hey guys, what’s up with the new Lydia Litvyak pack being region-locked to Russia?
I was actually super hyped to buy this day one. I’ve been playing the Yak-1B a ton lately and really wanted to have her actual model in the cockpit, especially with the new Litvyak movie dropping soon.
It’s a huge bummer for international players who actually care about the history behind the White Lily. Why restrict such a legendary pilot to just one region right when the hype is peaking?
Is there any chance this gets a global release later?
I’m really happy I already gave up on trying to collect every single vehicle in game (already missed too much when I started, also just don’t have the time or motivation), but this just seems like a massive slap in the face for those that still do this sort of stuff… It’s not even tied to another distributor like consoles or DMM, just artificially limited to Russia for seemingly no reason.
Imagine people spending thousands of hours and copious amounts of money into this game only to fail their collection at not being Russian.
It’s also a premium. For the equivalent of $2.50 US, if you subtract GE and premium time. Russian players only. First time they have ever done a region-locked vehicle on the general servers (DMM was just cosmetics). Suspect it won’t be the last.
I was really looking forward to this one too as a VVS fan but I guess it’s not happening. Is there no way to link your gaijin account to this the way you can for DMM? *edit : I have been reliably informed this is a bad idea
That is too high a price to pay. I will wait and see if they reconsider. Platform exclusivity things like this are baffling to me, I want to give you money, why are you making it difficult for me to give you money gaijin?
You can migrate to Pixel Storm, but you are restricted to CIS Credit Cards and might miss out on certain sales. I’ve heard the only way to transfer back to the International Client is to prove you lived in a CIS state and prove you moved out of it.
As far as I remember, there is an opportunity to buy a package as a gift in the store. Why not create a separate Pixelstorm account and buy a set as a gift with your primary ID?
However, there is no guarantee that your payment method will not be available in the Pixelstorm store.
And yes. It’s a crutch. It’s too complicated. And I’m not sure if Gaijin is going to like it.
First, different payment currencies are NOT compatible, and will NOT work. I have tried it before personally, the webstore automatically rejects attempts to purchase gifts for players outside of your own region and/or currency.
Creating multiple accounts is directly against the TOS, do NOT do this. You put your account at great risk of being permanently banned.
Section 3.4:
US/Western/EU payment methods are 100% NOT compatible with Pixelstorm. Do not do it. Do not attempt. Do not link your account to the CIS region and/or Pixelstorm unless you actually LIVE in the appropriate region already. (You would already be using the Pixelstorm system, and this vehicle would already be available to you.)
If you do not see this vehicle in the webstore already, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CHANGE YOUR REGION OR SETTINGS.
Do NOT attempt to circumvent the region lock or try to find any sort of “work around” to obtain this region locked vehicle. You put your account at great risk for various TOS/rule violations. It is absolutely NOT worth it.
Having said that, I fully support having a conversation and making our requests known to the Community Managers and Devs that we would love to be able to obtain this vehicle through official channels FOLLOWING THE RULES, etc. Ie, if Gaijin could make this vehicle available to the rest of us players who are outside of the vehicle’s current regions, clients, and/or payment providers.
I just don’t want to see any of our brothers have any issues with their accounts that they care about, if they try to obtain this vehicle outside of the regions it is going to be available in for now.
