我直接在这里发了：
Yes — I do know we shouldn’t discuss politics in the forums, so I will state things cautiously and only introduce objective phenomena: why the future implied by this rumor offends and unsettles Chinese players (in fact many people are very angry about this now) and why, when implemented, War Thunder would lose a large number of Chinese players.
Quick reminders:
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Who am I? I’m one of the mods of the War Thunder Tieba (Chinese forum). What I want to present objectively is the response and opinions from the Chinese player community and the Chinese market.
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Please keep replies in this thread restrained and calm — don’t slip into geopolitics, complaints, or accusations. Moderators: please be merciful when you remove extreme posts, but please do not lock this thread — it is also useful feedback for the developers.
(Below is supplementary information for devs and for players unfamiliar with the East Asian situation; I will use as objective language as possible to describe observable facts.)
1.The rumor suggests giving the VT-4 to the Japanese tech tree. Whether or Not at the time of the next Majour Update, would be a terrible decision.
Every year War Thunder runs a Victory Day sale in May, and in September distributes V-J Day victory decals.
Many people unfamiliar with the regional sensitivities may think the past is the past and that the VT-4 is a modern vehicle so it doesn’t matter, but unlike Western Europe (which after WWII pursued reconciliation and formed organizations like the EU), relations in East Asia have not been smoothed over.
The timing of the next patch coincides with China’s once-in-a-decade large V-J Day military parade; this is an extremely sensitive time, and introducing such a vehicle at this moment would be very inappropriate. But even after clarification of introducing them another day would be inappropriate also.
In fact, I believe some devs are aware of this sensitivity — there was a dev blog comment assuring that China-produced vehicles would not be placed in the Japanese tech tree.
Promice of No Chinese Vehicle in Japan TT
Also, the fact that the Japanese tech tree’s flag differs in the Korean and Chinese clients supports my conclusion. And of the acknowledge of sensitivity by the devs.
flags in different clients
Chinese Client: 
Korean Client: 
English Client: 
2.Chinese players are actually very satisfied with many marketing activities in China: recently we received the cute loong-girl body pillow, and on Chinese video sites like Bilibili there are many War Thunder recommendations from influencers with multi-millions of followers — it’s clear Gaijin has invested a lot in marketing in China.
Part of Co-influencers Promotion Vids of WT
But Chinese players feel great unease and distrust about the future suggested by this rumor; many people feel offended, especially given the sensitive timing.
Many players are not proficient in English, so although the international forums might seem calm, the Chinese forums are full of complaints and dissatisfaction about this.
On Tieba and on Hey Box (Gaijin’s Chinese sales partner):
They’re way too offensive and angry so I’m not going to translate them…
There’re endless pages and pages of these threads with more posts inside it bursted just in 1 hour and given the fact that we’ve deleted some that went way to far…
Even if players love this game, As a currently a very popular and high-profile military game in China, War Thunder’s introducing something like this at such a sensitive point would cause many potential Chinese players to develop strong resentment and rejection. And many influencers will criticize it.
I’m not trying to be alarmist, but just consult any Chinese employee or volunteer or moderator, you will get the same answer:
This would greatly damage Gaijin’s and War Thunder’s reputation in China, and would cause trouble to the influencers who promote War Thunder, War Thunder streamers (video or live), partner platforms like Hey Box and UU Gaming VPN (yes, the “UU girl” is UU ’s mascot), and even other games Gaijin has cooperated Chinese servers such as Enlisted and Crossout.
