Transfer of console-created accounts suspended until further notice

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2442

Long time player, finally got enough money and time to build a great PC and wanted to play some War Thunder again. After some games, I finally decided to ditch Sony and move to PC. I wanted to open a ticket and unlock all the PC perks once and for all.

And then I find this: a function that worked 99% of the time (although with some limitations, but hey, it’s better than being stuck with Sony, tbh), and after digging around, I find out that 2 years passed since the transfer got removed. Seriously?

I know it’s not a priority, and honestly I don’t blame Gaijin and the devs for this because, at the end of the day, it’s a company that needs to make as much money as possible, and the lower they spend, the higher they get. But at the same time, this logic doesn’t hold much water. Having a PSN account limits the user’s choice in what packs they can buy, and the company probably gets less money because of store fees. So what gives, Gaijin?

I wouldn’t mind having a choice like this:

“Hey, the service is not available anymore for free, but for a fee of X amount, we can bring your profile to PC.”

This would probably be profitable for both the player and the company. I know it’s been asked an infinite amount of times, but my question is different.

Instead of “when will the service come back?” I wanted to ask this: “Is there a way, even with payment involved, that Gaijin can allow us players to unbind our accounts?”

I don’t want to sound like a douche to all the F2P players, but for how much I’ve grinded and spent on my account, a small fee is nothing, honestly.

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2443

like 90% of people here are willing to pay at this point

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2445

Yeah

2447

hey gaijin if you need a person to manually transfer the accounts just hire me and tell me what I need to do to unlock the accounts I will quite happily work for just above minimum wage

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2448

Id join ya!
This would make a nifty little side gig and after knowing the file structure Id have a script wrote to handle 90% of the actual work within a few days.

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2449

All of this was gone through before. Gaijin fully automated the linking process to the point it is done automatically now without even telling you about it.
And if there was ever any licensing or legal reason they couldnt do the transfers, they wouldnt have been able to do them this whole time.

The answer is simple, they are just too lazy to fix this.

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2450

That is interesting ! Gaijin said : we didn’t need playstation players anymore , so we’re selling XM1C pack on PC now!

2451

Nice try, but you lied.

XM1C is XBOX exclusive only, and was only during a short time available for PC players.

2452

Before you even made a smart question, you weren’t willing to click on my profile card to check my XBOX logo. Clearly, I’m just too lazy to differentiate. Because it’s obvious that there are far more PlayStation players than Xbox players. Who would have the time to deliberately lie and provoke someone who is dodging the issue, lying in a crude way and criticizing others? Do you understand what an Xbox exclusive pack is?

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2453

This is clearly an act that, in pursuit of profit, somewhat violates the spirit of the contract. And yet you say, “OK, this is just a temporary business activity. There’s nothing unacceptable about it. Although we sold it on the PC, it is still exclusive.” I think I understand where their confidence lies in ignoring a group of players who urgently need solutions and leaving them alone. No matter how indifferent they are, there will be people like you who step forward to rationalize their actions.

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2455

Everyone who is here. There is a feedback form that Gaijin just posted. Make sure to leave your feedback to make the game better for everyone and if you want to see console transfers to come back its our best shot if we include that in there.

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Where can you find that because they deserve some hard feedback about this situation.

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The survey for the past year (June-June) can be found here: How Was the Year in War Thunder: Rate the New Additions :)

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done

2462

Was a easy survey was mostly the answer: Console transfers need to be a priority and not adding new stuff.
I must say i loved the extra spawn tickets and the crash gives kills i give you guys that.

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2463

Oh, i’m not part of the dev team, i have no influence over development and no contact with the developers. Game Masters mostly handle in-game chat and name bans, other than that i’m at the same level as any other player. :)

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2464

I’m confused, was this feature just to be able to play with you psn account on pc or completly unlink your account from psn and be able to use gaijin market and other pc features? Could someone let me know?

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2465

yeah if you get unlink you are just normal pc player you get pacs on pc and gm. Now you just have no pacs on pc no gm and no perks from console on pc like aim asist etc (thats good but still you only lose)

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2466

I see, so a lot of us on this are playing with our psn created accounts on pc and gaijin has shut off the feature to make our accounts have pc created account features. Is this correct?

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2467

correct

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