You can’t connect existing PC account. For Xbox accounts, it doesn’t provide marketplace access.
For playing on PC with your existing Xbox account - no, you don’t have to, you had this ability in War Thunder PC launcher for many years anyway.
The difference is that MS PC client has all in-game purchases linked to Microsoft Store instead of Gaijin Store/Steam. So you no longer have to dust off your console and launch War Thunder on it just in order to activate your pack purchase, which is something many players struggled with when playing in our PC launcher with console account.
I assure you, many people have both consoles and computers and pay for Game Pass Ultimate which grants both the console and PC memberships.
I am just annoyed that what appeared was announced as a major development written as though there was finally a way to link XBox and PC profiles (allowing me to get the XM-1 Chrysler on my account) is really just a slightly more convenient way to activate XBox pack purchases when made off a computer instead of the console itself.
This seems more like something which could have been buried in the patch notes instead of getting a dedicated article.
It’s literally the same store that Xbox version is using. So prices and sales are the same.
By using Microsoft account with active PC (or Ultimate) Game Pass and downloading PC version of War Thunder from MS Store. It can be a newly created account, or the one you already used for playing on Xbox. The benefits are also granted in the Xbox version if you have active Ultimate subscription.
Because having Microsoft PC account is not the same as registering it at Gaijin.net, these are 2 unrelated and unconnected ecosystems. You can’t play War Thunder with your pre-existing Gaijin account on Xbox, and it’s the same for PC version in MS Store.
But again, what is your blocking point in allowing PC players to user their PC WT account on Xbox and PC GamePass on PC? If Xbox can use Xbox Ecosystem on their PC, why cant i use my PC Ecosystem on Xbox? I dont see any Hardware or Software limitations here. Just Gaijin not wanting it.
Just makes no sense to me, as the majoratie of player, the PC players, will get nothing out of having a Xbox Game Pass now.
So, people who made their accounts ages ago through Steam or the original launcher can’t get the bonuses, even though they’ve been subscribed to Game Pass. That’s just great.
thank you, xbox native player on pc, question. using WT through MS store launcher i can purchase packs nice. but they are still not test drivable, Why? Do we have any idea when account transfer is coming back?
I really wish you guys created something more broad with account. That means that 1 account for any platform. This is ridiculous. I have 12 years of grind on my PC account and I am not able to use it on xbox as this has different account. Why not to do migration of all account into one that would be shared for all platforms?
Hello, will i be able to purchase the (XM1 Chrystler) vehicle pack on my Xbox on the Microsoft store and be able to use it on the new Microsoft Store PC Client of the game instead of the console Version of the game?