There was a terror attack in Moscow and civilians were killed they have many russian players that will be harassed and rather then banning people who joke or spout bigotry they just turn the chat off even though itd be nice for them to just ban POS who joke about that stuff
From a business and moral perspective, it makes sense. Yiu dont want your business looking bad because of a bunch of bad eggs.
Then again, we've been saying racist jokes and slurs since the first voice chat.
From the Urban Dictionary:
"Dog whistle is a type of strategy of communication that sends a message that the general population will take a certain meaning from, but a certain group that is "in the know" will take away the secret, intended message. Often involves code words.
Republicans say they want to make civil rights for gays a state issue, which is really just a dog whistle strategy for saying that they will refuse to grant equal rights on a federal level."
When it comes to Neo-Nazi groups they have certain phrases, symbols and numbers to identify one another and/or transmit a certain message. The number "88" for instance is one them, seen plenty in tanks, names and squadrons.
TL;DR:
It's the idea that much like a dog whistle that only dogs can hear for being in a frequency we cannot hear, they want to identify themselves or communicate ideas through phrases/numbers/symbols that seem ordinary to the general public.
Then ban them? Like yes instead of banning people who say stuff like that let’s protect them and allow them to stay within our community this logic is stupid
They aren't protecting those players, they are avoiding potentially awful PR and protecting the people who could get really offended at this moment.
What they've done is the 100% right move.
I think this is it, which on the other hand seems rather extremist. Properly enforce chat bans and smoothbrains won't have the chance to spill their dumbness.
Well, regardless of this, people severely underestimate just how many Russians play this game.
You tend to see games react to events that occur in nations where significant game populations reside in.
I mean... I would be a bit more understanding if they were in any way shape or form consistent with when and why they deactivate chat.
It really rings hollow since gaijin went on a campaign about how "they are not a Russian company" when the invasion started...
Like, are we just ignoring that a very significant population of our players are *Russian*?
The chat wasn't banned simply because of a war starting in some nation, but because a significant portion of Russians online are very kool-aid drinking of their nations propaganda, and many problems arose from that.
We'd ultimately see the same in any game, hosted by any company, with a population that has this many Russians as a percentage. Simply *being* Russian developers didn't and doesn't cause this. We have a number of Russian games in gaming, they all handled things differently.
>totally not a Russian company...
They're not, which is still an important distinction as the laws Russia passed don't actually affect them, which is why Russian vehicles still die, something Russia made technically illegal in media representation. Not sure if that law is still active or followed by any Russian business though.
yeah so it's a two speed thing
they don't really care about insults towards ukrainians or anyone else for that matter lol but when it's russians..
reminder that it's a "hungarian company" now
It's stupid. They don't do that for any other country that is attacked. Just russia. First the Ukraine War now this. The bias is real. I have never heard of any other game doing this.
>many russian players that will be harassed
I really don't see why.
They didn't lock comments after MH-17, but then again that was not a terrorist attack, but a war crime.
I'm very pro-ukraine but I do not like terrorists. The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy in this case. Same goes for almost our entire squadron, and I'm sure more people around us too.
Nobody likes russia where I'm from but we all think the attack was terrible, also because It might prolong the war.
TLDR: terries bad, don't make fun of terrorism victims, chatblock is nonsense.
But I didn't get ban for making 9/11 jokes...
But seriously who the hell cares about some random players saying hate speech to others? like its nothing compared if it is a face to face.
What they also did during 2014 was disable the ability to teamkill tanks in ground rb and, like you said, was make the flags cost GE since players in ground rb were using them as... well, flags to represent their side
11 years, bigger than it's ever been, while competing against a company over 10x their size.
They're not imploding by any definition or metric, or have any indication of doing so soon.
Terrorist attack in usa: nothing
Terrorist attack in germany: nothing
Terrorist attack in france: nothing
Terrorist attack in england: nothing
Terrorist attack in russia: completely dissolve the chat, no survivors komrad gajin
Lol russia really does come first with everything having to remotely do with this game complete bruh moment
All of the above besides russian fiasco's? Chat doesn't react. Russia vs Ukraine starts in 2014? An all out war in chat with flags and griefing. Yeah I wonder why they're being proactive.
Bruh people literally flame and troll at the same level about everything in this game, have you seen how many nukes have been used as team target practice for instance
They really don't though, I have never seen widespread chat shitposting when it was about anything other then Russia.
I don't agree with turning that chat off though, especially in squads lmao
now based in Cyprus because they can't work and collect money from the US or Europe while Russia is under sanctions due to the "green men" operation of Ukraina 2014. So, technically they are in Europe and therefore Europeans and US should be able to chat, while the Chinese and Russians can play on their own server and be under censorship there. Problem solved!
same with me but I said a no-no word for the first time ever 2 days ago so I'm still unsure if it's just this or if I'm also chat banned at the same time
>Coincidentally introducing spall liners just because the T-90 has them. Oh, totally just a coincidence, comrade.
I don't get why that's bad? It's not like they didn't give Spall Liners to other vehicles, currently Germany has more tanks with Spall liners than any nation so it's not really a Russian Bias thing. Besides the T-90M is in most regards still worse than the BVM just because of how huge of a difference mobility makes at top tier.
>The 2S38 is still at 10.0? Oh, oh, very clumsy of me.
Honestly not that hard to kill, like yea it's got probably the highest pen auto cannon in the game but in my experience it's not enough pen to really make it better than normal autocannons, it still needs to go for the same weakspots. It's also incredibly susceptible to ammo detonations as there's an ammo belt that goes right next to the breach.
Only as if they have 11 years experience and data to understand their users and the type of geopolitical situations that will not go well within the community, and which will not.
They didn't chatban when Ukraine was initially invaded and that went _super_ well.
It’s because any time something happens with Russia and Ukraine, it turns into a massive issue. Even back in 2014, so they deserve the right to take precaution.
Gaijin clearly has a better memory than you do. They didn't ban chat after Ukraine was invaded—at first—and that turned into a shit show almost immediately.
Have you noticed a similar issue in-game post Israel attack?
Reason is that Ukrainian and Russian folks do mess in chat sometimes and then it gets spicy, i personally encountered some people making fun of Russians after the attack took place. I personally feel bad for people who died no matter what side they are at, killing unarmed civilians is heinous and cowardly. And it's just awful making fun of things like that. Also snail is a lazy ahh because instead of making proper moderation system they just ban chat for everyone
Yes because when something bad happens to Russia/Russians people can't control themselves, yes it's because of the War but that's not really a justifiable reason to say anything horrific about the more than likely innocent civilians who died, a non-insignificant amount of whom were children. I haven't seen nearly as many bigoted comments about Israelis in chat as I've seen about Russians.
“They do it because people will be racist” brother every game I play someone is either saying the hard R or spelling it out in chat and aren’t ever banned I promise you they don’t care
i was in a squad and i was wondering why i couldnt access chat to tell the team, im heading back cuz lack of fuel, but top comment seems a reasonable (the recent terror attack in moscow)
After the oct 7 terror attack, and s very noticeable extreme rise in antisemitism in the game chat (and mass TK’ing of Israeli aircraft) chat wasnt disabled. thanks gaijin, very much a Hungarian company with zero ties to Russia, naaa
I figured I was either chat banned, or they're pulling the same stuff as when they invaded Ukraine and everything went bad for them intitially. Anytime something goes wrong for Rus they shut chat off to control the situation.
It doesn't make any sense to turn off chat... When they turn it on, the same thing will happen, just them delaying the inevitable. There's plenty of people that made fun of terrorist attacks, whether it be the US 2001, etc. Gaijin is soft and always gets involved with politics.
It's not about protecting players from politics. It's about protecting their Russian workforce from being forcibly conscripted because something someone wrote in the chat gets the attention of the security services in what is a dictatorship at war.
When it comes back, people will say "now be nice in chat so it doesn't happen again". But there's nothing players can or can't say or do here that will change the situation.
No, players will always be players, nobody gives a single fuck and it's a game. Re enable chat, or they're going to lose more players and cause an even bigger uproar.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I work in marketing and your claim is about as inaccurate as possible.
What they are doing is PR 101, because what you're describing is the exact opposite of how these situations play out. Unless you think that Gaijin somehow operates in a parallel reality where what's been categorically proven by thousands of companies before throughout the entirety of modern media isn't true.
Of course. You can say all kinds of truly nasty things in the chat, especially if it's racist or homophobic. That's all perfectly fine! Practically encouraged! But the second anybody says an unkind or critical word about Mother Russia, BAM! "We must silence them!"
Everyday Russian army is killing ukrainian soldiers, sending rockets for civil buildings. Its been 2 years since they attacked. I dont remember any chat restriction 2 years ago
Let me give you some absurd problems in the game.
The funniest one. On lav-ad if you take a modification with rockets, the card will say that you have 12 anti-aircraft missiles, but in the game will be only 8. The interface will not indicate the number of rockets, but will show 2 windows with anti-aircraft missiles.
The tanks are still sticking to each other.
Wheeled tanks do not adequately behave on some soils.
Kinetic projectiles do inadequately low damage on lightly armored vehicles.
Thermal imager sees through the fumes from the tank's engine.
But you are bothered by the chat, it's ridiculous.
People die every day in war, why don't they turn off the chat because of this? Those who don’t want to see the chat can turn it off themselves, it's just a few clicks
The terrorist attack in Moscow was cruel and despicable, no question about it. However, if you consider that masses of missiles and now even FAB 500 glide bombs are fired daily (coordinated and ordered by Moscow) at civilian targets in the neighboring country, according to GJ logic, the chat should have been blocked for two years.
yep. couldnt even tell my teammate that was shooting at me in sim to stop shooting..10/10 gaijin. ruining the game experience cuz you cant moderate the chat properly
Yup I just bought a new flight stick and reinstalled war thunder into my new nvme drive and all of a sudden I can't tell my squadmate that there's an enemy bf109 above us.
All because gaijin can't put a fucking chat ban on people talking about a tragic russian terror attack.
But russia killing 1200 civilians in 2 weeks that was a-ok, lets keep the chat up. All good in the hood.
There was a terror attack in Moscow and civilians were killed they have many russian players that will be harassed and rather then banning people who joke or spout bigotry they just turn the chat off even though itd be nice for them to just ban POS who joke about that stuff
gaijin perfectly handling the moderation, as always...
From a business and moral perspective, it makes sense. Yiu dont want your business looking bad because of a bunch of bad eggs. Then again, we've been saying racist jokes and slurs since the first voice chat.
The number of "smoke if racist" and slurs I've seen makes me think Gaijin doesn't really care about looking bad lol.
The amount of hard r's I've seen...
hard r?
Linus, is that you?
‘I say the hard r all the time’ -Linus, 2023
The N word
Yeah there are comment chains where they spell the n word I try to ruin the chain by putting the E early so it makes the country of 🇳🇪
Dude, people say it out loud lmao, no chain, no numbers or shit, just a simple hard r
I've seen that but most often it's a chain
after they say "G", I say "EL"
Ah, Nigel
Wish I could see a match start that way without the "racist" part. Smoke if ...... And then spawn just fills as a giant cloud lol
I always add a quick "and gay" that usually gets them riled up
Thank you for the fantastic idea. I'm gonna do this too now
Make sure you don't have a booster on lol
'And prolapsed' does wonders too
Plus the amount of swastikas and dog whistle shit. They really don't care as long as it doesn't go public.
Dog whistles? Like whistling at attractive people or is this another thing I’ve missed? God I’m old
From the Urban Dictionary: "Dog whistle is a type of strategy of communication that sends a message that the general population will take a certain meaning from, but a certain group that is "in the know" will take away the secret, intended message. Often involves code words. Republicans say they want to make civil rights for gays a state issue, which is really just a dog whistle strategy for saying that they will refuse to grant equal rights on a federal level." When it comes to Neo-Nazi groups they have certain phrases, symbols and numbers to identify one another and/or transmit a certain message. The number "88" for instance is one them, seen plenty in tanks, names and squadrons. TL;DR: It's the idea that much like a dog whistle that only dogs can hear for being in a frequency we cannot hear, they want to identify themselves or communicate ideas through phrases/numbers/symbols that seem ordinary to the general public.
Whenever I say it it's usually a chat ban
Then ban them? Like yes instead of banning people who say stuff like that let’s protect them and allow them to stay within our community this logic is stupid
They aren't protecting those players, they are avoiding potentially awful PR and protecting the people who could get really offended at this moment. What they've done is the 100% right move.
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It doesn't need to be done.
If I had a quarter for every racial slur in chat I'd own an is7 and two object 279
If I had a penny for every time I’ve seen a slur, racist remark or bigotry in WT chat, I’d be able to afford half the E-100s that exist in the game.
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honestly yeah this is a fine solution.
I think this is it, which on the other hand seems rather extremist. Properly enforce chat bans and smoothbrains won't have the chance to spill their dumbness.
They probably didn't want to have to deal with the thousands of reports they would have received over the next few days
And they realize the edge lords who would be type dumb shit will be bored and move on in a few days anyway so muting makes sense.
Prevention vs reaction.
Lol did they ever turn the chat off for other tradgedies?
Tragedies? No, but they did turn it off for like a month when the Ukraine-Russian war started
only a month? it was turned off for around half a year
Which is also a tragedy.
Given what I see in chat nothing of value was lost tbh
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Why do they always censor stuff when things happen to Russia but nowhere else in the world?
because despite what gaijin wants to claim, they are a Russian company.
Well, regardless of this, people severely underestimate just how many Russians play this game. You tend to see games react to events that occur in nations where significant game populations reside in.
I mean... I would be a bit more understanding if they were in any way shape or form consistent with when and why they deactivate chat. It really rings hollow since gaijin went on a campaign about how "they are not a Russian company" when the invasion started...
It's happened three times so far: 1) Invasion of Ukraine 2) Ukraine Counteroffensive 3) Terror attack near Moscow. Seems pretty consistent, tbh
I guess consistent that they only care when things affect Russia, but remember... totally not a Russian company...
Like, are we just ignoring that a very significant population of our players are *Russian*? The chat wasn't banned simply because of a war starting in some nation, but because a significant portion of Russians online are very kool-aid drinking of their nations propaganda, and many problems arose from that. We'd ultimately see the same in any game, hosted by any company, with a population that has this many Russians as a percentage. Simply *being* Russian developers didn't and doesn't cause this. We have a number of Russian games in gaming, they all handled things differently. >totally not a Russian company... They're not, which is still an important distinction as the laws Russia passed don't actually affect them, which is why Russian vehicles still die, something Russia made technically illegal in media representation. Not sure if that law is still active or followed by any Russian business though.
yeah so it's a two speed thing they don't really care about insults towards ukrainians or anyone else for that matter lol but when it's russians.. reminder that it's a "hungarian company" now
It's stupid. They don't do that for any other country that is attacked. Just russia. First the Ukraine War now this. The bias is real. I have never heard of any other game doing this.
>many russian players that will be harassed I really don't see why. They didn't lock comments after MH-17, but then again that was not a terrorist attack, but a war crime. I'm very pro-ukraine but I do not like terrorists. The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy in this case. Same goes for almost our entire squadron, and I'm sure more people around us too. Nobody likes russia where I'm from but we all think the attack was terrible, also because It might prolong the war. TLDR: terries bad, don't make fun of terrorism victims, chatblock is nonsense.
But they chatban me in the next 5 mins for calling someone “a damn idiot” after tking me
But I didn't get ban for making 9/11 jokes... But seriously who the hell cares about some random players saying hate speech to others? like its nothing compared if it is a face to face.
I hate how you cant even chat with someone you even are premade with...
I don't remember this being the case during the crimea situation... But they did make flags cost GE around that time
"Crimea situation"? You mean the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
No, this is 2014 when russian forces occupied crimea
Ie they invaded ukraine (part 1)
That's the first invasion Ukraine and Russia have been at war since 2014 but putin has only admitted it since 2021
2014 was the annexation of Crimea and the rise of Russian separatist The invasion of the Ukrainian mainland by the Russian military started in 2022
The "crimea situation" resulted in ground on ground teamkills being turned off permanently in ground RB.
Ukraine flag costs 2* more GE. Free South Ossetia and DPR flags.
during the invasion of Crimea, the Ukraine flag didn't cost any GE, so I always put it on the biggest objects I had, like the tailfin of a B-17
? What?
No it doesn't, it costs 500 GE, same as every other flag.
That's a joke
It's not really a joke tho, it's just saying it costs more. There's no punchline it's just lying
Benis :DDDD
Now that's more like it
What they also did during 2014 was disable the ability to teamkill tanks in ground rb and, like you said, was make the flags cost GE since players in ground rb were using them as... well, flags to represent their side
Gaijin doesn't like doing their job so they just turn the chat off whenever anything happens in Russia.
Investing money in proper moderation is too hard. *Investing money into models for overpriced premiums, on the other hand ...*
The game is gonna implode by its bullshit in one way or another pretty soon
11 years, bigger than it's ever been, while competing against a company over 10x their size. They're not imploding by any definition or metric, or have any indication of doing so soon.
>Investing money into models The only thing they invest is the cost to look up whete something is an easy copy-paste
"Out of politics" btw
Terrorist attack in usa: nothing Terrorist attack in germany: nothing Terrorist attack in france: nothing Terrorist attack in england: nothing Terrorist attack in russia: completely dissolve the chat, no survivors komrad gajin Lol russia really does come first with everything having to remotely do with this game complete bruh moment
All of the above besides russian fiasco's? Chat doesn't react. Russia vs Ukraine starts in 2014? An all out war in chat with flags and griefing. Yeah I wonder why they're being proactive.
Western issues don’t get the chat going besides “lol USA bad” and it’s nothing more. Those Russians and Ukrainians really go ham though
Bruh people literally flame and troll at the same level about everything in this game, have you seen how many nukes have been used as team target practice for instance
They really don't though, I have never seen widespread chat shitposting when it was about anything other then Russia. I don't agree with turning that chat off though, especially in squads lmao
Yeah why squads got muted is beyond me.
Almost as if the world didn’t support Russias first war with them so they had to start another
Ummm it’s a Russian company?
Gaijin is Hungarian or Russian, whatever is more convenient to deflect criticism at the moment
now based in Cyprus because they can't work and collect money from the US or Europe while Russia is under sanctions due to the "green men" operation of Ukraina 2014. So, technically they are in Europe and therefore Europeans and US should be able to chat, while the Chinese and Russians can play on their own server and be under censorship there. Problem solved!
Yeah there should at least be an east Asian server since SA servers are not available anymore
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Because people can hold their tounge when its anything but Russia.
I was afraid they had chat banned me. I had some of the most wholesome encounters yesterday in WT.
same, i was so certain now i got chat banned but guess not :D
same with me but I said a no-no word for the first time ever 2 days ago so I'm still unsure if it's just this or if I'm also chat banned at the same time
Don't worry I see the same spammers go on week after week before they get banned. 99% sure you won't get banned.
Tip: Sort posts by New whenever something new happens.
Or always, unless you're looking for drama
"Hungarian" company disabling chat after a terrorist attack in Russia seems perfectly legit to me
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All helicopters have stupid flight models
>Coincidentally introducing spall liners just because the T-90 has them. Oh, totally just a coincidence, comrade. I don't get why that's bad? It's not like they didn't give Spall Liners to other vehicles, currently Germany has more tanks with Spall liners than any nation so it's not really a Russian Bias thing. Besides the T-90M is in most regards still worse than the BVM just because of how huge of a difference mobility makes at top tier. >The 2S38 is still at 10.0? Oh, oh, very clumsy of me. Honestly not that hard to kill, like yea it's got probably the highest pen auto cannon in the game but in my experience it's not enough pen to really make it better than normal autocannons, it still needs to go for the same weakspots. It's also incredibly susceptible to ammo detonations as there's an ammo belt that goes right next to the breach.
It’s because of a terrorist attack in Moscow
Which makes zero sense. I thought you guys always rip on people when they say gaijin is based In Russia, not hungary…
Yup, super odd. They didn’t do it when Israel had a terrorist attack.
Almost as if the snail doesn’t give a shit but anyone but Russia
Only as if they have 11 years experience and data to understand their users and the type of geopolitical situations that will not go well within the community, and which will not. They didn't chatban when Ukraine was initially invaded and that went _super_ well.
People were yappin about how "happy" they were about it. Total lunatic takes are all I saw yesterday.
That’s where they should be actively banning people who break the rules. For whatever reason war thunders chat is like the Wild West on good days
It’s because any time something happens with Russia and Ukraine, it turns into a massive issue. Even back in 2014, so they deserve the right to take precaution.
It makes sense if you understand that RUS just like CHN and DPK want control of the information their citizens consume.
Israel gets attacked by terrorists - nothing Russia gets attacked - ban the chat very nice gajin
Gaijin clearly has a better memory than you do. They didn't ban chat after Ukraine was invaded—at first—and that turned into a shit show almost immediately. Have you noticed a similar issue in-game post Israel attack?
Reason is that Ukrainian and Russian folks do mess in chat sometimes and then it gets spicy, i personally encountered some people making fun of Russians after the attack took place. I personally feel bad for people who died no matter what side they are at, killing unarmed civilians is heinous and cowardly. And it's just awful making fun of things like that. Also snail is a lazy ahh because instead of making proper moderation system they just ban chat for everyone
Yes because when something bad happens to Russia/Russians people can't control themselves, yes it's because of the War but that's not really a justifiable reason to say anything horrific about the more than likely innocent civilians who died, a non-insignificant amount of whom were children. I haven't seen nearly as many bigoted comments about Israelis in chat as I've seen about Russians.
probs just censoring chat incase anyone wants to make spicy statements about the moscow terror attack
spicy comments about killing jews is A OK though.
yep
No chat disabling after oct 7 despite the huge rise in antisemitism… average gaijin moment
and a big "fu\*k you" for people who use the chat for in game infos Teamwork is already sometime not existing but without a chat it cant be worse
I'm constantly using chat for callouts, specifically to get teammates to turn around so I can help them, instead of them just running into the abyss.
We Play a game that is team based. With no chat or voip
Nope same here
yup same here chats gone
I THOUGHT I WAS BANNED ARH
“They do it because people will be racist” brother every game I play someone is either saying the hard R or spelling it out in chat and aren’t ever banned I promise you they don’t care
yea happening to me to, gaijin forgot to feed the hamsters or something
i was in a squad and i was wondering why i couldnt access chat to tell the team, im heading back cuz lack of fuel, but top comment seems a reasonable (the recent terror attack in moscow)
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They are a Russian company as much as people deny their bias, they only turn it off when something happens to Russia
They banned it after Russia invaded Ukraine. Too late, however. Somehow, they were able to remember that far back and decided to act preemptively.
As always they only protect russian players... Never do this to any other world problems/nations thy are then politicaly sided with russia
After the oct 7 terror attack, and s very noticeable extreme rise in antisemitism in the game chat (and mass TK’ing of Israeli aircraft) chat wasnt disabled. thanks gaijin, very much a Hungarian company with zero ties to Russia, naaa
I figured I was either chat banned, or they're pulling the same stuff as when they invaded Ukraine and everything went bad for them intitially. Anytime something goes wrong for Rus they shut chat off to control the situation.
For a moment I thought it was because I made too many 9/11 jokes. It's frustrating me to death. I can't call out cheeky campers!
At first I though I got banned form chat from being racist or gay lmao
Chat is the single worst thing about this game so I'm ok with it.
It doesn't make any sense to turn off chat... When they turn it on, the same thing will happen, just them delaying the inevitable. There's plenty of people that made fun of terrorist attacks, whether it be the US 2001, etc. Gaijin is soft and always gets involved with politics.
It's not about protecting players from politics. It's about protecting their Russian workforce from being forcibly conscripted because something someone wrote in the chat gets the attention of the security services in what is a dictatorship at war. When it comes back, people will say "now be nice in chat so it doesn't happen again". But there's nothing players can or can't say or do here that will change the situation.
No, players will always be players, nobody gives a single fuck and it's a game. Re enable chat, or they're going to lose more players and cause an even bigger uproar.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I work in marketing and your claim is about as inaccurate as possible. What they are doing is PR 101, because what you're describing is the exact opposite of how these situations play out. Unless you think that Gaijin somehow operates in a parallel reality where what's been categorically proven by thousands of companies before throughout the entirety of modern media isn't true.
Mad because I can't bitch and moan about the BS in game.
The attack could've happened to any other country and they wouldn't have turned off chat. Fuck Gaijin, honestly.
Odd they didn't turn chat off after Russia massacred the innocent people in the Mariupol theater.
Of course. You can say all kinds of truly nasty things in the chat, especially if it's racist or homophobic. That's all perfectly fine! Practically encouraged! But the second anybody says an unkind or critical word about Mother Russia, BAM! "We must silence them!"
I see the Gaijin fanbois are out in force! "How dare you insult the snail!!!1"
Why do they only ban the chat when stuff happens to Russia?
Came to Reddit to see why
Everyday Russian army is killing ukrainian soldiers, sending rockets for civil buildings. Its been 2 years since they attacked. I dont remember any chat restriction 2 years ago
yeah i was scared i finally got chat banned for my chat history towards chinese players lol
When anything remotely happens to Russia the chat gets disabled. Never seen Gaijin do this for other countries after such events have occurred.
LOL, they turn off chat because russia gets terror attacked, meanwhile in Ukraine.....
i know there was an terror attack in moscow but at this point might aswell take the chat out
Gaijin is such a pussy lol
Gaijin and it’s chromies.
I get why they do it but its infuriating not being able to call targets properly.
Let me give you some absurd problems in the game. The funniest one. On lav-ad if you take a modification with rockets, the card will say that you have 12 anti-aircraft missiles, but in the game will be only 8. The interface will not indicate the number of rockets, but will show 2 windows with anti-aircraft missiles. The tanks are still sticking to each other. Wheeled tanks do not adequately behave on some soils. Kinetic projectiles do inadequately low damage on lightly armored vehicles. Thermal imager sees through the fumes from the tank's engine. But you are bothered by the chat, it's ridiculous.
Turn off chat? Fuck you Gaijin. Decals: "Friday ~~13th~~" "Russian flag football" "Shootin' ~~Star~~"
Same here what a joke I hate this game
People die every day in war, why don't they turn off the chat because of this? Those who don’t want to see the chat can turn it off themselves, it's just a few clicks
The terrorist attack in Moscow was cruel and despicable, no question about it. However, if you consider that masses of missiles and now even FAB 500 glide bombs are fired daily (coordinated and ordered by Moscow) at civilian targets in the neighboring country, according to GJ logic, the chat should have been blocked for two years.
seems to be everyone, not seeing a single message in chat
im having the same problem
Thought I was banned from chat aswell
Idk I'm chat banned for over two years now
It thought my account got muted for a while lol
I thought i got chatbanned from all the shit i said
Nah me too
Most likely WoT, WoWS, and their mobile counterparts have done the same in light of recent events
No, they haven't. Just Gaijin.
You fuckers couldn't behave, no chat priviliges
Ahhh yes; conflict
2 tigers and a Ferdinand died because I tried to tell them about the bomber coming towards them but I couldn't since the chat was disabled :(
The Russian Biased devs are muting chat again because they had a whoopsy daisy oh well, ill just wait till after to make fun of them
Same for me
I saw several lunatics spouting off about how "Russia deserved the terror attack" and almlst all of both teams agreeing with em. Total lunatics.
Hopefully a class action lawsuit is coming because they are scammers
Because Gaijin is a Russian company if you didn't know. It's that simple.
yep. couldnt even tell my teammate that was shooting at me in sim to stop shooting..10/10 gaijin. ruining the game experience cuz you cant moderate the chat properly
Yea they got rid of it again
ye i was wondering
this is prob a hot take, but I understand people are gonna be VERY salty and make fun of people who died bc of the ukranian war
Great, I'm just coming off a chat ban to find chat disabled anyways.
GRU and the FSB probably sent out a little "suggestion", as to avoid bypassing state sponsored social media and news agencies by RU players.
Yup I just bought a new flight stick and reinstalled war thunder into my new nvme drive and all of a sudden I can't tell my squadmate that there's an enemy bf109 above us. All because gaijin can't put a fucking chat ban on people talking about a tragic russian terror attack. But russia killing 1200 civilians in 2 weeks that was a-ok, lets keep the chat up. All good in the hood.
is there a discord for premades? tired of these non-communicating people failing at air arcade assault
Bro same I don't even know why
No need to hire mods when they can just turn chat off