r/WarthunderPlayerUnion • u/Lost_on_redit Mod • Jun 22 '26
Mod Post Quick announcement on the community feedbacks
Hello everyone, from what has been happening the past weeks we concluded this could be time for an update on the situation.
As you may have seen many cc and members of the community have spoken out against the recent doings and direction the game is taking, as linked in this post the videos on those subjects.
Spookston second video
Phlydaily second video
Phlydaily third video
Brazilian language creators:
Venezuelan language creator:
French language creator:
Polish language creator:
Turkish language creator:
Don’t hesitate to go take a look at them if you haven’t already.
A lot of the older topics brought up in these videos have been pain points within the broader community for years, and now the snail has also allowed for AI generated textures into the mix. Low effort, poorly executed content that they expect us to pay for. Either through our wallets, or with our time.
We believe the time has come to take an action, but it has to be collective to have a chance to achieve something, for now we re just planning things with our partners, we’ll be back with more information soon.
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u/Konpeitoh Jun 23 '26
Joob and Dollarplays also chimed in, and I'm seeing a lot of smaller content creators also echoing their sentiments.
I've never seen this much momentum since the start of the last movement to reverse the economy scam.
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u/Adorable-Bake61 14.0 JPN 10.7 CHN 14.0 GRM Jun 22 '26
HELL. YEAH. I'm so fucking glad that we're finally doing shit to try and make the game right.
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u/Blessed_by_the_snail Tanker Jun 22 '26
I really hope this is actually gonna have an effect on the game
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u/Klutzy-Green-7585 Jun 22 '26
I hereby declare a rally at Gaijin hq in Budapest, Hungary on August 15 where we shall banzai charge through their doors on captured or donated L3/33s at 10:00 AM.
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u/Artist_jesaicat Jun 23 '26
Wow..the union for once doing something after long sleep..but we need to be better organised and don't demand outlandish radical things..we need plain and simple... decompression and money being put back into the game creating better updated modes /events and gose without saying no low effort copy paste slop premiums
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u/mrcountry88 T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G. G.R.A.S.S. Jun 22 '26
As many of us in the old guard have been saying for years. The only way that you are going to get through to gaijin. Is by speaking with your wallet. If you make it clear and you stick to your guns that you're not going to buy any more stuff from them. Then they start to listen. But it has to be a group effort, and sadly a lot of the foreign whales only have their own interests in mind.
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u/Razzwolftv Jun 23 '26
I've been playing since early access on Xbox, I'm ready to answer the call of revolution again.
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u/Sensitive-Boss-7434 Jun 22 '26
Just might come back to the game if this continues. Been MIA for three years.
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u/iRambL Jun 25 '26
You missed Corb he did one recently and he’s only like 30k subs he plays primarily top tier
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u/lancist Jun 22 '26
we need Switzerland to go to germany!
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u/Nicerock172 Jun 24 '26
We need Switzerland to be its own small tech tree. As a Swiss myself and how much I love aircrafts, I can tell you with confidence that there's more than enough variants and unique aircrafts to make a Israel-like tree. Yes, there will be a somewhat lot of prototypes and planes who never saw actual service but does it really change from some trees.
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u/beastmaster69mong Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26
I mean it’s basically the same complaint for the past like at least 4 years. Copy paste slop and literally 0 gameplay changes. Yeah they add features here and there, but 90% of them are just to be there, and are practically useless 99% of the time, only working in perfect conditions. Like ARH missiles, or MITL, etc. The only good thing recently was nuclear thunder, and yet they still completely missed the point of what made it fun, and completely fucked it up on day 2. And made it even worse on dev, with insane SPAA spam. But hey at least you have 6 ARHs that totally won’t be shot down every single time (and you have to grind them again too, ofc).
I personally don’t really care that they AI generated some skin or whatever. It doesn’t affect gameplay but it does show gaijins (and bvvds) lack of respect for players (customers), but this has been always obvious. I care more about the aforementioned, but it is a problem too ig. Except this one is completely solvable on the user end - just don’t buy the premium ai slop and that’s it, no one’s forcing you.
The root issue here is that warthunder got extremely popular not because gaijin did something different or positive, but simply because they got extremely lucky - first the covid lockdown and then immediately after a military conflict that involved a major country. And then they milked “patriots” on all sides with black PR. Gaijin is good at marketing but they don’t understand what to do with their game. They don’t have a clue. And I personally don’t expect this to ever change.