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[Craig of War]

 

[Punished Miku]

Probably should change their name too then.

 

[STARSBarry]

It will be intresting to see how this effects there product going forward, alot of the balancing in the game was often very specifically pro Russian with their vehicles, resulting in the often joke line of "Russian Bias" to explain why a gun with terrible accuracy will magnetically hit your ammo rack from the front and one shot you despite terrible hard and soft stats for the vehicle (it's just RNG).

 

[STARSBarry]

Probably should change their name too then.

Special Operation Gaming?

 

[JackSparr0w]

Something tells me they will continue to employ cheap software engineers from those countries working remotely. Win-win for them in the end with less office leasing and bad PR to worry about.

 

[Nyxir]

They probably want to avoid the economic sanctions.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Probably my most played game over the last 10 years is World of Tanks and finally WG does something right as I usually hate everything they do but keep giving them money because I enjoy WoT

 

[01011001]

I mean at this rate they basically have to. you can't stay in these countries if sanctions get worse and the situation itself gets worse every day

 

[Kadve]

Less of an effort than what it sounds like. They have been based in Cyprus for tax reasons since 2011 and just have development studios in Belarus nowadays.

Also their Creative Director Sergey Burkatovskiy was fired earlier this year for supporting the war.

 

[Kerotan]

It will be intresting to see how this effects there product going forward, alot of the balancing in the game was often very specifically pro Russian with their vehicles, resulting in the often joke line of "Russian Bias" to explain why a gun with terrible accuracy will magnetically hit your ammo rack from the front and one shot you despite terrible hard and soft stats for the vehicle (it's just RNG).

Lol. Russian tanks and armour getting absolutely embarrassed this past month. They should replace the Russia faction with turkey.

 

[ManaByte]

Can't wait for the Farming Simulator X World of Tanks collab.

 

[mitchman]

Suprising decision by an otherwise scummy company. Yeah, I've played World of Warships for many years, and it's increasingly painful.

 

[AJUMP23]

Probably should change their name too then.

WARMGAMING!

Good luck to them.

 

[RaptorGTA]

Interesting. I still jump on World of Warships once in a while. Too many ship are in the game for me to enjoy it.

 

[Abriael_GN]

Something tells me they will continue to employ cheap software engineers from those countries working remotely. Win-win for them in the end with less office leasing and bad PR to worry about.

"Effective March 31 the company transferred its live games business in Russia and Belarus to local management of Lesta Studio that is no longer affiliated with Wargaming. The company will not profit from this process either today or going forward. Much to the contrary we expect to suffer substantial losses as a direct result of this decision."