Considering that they’ve basically said everything to stop the postings aside* from threatening to ban people from the game, I’d say they actually don’t want the posts.
*They’ve said they will never used the leak material for game design purposes, and they also cooperate in the prosecutions of the leakers, IIRC with the nato/western leaks.
If you’re a Russian spy op you don’t give a shit about using classified docs for improving the game, and once you trick an idiot into giving up classified docs why wouldn’t you cooperate with authorities. It’s not like you give a shit about some dumbass US airman or that you don’t keep copies. If the they didn’t cooperate they wouldn’t have a chance at getting the next 15 leaks after the first one. You would have to be a fucking idiot to not cooperate and keep the classified docs rolling.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying the logic you used to come to that conclusion is deeply flawed.
As lwl already said, the reason that gaijin’s statement matters is because none of the leaks that I saw posted on war thunder’s forums were for clout. This isn’t the dumbass in discord posting stuff because he got pissed off that others didn’t believe how cool he was. All of them were because the player had a beef with the developer’s take on the capabilities of a tank/plane and they wanted gaijin to use the real world takes on what their favorite little machine could do.
As far as cooperating, why would they need to in order to keep the leaks coming? These are gamers, and specifically simulation lovers who sometimes have nearly disorder-like focus on war machines, not dipshits in an office trying to use microsoft word. If gaijin didn’t cooperate and a country tried to block the forums for war thunder, the users would probably rant for five minutes, then fire up a vpn or proxy and log in.
The reason the statement to not use them for game design purposes matters is that that is often the reason users post the documents. They’d have likely provoked more leaks if they’d stayed silent on that (even though it should be quite obvious).
Though also regardless of what gaijins intentions are, I’m sure at this point russia has someone watching new war thunder forum posts 24/7.
Considering that they’ve basically said everything to stop the postings aside* from threatening to ban people from the game, I’d say they actually don’t want the posts.
*They’ve said they will never used the leak material for game design purposes, and they also cooperate in the prosecutions of the leakers, IIRC with the nato/western leaks.
If you’re a Russian spy op you don’t give a shit about using classified docs for improving the game, and once you trick an idiot into giving up classified docs why wouldn’t you cooperate with authorities. It’s not like you give a shit about some dumbass US airman or that you don’t keep copies. If the they didn’t cooperate they wouldn’t have a chance at getting the next 15 leaks after the first one. You would have to be a fucking idiot to not cooperate and keep the classified docs rolling.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m saying the logic you used to come to that conclusion is deeply flawed.
As lwl already said, the reason that gaijin’s statement matters is because none of the leaks that I saw posted on war thunder’s forums were for clout. This isn’t the dumbass in discord posting stuff because he got pissed off that others didn’t believe how cool he was. All of them were because the player had a beef with the developer’s take on the capabilities of a tank/plane and they wanted gaijin to use the real world takes on what their favorite little machine could do.
As far as cooperating, why would they need to in order to keep the leaks coming? These are gamers, and specifically simulation lovers who sometimes have nearly disorder-like focus on war machines, not dipshits in an office trying to use microsoft word. If gaijin didn’t cooperate and a country tried to block the forums for war thunder, the users would probably rant for five minutes, then fire up a vpn or proxy and log in.
The reason the statement to not use them for game design purposes matters is that that is often the reason users post the documents. They’d have likely provoked more leaks if they’d stayed silent on that (even though it should be quite obvious).
Though also regardless of what gaijins intentions are, I’m sure at this point russia has someone watching new war thunder forum posts 24/7.
Yeah probably, I’m only half serious.