Hello everyone,

We, Community Contributors just received an email from Markus Schill, Head of Publishing & General Manager Europe. I can’t express how much we wanted this to arrive on our email inbox. Over the last few days, specially after PHJ and Jingles left, Wargaming has been communicating a with us a lot more.

I’m happy for this, we all have expressed the the wish we have that Wargaming talks and communicates more with us, because to a certain extend, we are their gateway to players, also we can be players point of contact to give feedback, requests and other information to Wargaming directly.

Can this be a closure to #FochGate? It can, at least for me. Foch himself published a video explaining what he believes to be wrong with the game, and admits the video was made very unprofessionally and that he is over this matter.

Without further delays, here’s what all Community Contributors received on their email.

Dear Contributors,

Last week’s controversy about SirFochs video and my team’s threat, that Wargaming would go through YouTube directly to take down the aforementioned video if he did not remove it himself, has left many of you wondering what the official stance from Wargaming is.

Florian Mentl – Head of the European Community Team – has consequently clarified that this threat was indeed made – he and Ph3lan both apologized for this clearly unacceptable threat and have re-assured you that Wargaming will not take such action under any circumstances involving your opinion (or that of anyone else) on publicly released content. I would also like to add my personal apologies for this misstep.

When it comes to the contributor program itself – we do want to work with you as very important and committed members of our game communities. Your content enriches the community experience and gives players a space to discuss and share their passion with yours and our own.

More than that we look at the contributor program as a place where we can openly and actively discuss and engage your own and your fan base’s opinion about new features released into the game. As such we give you regularly early access to content for review and feedback. We never wished to censor your opinions and if that was the impression you had last week – I sincerely apologize for that. In fact we are more than interested in your honest opinion and we wish to have an open dialog about it with you.

It is very important for me to make this absolutely clear: Wargaming will not take copyright action against opinions based on our publicly released content. Before writing this letter I have clarified Wargaming’s global position on this topic with the Product Director for World of Tanks – Thaine Lyman, North American’s General Manager Jay Cohen, the Head of Global Publishing – Evangelos Georgiou and our Chief Executive Officer – Victor Kislyi.

Lastly I also want to apologize for the statement which was given to some media outlets over the weekend – this statement contained unsubstantiated allegations towards the content of videos from our previous Community Contributor SirFoch – this statement was ill-advised, false and while it cannot be undone, we do want to apologize for it.

We have been taking a hard and thorough look at how much went wrong in our actions and reactions in this situation and in conclusion there are many takeaways for us to learn from and improve our processes. While we do take these learnings, I hope to be able to count on your support in keeping us honest.

In closing I wanted to take a moment to thank you personally for your contributions over the past years. I am looking forward to meeting many of you in June at the Tankfest Contributors Day.

Kind regards

Markus Schill

Head of Publishing & General Manager Europe

Président – Wargaming Europe SAS

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