This has not been a good month for World of Warships! Then again, running a shady monetisation scheme then having employees send an insulting message to a prominent streamer will do that to a game.
If youâre just joining us, last week many of World of Warshipsâ most prominent fans up and quit the gameâs official community program over developer Wargamingâs increasingly shady use of random items and loot boxes. That would normally be the worst thing to happen to a game in a calendar month, but turns out Wargaming wasnât done!
No, as PC Gamer reports, an employee thought this would also be the perfect time to send an insulting message hidden in a promo code about a streamer (Iâll explain this in a minute) who has had a contentious relationship with Wargaming. That streamerâs name is Turry, someone who instead of leaving Warshipsâ community program voluntarily was actually kicked out for being critical of the developers.
The code, sent out as a freebie to some Russian fans watching a stream of the game, was âW0LAXU5FKUTURY5âł, and it didnât take long for English-speaking players to wonder whether the âFKUTURYâ was actually saying âFuck You Turry.â That question was soon answered by Wargaming themselves, who admitted it had been intentional. âThis is unacceptable. We conducted an internal audit and found that this situation occurred due to the actions of a certain employee,â they said in a forum post originally in Russian, but sent in English to PC Gamer. âThe employee was suspended from this job and the most stringent measures were applied to him according to the results of the audit.â
âOn behalf of the entire World of Warships team, we apologize to the players, the viewers of Fridayâs stream, and, most importantly, we apologize to @Turry. We made an unacceptable statement in your address and are fully aware of our responsibility.â
As a further gesture, Wargaming then released another bonus code, this time for some in-game tokens, that read TURRYWEARESORRY.
