The playing company Wargaming will leave the markets of Russia and Belarus. Although it was founded in Minsk in 1998, since then has become more international, and the headquarters moved to Cyprus.

The publishing house has 5 thousand employees hired, incl. through the absorption of different small European developers teams. Those employees who will affect the new decision, promised to pay compensation.

Not bad sales from the company were in France, Japan and Australia, although Russia provided the greatest demand, especially on World of Tanks and other similar online entertainment. In addition, the company tried his strength and in other genres, making, for example, expensive reboot of the Master strategy Of Orion with voice acting from famous actors.

The business management decided to close the office in Minsk, and all assets in these countries will switch to local management and control of the Lesta Studio team based in St. Petersburg.

If you look a little further into the perspective, it will lead to the lack of a wargaming stand on the "Igromir" in Moscow, where the company has always been one of the anchor tenants and rich sponsors.

Western countries hint on possible restrictions for Russia's technological companies that are registered in the Netherlands and other foreign countries.

It is possible that the Wargaming decision is connected with the desire to progress. In his statement, the company emphasizes that it will suffer significant losses from the planned reorganization.

Since most of the online games are online, then the question arises to access to them from countries where the company will cease. Wargaming promised to preserve the availability of their projects during the transition period. At the same time, his term was not refined. Before this moment, the operator of games in two countries will remain Lesta Studio.

As a result, there may be a demand for competing projects, for example, War Thunder from Gaijin Entertainment, now based in Hungary.

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