Already last week, the Polish companies CD Projekt RED and Bloober Team joined the boycott of Russia and Belarus, which stopped selling their games to local customers (see our article). During the weekend, really heavy scales such as Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard, Epic Games or Nintendo joined this step.
Even the traditionally cautious Nintendo company has closed its e-shop in Russia.
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They have all pledged to “close” their digital stores in Russia and not accept money even for microtransactions. On the other hand, they probably won’t limit their existing customers in any way, and most online services should continue to work. At least for now.
Of the largest gaming companies, perhaps only Sony has not yet officially commented on the ongoing war, but in silence it has not released its current racing hit Gran Turismo 7 in Russia. location of its interesting MMO New World (our review).
We are committed to helping those impacted by the terrifying violence taking place in Ukraine.
Today, we are announcing the suspension of new sales of and in our games in Russia while this conflict continues, as well as other efforts to assist Ukraine. https://t.co/wG9tQMNzjK
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March 5, 2022 at 3:12 am, post archived: March 7, 2022 at 10:02 am
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Of course, at a time when bombs are falling on Ukrainian cities, these measures look a bit banal, but as a result they only support the absolute isolation that Russia is getting into. In addition, if speculation is confirmed that the government in the country plans to “turn off” the Internet (see article by colleagues from Technet), with a little exaggeration, the players there will have no choice but to return to Tetris a Nu Pagadi.
Even single-player games can hardly do without online support these days.
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