Blyat
This article misses the point. The logic behind the likely regulation is that: a couple of GSC devs joined UAF (one KIA) and GSC donated to ukrainian funds -> you spend money on their products -> you have financially supported UAF. GSC wasn’t proclaimed a terrorist org (lmao) but laws here can be applied backwards if they’d need so.
You’re overthinking it. There is no logic in russian law. The Tsar says something and that’s the law.
Tzar doesn’t need anything to land one’s ass in jail, but it’d still be followed by traditional beaurocratic procedures just like in RE\USSR and that’s the likely way it’d follow through.
And, also, having Stalker on your acc or purchasing it via russian resellers may serve as a trigger that can make agencies or just your russian teammate tell on you for lulz if your profile wasn’t set to private.
The absence of self-awareness there is astounding
please buy the full game without waiting for a discount. thank you from a humble game developer from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Will do. I’m basically one decent trailer away from impulse buying it anyway. As a fellow game developer, allow me to say: I truly wish things will get better for you guys.
I’m considering it. I’d probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.
Already pre-ordered the Ultimate edition. Goes against my usual principles but I don’t care in this instance. I hope the game is a massive, GotY contending success.
I did the same, and also normally never preorder digital goods. Preordered the ultimate edition in December 2022, and really did not care whether they could deliver at all.
Now, as a fan of the old games, I am pretty stoked that it looks like I really will be getting an awesome game.
Thank you <3
Are you working on the STALKER 2 team?
No, I work at Wargaming Ukraine. But at least a dozen of my friends and ex-colleagues are working at GSC and the whole Ukrainian game development community respects what GSC does!
It’s inspirational what they’ve done. I really hope the launch goes well.
I will do a day one purchase despite being too busy with factorio expansion to actually start it just yet.
Thank you <3
This must be quite a big decision really, considering there are a lot of Russian players into the Stalker Universe.
But good on them, fuck em!
I’m going to have to buy a new irony meter.
“This year, Russia also took control of Chornobyl,…”
This year again? I thought they dug their trenches in radioactive soil in the first year of the invasion.
Russian pigs
That’s rich.
The question is whether they have the intention of publishing it in Russia in the first place.
Russian users can still use workaround to purchase from the steam store. I believe this is a big business for some enterprising users in other countries.
Where there is prohibition there is business. Always has been.
It will most definitely be banned (they even shut down one of the few Ukrainian language libraries in russia before the full scale invasion) and likely it won’t be available in russian anyway.
It’s maybe my fault.
I immediately abandoned BF2042 after the second invasion of Ukraine because it was full of Russians and ‘expat’ or not I ain’t cosplaying as those assholes.
I can’t even watch russian movies or listen to russian music (even artists that have openly opposed the full scale invasion). It just gets me in a bad mood.
Any time I see a russian flag on the internet, it’s like seeing a nazi flag. I start thinking “Why the fuck is this here?”.
That bad blood would take ages to clean.
It’s not going to clear, because the russians won’t change.
Not because there is something inherently malicious about them/their culture. That’s bullshit.
It’s the choices they make. And they will continue to make the choice to support genocidal imperialism because they have zero incentive to change.
Western coddling about “they are just afraid, what can they do?” is a massive disservice to the russians (not to mention the countries on the recieving end of their genocidal imperialism).
Your reply would probably take me for a nosedive costing me another 20 to 30 years in solitary confinement, but I’m just not ready to formulate it yet.
For now, I ask you to elaborate on your last paragraph. About the disservice. What do you mean?
