With the ongoing brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, many more companies are taking action and now GOG has made a big announcement with their store.
Here's the statement they provided about the decision to suspend activities in Russia and Belarus
In light of the Russian military invasion in our neighboring country of Ukraine, until further notice, we made the decision to halt all sales in Russia and Belarus.
Effective March 3rd, 2022, we suspend sales of all games distributed on the GOG platform on the territories of Russia and Belarus. While buying products on GOG is not possible, users from the affected territories can still log in to their accounts and keep access to purchased items.
The entire CD PROJEKT Group stands firm with the people of Ukraine. While we are not a political entity capable of directly influencing state matters, and don’t aspire to be one, we do believe that commercial entities, when united, have the power to inspire global change in the hearts and minds of ordinary people. We know that players in Russia and Belarus, individuals who have nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine, will be impacted by this decision, but with this action we wish to further galvanize the global community to speak about what is going on in the heart of Europe.
GOG has also recently, which I missed (sorry!), been helping a few developers give 100% of the sales money to charity. This includes games like This War of Mine, Slipways, MouseCraft and more. It's not up for much longer though.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: NociferPutin hunting down and arresting Russian political dissidents left and right as we speak is e.g. a much more stressful situation for the average Russian IMHO).Yeah, that is Putins reaktion... calm down (or to poison) everyone against him. This is an ACT of a dictator and not from a democratic leader.
Last edited by johndoe on 3 March 2022 at 7:25 pm UTC
Quoting: slapinNobody is actually willing to hear the sad truth, the propaganda sounds more comfortable.
If this is the truth, then any russian is simply dump... and I don't think so.
Honstly I believe they fear to get arrested and vanish... another sign of a dictators power.
Arehandoro Mar 3, 2022
Poland has rejected the entry of Syrian refugees for years now, at the border with Ukraine African refugees have been effusively not allowed to cross, and at the border with Belarus a wall is also being built to prevent refugees from Lukashenko's regime. Why was there no stance with this then? Aren't those matters a reason to unite global entities?
Kurdish have been fighting Turkey, another dictatorship, and the advance of Islam extremism in the border with Syria. Why was there no stance with this then? Aren't those matters a reason to unite global entities?
No need to answer the questions, they're rhetorical.
EDIT: I removed a comment that came out too much like "whataboutism"?
Last edited by Arehandoro on 3 March 2022 at 6:57 pm UTC
Quoting: SamsaiThere seem to be some very strange comments being posted here and in the interest of orderly, on-topic discussion I've cleaned them up. Please keep the conversation adequately civil and on topic and refrain from making outlandish comparisons or dragging completely off-topic talking points into the comments.
I hope you don't mean me.
Since this war I fear for my family and I think I'm not the only one.
Feel free to delete my account.
Quoting: johndoeAll of the relevant comments have already been removed and the author notified.Quoting: SamsaiThere seem to be some very strange comments being posted here and in the interest of orderly, on-topic discussion I've cleaned them up. Please keep the conversation adequately civil and on topic and refrain from making outlandish comparisons or dragging completely off-topic talking points into the comments.
I hope you don't mean me.
Since this war I fear for my family and I think I'm not the only one.
Feel free to delete my account.
Quoting: dubigrasuQuoting: SamsaiNot that they could anyway, because their credit cards aren't quite as swift as they used to be.I see what you did in there.
No that won't help, they will think that is evil NATO sanctions for poor innocent people making them even more poor.
GustyGhost Mar 3, 2022
And it is a pity that xenophobia is flourishing on various sites. I would like to avoid this, of course.
P.S. Guys who think that in Russia they support the president and succumb to propaganda - you are wrong. Guys who think that this blatant harassment of Russians will help overthrow the government - you are also mistaken. The effect is the opposite (but not in the direction of supporting the president) - what, you can guess for yourself.
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