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.
TheRiddick Mar 7, 2022
Quoting: Guestyes one crazy person start war (that is evil) so as response lets make life on normal people in Belarus (that Hate Putin and Łukaszenko) more sad and hard be not selling them (because we can do evil thinks too and pretend that we do good think)
Not quite as simple as that.
The premise is that by making life harder on the people in Russia and Belarus by taking away their toys (GOG). It will trigger the citizens of those locations to pay more attention to the shit that's going down.
Remember Russian and Belarus CITIZENS are in the military killing Ukraine citizens. Their not some separatist military group. At the end of the day; the citizens are always punished, and sometimes when we're lucky, rich sob get hit too...
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Comandante Ñoñardo Mar 9, 2022
But maybe I am wrong.. Take a look at the Russian Ruble.
1. All income goes from exports and most of that is not under sanctions and won't be any time soon.
2. People in Russia are mostly divide between elites (0.02%) which support the regime and are almost not affected by sanctions (because Europe and US are very corrupt also they prepared to hide their capitals, also they are protected by various general licenses), 15% middle class which opposes Putin which is now destroyed by sanctions with people either leaving Russia (the ones who can and have enough money to afford that) or joining regime supporters (because they can't afford to leave and afraid for their lives and lives of their families), 40% people depending on regime (the main Putin's audience), the regime pays their wages and demands their loyalty, they live in the same information bubble as Putin and will do whatever they are being told to do regardless of the situation; also they are very poor and have nothing to lose and don't use most of Western civilization gifts so basically are unaffected by sanctions (they have nothing to lose from sanctions, also their income source can't be sanctioned).
3. US media corporations in Russia were part of oppression machine helping the regime find the opponents and censoring free speach, even by their will and initiative, for some commercial reasons. That also added to reduction of opposition numbers.
Due to that economic sanctions will only affect people who were protesting already and paid with their freedom for that,
and people who support Ukraine. As whole Russia will not be affected in any way usable short term. As for long term effects they will start to show up in many months.
So the only way to actually stop the war is to make Ukraine win (almost impossible without direct confrontation) or stop Putin's army somehow (also impossible without direct confrontation). Or kill Zelensky and give Ukraine to Putin (that might give Putin an idea that he can demand much more than that from West), effectively sacrificing it for safety of European and US cowards shitting their pants now (effectively delaying next unavoidable invasion). All other ways lead to unavoidable huge numbers of deaths and unavoidable West loss. Also it will still not be possible to avoid direct confrontation regardless of the choice now or in near future.
So hint: don't try to address anybody sane in Russia sanctioning them, that will not work, because with sanctions added all people can do is either leave country or join the regime. They lost ability to do anything else.
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