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.
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They should also block sells for NATO/OTAN members who participated in war intervention in Iraq,Yemen,Afghanistan,Libya,Syria...
it's all "good" PR, war profiteering.
a life is equal to a another life, war is hell they are no "good guys" in this, I'm tired of the total hypocrisy of the "West".
it's all "good" PR, war profiteering.
a life is equal to a another life, war is hell they are no "good guys" in this, I'm tired of the total hypocrisy of the "West".
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Quoting: elistoa life is equal to a another life, war is hell they are no "good guys" in this, I'm tired of the total hypocrisy of the "West".
The fact that other countries are hypocrite doesn't remove the blame on who is the aggressor here. I mean, I'm almost sure that the "East" condemned "West" in all the other "interventions" you mentioned (not to mention that both Syria and Afghanistan had "interventions" from both sides). "East" and "West" work the same way, maybe is time that both remove their masks, look directly to the eyes and create rules in order to avoid all this war shit show.
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Quoting: x_winglook directly to the eyes and create rules in order to avoid all this war shit show.That will go against both ruling class interest, they don't care about human life only there owns interest anyone that challenge either hegemony is getting pardon my french ASSFUCKED by either sanctions, coup or "intervention".
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PublicNuisance Mar 4, 2022
Funny I have never seen them halt sales to the United States citizens any time their military kills innocent civilians. Weird how that works.
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Quoting: SamsaiSo, if the citizens are unhappy, they should know well who to send their complaints.You have no idea how people work, do you?
They will only see that they suffer due to sanctions of the West. Because that's what they are being told - and most do not have the knowledge, desire or possibility to get "better" information in Russia/Belarus.
So they won't be hating on their government, they'll be hating on the West.
Sanctions ultimately only increase the support for their government.
It's still the right thing to do as it might be the only thing to bring regimes to their knees besides violence, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking we'll make any friends that way in affected regions.
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Quoting: TheSHEEEPSanctions ultimately only increase the support for their government.Bold of you to assume I want to make friends. Here's a hint: I don't.
It's still the right thing to do as it might be the only thing to bring regimes to their knees besides violence, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking we'll make any friends that way in affected regions.
In the best case scenario we sanction their economies to crap just enough that someone in Putin's inner circle puts a bullet into the madman's brain. If along the way we make some of ordinary people realize they are being the baddies by making their lives uncomfortable, then that's a win in my book. If we don't convince anyone but we make Putin paranoid that they might be convinced, then that's a win in my book.
In the worst case scenario the only thing we accomplish is accelerating the natural life cycle of a fascist regime. Which always, without a fail, ends in the death of the regime.
Addendum: there is also the benefit of companies learning to live without Russian and Belarussian money. We're seemingly finally finding a moral line beyond which even companies aren't willing to tolerate dealing with nation states.
Last edited by Samsai on 4 March 2022 at 8:34 am UTC
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Yeah, I don’t agree with gog here. They should keep selling the games and donate all proceeds they make from those sales to Ukraine. And put up a big banner telling their Russian costumers they’re doing it, let them vote with their wallets.
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Quoting: johndoethe internet is the only way for russians the SEE/READ the truth instead of Putins propaganda.
Aaah, mentioning "the truth". ... as if we didn't know today that's a very relative concept.
I suppose you feel that you always are on the side of the truth, and others, with different opinions and feelings, are always on the side of propoganda?
War, war never changes. First victim of war, the empathy. First winners of war, a self-centred view of the world and the fact that the "others" gradually, but quickly, pass from 'another me' to 'stupid aliens'.
No political leaders are clean in this (his)story, and, if we have to rank the dirtiers, Putin is for sure at the top of this list. But so many why? (example: why NATO after the end of USSR continues to behave as if it was not ended? Why Ukraine could not remained a neutral country?).
The trouble for russian people is that Putin is basing its propaganda on true facts (even if minor to our western eyes: far-right ukranian militias that killed russian and this Dombass war that is running for now more than 8 years, with some ukrainian army exactions). Putin, ukrainian and western leaders are both ranking the importances of some more or less minor true facts to justify their own decisions.
Rational external people (European people for example), should send them back-to-back and support every path that favours de-escalation, for the sake of life, civilians. ...But also for the sake of some of these young russian conscripts that clearly don't want to do this war (and that can be our own children...they didn't choose to be soldiers). I prefer these russian conscripts in tanks that refuse to crush ukrainian that block their way or deliberately obey orders the more stupid way to make their tanks and squadrons impotent than these young europeans joining the ukrainian resistance with the will to truly fire and kill invaders. An invading army can't keep an invaded country, especially with such unmotivated police and soldiers. But go give reasons to these unmotivated russian conscripts to avenge a friend or a beloved, or to feel stuck between the need to save their lives and their will to not arm civilians, and we will be all fucked.
"West" is walking on a very narrow path, with massive consequence for European (and less for Americans...it is quite far from them). Russian people may aggregate even more around this politically-finished so little time ago (and rumour says with declining health, terminal-cancer) Putin, or revolt against him. I would not be the western leader that bets on one of these two possible options with insurance and determination, currently. Not on what should or will do russian people about Putin, and not betting if this KGB mad mind will or not send nuclear missiles when he will end cornered (by his economy or his people).
In addition, russian people are resilient people. Russia just signed free trade with china (some researchers on geopolitics even say that it would be the true cause of this war): they have food, gas and oil, they can trade with the world-factory that is china, without any dollar/swift and without any interference from the rest of the world, ... I won't even bet on the fact that they will care of commercial sanctions.
...so carrying on GOG decision? Same results: will it upset russian people against Putin or against GOG and western companies that fit and give reality to Putin's propaganda?
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let me step in, i'm from Belarus. I understand the GOG's move but i must clarify the situation in Belarus. We protested against lukashenko in 2020-21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Belarusian_protests. Personally i was in a custody because of it. There were tortures and at least 15 people were killed during protests. We are UNDER OCCUPATION now by fascist regimes. People of Belarus do not support war! They hate and despise putler/lukashenko. We live like in GULAG now. And even now people try to protest. 800 were detained in one day at anti-war protests. Some even began a rail war by destroying rw infrastructure to break russian troops supply chain.
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The only thing which would really work is helping Ukraine now, everything else is full of shit. Don't replace real action with activism, do something. Sanctions have delayed effect if at all, but Ukraine needs your help NOW.
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