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More Game Companies Are Joining In The Digital Blockade Against Russia | MMORPG.com
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More Game Companies Are Joining In The Digital Blockade Against Russia | MMORPG.com
As Russia's war of aggression wages against Ukraine, companies from all over the Western world have been joining in to isolate Russia. The games industry isn't being left out here, with major companies announcing they are joining the likes of Visa, Mastercard and more in boycotting Russia.
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Let see if they take the same steps against China when they invade Taiwan.
I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.
Making this kind of public statements just makes them look pathetic, to be honest (even more than usual, that is). But I'm sure there will be plenty of gamers who will swallow this BS and applaud them for it.
What we have here is an embargo. Various western nations, including but not limited to the United States, are implementing an embargo against Russia. A lot of companies would be in severe legal trouble if they continue doing business in Russia. An embargo isn't an act of war, as it's basically saying, you can do business with either Russia or the United States but not both. Companies could legally decide to stop doing business with various western countries and only do business with Russia and other countries that are friendly toward Russia (or at least neutral). That would be suicidal for companies that get most of their revenue from the US and Europe and very little revenue from Russia.
Companies saying that they'll comply with the embargo isn't really surprising. It's not really their decision, as they're effectively being forced into it, whether willingly or otherwise.
Donating money to charities is their decision, though when corporations do this, it's generally for the sake of good PR. You can applaud that or not, and you can encourage it if you want to by favoring companies that donate to charities you like over those that don't. But it's not really a moral decision on the part of the corporation the way it often is when individuals donate to charity.
I agree that this is just for show, but honestly they would be stupid to not go for an easy win like this, especially when you have companies like McDonalds/Coke/Pepsi not refusing to do service there (even though those can easily operate on physical currency and much less so for the ones listed here).
China and Russia have always been bed buddies. No major change to world operations is happening other than every country worth a shit in this world that isn't China is vehemently against Russia and has turned them into a pariah. China isn't speaking out against Russia because they want to use the Russian example here to do the same to Taiwan later.
But it might not be that ineffective. Putin's control over Russia is not strong enough that he could just ignore the population and internal matters. All the embargoes together might be strong enough that if the war continues longer we might see some party within Russia trying to topple Putin. Though I think for that to happen, Europe would also need to figure a way to stop buying gas from Russia, but that's easier said than done.
Also Russia has bombarded a lot of residential buildings in Ukraine, caused shortages of food and water, and more than a million refugees. Compared to that, the inconvenience caused to Russian civilians doesn't really matter, since it's only inconveniences and they still have their homes, food, water and other essentials.
China isn't that good buddies with neither Ukraine nor Russia and I don't think they really care who wins. But they want to see how Western Countries react, and use that to judge what our reaction would be should they attack Taiwan.
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So honestly? Strikes me as a major asshole move. Not that it makes much difference since due to the cutting off of ways to transfer money, it'd be very challenging for Russians to even pay for games right now.
You know it's bad when Russian sovereign bond that is issued in USD that initially paying interest in USD and now it's paying it's interest in Rouble, and have a yield of larger than 20%. their banks are pretty much screwed. the companies that scream "boycott" it's just pretending to jump the band wagon, but in fact they cannot bring the cash out of Russia because the banks got the big middle finger, so might as well scream "boycott" it sounds better for the PR campaign. I pity the short seller, even though their prediction were correct, they can't cash out either because the moscow exchange has not been open since monday after invasion. LOL
Once you know who the devil is , its all pretty much the same thing.
and personally believe russians should suffer, as they are the people invading and murdering innocent people. maybe if they suffer enough, putin can finally get gone
yes enough together could
Hats off to any company that sends a message that the invasion of another democratic free country is not OK
Lets face it, Putin is testing the USA and the EU to see how far he can go, Putin wants eastern europe under his control and if he gets away with the ukraine invasion whats next, Poland Finland Germany, he wont stop with Ukraine, and the meantime China sits back and watches what happens they have thier own asperations to expand into the pacific
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