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Wargaming is Leaving All Business in Russia and Belarus | MMORPG.com
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Wargaming is Leaving All Business in Russia and Belarus | MMORPG.com
In a major decision, Wargaming announced that the company is in the process of ending all business in Russia and Belarus.
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There isn't anything at all in this statement that is accurate.
Gonna turn off the biasedly over rewarding RU servers for WoT and WoW off as well? Or just move to a tax haven?
How many employees even clock in physically to that studio vs remote work?
Gonna get rid of the ridiculous amount of Dasha themed officers??
Why now and not after Georgia or Crimea?
No. There's more at play masked as yet more virtue signalling.
Seen the player count in WoW lately?
Been to their forums? Go see how we reacted to submarines. Go see how 'superships' were received...
Any one who has followed wargaming over the last decade should see right through this.
Another failing, bloated, confused, aimlessly drifting bunch of games with dwindling older accounts desperate to disguise their own bad choices with the pain of others completely unrelated in scope or cause. 'Lost Ark' will be the next one to try and grab a moral tampon while it sinks into the void of failure.
Bla bla bla, why do you bla bla bla. Russia is not evil bla bla bla. Why not when Crimea was taken when there was zero deaths. I want to say moral things, but bla bla bla .. I ..bla bla bla.
That's your comment right there ...
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India has declared a neutral stance in regards to what has happened, should every company now look to removing all facilities from India? Hungary has taken refuges and declared against Russia but will not allow arms to pass through its boarders to help Ukraine, should every company now remove their facilities from Hungary?
Russia is the culprit here, and this seemingly ever widening circle of blame and reaction is getting out of hand.
Even so, there is a lot of room to argue about just how culpable this or that group is, at least apart from Putin. A lot of the people or groups who have been "helping" Russia in the invasion are really only doing so under duress and not because they want to. As much as one might wish to see others sacrifice their lives in a probably futile protest of Putin's invasion, that's an awful lot to ask of people, and I'm hesitant to harshly criticize people who try merely to survive in an impossible situation.
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Very had to do business in a country that has become persona non grata and is in financial free fall because of it.
Unfortunately for them, I think those locations included Russia and Ukraine. They're really unlucky with their locations.
But that cheaper labor is always cheaper for a reason. Sometimes the reasons are things that the company doesn't care about and they save money by having cheaper employees. Sometimes the reasons why the labor is cheaper come back to bite the company.
Political risk is one of the reasons why labor is cheaper in some places than others. Political risk can take many forms, from having to pay bribes to keep the government off your back to a risk that the government will confiscate your business if you annoy them, or even if it just looks valuable. And it can also include the risk that you'll find your business caught in the middle of a war.
Sometimes those risks pay off and sometimes they don't. Today, the Ukraine war is terrible for Wargaming's bottom line. But it's far from guaranteed that they'll come out worse overall than if they had to pay higher wages for years to set up shop in a place where programmers are far more expensive to hire. That's not a moral judgment, but merely a statement of economic reality.
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That was stopping you from playing? Virtue signalling much?
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