Okay I think I got it. "These devs are Russian and therefore are personally doing genocide" seems to be the argument.
Ig it's valid to a degree to say we shouldn't support Russian industries while the war is on but also everyone here will buy American and UK games regardless so...ig it's all personal preference?
Only Owlcat seems to be Russian and their HQ is in Cyprus anyways. The other two companies are both french and American, the french one having been the international publisher for atomic heart.
It feels very fucking overblown
Btw those Russian companies usually fled for Cyprus bcs tax reasons and have the same stance about the war, some even kicked out people for not being enthusiastically conformist to the current USA propaganda campiagn.
Maybe I'm looking at the wrong companies or not looking well enough but the two companies behind space marine two are Armenia and French (Armenian dev company, french publisher) and Owlcat is split between Cyprus and Russia.
This just doesn't seem like anything worth losing your shit over let alone acting like there's any form of drama happening with it outside of the linked twitter thread.
Maybe it's just me but it feels like dumb nato lib shit to even get mad at...an Armenian company, a French publisher and a company split between two nations that will barely affect what Russia does with it's taxes.
Also Sabre Studios literally moved their employees that were still in Russia and Belarus out to Armenia so like, they don't even have anyone there
What the hell is going on here
I feel like, even with the twitter link, I need some context. (It doesn't help that twitter is awful to navigate).
Okay I think I got it. "These devs are Russian and therefore are personally doing genocide" seems to be the argument. Ig it's valid to a degree to say we shouldn't support Russian industries while the war is on but also everyone here will buy American and UK games regardless so...ig it's all personal preference?
Only Owlcat seems to be Russian and their HQ is in Cyprus anyways. The other two companies are both french and American, the french one having been the international publisher for atomic heart. It feels very fucking overblown
The only crime here is how bad Atomic Heart was tbqh.
The 'HQ' is a front. It's not an uncommon measure by Russian companies. They're staffed and owned entirely by Russians.
And?
They‘re guilty of being russians
Bonnie said their HQ is in Cyprus, as if that meant anything relevant as far as the 'are they Russian or not'.
And what if they are Russian? We really going to tar everyone from a country with the same brush?
I never said squat about tarring anyone, settle down.
Made the wrong assumption then.
It's almost like truly ethical consumption under capitalism is simply an ideal and not truly possible.
Yeah crazy how that works
Btw those Russian companies usually fled for Cyprus bcs tax reasons and have the same stance about the war, some even kicked out people for not being enthusiastically conformist to the current USA propaganda campiagn.
Consumer boycotts are hard to pull off, video game boycotts are basically impossible
(If anyone wants to know more: [https://twitter.com/SiegeOfTerra/status/1614583199136350209](https://twitter.com/SiegeOfTerra/status/1614583199136350209))
So im lost what did owlcat do because i got the alpha for rouge trader like in December
This is so vile and disgusting.
Dumb nato libs vs dumb russian fascists
THANKS
Maybe I'm looking at the wrong companies or not looking well enough but the two companies behind space marine two are Armenia and French (Armenian dev company, french publisher) and Owlcat is split between Cyprus and Russia. This just doesn't seem like anything worth losing your shit over let alone acting like there's any form of drama happening with it outside of the linked twitter thread. Maybe it's just me but it feels like dumb nato lib shit to even get mad at...an Armenian company, a French publisher and a company split between two nations that will barely affect what Russia does with it's taxes. Also Sabre Studios literally moved their employees that were still in Russia and Belarus out to Armenia so like, they don't even have anyone there
wasn’t this tried with Atomic Heart? feels like it’s a losing strategy
Yeah ppl tried to do a similar thing when Atomic Heart came out
Le obese goblinos once again thinking they’re helping win the war by slightly altering their consoomerist habits