If fans of the game are most interested in the current Russo-Ukrainian War, I think the captains of World of Tanks can definitely rank at the top of this ranking, just when players are fantasizing about their car avatars such as T-80, T14 and other land monsters currently participating in the war in the game map Kharkiv, but a funny thing happened: the home was stolen! Not a red flag on the map, but the developer of the game, Wargaming (WG), in the Minsk Space Agency development group in Belarus.
The WG will not run to the front line, but the front line will run to the WG
Because employees tweeted in support of the war, the game was caught in a storm of public opinion in the West, and after a short period of brewing, the company decided to fire the employee involved, Sergey Burkatovsky. Who is this? It seems a bit familiar, if you put his name back and forth, the whole thing becomes suddenly cheerful, because his flower name is "SerB".
Living in Moscow, in Minsk, my heart is still the heart of the Soviet Union
SerB was the leader of numerical balance early in the game and often had to do PR with players. As a competitive game, "World of Tanks" needs a lot of time to cultivate its own vehicles, and the ruthless iron hand of the balance patch can put a player's efforts for months into vain, and "SerB" has become a person who often walks on the cusp of the storm, and is spat on by everyone, as if it is the back of the entire development team.
In the long-term complaints about SerB, more and more passages have been excavated, such as SerB saying that the game should respect historical facts, and then weakening the frontal armor of the Tiger tank by 10mm, it seems that in the middle of the night with a file to the Minsk Museum to correct the history. At that time, the heavy tank game in the game was almost the world of the Soviet and German families, and after that, a "fine Soviet" hat was fastened on the head of this Slav, and also became the spiritual leader of the tank Soviet players. Coincidentally, the S-series tanks in the later game did not encounter the "file", and the official often took the "SerB file" in the event copy.
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Back to now, SerB has long been promoted to creative director, may no longer be directly responsible for the numerical problem, but his departure did make many gamers lament the hero's twilight, but also proved everyone's conjecture, if there is a person in Skke who lost his job because of pro-Russian, then he must be SerB.
If you can understand it
The remarks involved consisted of three articles, the first being "I support the actions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, Donetsk and Luhansk", the second being "I am accused of secrets", and the latest one being "Goodbye, I parted ways with WG". It is said that the core of comedy is tragedy, and SerB seems to have achieved a lot of success in this regard. WG also issued a very rigorous statement:
Sergey Burkatovsky is an employee of the company, but he can only represent the opinions of individuals and is absolutely inconsistent with the company's position. All our current efforts are dedicated to helping our more than 550 colleagues and their families in Kiev.
It is true that WG has its own development team in various parts of the CIS region, and in these areas is also a well-known online game evergreen, public relations is naturally unwilling to make a stand, SerB such a big mouth behavior, so that WG has to come out to express its position, it is really helpless. SerB's huge influence among players became a decisive factor in being overbearing.
Perhaps because the game itself contains too many politically sensitive elements, WG has been friendly and humble in international affairs in the past few years, for example, when the epidemic first broke out in Wuhan, in the midst of international cynicism, WG commissioned the national service agency 360 company to donate 10 million US dollars to the Mainland Red Cross, even more than the vast majority of domestic Internet manufacturers. The Russian-Ukrainian war that took place at the doorstep of the home was only from the perspective of assisting the employees and people in the war zone and calling for peace.
The young SerB is still a military science fiction writer, and maybe now he can consider returning to his old career?
It is a very irrational thing for a game company to express its political stance, because it is really harmless to lose users because of a piece that cannot be beaten with eight rods of content, but it is really a dilemma to complete the "cutting" so decisively, and whether it will hurt the hearts of other neutral players.