Recently, the international tension is just in time for the release of "Old Man's Ring", and players can only have fun, but the original price of nearly 300 yuan of the game still dissuaded many non-core players. There are also many people who rushed to reduce the exchange rate of the Russian ruble, and bought "Old Man Ring" at a 40% discount in the Steam Russian area, saying that the game has no borders, but reality tells you that this is not the case.
Recently, some netizens found that when the steam Russian region purchased the game, there was a sudden payment failure, it seems that the Russian bank card can not be settled in Steam, and the Russian players have encountered the same problem in Sony's Play station store. Could it be that the second lowest price zone after Argentina is about to be destroyed?
Let's not say how Russian players will react, "Russian players" in other parts of the world have begun to worry, although the Russian game is cheap, but it is also real money and silver that cost money, G fat will not really want to blockade the Russian region, offend a large number of players, right? G Fat himself may not want to do this, but what players worry about is not completely impossible.
In fact, the two outrageous events of the past two days are coming, starting with World of Tanks developer Wargaming announcing the dismissal of creative director Sergey Burkatovskiy for posting pro-Russian views on social media.
Some players have begun to boycott manufacturers and Russian players in the game, and naturally there are also sober-minded people who call for everyone to treat events rationally, but such a truly objective voice is often drowned out by those angry posts.
At this time, the position problem was still only within the game manufacturer, and did not actually affect the gamers, but the subsequent news completely shattered the players' fantasies.
The content of the message is machine flip, in short, a third-party in-game virtual item trading platform, which directly cancels the accounts of Russian and Belarusian players, and directly "donates" the virtual game assets and balances in these accounts to Ukraine, completely violating commercial principles and ignoring the protection of users' personal property.
Not only that, recently the Ukrainian prime minister also publicly named the world's major game manufacturers on social media, calling on Sony, Microsoft and other manufacturers to ban the accounts of Russian players. He did so not because these gamers were involved in the war, but because he hoped that through such restrictions, Russian players would stand up against the war.
This brain circuit is really a bit outrageous, the two sides are inseparable, you prime minister on the Internet want to delete the opposite account? I'm afraid that I usually let Russian players educate. To be fair, if I were a Russian player, seeing that the game account I had invested in for several years or even more than a decade was banned, and the characters and items in it became tools for real opponents to fight against the land under their feet, I would not think of opposing this fight, but would want to make the storm more violent, and even wish to go to the front line to relieve my anger.
So far, although Electronic Arts (EA) has not responded to the call to delete player accounts, they have made it clear that they will remove the Russian national team and Russian league clubs in the "FIFA" football series.
Also affected were Russian and Belarusian esports players, who were told they could not participate in DOTA2 and CSGO-related events without making a statement. For example, the five players of the VP of the well-known team of the "DOTA 2" project are all from Russia, and their personal honors and their own countries are forcibly placed at both ends of the scale by the competition side, and they have no choice at all. The main source of income for many unknown esports clubs is to rely on tournament prize money, and if they are restricted from participating, they will lose their source of livelihood.
We don't know how many European and American game makers will join the boycott of Russia in the future, but this boycott will only lose a part of the market and ultimately hurt the interests of the manufacturers themselves and civilian players.
Although I have been using Steam for 5 years, I also like the workshop and community building, but its parent company V Company is just an American company in the end, there are vicious examples of dmarket platforms privately disposing of player assets in the front, then we have reason to think that it may be only Russian players who suffer today, maybe one day it will be the turn of the country, then whether you steam is eating chicken starter or there are hundreds of games in inventory, you can only watch the ash. There doesn't seem to be a good way to protect inventory except to move to other districts.
Now that the situation is unpredictable, no one will predict the next development, in the face of the possible arrival of the "game sanctions tide", players still plan ahead.
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