On March 4, polish game developer CD Project officially announced that it will stop enjoying games in Russia and Belarus, which means that locals will no longer be able to buy classic AAA games such as "The Witcher 3" and "Cyberpunk 2077".
The relationship between Poland and Russia has not been very good, because of the contradictions with Russia and Germany in the early years, netizens often use "Pingdu Town Lu Dabobo" to ridicule Poland (alone refers to Germany, Lu refers to Russia). Recently, Ukraine and Russia have a conflict, Ukraine wants to join the European Union, Poland is a member of the European Union, but also borders Ukraine and the closest member of the European Union, this time will definitely stand up for Ukraine.
In fact, when Xiao Lei browsed Steam Tieba, he found that many game developers have begun to stop selling games in Russia, Belarus, China, India and other countries, or directly increase the price of games in these four regions. For example, the game "Goldmine" developed by an unknown game company, the price in Argentina is only 9 cents, and now the price in China has risen to 1000000.
In the dispute between Russia and Ukraine, China has always been neutral, not targeting any country and methodically evacuating its overseas Chinese. Russia and Belarus are on the united front, India seems to be very anti-Ukrainian, on Twitter loudly support Russia, the three by the game manufacturer boycott is understandable, a truly neutral Country in China was boycotted, but it is a little too wrong.
It is a fact that there are more people who support Russia in China, first, because Putin is very charismatic, second, because Russia's relations with China have been good, and third, because Ukraine and China have not had good relations. But in any case, China has never directly supported Russia, nor has it infringed on Ukraine, and it is a bit unreasonable for game companies to boycott China.
Of course, we don't have to worry about not being able to buy AAA games. When CDPR released Cyberpunk 2077, the game's initial reputation was very poor, but it still achieved a return on cost in one day, because the sales in China were too high. Now all game companies know that pleasing Chinese can make a fortune, relying only on the Chinese market, AAA games can achieve profitability.
Now jump out of disgusting our game company is just a small business, originally no one paid attention to them, this time out of the brush sense of existence. As for their games, few people would have bought them, and if it weren't for this price increase, I'm afraid few would have known about this game.