Ukraine wants to get the game industry involved in politics Sony has stopped selling PS products in Russia

Hello and welcome back to the game world of Holdon2099. This article tries to be as little as political as possible, and shares what is happening in the world purely from the perspective of the game industry.

Short comment: The current Russo-Ukrainian war is not over, and as an ordinary person, I very much hope for world peace. The correct worldview is to oppose war, but also to support the defense of national interests, and the most hateful are those who fuel the waves, instigate the war, and politicians who do not hesitate to draw the whole country and the world into war. To say all this, the above brief views only represent personal views, and now we will enter the main topic.

Let's take a look at the news:

Beijing time on March 10 news, Sony has stopped selling all PlayStation game consoles and software in Russia, becoming the latest major brand to withdraw from Russia due to the war in Ukraine. A representative of Sony's video game division said in a statement Wednesday that the company had suspended all hardware and software shipments in Russia and the launch of a new racing game, GT Racing 7. Sony's decision is one of the most significant moves in the video game industry to date.

cause:

On March 2, 2022, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine issued an open letter, asking major game brands and platforms to join in the sanctions against Russia in order to stop this "aggression". In the letter, the deputy prime minister very naively explained that the use of modern technology is an effective way to counter the "invasion", because cutting off Russia's game products and services will incentivize the anti-war wave in Russia. Will Putin pay attention to you? However, since then, many European, American and Japanese game companies have indeed responded to the call, held high the banner of "justice", and gladly accepted the use of politicians.

As many players know, Ukraine has many famous game development studios, which of course are on the side of the motherland, but also hope to elect a normal president after the end of the war.

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The following are some of the actions of some companies that are currently known (only appeals and no actions are not on the list), there are spontaneous and forced, we can't know, but the starting point is to stop the war, which is true, but when NATO has expanded east many times before, it has not seen their "just" behavior, and the double standard behavior is the best in Europe and the United States:

• Among all the game makers, game companies such as PlayStation and Xbox were designated to require the suspension of online accounts in both countries (Russia and Belarus), while related esports groups were also required to suspend matches with these two countries.
• Battlefield 2o42 cancels the reward for Russian helicopters.
• The creators of My War donated all the proceeds to the Ukrainian Red Cross.
• Ubisoft provided additional funding to Ukrainian employees.

• CD Projekt Red, developer of the The Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, provided $242,000 in aid to Ukraine.
• The Japanese Pokémon Company donated $200,000 to humanitarian relief in Ukraine.
• Since third-party payment systems could not accept rubles, Nintendo stores were temporarily closed in Russia.

• Wargaming, the developer of World of Tanks, fired creative director Sergey Burkatovskiy for publicly supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. WG has hundreds of employees in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, and is currently helping and resettling them. In addition, WG donated $1 million to the Ukrainian Red Cross on March 1.
• 3D game engine giant Unity Technologies has donated more than $1 million to Ukraine.
• IO Interactive, the developer of the Killer series, also joined the band, donating about $100,000 to the Red Cross.

• Techland Games, the developer of Gone With the Light, has donated about $250,000 to Ukraine.
• The Underworld Saints parent company, The Underworld Group, is another company that donated $1 million to Ukraine.
• Ukrainian developer GSC Game World has announced that development of Stalker 2 will be suspended.
• Netflix suspended its streaming service to Russia, a service similar to online video.
• Fortnite is oily and slippery, and it will continue to run in Russia, but will "stop all commercial activity."

• Amazon's release of the massively multiplayer online game New World will stop the release of the Russian version.
• The indie game platform Itch.io will host nearly 1,000 games, and all proceeds will be used to support Ukraine.
• Sony PlayStation has completely stopped selling all PlayStation consoles, video games and digital products in Russia, but XBOX has yet to react in any way.

The above list of game companies is only a small part of the support for Ukraine, and then there may be more European, American, pro-American and Japanese companies to join it, which may be the original intention of the anti-war, but in the end it will all go into the pockets of the black hands behind the scenes, because they are going to do the arms business. The game industry is already so, it is conceivable that Russia is being plagued by sanctions in all aspects, I don't know if Ermao can sustain it, before seeing the mainland netizens empty russian online goods news, it is also a kind of support.

Back in the game industry, in today's digital media era, game companies may be much more influential than we think, and they will make these sanctions against Russia, may indeed be to end the war as soon as possible, but may backfire, and finally just show loyalty by losing their own economic interests. Finally, only time will tell whether this massive move by the game industry will have a substantial impact on world peace.

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