ShihabyoooThe Kim family say hi!
Honourable mentions: Cuba's communist party, Iran's murshids...

ArumioWatching all these bans from payment systems and stores, I see only one thing - hello, an increase in pirated software

TheinsanegamerNSanctions have never overthrown a country. They Have, OTOH, made the lives of millions miserable and prevented media and companies from the west being able to influence citizens of these countries.

The onyl thing sanctions achieve, outside of bringing misery to millions, is allowing the two faced west to appear like its actually doing something to justify their own arrogance on the world stage. It's virtue signalling at an international level.

dirtyferretwhat is your other option, let Putin and his oligarchs continue to rape and pillage the land and it's people (their own and Ukraine)?

Bomby569in this case? Sell Cyberpunk with a ukrainian flag, put ukranian flag on GOG, it would all be better solutions.

P4-630Same as Ubisoft, EA en Activision Blizzard, Microsoft and Apple.

dirtyferretI think part of it has to do Russia being barred from SWIFT and credit card payments, making purchasing and payments almost impossible. Personally, I would say all sales coming from Russia or Belarus would go towards the Ukraine war effort but I'm not in charge of CD Projekt and rich people/corporations don't like giving away money they can't get a tax credit on.

TheinsanegamerNSanctions have never overthrown a country. They Have, OTOH, made the lives of millions miserable and prevented media and companies from the west being able to influence citizens of these countries.

The onyl thing sanctions achieve, outside of bringing misery to millions, is allowing the two faced west to appear like its actually doing something to justify their own arrogance on the world stage. It's virtue signalling at an international level.

RH92It's not virtue signaling ? Let's pretend for a second this statement is true ....

Where were all these companies you named when the USA violated the sovereignty of Serbia , Irak ( with completely made up documents at that being ) , Afghanistan , Uganda and Lybia just to name a few ? Did not the US bombard entire cities to the ground , killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of civilians in the proccess ? In comparison civilian casualties in Ukraine may aswell be not existent ( even though every life matters ) ! So what gives , were the lifes of those people less important than Ukrainian lifes or did these American companies ( most of them ) were blind and deaf back in the days because the agressor was their master ?

Everyone knows the answer to the question so please at the very least have some respect for the collective intellect if not for yours . If there is anyone on this planet that is by far the least in position to give lessons about bullying other nations that is the USA and the West in general . The cold truth you don't want to hear is , these companies are doing nothing more than serving and spreading American propaganda !

VerpalConsidering history of Russia and history of sanctions in general, certain nation... culture react strangely to sanctions.
Sometimes, isolation helps a leader consolidate power, as long as they can still provide basic sustenance to the general population.
Not saying it will happen in Russia, surely I hope that's not the case, but sanction works in mysterious way, and a nation push to the corner can potentially be quite dangerous.

RedBearApparently if you take a kalashinkov to defend your land against Russia you're a hero, if you do it to defend it against Israeli occupiers who took away your houses you're a terrorist...

repman244///
Politicians (especially in covid times) became like parrots...just repeating what someone else does without even thinking of possible problems in their own country.

seth1911Who cares?, its only marketing. :)

But there is a simple solution its called vpn:laugh:

How do u buy a game without swift?, yeah its very easy sry to take u dreams away:
Local Store
Alipay
Prepaid Mastercard via Mongolia or China etc.

RH92It's not virtue signaling ? Let's pretend for a second this statement is true ....

RH92Where were all these companies you named when the USA violated the sovereignty of Serbia , Iraq ( with completely made up documents at that being ) , Afghanistan , Uganda and Lybia just to name a few ?

RH92Did not the US bombard entire cities to the ground , killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of civilians in the process ?

RH92Everyone knows the answer to the question so please at the very least have some respect for the collective intellect if not for yours .

ExcuseMeWtfIt's only virtue signalling if they actually continue to do business while pretending otherwise for the sake of publicity.
Do you have a proof that's the case?

Ferrum MasterCDPR is being review bombed because if this now.

lexluthermiesterAnother example of meritless drivel. (again, learn how to spell)

watzupkenI generally find sanctions pointless. If you observed nations slapped with sanctions in the past, none of it had much of an impact on them. And I don’t recall most of them actually turned around. This cane have been used too often, and highly predictable. So for Russia, they would have already known and prepared themselves against these retaliations. At least the people the leaders and influential people would be prepared. So that leaves the citizens that may not support nor have a say about this invasion that suffers.
Ultimately, any sanctions will hurt the world because of how interconnected and interdependent we are nowadays. For example, just by virtue of not buying Russian oil is enough to increase oil and thus, power prices up substantially. So everyone in the world will feel the effects and with the poor suffering the most.

mamaor do something about the leadership

Bomby569like what? you are a Russian there now, what exactly would you do?

mamaRevolution.