Devs are going to block Russia?

[Rupert Giles]

I heard a rumor that the devs are going to block players from picking Russia. Is this true?

[Victorav29]

Of course not.

[Lavarious]

Are they still able to play now? Microsoft announced that they suspended all new sales and services in Russia a few days ago.

[Rhalius]

I'd just go with using another flag at least, an earlier one.
Russia has a long and varied history.

[sp00ky]

Originally posted by Lavarious:

Are they still able to play now? Microsoft announced that they suspended all new sales and services in Russia a few days ago.

he means blocking players from picking the civ, which would be stupid as ♥♥♥♥.

[Rhalius]

Would be better to just cut Russia off from Steam, so they can only run in offline mode.

[Lavarious]

Originally posted by sp00ky:

Originally posted by Lavarious:

Are they still able to play now? Microsoft announced that they suspended all new sales and services in Russia a few days ago.

he means blocking players from picking the civ, which would be stupid as ♥♥♥♥.

Ooooh derp, agreed.

[Herr Kendy]

Originally posted by Rhalius:

I'd just go with using another flag at least, an earlier one.
Russia has a long and varied history.

It is totally fine using this one and it is historically accurate too, This has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine.

[Herr Kendy]

Originally posted by sp00ky:

Originally posted by Lavarious:

Are they still able to play now? Microsoft announced that they suspended all new sales and services in Russia a few days ago.

he means blocking players from picking the civ, which would be stupid as ♥♥♥♥.

Agreed

[mister_lobos]

i'd say it'd be better not to punish all the people in the country for the decisions of a very select few..
either way, there should be no problem playing as russia in a fictional game that involves empires that are all guilty of wars, and actually the game itself is about starting wars.

if anything to show support they could add a ukraine empire, tho i really don't know if it would make sense to do that before so many other countries that had more of an influence on history.

[Loner]

Originally posted by Lavarious:

Originally posted by sp00ky:

he means blocking players from picking the civ, which would be stupid as ♥♥♥♥.

Ooooh derp, agreed.

I think it's much appropriate to ban the Russian civilization in games rather than blocking "Russian player".

[sp00ky]

Originally posted by Loner:

Originally posted by Lavarious:

Ooooh derp, agreed.

I think it's much appropriate to ban the Russian civilization in games rather than blocking "Russian player".

Neither thing is appropiate. This is a game that has nothing to do with current events. Also it would even make less sense, the russian empire has nothing to do with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Putin has gotten the current russian nation into.

This is as stupid as requesting AoE2 devs to remove the Teutons because hitler.

[HellHammer]

Originally posted by sp00ky:

Originally posted by Loner:

I think it's much appropriate to ban the Russian civilization in games rather than blocking "Russian player".

Neither thing is appropiate. This is a game that has nothing to do with current events. Also it would even make less sense, the russian empire has nothing to do with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Putin has gotten the current russian nation into.

This is as stupid as requesting AoE2 devs to remove the Teutons because hitler.

Trust me in the AOE 2 forum there was one thread about removing Slavs to support Ukraine lol

[Herr Kendy]

Originally posted by Loner:

Originally posted by Lavarious:

Ooooh derp, agreed.

I think it's much appropriate to ban the Russian civilization in games rather than blocking "Russian player".

To ban the civilization? Are you mad? This foul attempt to erase history is nonsense

[Herr Kendy]

Originally posted by sp00ky:

Originally posted by Loner:

I think it's much appropriate to ban the Russian civilization in games rather than blocking "Russian player".

Neither thing is appropiate. This is a game that has nothing to do with current events. Also it would even make less sense, the russian empire has nothing to do with the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Putin has gotten the current russian nation into.

This is as stupid as requesting AoE2 devs to remove the Teutons because hitler.

Totally agreed. I can´t comprehend how people are seriously considering this..

[Loner]

Originally posted by Herr Kendy:

Originally posted by Loner:

I think it's much appropriate to ban the Russian civilization in games rather than blocking "Russian player".

To ban the civilization? Are you mad? This foul attempt to erase history is nonsense

I think devs can ban temporarily, and maybe unban when the war ends.