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This is the choice of the publisher and not sanctions. what it is aimed at is not clear.
https://www.polygon.com/23003359/valve-steam-ukraine-russia-developers-bank-regulations-payment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/03/05/activision-blizzard-and-ea-stop-sales-of-all-games-in-russia/?sh=59332c073b2a
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/5/22963195/activision-blizzard-halts-new-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/7/22965890/ubisoft-take-two-blocking-game-sales-russia-ukraine-invasion
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/russias-console-game-market-no-longer-exists/
https://www.wired.com/story/gaming-industry-unites-russia/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/cd-projekt-suspends-game-sales-in-russia-including-gog/1100-6501226/
Sanctions apply pressure to countries that threaten peace, have harmful policies or don’t cooperate with international law.
Sanctions are a common tool for seeking to influence foreign governments and individuals to change their behavior. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) can impose sanctions in response to a threat to international peace and security.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions
International sanctions are political and economic decisions that are part of diplomatic efforts by countries, multilateral or regional organizations against states or organizations either to protect national security interests, or to protect international law, and defend against threats to international peace and security. These decisions principally include the temporary imposition on a target of economic, trade, diplomatic, cultural or other restrictions (sanctions measures) that are lifted when the motivating security concerns no longer apply, or when no new threats have arisen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States, the European Union, and other countries introduced or significantly expanded sanctions to include Vladimir Putin and other government members, and cut off "selected Russian banks" from the SWIFT network triggering the 2022 Russian financial crisis and a massive international boycott of Russia and Belarus, which supports the invasion.
Notable in particular for this thread are bank restrictions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during_the_2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Banking
Beyond that: The main United States sanctions law, IEEPA, not only blocks the designated person or entity's assets, it also prohibits any United States person from transacting business with the designated person or entity. Specifically, 50 U.S.C. § 1705 criminalizes activities that "violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition," and allows for fines up to $1,000,000, imprisonment up to 20 years, or both. Additionally, United States asset forfeiture laws allow for the seizure of assets considered to be the proceeds of criminal activity. Most countries have similar laws in effect.
There is nothing anyone on these forums can do for you. The fact that you are annoyed by the sanctions is 100% the point. This is a global attempt to put pressure on the population of Russia to change its government. Comply or live with the consequences. If the Russian government wants to isolate itself from international politics and ignore the worlds requests for peace, you're lucky that the world has only responded with sanctions and not a world war.
That's the alterative here. Your country started a war, the world can respond with sanctions or with an invasion of its own. For now, you're being sanctioned, blame your government. And don't waste one word responding to me unless you would prefer the world destroy Russia instead.
Read all the links provided, educate yourself on the current state of the world. No one here can help you. Nothing you post on these forums will have any effect on anything.
Fix your government or live with the consequences. The consequences are sanctions (now in place) or be destroyed (if this escalates and everyone decides to enter the war against Russia)
If you think even one more post from you is going to change anything, you've failed completely to understand what sanctions are or why they are in place. You've already had one thread locked on this topic, no amount of additional discussion is going to be effective here.
I've provided more than enough for you to start reading.
And if you've exhausted everything above, here's a few more things you can read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution
http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/overthrow-government
You have already been suspended from comments in the previous thread.
Why are you embarrassing yourself again? Why are you starting a meaningless argument again in which you have already lost once?
I gave a link to a discussion in which you were banned by moderators. there are all the answers to your attempts to declare something.
No I wasn't. I simply stopped responding when you decided to begin making personal attacks and not learn from the information you were provided.
This isn't an argument. This is the current state of the world. You can learn about it, or you can keep pretending it isn't happening.
I wasn't banned by moderators for anything. You didn't answer anything in the previous thread, you simply ignored everything you were given and turned it into an argument, which is why your thread was locked.
Now, stop trying to make this about me. We're not here to talk about me. Stay on topic please.
You've been given plenty of information to read, all of which you are now choosing to ignore. I'm going to provide one more resrouce for you, not that it will help, but you stated:
Feedback to the publisher is here:
https://portkeygamessupport.wbgames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
They aren't going to read or respond to anything on the forums about this. You're just preaching at other players about a topic you barely understand and that none of us can change for you.
There is no dispute, stop trying to make it personal. Your country is being sanctioned, read the links you were given, do some additional research. No one on these forums can help you. Your continued personal attacks on me or your pointless attempts to argue over it here are meaningless.
There is not a word in the sanctions package that Harry Potter is banned for Russia. this is a whim of the publishing house.
No one talks about signing contracts and cooperation.
One small fact is not convenient for you.
valve is an American company owned by Steam.
And I will probably surprise you , but steam has not gone anywhere from Russia .
Despite the fact that he complies with American sanctions.
you're talking complete nonsense.
Most of the games remained available in the Russian steam.
Despite the fact that there is not a single payment method for purchases within Russia. but the developers did not block access to the product pages and sites. as the Warners and rockstars did. the cancellation of Harry Potter is an initiative, not an execution.
I'll repeat it again.
The people of my country did not choose Putin
The people of my country are being held hostage
If you really want to stop the war and not increase hatred in this world, you should impose sanctions against those who are guilty and not against a helpless people.
The fact that you have access to Harry Potter is not your merit
Just like the fact that Harry Potter was taken away from me is not my fault.
I want to note that you have no moral right to reproach me with the fact that I am still alive and did not go against people with machine guns.
I'm just as incapable of changing anything as you are.
But to cancel the decision to close access to the page in the incentive for the region is real
MUCH more real than the overthrow of a dictator.
and believe me, the people of my country have enough reasons and problems inside the country that someone from outside would add problems.
If you close borders and issue visas to people in whose country the mobilization is going on - what are these sanctions aimed at? so that people would be packed up and sent to the front? so that more people would die?
When you forbid reading literature , what do you expect ? that people will read the military oath?
Sanctions against the people who are held captive by the usurper are complete nonsense. and you should be ashamed of it.
And in the end I will remind
you that this inconvenience is, as you think, the FIRST in MY life. despite the fact that I live most of my life in Russia.... (already funny)
Easily bypassed through VPN. easily bypassed through the CIS countries. they are easily bypassed by means of a torrent.
The only reason I'm here
This is what I want to buy, not steal.
This is what I want to live according to the norms of Europe by buying and not stealing... but for some reason you incredibly strongly wish that I was the one you hate. perhaps it's not about the war, but because it's just more convenient for you?
Despite the fact that even if I buy the game, it will only mean that the money has left Russia because no bank in the country will be involved.
I am sincerely sorry that you cannot understand such simple logical things.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/990080/discussions/0/3594464430431236702/
If I was banned I wouldn't be able to keep posting here and there would be banned tag next to my name
All you've linked is a moderator locking your thread due to you devolving into non productive argument. Thank you for providing evidence that I was correct.
Now, stop making things up about me and trying to make this personal, this topic isn't about me. Do you have the ability to stay on topic?
Do you think every individual game is going to be listed as being sanctioned? Read all the material you were linked, you continue to not understand any of it.
It's literally illegal to transact business with Russia while the sanctions are in place.
The target of the sanctions is Russia. Again, they aren't going to sit and list every individual game and product that can't be sold there, it's a blanket restriction. Let that sink in.
"It's a decision of the publisher" ~ yes, to comply with the sanctions and not violate international law, that's what they chose to do.
Additionally as was noted numerous times, banks aren't transferring money out of Russia, so even if a publisher were dumb enough to violate the sanctions: they wouldn't get paid.
Why would any publisher choose to do business with Russia right now while sanctions are in place and they won't be paid for what they sell?
This is what you continue to ignore.
Read all the links you were given, you've clearly skipped most (if not all) of it. Any continued response at me is just you making a non-productive argument out of a topic that has been fully explained for you multiple times.
I understand it fully. It's you that is continuing to ignore what was explained. No one on these forums can help you other than to point out what is going on in the world.
This isn't where you go to make a complaint directed at a publisher, they have a feedback page which I provided. You're here arguing (pointlessly) with other players (who can not help you) about a topic you barely comprehend while denying the sanctions have anything to do with it (despite being provided numerous links that explain it for you)
If the worst of the consequences for you is that you can't play some silly games, consider yourself very lucky; a lot worse could be happening to you.
There's nothing you can say on these forums that is going to change the sanctions in place. Go change your government or deal with the consequences.
The cancellation of Harry Potter is not a sanction , it is the decision of the copyright holder . Which he can also revise and cancel.
You keep ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in this thread even though you were asked to do the opposite.
And yes. You were still removed from the previous branch. It does not contain any of your messages, only responses to them from other users.
And yes. The branch was closed because of the dirt that you planted in it.
I believe your mission is to repeat your feat.
I hope only this time it will do without insulting users in private messages.
I also do not lose the feeling that you do not understand the meaning of some words. And what's more, you don't see whole paragraphs of text at all...
If you would read what Kunovega has listed in his first reply on your thread. You would've already know that Sanctions block most game publishers from selling their games in Russia because of their heinous invasion of Ukraine. Just because steam still operates (and can) in Russia does not mean any other publisher can. What boggles my mind even more, is how you think you should be able to play a game, while YOUR country is waging war against an innocent people and country. People are being tortured, raped, murdered and all you can think about is how wee sad you can not play a game. Grow up man.
Don't bother with the "I did not have a choice to be born in Russia or I did not elect Putin". From the start people knew what kind of bastard Putin is, and have learned since his rise to power in Russia. You could have saved your money and left as a political refugee to a western country.
If you had any guts you leave Russia in the near future or protest this war in a possible safe way.
Mind you, this does not take away any compassion I have for the Russian people who did not want this war or this lunatic as president (you included). But like Kunovega already said, do something about it, save yourself or live with the consequences. That are your choices, which do not include going on a rant on a game forum while innocent people are dying. Have some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decency and respect.
1. I simply stopped responding when you decided to begin making personal attacks and not learn from the information you were provided. Do you have the ability to stay on topic or do you really want to insist on talking about me in every post?
2. I've made no private messages to you, insulting or otherwise. Stop making things up.
3. The non-productive argument is you as you continue to fail at understanding what was explained while you continue to try and argue about me.
4. You can keep pretending there's no sanctions while I have already provided the links explaining it (that you ignore)
5. I see all of your "whole paragraphs of text" and the fact you keep ignoring that all of it has been answered is entirely of your own choosing
You have no idea what a daily horror I live in every day and what it means for me to leave reality for the game.
You have no idea what forces it took to transport my grandmother from Ukraine to Lithuania while in Russia.
How much time, effort and money it took.
You have no idea what relocation costs.
How much money is needed for this
Do you think it's easy to move to another country as a whole family? Or do you propose to throw all my relatives, pets, everything I have here and go to any of the countries in which I will be treated like garbage?
Do you think my courage is the only problem?
What an abomination.
I am disgusted to hear from a person who reproaches me for something I am not guilty of.
Alright alright, hear me out then, if you have these kind of troubles, money problems and what not, why spend money on a game if you could spend the money better for something you or your family needs (e.g. an escape from Russia? food? medicine?).
All the points you make a null and void because of this comment you just made. If what you say is true, which is not for me to decide, then I'm genuinely sorry for you. But like I said, you have probably a better use for your money than a videogame.
Your choices boil down to three simple choices.
1. Do nothing, be oppressed, let your children be oppressed. Let you and your family suffer under a tyranical fist of a mass murderer.
2. Leave your country, just yourself or your family. If you think you're threatened by your current government, find a way to seek asylum in a western country.
3. Protest. Fight with your brothers and sisters for a free and democratic Russia. People are going to die either way. Will you die for a tyrannical piece of ♥♥♥♥, in a foreign country, murdering people? Even if you're not conscripted (yet) you still have blood on your hands.
Look at the Iranians. Brothers, Sisters, families, strangers. All fighting together for their rights and freedom. Do you hear them being sad about them not able to play a video game? No, they're fighting, in the streets for their future, for their daughter's and son's future. Dying for their rights for freedom.
These are the three choices you have.
And if you can do nothing, than the only thing you can do is live with the consequences. That's life and life is not fair. Russians are pissed at the western world for the sanctions. That anger is misplaced. The anger should be placed at Putin, who sends young men into a war they never wanted to have. Murdering innocents or be shot themselves. If the Russians had any ounce of guilt and any guts, Putin and his Mafioso should have been hanged already. But the Russian people just let the things happen, because "I don't die, it's people in another country who are dying. No it's the stupid west who is wrong I should still be able to buy x and do y, it's the west who is wrong." Blame anyone and everyone but not the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ person who is responsible for all the ♥♥♥♥ and suffering the Russian people have had.
Weapons and equipment used to disperse rallies against the authorities in Russia. And not only in Russia . Weapons and equipment that Russia is currently fighting with Ukraine.
The inconvenient fact is also that your countries continue to buy oil and gas from Russia and transit to Europe goes through Ukraine.
And the money from this continues to feed Putin's military machine.
The inconvenient fact is that after 2014, not a single Putin's yard was closed and not a single yacht was confiscated. And the children of the officials who made the decision to start a full-scale war live next to you in Europe and have not expelled or deported anyone ..
An inconvenient fact.
And none of you have the slightest moral right to tell me about the scale of my guilt and responsibility.
Because following your hypocritical and cowardly logic
You are also responsible for the establishment of a dictatorship.
none of you have asked questions to your authorities
blood on your hands too.
Wasn't it my imagination?
The west never sold weapons to Russia. If they did Ukraine wouldn't have lasted days. Rusty old AK's? Rockets which misfire and explode in tubes? Yeah that's the west alright with their NATO standards.
People are voicing their opinions and protesting since 2014 in the west to NOT buy Russian oil and gas. But Right winged governments do what right winged governments do. We have our faults, yes. But it's the fault of the Russian people for letting a dictator waltz into Foreign countries, claiming land, resources and innocent lives without doing anything. The Russian populace have had their chance for an uprising since 2014. And what did the Russian populace do? They look the other way, because like I stated earlier "It's not my problem, it's not my life that's on the line" an example I can give you is with the conscription/mobilisation: Russians keep looking the other way until their lives will be impacted, then they run. run to other countries, run to the west. When they're safe they keep on looking the other way and occasionally pop out their head to yell ♥♥♥♥ like you do about not able to buy a game.
The ball is in your and your countrymen/woman's hands. Act or don't act upon what you will. But going on a rant won't lift any sanctions and proves sanctions are working. The russian population is getting hit by sanctions and they should look at Putler, since he's the one responsible.
-- Are you seriously comparing buying a game with moving to another country?
Wasn't it my imagination?
Yes, yes I did, and the fact that it doesn't reach in your dense head makes me worry. You have your priorities all wrong.
Multiple people have tried educating you, talking reason with you about what is happening and what YOU can do about it, but you keep ranting about wee sad you not able to play a game made by a western studio.
You had that right. and you lost it because you and your countrymen/woman can't keep your country in order. I'm not going to reply to any more of your "arguments" since I'd rather talk to a concrete wall.