Please Reconsider the ‘Games From Russia 2025’ Sale

[ghooost]

Dear Steam Team,

I understand that your platform may want to remain outside of politics.
However, the war in Ukraine is ongoing, and Russian forces are still killing Ukrainian civilians every day.

In this context, promoting a sale like
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesFromRussia2025
feels incredibly insensitive — even disturbing.

To draw a parallel: imagine an exhibition of modern German books being held in London in 1943.
Would that have felt appropriate?

Please reconsider. Some things are too serious to ignore.

[Lithurge]

The irony is I wouldn't even have been aware of it if you didn't post, because it's not showing anywhere on the store pages for me.

[ghooost]

Even if someone doesn’t know a crime is happening, it still needs to be stopped and punished.

[Lithurge]

And posting here is going to make no difference, this is a user forum, not a feedback to Valve forum.

[cardiffe]

skyscraper in front of my apartment got droned in December, my friend in Rostov gets droned every day, my friend from Berdyansk(a Ukrainian town, occupied by Russians) gets droned by his own allies, my friend in Donetsk gets bombed since 2014, and? I don't see any reason to stop the similar festival about Ukrainian games among all the reasons that I have listed.
Stop looking at bloody dictators actions and look at game devs and people that just want to play some games dude, touch some grass.

[Crazy Tiger]

Sure, OP. Or it's simply possible to have a sale without needing to attach context to it. I mean, if we do add context, no games from any country should be for sale. Every country has done bad things, you know.

Thanks for the link, btw, I'll have a browse.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

The irony is I wouldn't even have been aware of it if you didn't post, because it's not showing anywhere on the store pages for me.

Also didn't know until OPs post.

Originally posted by ghooost:

Even if someone doesn’t know a crime is happening, it still needs to be stopped and punished.

Making legal games is not a crime.

[pckirk]

Originally posted by ghooost:

Dear Steam Team,

I understand that your platform may want to remain outside of politics.
However, the war in Ukraine is ongoing, and Russian forces are still killing Ukrainian civilians every day.

In this context, promoting a sale like
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesFromRussia2025
feels incredibly insensitive — even disturbing.

To draw a parallel: imagine an exhibition of modern German books being held in London in 1943.
Would that have felt appropriate?

Please reconsider. Some things are too serious to ignore.

This is a Steam related sub-forum, to discuss using the steam client, app, websites UI.

There are no valve / steam employees, Staff, server techs, steam support, or moderators in the 2 steam related sub-forums.

You can post in the Idea and suggestion sub-forum, where valve / steam staff can see your thread...

post it here: Steam Suggestions / Ideas Sub-Forum

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/

[Volfogg]

Ehh... Such sale is honestly kinda in bad taste. Pretty much nobody I know likes those people. That kind of feeling of animosity runs deep here in the area for like... dunno... 200+ years?

[I>U]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Ehh... Such sale is honestly kinda in bad taste. Pretty much nobody I know likes those people. That kind of feeling of animosity runs deep here in the area for like... dunno... 200+ years?

Sorry, I am bad with dates. Since whichever reich that was?

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by I>U:

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Ehh... Such sale is honestly kinda in bad taste. Pretty much nobody I know likes those people. That kind of feeling of animosity runs deep here in the area for like... dunno... 200+ years?

Sorry, I am bad with dates. Since whichever reich that was?

Since they stole some lands thrice in XVIII century, co-caused WW II, switched sides to win and had their own little bloc for a while until it collapsed. That's understandable amount of reasons for bad blood between nations, I believe.

[Crazy Tiger]

Bad blood, sure. But to say a sale can't be done? Yeah, that's bollocks.

[I>U]

Originally posted by Volfogg:

Since they stole some lands thrice in XVIII century, co-caused WW II, switched sides to win and had their own little bloc for a while until it collapsed. That's understandable amount of reasons for bad blood between nations, I believe.

So, you've just connected WW2 to 18th century straight. That calls for an award. No need to hesitate - you've earned it.

[FehiŸ]

Oh, there we go. I was waiting for the eXpErTs to shows up lmao

[Tapasvi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUVe35hCYho

[AGT_ZURU]

Originally posted by Lithurge:

The irony is I wouldn't even have been aware of it if you didn't post, because it's not showing anywhere on the store pages for me.

The same thing here.

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Bad blood, sure. But to say a sale can't be done? Yeah, that's bollocks.

Exactly, couldn't have put it better myself.



Sure, Putin Bad, we all get that. However, some small-time Developer who just happened to be Classed as being 'IN' Russia, just because, to use one example, he's a Single dude just on the Border with Finland less than 500 Metres away, so close to Finland that he can get Cell Service from Finland, and TV from Finland, and so on, but because he's in Russia, his Company is Russian... Why screw him over, it's not his fault that Putin's being a D###.