Escape From Tarkov’s economy is crashing because of sanctions on Russia

Over the last couple of years, Escape From Tarkov players have been crippled by the in-game economy. Battlestate Games’ realistic shooter’s market is tied to the comings and goings of the real world economy, and as trading fluctuates, so does Tarkov’s marketplace. And, with the ongoing illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the value of Escape From Tarkov’s core currency – the rouble – has plummeted.

With the rest of the western world seemingly putting Russia under tough sanctions and removing the country’s banks from the SWIFT payment service, the value of the rouble has dropped by 29% in recent days. As a result, gearing up and buying additional currency in Escape From Tarkov is becoming pretty tough indeed.

[Hikoran]

Good.

[FPS_D3TH]

It’s…. A videogame. With nothing invested other than time…

[DaCajun]

Boycott this criminal game developer.

EFT needs to disappear, Battlestate is just another criminal Russian company. They're using graphical weapon assets stolen from another game dev that was originally stolen from an actual crooked Rusian weapons manufacturer.
https://www.ign.com/article...

[FPS_D3TH]

@DaCajun lmfao they didn’t steal anything. They’re using the mp-155 which is a real weapon designed by kalishnakov. Whether that company ripped the design is another matter. There’s a real war happening and these are the matters you have issues with? Please…

[Snookies12]

"And, with the ongoing illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia"

Wait, wha-? Is there a legal way to invade?

[BrainSyphoned]

Crossing borders illegally is mostly legal at the moment so...yes?

[DeathTouch]

Pretty sure this is a formality. The United Nations declared the invasion illegal and unjustified, hence the term. This is my guess, tho.

[just_looken]

If you want a legal invasion just be American for 20years they bombed/killed thousands forced there way of life on 2 countries no one cared.

Every 10 years America and its nato friends are blowing up some country for oil or some dime a dozen dictator o recourse 0 negative media attention.

Russia supports ukraine rebels in 2013 just like how American supported Taliban in the 80's and or south Vietnam and people freak the fuck out ceasefire in 2014.

Russia should just disguise them selves as American then no one will care.

Oh and shall we talk about afganistan/iraq now that nato left man now that needs support

[EternalTitan]

But Russia is taking down Neo Nazi groups.
Dont you want to exterminate neo nazis?

[Daeloki]

Obviously no, but it's important to specify even the obvious, when russian propaganda is largely selling the story that they're doing a legal military operation. Keep in mind that a large part of russians are under the impression that Putin isn't doing anything wrong. In this situation, it needs to be expressed explicitly, even on a gaming site if that has even a small chance of spreading awareness among them.