Sanctions against the Russian & Belarusian government I understand. This move of banning gamers from playing feels like it's crossing a line. It's intended to cause discontent amongst citizens that in the longterm will mean a push to change their governments. But just because there is a war going on companies are effectively demonising the Russian people who've done nothing wrong. I think it would be a better strategy to keep the Russian gaming community interacting with the world than adding to the sense that they are isolated from it.
It has absolutely nothing at all to do with gaming. Not a single thing. It’s punishing innocent civilians. It has no effect on government, infrastructure, economy. This is essentially a direct attack at civvies in order to cause unrest. All it does is provoke hate and cause unrest in mainly groom-able youth population and it’s intentional and people cannot stupidly blame ignorance on pretending they don’t understand it’s as simple as that.
They’re just creating young impressionable people to hate the west to create further war. Because nothing feeds their greed than fuelling the flames of discrimination.
Under the New world order of political correctness it doesn't matter who you hurt. Not that they're actually being hurt by not playing this game. It's more like they're being helped.
Although the article connects the decision to the war, my bet is on Blizzard's inability to keep hackers and bots under control. During this season, people have been complaining about bots farming gold and stuff. So if we put everything together, this would explain why they are banned from the PC launcher but not mobile's.
The long and baseless US wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq have been alleged to be illegal under international law as well as undeclared wars in violation of the US constitution. But hey nobody did anything to the American people…HYPOCRITES.
So banning them from a game because of a conflict they have nothing to do with? Well that's stupid and even more reason why I won't support blizzard anymore.
You people who live in democracy and free speech countries are too softhearted to us. There are not many innocent people under dictatorship regime, I can assure of this from what I see every day. Many of us are brainwashed, yes, but hatred is hatred, these people don't share any of this sympathy as you guys do to them.
So, they are not subjecting those countries to their predatory gambling mechanics and this is supposed to be a punishment? Not only is trying to punish people that have nothing to do with the war, they think it's a punishment when really they are doing them a favor. Seriously, the people at Blizzard making these decisions must be connected to "The High IQ Society." The levels of stupidity are complex with this group.
Great, that will stop the War.
I find it weird that punishing people that have zero say in the matter is supposed to be spun as a positive.
We are fighting the war by letting them keep their money!
Although the article connects the decision to the war, my bet is on Blizzard's inability to keep hackers and bots under control. During this season, people have been complaining about bots farming gold and stuff. So if we put everything together, this would explain why they are banned from the PC launcher but not mobile's.
Gotta get that social cred and twitter mob approval. This does nothing but set a very bad precedent