STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism'
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is going to potentially be banned in Russia due to "justifying terrorism" and being "anti-Russian."
please buy the full game without waiting for a discount. thank you from a humble game developer from Kyiv, Ukraine.
Already pre-ordered the Ultimate edition. Goes against my usual principles but I don't care in this instance. I hope the game is a massive, GotY contending success.
I did the same, and also normally never preorder digital goods. Preordered the ultimate edition in December 2022, and really did not care whether they could deliver at all.
Now, as a fan of the old games, I am pretty stoked that it looks like I really will be getting an awesome game.
I keep waiting for the ultimate edition to become available for purchase. Wouldn't miss out on Stalker for anything. Russia can go fuck itself. I am sorry trump won here in the us and we may not be helping as a country anymore. I contributed in a few ways over the years but I wish I could do more than I have. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
I will do a day one purchase despite being too busy with factorio expansion to actually start it just yet.
Thank you <3
Will do. I'm basically one decent trailer away from impulse buying it anyway. As a fellow game developer, allow me to say: I truly wish things will get better for you guys.
<3
I'm considering it. I'd probably want to know if it works well with Linux first.
After KSP2 I promised myself I would never do Early Access or preorder again. However, I made an exception for this. Love the stalker series and I’ve both preordered it and took the entire week off of work. You can say I’m definitely hyped lol
I generally don't pre-order, probably won't this time too as release has creeped so close anyway. But definitely buying it full price, just waiting for some day-1 reviews to check if it needs patches or not. I love the STALKER series, played them all and I definitely feel I own GSC some more money for the FPSs I've most enjoyed in the last 20 years or so.
That's rich.
Russian pigs
This must be quite a big decision really, considering there are a lot of Russian players into the Stalker Universe.
But good on them, fuck em!
"This year, Russia also took control of Chornobyl,..."
This year again? I thought they dug their trenches in radioactive soil in the first year of the invasion.
The question is whether they have the intention of publishing it in Russia in the first place.
Russian users can still use workarounds to purchase from the steam store. I believe this is a big business for some enterprising users in other countries.
Where there is prohibition there is business. Always has been.
The absence of self-awareness there is astounding
Oh they're aware. It's always projection
I'm going to have to buy a new irony meter.
It will most definitely be banned (they even shut down one of the few Ukrainian language libraries in russia before the full scale invasion) and likely it won't be available in russian anyway.
Good. Hopefully russia also bans all the games portraying LGBT characters and ethnic minorities, so I can fucking play Overwatch without running into these assholes every other match
This article misses the point. The logic behind the likely regulation is that: a couple of GSC devs joined UAF (one KIA) and GSC donated to ukrainian funds -> you spend money on their products -> you have financially supported UAF. GSC wasn't proclaimed a terrorist org (lmao) but laws here can be applied backwards if they'd need so.
You're overthinking it. There is no logic in russian law. The Tsar says something and that's the law.
Tzar doesn't need anything to land one's ass in jail, but it'd still be followed by traditional beaurocratic procedures just like in RE\USSR and that's the likely way it'd follow through.
And, also, having Stalker on your acc or purchasing it via russian resellers may serve as a trigger that can make agencies or just your russian teammate tell on you for lulz if your profile wasn't set to private.
I'm planning on waiting a few days to check the reviews and make sure it can run on my PC, but it's pretty promising to see such a glowing review coming in early from the Kremlin.
It’s maybe my fault.
I immediately abandoned BF2042 after the second invasion of Ukraine because it was full of Russians and ‘expat’ or not I ain’t cosplaying as those assholes.
I can't even watch russian movies or listen to russian music (even artists that have openly opposed the full scale invasion). It just gets me in a bad mood.
Any time I see a russian flag on the internet, it's like seeing a nazi flag. I start thinking "Why the fuck is this here?".
Blyat
A Russian official has said that the game could face a total ban in Russia
The whole article is based off this unnamed “Russian official” btw.