Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a Russian game by Saber Interactive. Should gamers care if they care about Ukraine?

• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ok I read the article… Answer is still nope.

  Russian game companies are not our enemy. The leadership of the country may be, but so what? You going to try and influence that by choosing non-russian games? That’s ridiculous… :)

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  • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is not about the politics of the company or whether or not the people support the government. Influence is not the point. This is about material support to the Russian government. Money spent on the game goes to the Russian government in the form of taxes. This blurb says it in plain text:

    To put it crudely, an average gamer, who buys Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 for $59.99, helps the company to fund the Russian army with almost $12

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    • Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ok? And buying literally any game by EA, Activision, Microsoft, Sony, 2K, Devolver, Epic and countless other companies helps fund the war on Gaza and America’s neo-colonialism and imperialism. Notice I didn’t even mention European companies, because that’s another whole can of worms.

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      • DdCno1@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Whataboutism isn’t a good look, but it’s consistently the only defense that people who defend autocratic hellholes like Russia and China come up with. You know it’s not even remotely the same.

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      • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have excellent news: you can also not buy games from those companies too.

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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I already don’t LOL but you’re still right.

        It could be seen as funding the Ukrainians in their war against Russia though. Or literally anything else paid for by taxes which is…a fucking lot of things. It’s not like that money is sequestered for the war against Ukraine in Russia.

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  • v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well yea, it’s another motivator for people to actively go against the Russian government in one way or another. The more discontent people are with the situation that’s been ongoing for 2+ years, the more likely something’s to happen, I’d wager

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think it’s silly. You can’t fight dictators with gaming choices. They stuff is real life.

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  • Gaywallet@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for engaging 💜

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To be fair, the OP did not ask them to read the article, they asked a yes or no question.

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