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
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week 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.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 1 week 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.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I have excellent news: you can also not buy games from those companies too.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week 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.