Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Removed from Russian PlayStation Store

Activision decided to pull the plug

[Nitrowolf2]

No Russia
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[DarkOcelet]

Hahahaha, good one.

[AK91]

👍

[AK91]

In Soviet Russia game bans you........................... ...................I'm sorry

[franwex]

So was the game pulled, or just the beta?
Also who pulled it? Sony or Activision?

It doesn’t apply to me since I live in USA, and would’ve bought this on Xbox most likely, but I am still curious as to what occurred.

[AnubisG]

This is just a guess but not long ago, some Russian guy, a politician I believe claimed that certain video games are against Russia or train people to hate Russia or something along these lines.

So, if the main baddies are Russians in this game, I think it's possible that they made Sony pull it from the store.

I could be entirely wrong but I think this might be it.

[ChipChipperson]

I'm kind of suspecting that's what may have happened here, but still a little skeptical about it as the Xbox ad PC betas are still going to happen. There hasn't been much detail revealed about the story/lore of 2019 Modern Warfare's story, even though there will be a reveal of it soon, but based off of the factions that are available from the beta and just overall, observation of the military gear that some of the characters were wearing, the "Allegiance" seems to be composed of Russian operators(the one in the beta is wearing a blue striped telnayshka(striped shirt), which corresponds with a certain branch of the Russian military, most likely not VDV(airborne) and most likely GRU Spetsnaz, because he has a bat tattoo, which just so happens to be the logo for GRU Spetsnaz. OR it can just be those who have served in the Russian military at least, even though they're labeled as Spetsnaz operators, but so were the Ultranationalists in COD4, for the multiplayer. There were Russians who were allied with the Loyalist too, and they also have Spetsnaz operators as well)/other foreign countries that may include Middle Eastern(most likely one mirroring Syria), and some African countries(ones most likely aligned with Russia like Algeria and Nigeria)/and one faction that could possibly be a PMC/Mercenary group of radicals/criminals/thrill seekers. And apparently, I don't know if this is true, the multiplayer has its own "story/universe", but it's still connected to the story... I'm betting it's a retelling of the Ultranationalist from COD4, just applying them to current situations that going on.

Again, this is just my own speculation based off of the limited content and information I gathered from what was available from the beta and other sources. Remember though, this isn't the first time governments have accused games and their developers for creating content that is intended to "disturb political relations" or to "destabilize the current political climate". If there's anyone old enough to remember when Mercenaries 2 came out and the Venezuelan government was not too fond of it. The same with Ghost Recon Wildlands happened as well, the Bolivian government wasn't happy with how the game "portrays" them. Other than that, I hope the Russian fanbase can still play the game with no one to trouble them. Hopefully, it's something innocent or at least nothing extremely major, that can be negotiated to put the game back in the PS stores(I don't think I saw anything about the game itself being pulled from retailers, just the PS store). Again, there's probably something else going on that could probably just be a problem exclusive to Sony, as the article did say the Xbox ONE and PC betas are going to go as planned.

[Majinzo]

Will Americans cry and get it removed here in the USA next ?

[SierraGuy]

Oh boo... Germany didn't ban WW2.