From Babel UA: "With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, sanctions against the aggressor also affected the video game industry. The largest game publishers — Ubisoft, EA Games, Rockstar — have limited sales of their products in Russia and Belarus. And Steam, GOG and Epic Games stores have stopped accepting payments in rubles. But Russian players have already learned to circumvent the bans of publishers and shops — there are many instructions about how to do this on the Internet. The situation with the game developers of the aggressor countries is even more complicated. Many of them are not officially Russian or Belarusian, but have long opened offices in Europe and work from Britain, Hungary, and other countries. Russian developers usually donʼt comment on Russiaʼs aggression against Ukraine, continue to cooperate with Western companies and sell their games to Western players. Babel tells about the games Escape from Tarkov, World of Tanks, and War Thunder, which are popular in Europe and the United States, and about the behavior of their developers, who deliberately do not publicly state their position on the war or order advertising from outspoken supporters of the Putin regime."
Escape From Tarkov fans are widely upset about the game's new edition, which costs significantly more than the base game itself.
Battlestate Games has announced that Escape from Tarkov PvE will be free to all Edge of Darkness owners, but will this quell the community's fury?
As criticisms mount against the recent Escape From Tarkov DLC drama, Helldivers 2 takes a playful jab at the FPS game with these cosmetics.
I still can't quite wrap my head around how Battlestate could have thought this would go any other way. $250 editions of games is something that rightfully deserves every negative article it can get.
