Ukraine's Atomic Heart Attack [Feb 22, 2023, 7:47 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
The Government of Ukraine plans to petition Valve, Microsoft, and Sony to remove
Atomic Heart from digital stores in Ukraine, and will ask platform
holders to consider “limiting distribution” of the game in other countries. At
heart of the matter are the new first-person shooter's Russian roots. There are
allegations that sales of the game directly benefit the Russian government and
that the game is possibly being used to harvest user data. Ukrainian tech
website
Dev.au first reported on this, and
PCGamesN has a statement in English directly from the Ukraine
government:
“Regarding the situation with the release of the game Atomic Heart, which has Russian roots and romanticises communist ideology and the Soviet Union, The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine will send an official letter to Sony, Microsoft, and Valve requesting a ban on selling digital versions of this game in Ukraine,” says Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, Alex Bornyakov.
“We also urge limiting the distribution of this game in other countries due to its toxicity, potential data collection of users, and the potential use of money raised from game purchases to conduct a war against Ukraine.”
“According to media reports, the game’s development was funded by Russian enterprises,” the statement continues. “Therefore, we call for all users worldwide to avoid this game. We also want to emphasise that the game developers have not publicly condemned the Putin regime and the bloody war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine.”
Steele Johnson wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 11:03:sfhand wrote on Feb 23, 2023, 00:10:
One of the reasons this old man games is to forget about all the BS in the world, if only for a few hours. No one in this thread has any way of really knowing what is happening on the other side of the globe, much less in the US (if you are in the US) with any certainty. There is no way to get news that is trustworthy, none at all, even our understanding of history is being changed to suit today's political agendas. When faced with the realities of war we all agree war is terrible, yet somehow 66% of the American public cheered on Shock and Awe in Iraq. Not me, however, when Iraq was unfolding I was certain that my fellow citizens were too smart to fall for the BS (the UN presentation evidence of Iraqi chemical warfare mobile labs was rendered models rather than actual photographs of said units) after having gone through Vietnam. Apparently we are all still hanging out in Plato's cave...
This is all that needs to be said. Y'all think you know what's going on in the world and forget that we're all just peasants to the billionaire, power hungry freaks that that feed us the information that they want us to believe (or disbelieve). That's all it is. If you're not in the global 1%, then you really don't know shit about what's going on other than maybe people dying. Go play your games
This is bad advice, though. Ignoring that quite a few people here are probably in the top 1% (if you own a home in the NYC area, and it's paid off, you're very close), since that's not how you meant it.
"Go play your game and don't care about anything" is overall bad advice. For one, there isn't really anyone saying you're a bad person for playing it, they're just saying there are more considerations than most games. And isn't that fair to say? We actually do know a lot of what's happening in Ukraine. Do we know that they were invaded. Yes. Objectively, yes we do.
People here get irate over their game being on Epic. They get irate over Denovo taking them from 140fps to 120fps. They get irate over Microsoft saying they're committed to the PC. Most no longer post here, but a few years back we had people irate over "objective game reviews," or over having an incorrect amount of black people in a medieval fantasy, or having to play as a woman.
Isn't a war a bit more real than some of that? Isn't it fair for some people to care about such things? It's weird that people tie it to age - I'd expect that, as you get older, you care more about the real things and less about whether a feature discussed in a preview a year before launch actually made it into the game.
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