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WestOfDaRockies
03/06/23 11:21:27 AM
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/atomic-heart-ban-sony-receives-112641061.html

Atomic Heart Ban: Sony Receives Formal Letter From Ukraines Government

The Ukrainian government has made good on its promise to formally request an Atomic Heart ban from major platform holders including Sony. Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has now published the official letter addressed to PlayStation boss Jim Ryan.

Why Ukraine is requesting an Atomic Heart ban

Atomic Heart is developed by Russian studio Mundfish that apparently has ties to Vladimir Putins regime, which has been under international scrutiny for the past year over the war in Ukraine..

...Part of Fedorovs letter reads (verbatim):

I believe Sony Interactive Entertainment doesnt want to be considered as a platform that supports communism, even in such futuristic execution. History of Soviet Russia and its imperialistic infringements towards other independent countries led to murder of hundreds of thousands of civil people. Not only now in Ukraine but also in Moldova and Georgia.

Quite a rhetorical question, whether it is worth to promote symbols that covered with blood.

Fedorov has sent similar letters to Sony president and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida, Valves Gabe Newell, and Microsofts Brad Smith.

Neither of the aforementioned companies have responded to calls for an Atomic Heart ban yet.

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Doom_Art
03/06/23 11:22:04 AM
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SMAL should get banned again tbh

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Tsukasa1891
03/06/23 11:27:45 AM
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Think this will have the Streisand effect?

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_Angel_
03/06/23 11:31:08 AM
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Nah this game is fine

lots of capital G gamers pissed at Ukraine rn

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CyricZ
03/06/23 11:33:01 AM
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Huh.

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1337toothbrush
03/06/23 11:35:01 AM
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Don't they have more important things to do?

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WestOfDaRockies
03/06/23 4:04:53 PM
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1337toothbrush posted...
Don't they have more important things to do?


Good question.

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Irony
03/06/23 4:06:25 PM
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1337toothbrush posted...
Don't they have more important things to do?
Sony? Probably not.

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Imit8m3
03/06/23 4:11:39 PM
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I thought that "love the people, hate the government" was the "enlightened" way to act in this situation.
This just gives the game free publicity

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SandersonFanboy
03/06/23 4:12:37 PM
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What are these ties? Like, does the dev support the war?
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Jagr_68
03/06/23 4:12:50 PM
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Um, there's a war still going on and they're concerned over a video game---oh who am I fucking kidding games are ultra serious business now.

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ROBANN_88
03/06/23 4:14:05 PM
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SandersonFanboy posted...
What are these ties? Like, does the dev support the war?

I read there's some stuff that can be interpreted as 'pro-war' in it, though i don't remember the specifics

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GameGodOfAll
03/06/23 4:14:41 PM
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They came for Gamers. Gamers!

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Choco
03/06/23 4:15:07 PM
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i'm sure the people obsessing over hogwarts legacy will obsess over this game just as much because they're consistent in their world view and not arbitrary whatsoever

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SandersonFanboy
03/06/23 4:16:14 PM
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ROBANN_88 posted...
I read there's some stuff that can be interpreted as 'pro-war' in it, though i don't remember the specifics
See, that'd be one thing, but most I've seen about are vague claims at ties of the publisher and investors to Putin, and criticizing the developer for not criticizing the war and remaining neutral, which as far as I've seen they basically have to do if they want to keep operating in Russia.
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SandersonFanboy
03/06/23 4:16:50 PM
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Choco posted...
i'm sure the people obsessing over hogwarts legacy will obsess over this game just as much because they're consistent in their world view and not arbitrary whatsoever
I mean, they don't seem to be the same kind of situation....like, at all
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MarcyWarcy
03/06/23 4:17:47 PM
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Not going to care until we get a video of Zelenskyy in a turtleneck begging the us for money to bribe Sony to ban it

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GenericBossN23
03/06/23 4:18:13 PM
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1337toothbrush posted...
Don't they have more important things to do?
What a moronic thing to say, Yes, governments can only do one thing at any given time, just like a person can only chew gum or walk, or how you can only type without thinking.
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Zikten
03/06/23 4:31:03 PM
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Not to mention, if the game is funding Putin, it very much is important to worry about for Ukraine during a war
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Supersex420
03/07/23 1:00:15 PM
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"Surely you don't want communism!"

Many do

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daftpunk_mk5
03/07/23 1:10:42 PM
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Didnt members of the dev team donate to Ukraine?

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Unsuprised_Pika
03/07/23 1:26:49 PM
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SandersonFanboy posted...
See, that'd be one thing, but most I've seen about are vague claims at ties of the publisher and investors to Putin, and criticizing the developer for not criticizing the war and remaining neutral, which as far as I've seen they basically have to do if they want to keep operating in Russia.

I mean it should be made illegal to operate in Russia for the majority of US/EU business anyways.

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FL81
03/07/23 4:10:13 PM
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FWIW this game is a lot more deserving of a boycott than Hogwarts Legacy

but a full-on ban is still going a bit too far

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xlr_big-coop
03/07/23 4:14:00 PM
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This is getting petty/stupid. He ought to worry more about the war than some stupid videogame.

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Prismsblade
03/07/23 4:16:50 PM
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I'm finding it very hard to believe a video game company of all things would have much if any ties to a old relic like Putin.

I doubt he even knows what a Playstation is.

Also.

1337toothbrush posted...
Don't they have more important things to do?


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--Zero-
03/07/23 4:31:56 PM
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They got more important things to worry about than a video game.

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Zikten
03/08/23 1:03:58 AM
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xlr_big-coop posted...
This is getting petty/stupid. He ought to worry more about the war than some stupid videogame.

Zikten posted...
Not to mention, if the game is funding Putin, it very much is important to worry about for Ukraine during a war

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hockeybub89
03/08/23 1:07:49 AM
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Guess we need to start being disappointed in people for not caring about war crimes if they play this game instead of boycotting it.

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Priere
03/08/23 1:24:03 AM
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Next target? Tetris hopefully.

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andel
03/08/23 1:40:30 AM
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1337toothbrush posted...
Don't they have more important things to do?

well they are fighting the genocidal fascists that you have been suspended multiple times for supporting

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Kloe_Rinz
03/08/23 3:28:26 AM
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if its a Russian game wouldnt sanctions ban it in the west anyway?
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1337toothbrush
03/08/23 8:47:56 AM
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andel posted...
well they are fighting the genocidal fascists that you have been suspended multiple times for supporting
When have I supported Russia in the Ukraine war? When I said they were 100% for invading? Don't spread lies about me.

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Foppe
03/10/23 12:24:07 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Um, there's a war still going on and they're concerned over a video game---oh who am I fucking kidding games are ultra serious business now.
Found the Russian shill.

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Blightzkrieg
03/10/23 12:29:01 PM
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Imit8m3 posted...
I thought that "love the people, hate the government" was the "enlightened" way to act in this situation.

It's a generally naive take towards an armed conflict, and towards dictatorships in general.

The Russian people are not necessarily deserving of hate or hardship, but their success directly benefits their actions in Ukraine. Particularly in the case of a game like this that appears to have ties directly to the Russian government. It's not a significant difference from say, Tencent (though obviously on a much smaller scale).

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Foppe
03/10/23 12:32:48 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
It's a generally naive take towards an armed conflict, and towards dictatorships in general.

The Russian people are not necessarily deserving of hate or hardship, but their success directly benefits their actions in Ukraine. Particularly in the case of a game like this that appears to have ties directly to the Russian government. It's not a significant difference from say, Tencent (though obviously on a much smaller scale).
Tencent is also involved.

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1337toothbrush
03/10/23 12:45:36 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
It's a generally naive take towards an armed conflict, and towards dictatorships in general.

The Russian people are not necessarily deserving of hate or hardship, but their success directly benefits their actions in Ukraine. Particularly in the case of a game like this that appears to have ties directly to the Russian government. It's not a significant difference from say, Tencent (though obviously on a much smaller scale).
You could make the same argument of American companies paying taxes to the US government which go toward wars like Iraq and genocide like in Yemen.

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Blightzkrieg
03/10/23 6:51:47 PM
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1337toothbrush posted...
You could make the same argument of American companies paying taxes to the US government which go toward wars like Iraq and genocide like in Yemen.
You could make a lot of arguments if you were a Russian shill, yeah.

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1337toothbrush
03/10/23 7:32:41 PM
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Blightzkrieg posted...
You could make a lot of arguments if you were a Russian shill, yeah.
Are you saying CIA assets can't make any arguments?

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Foppe
03/14/23 6:44:56 AM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
if its a Russian game wouldnt sanctions ban it in the west anyway?
They opened an office in Cyprus last year just to bypass the sanctions.

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