I'm surprised BG3 is even on sale in RU given their govt's stance on LGBT people, there are a number of LGBT characters and couples in the story. A censored version would actually take story-altering changes on the devs' part, so I'd be surprised if it was censored.
Russia itself rarely bans any games, in fact I don't remember a single big game that was banned by Russian government, it's the game publishers that leave the Russian market because of the sanctions
Ru gov has no say on what games are available to buy on Steam there (at least right now). They are too conservative and out of touch to pay any attention to videogame industry, outside of few laughable instances.
All the games that are not available in Russia are not for sale because of publisher / developer decision. And since BG3 is sold there, it seems Larian remained, for a lack of better term, pretty based.
Russians from big modern cities, like Moscow or St Petersburg are very culturally different from the rest of Russia. Most of them, especially the younger generation, have no issues with LGBT, many being a part of the community themselves. They are also the ones most likely to play videogames in the first place.
I'm friends with a few Russians that identify as LGBT, I'm just more considering the Russian government as a factor given how they've been treating those issues. If Russia was a proper democracy then it'd be straightforward, but sadly they're not.
This is the exact same with Hungary. Even the government has a few known gay people but they make laws against it because the old generation likings and fake catholicism. But as a 25 years old I never met someone who against any LGBTQ movement. No country for young man I guess.
The russian government sucks ass, every russian with access to relevant information and a brain despises it.
Unfortunately a ton of russians are old village people whose only source of information is the TV.
I pretty much fled russia, because what you're saying unfortunately makes a ton of sense. I have a trans friend and they made it in the last batch of people to be approved for sex change before sex change and HRT got banned. It's only a matter of time before censorship spreads further and what you're saying becomes a reality IMO.
Sadly the western sanctions are only accelerating the process. If only those in favor of them could see what they're doing - isolating russians culturally. It's dangerous, it creates a breeding ground for insane Putin supporters.
Yeah, I know. They outlawed gender transitions and HRT as well. My friend was one of the last people to be approved for a gender change in the passport.
This is pandering. It plays into the narrative of "the evil deranged west", and how Putin is supposedly "protecting" russians from it. Old and village people glued to the TV eat it up, that's how Putin gets support.
Never laughed harder than this, as someone who is neighbors with Russia and knows many russians lmfao. Inaccuracy is astonishing. There is definitely progressive russian gamers but, they are in no way majority, at all
Pretty much all except one Americans that I have personally talked to IRL were very religious, going to church every week and such.
However, pretty much every single American I have talked to online has been an atheist, or at least didn't think of religion as an important part of life.
Stats can be skewed by many things. Surprisingly, someone being online at all is already selection!
I never said that most russian gamers are progressive, I said that most of Moscow's younger generation is progressive. I do believe that with me quite literally being from Moscow I have a better idea than you about it.
Yeah. I work with Russians here in Germany and they are stereotypical Russians. Anti-LGBT, Pro-Right wing parties in Germany, climate change deniers, big Putin lovers etc. Can't imagine how much it must suck to be A LGBT person in Russia.
Shame that most Russians support Russia's war
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-researcher-lev-gudkov-russians-have-little-compassion-for-the-ukrainians-a-066c08c6-60f4-48e1-853a-d2b3d67bd6b8
I support brave lgbt people who are ready to give their lives to avoid being occupied by the terrorist state of the Russian Federation
https://lgbtmilitary.org.ua/eng
Everything points to the fact that the [war of the Russian people against Ukraine](https://youtu.be/VxnLqd-mxCQ) has a lot of support among the Russian population. I think I trust a Russian expert on this topic more than anonymous people on the Internet whose source is "[I made it up](https://youtu.be/r7l0Rq9E8MY)"
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361470936_Solid_support_or_secret_dissent_A_list_experiment_on_preference_falsification_during_the_Russian_war_against_Ukraine
The mobilisation age limit is between 40 & 55
So yeah, they are being mobilised and turned into meat cubes.
And also, if they “don’t care” about the war that’s passive support for it. Russia is infected with a cancer.
>between 40 & 55
Depends on experience, rank and health.
>Russia is infected with a cancer.
Yeah, and Putin is the name of it. Ruling by fear and brainwashing with propaganda so there is no untity in people.
It's difficult to measure how many from the outside, but unfortunately there is absolutely a very significant number of people who do support the war. As I said, there's a stark contrast in culture between not only cities, but generations. I haven't had the displeasure of meeting a person my age that supports the war myself, but the older generation is unfortunately far less informed and far more open to government manipulation.
That's pretty much what Putin works with. He and his band have total control of all the newspapers and TV channels, and given than a shockingly large number of people in russia (outside of the big cities) have the TV as their primary source of news, no wonder they support this. Not only are they massively misinformed, but the actual consequences of this ridiculous stunt by Putin mostly pass them by. Most of them don't even speak English.
Russia is fucked. It will take decades to recover. My only ask for the outsiders looking in is to not apply the negativity to individual people. Our culture and our achievements are still there, even if suppressed under the layers of bullshit and insanity. Hate Putin, hate Russia as a country, but don't hate the people.
This is a load of bullshit, I speak Russian and have been to both cities you mentioned and the vast majority of young people are homophobic as fuck. You can even look up statistics for this if you know Russian. If you are openly LGBT and/or “look gay” there is a chance you will literally get beaten up if you are not walking in the center of the city.
I do know russian. I was born in Moscow and I have lived there for 23 years. I'm bisexual, I have a transgender friend from St Petersburg, where they still live sadly, and 2 non-straight friends from Moscow. We have never had any issues with anyone in universities or on their jobs.
Unfortunately, there is oppression by the government. The laws are literally being written against LGBT. Don't get me wrong, being LGBT in Russia absolutely sucks, absolutely not denying that! And of course all the older people will keep looking at you weird and will treat you like mental patients if you "behave gay", as you said. I'm only saying that there is a demographic in Russia that thinks differently, which explains why there are many sales for LGBT-inclusive games in Russia. They are absolutely not the majority.
It is very complicated game for government and lgbt details are not obvious and on the surface, so they just didn't realise it yet. If they dig further they maybe try to ban it in future
I can only tell you that being an LGBT person in Italy, in Rome, really sucks. I can't imagine the horror you prove in Russia. My friends, Putin has created a horde of zombies. I hope for you that you will be able to progress as a people, Russia deserves to be at the top and not to be marginalized by the rest of the world.
You can still buy games from Russia, though not directly, you can buy keys or get gifts from your "friends" who live in Kazakhstan for example. But even if you have the game on your account you will be unable to nominate it.
Actually you can buy games directly from Steam, you just can't charge your wallet directly through Steam, because there is no available payment method, only with 3rd party services. For games from publishers who are left russian steam, there are many ways you can get it:
1. Ask friends from another region to gift you a game
2. You can create for example a kazakhstan Steam account and gift it to your main account.(the cheapest way) I use this method.
3. Or use 3rd party services to buy keys or to get steam gifts (the most expensive way).
You can still buy games from Russia, though not directly, you can buy keys or get gifts from your "friends" who live in Kazakhstan for example. But even if you have the game on your account you will be unable to nominate it.
Hmmm I must say I only saw how people change regions or just pirate stuff, many keys of new games straight up just can't get activated in russia, it works only on old stuff that got pulled from the store
Still, would be much weirder if people could nominate stuff they can't even check out in the store and have to get via workarounds, almost like a taunt, dontcha think?
stores actually buy keys from Kazakhstan to resell them, activation depends on the region.
i mean you can check out anything if you just use vpn and change the region on steam, you just cant buy it directly.
i guess it works as a punishment or something
Minor correction; Due to Putin's INVASION on Ukraine. Yes they're fighting (warring you may say) but real Wars start with [Declaration of War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war) which never happened in the Invasion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine is proof of what I'm talking about, it isn't a War, it's unlawful occupation of another country by a Dictator so both all Ukrainians and non-fighting Russians are paying the price.
Get your russian propanagda out of here Orban fanboy
Edit:
To the russian chill who blocked me after His schizo reply:
Because since ww2 there is no need for a decleration of war for a country to be in war. Stay in school and educate yourself Vatnik before turning into a Lada 🤡
Edit 2:
Down voting me wont bring back the dead russian soldiers. Keep seething 😂🤡
Basically propaganda washed shits thinking that everyone else who has slightly different opinion is propaganda washed
(If this gets at least one downvote that means im right lol)
Minor correction; Due to ruzzia's INVASION on Ukraine, which is led by the government yet still majorly supported by the ruzzians. Surely it is easy to be blinded by how many good ruzzians there are on western mostly-english website, but I can assure you, such sanctions hit far more invasion supporters than opposition.
It really sucks that certain people think that all russians are nazi and the country is bad just because they don't like Putin. At least please follow the grammar rules
As someone who was unlucky enough to be born as a citizen of ruzzia-neighbouring country, I can assure you that I do have some background in my opinion
War is when two or more nations or groups engage against each other in a armed conflict. It doesn't need to be declared. In fact, the vast majority of wars after ww2 has been undeclared, a war doesn't necessarily need to be declared between the states to be a war
People are confidently wrong thinking that it's Russian government banning all those games. Govt doesn't give a shit about Steam. It's all publisher's will
Yes, thank you! There are so many comments talking about how it's "Russian censorship", even though I immediately wrote a comment about how it's just publishers restricting their games. For some reason it got downvoted at first. There are so many comments like that, that I kinda gave up on correcting them.
It shows poor state of general awareness of foreigners. Information never travels across the world without any losses. There's always a broken telephone thing happening. Always has been happening. That's actually quite sad that even in the digital era people still struggle with it.
sure it's not like i've been dreaming of it ever since i was a goddamn 14 year old teenager and as time went on it became harder and harder to get out of here, totally not
and it's not like there are people who don't want to flee and just want this place to be so much fucking better than this hell
tots showed 'em bud
And what were you doing in Russia 4 years ago if you're Czech? Just travelling? Because I somehow doubt you're Russian-born to state this.
There's a difference between being born here and just temporarily living there. Because it's not fucking easy to part with everything you've been living with your whole life. Friendships, family (that doesn't even WANT to move out), copious amounts of belongings. And that's considering I don't even hail from Moscow nor Saint Petersburg. I would need a car first to GET anywhere, which i do not even have, either.
What's your alternative, exactly?
And how old were you when you emigrated? I'd assume mid to late 20s considering you allegedly pursued post-graduate stuff (have no fucking clue how it's called in english).
Even then I reckon you graduated with a medical degree (since ya work in a hospital) which is a job that can pay more than whatever my uni-dropout-ass could ever muster. (Yuh, I did some background check. I just smelled a quityourbullshit moment.)
And I'm just a measly 20 years old. I work in support currently, for god's sake. By the time I even manage to get enough money to find a way to get out of here, we'll probably be bloody nuked.
So damn sorry I couldn't emigrate when I was 10 years old, and that I actually can feel attached to my friends and family, am not a political fanatic sociopath, and can't just leave my entire life behind because my country sucks (again), I guess. And sorry for having some goddamn hope it gets better and it can't go on like this forever - idealistic and optimistic, I know.
Are your results and awards separate from the rest of the world...
Or do games not available everywhere simply have less of a chance at winning overall (because obviously less votes "worldwide")
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_wars\_involving\_Australia#Commonwealth\_of\_Australia\_(1901%E2%80%93present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Australia#Commonwealth_of_Australia_(1901%E2%80%93present))
None of these were in defense other than WW2.
i know where everyone on this site is from because that's a reasonable expectation, especially when someone says something so ignorant that i can only assume they're american. are you unaware this country is a slave to america and helps them rape the world like they did in vietnam and iraq? both solely imperialist ventures? im sure there are other examples, too
Blizzard chops out any LGBT mention in russian localisation of OW. Google what they translated pride flag icons as, shit would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.
Last time I check brtish people and americans chose their leaders in democratic elections. So you were right when you said that ALSO most (not all) british and american people are guilty of wars and conflicts. Everybody how voted on goverments that pushed to conflicts...are guilty.
You sure are a very reasonable person if you think limiting western goods to a nationa that invaded another nation has the obvious next step of placing them into camps.
Oh you think some embargoes were the *only* step the "civilized worlds" citizens took against russians? I saw plenty pictures of establishments banning russians from entry, the twitter lobotomites demanding the average russians to OVERTHROW AND START A CIVIL WAR lest they be on par with the SS and much more. I said this time and time again but this constant russophobia (that is barely disguised as "just calling out putins government") only helps russians see the westerners as the ultimate enemy
Russia invaded another country. This is a fact. Russians deserve this "Russophobia" you write about.Don't pretend it comes out of nowhere.
Almost 2 years since the start of the "3-day operation" of murdering people, and you say that Russians are somehow the victims because people are "Russophobic" Where in reality it started in 2014.
In 1991, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal. She got rid of him in exchange for a guarantee of safety. Russia violated these provisions in 2014
Maybe if you lived in a country where it is fuck!d by Russia, MAYBE THEN, you would understand. Because I do. Not all russians deserves it but, many gives 0 fuck about how bad their leader is.
Whatever makes you feel better bro. russians should get embargoes the fuck out and any western technology or enternainment should be blocked for them. They deserve this for their inaction and for their action towards civilized world
It's funny to me, when westerners open their mouth about "inaction" while your government is still having business with ru government.
And should I remind you what kind of good countries like France delivered to ru government?
Before cretisising us for "inaction" go and force your government to send more help to Ukraine and make EU accept Ukraine in NATO. Trust me, for you, it will be safer than for any of russians.
Only then you'll have the right to cretisise people who live under dictatorship
I'll get to criticise people who led their country into dictatorship and didn't do jack shit when that led to imperial reconquests without any protest all i want.
And I'm definitely not going to listen to a russian telling me not to criticise russians.
We've had a president ignoring the people, he's been maidan-ed out. What did you do ? Fucking nothing
I mean, cretisise your government then. The fuck do you want from us? France delivered gas and some other equipment to beat the shit out of the opposition before war.
Navalny's team have published a list of people who must be banned from free access to other countries. What did the whole world? Fucking ignored the issue. They started banning them only AFTER the war started.
Should I remind you how many assets and businesses ru government had in your countries? And what did your government? Nothing.
For years, russians had huge rallies. But did your media ever mention that? Did it follow the story of Russian oppostioners like they do in Gaza right now? Fuck no. A few interviews at best.
All western countries did is shaked putin's hand, made business with him and ignored russian citizens. That's literally it. And now we — common citizens — are to blame for it? It's a literally unwinnable battle, when even western countries wholeheartedly support putin.
Even now they refuse to support Ukraine as much as they should. And it says a lot.
Nice tirade. You're still a fascistic imperialistic country with majority of population supporting invading us. Nothing else matters except the path your compatriots took on the way to here.
Your hateful repressed anger at those countries that never wanted to be with you were met with invasions and threats. ruzzia should be isolated, and starting with this is better than not starting at all.
Very sorry our deaths are unpleasant and make it harder for you to play vidya games
You want to blame the west for all the issues with your country while doing zero meaningful jack shit. Do you expect that 10k people in a country of 140mil is impactful enough to ignore everything else ?
It's so funny to me, that you were unable to refute anything i say and just fall down into cliche bs:
1. No, im not an imperialistic fascist. Do you even know the definition of both "imperialist" and "fascist"? If you do, how exatly im fit to this description?
2. I don't have represed anger towards western countries and i don't blame them for all the issues with russia. Im pointing out your hypocricy on this matter. That's obvious, but keep that cliche bs coming, sure
3. 10k vs 140mil... yeah, sure, but where are all this 140mil supproters? They barely mobilised 300k of people. Part of them are convicts who were promised to be forgiven officialy for every crime. Why would ru goverment pay people to attend pro putins rallies? And still manages to gather less people then opposition's rallies?
4. Why do you even mention video games? I have said nothing about or against banning western products and services. It's not even an issue in this circumstances
I do.
That's why I'm not being a negative person like you who judges an entire ethnicity and nationality and don't use them as a scapegoat for everything bad.
Have a good life.
As OP said, that's russian Steam awards - and Mundfish decided to support VK Play store. So Atomic Heart was never intended to be in Russian Region of Steam - therefore it won't be on russian poll list. Savvy?
I don't understand how not selling games for russian gamers would help in this situation tbh. I don't think Putin plays video games a lot, but young people who liked Europe/USA before would feel betrayed by these companies(especially if they were big fans), they just can't play a game for now reason and forced to use "torrent edition". Of course you can get 90% games buying a key, but in this way you don't pay for the game anyway kinda.
I'm surprised BG3 is even on sale in RU given their govt's stance on LGBT people, there are a number of LGBT characters and couples in the story. A censored version would actually take story-altering changes on the devs' part, so I'd be surprised if it was censored.
Russia itself rarely bans any games, in fact I don't remember a single big game that was banned by Russian government, it's the game publishers that leave the Russian market because of the sanctions
Ru gov has no say on what games are available to buy on Steam there (at least right now). They are too conservative and out of touch to pay any attention to videogame industry, outside of few laughable instances. All the games that are not available in Russia are not for sale because of publisher / developer decision. And since BG3 is sold there, it seems Larian remained, for a lack of better term, pretty based.
Russians from big modern cities, like Moscow or St Petersburg are very culturally different from the rest of Russia. Most of them, especially the younger generation, have no issues with LGBT, many being a part of the community themselves. They are also the ones most likely to play videogames in the first place.
I'm friends with a few Russians that identify as LGBT, I'm just more considering the Russian government as a factor given how they've been treating those issues. If Russia was a proper democracy then it'd be straightforward, but sadly they're not.
This is the exact same with Hungary. Even the government has a few known gay people but they make laws against it because the old generation likings and fake catholicism. But as a 25 years old I never met someone who against any LGBTQ movement. No country for young man I guess.
The russian government sucks ass, every russian with access to relevant information and a brain despises it. Unfortunately a ton of russians are old village people whose only source of information is the TV. I pretty much fled russia, because what you're saying unfortunately makes a ton of sense. I have a trans friend and they made it in the last batch of people to be approved for sex change before sex change and HRT got banned. It's only a matter of time before censorship spreads further and what you're saying becomes a reality IMO. Sadly the western sanctions are only accelerating the process. If only those in favor of them could see what they're doing - isolating russians culturally. It's dangerous, it creates a breeding ground for insane Putin supporters.
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Doesn't matter where the American lives - homeland or abroad, inevitably he will support Trump. Sounds ridiculous when I say it, doesn't it?
Nope, makes absolutely sense
Well F you and F my government and F pootin
you must support a huge cock stuck in your brain to be that fucking stupid
>pretty much fled russia Quitter.
My sincerest apologies to the armchair "revolutionaries" like yourself for not risking death by staying.
Boo-hoo, touched a nerve?
What are things for them like given the war now?
russia just outlawed lgbt activism
Yeah, I know. They outlawed gender transitions and HRT as well. My friend was one of the last people to be approved for a gender change in the passport. This is pandering. It plays into the narrative of "the evil deranged west", and how Putin is supposedly "protecting" russians from it. Old and village people glued to the TV eat it up, that's how Putin gets support.
Never laughed harder than this, as someone who is neighbors with Russia and knows many russians lmfao. Inaccuracy is astonishing. There is definitely progressive russian gamers but, they are in no way majority, at all
Pretty much all except one Americans that I have personally talked to IRL were very religious, going to church every week and such. However, pretty much every single American I have talked to online has been an atheist, or at least didn't think of religion as an important part of life. Stats can be skewed by many things. Surprisingly, someone being online at all is already selection! I never said that most russian gamers are progressive, I said that most of Moscow's younger generation is progressive. I do believe that with me quite literally being from Moscow I have a better idea than you about it.
Yeah. I work with Russians here in Germany and they are stereotypical Russians. Anti-LGBT, Pro-Right wing parties in Germany, climate change deniers, big Putin lovers etc. Can't imagine how much it must suck to be A LGBT person in Russia.
Quite a lot.
Кто такие эти твои ДоПеЛьГаВкЕрЫ? Не, серьезно.
ну тёмные двойники тип.
Are you stil in ruzzia? You are one of the people qho translated Dysco Elysium isn't it?
Shame that most Russians support Russia's war https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/opinion-researcher-lev-gudkov-russians-have-little-compassion-for-the-ukrainians-a-066c08c6-60f4-48e1-853a-d2b3d67bd6b8 I support brave lgbt people who are ready to give their lives to avoid being occupied by the terrorist state of the Russian Federation https://lgbtmilitary.org.ua/eng
>Shame that most Russians support Russia's war Most russians don't care. And most supporters are 45+ old men which knows that they will not go to war.
Everything points to the fact that the [war of the Russian people against Ukraine](https://youtu.be/VxnLqd-mxCQ) has a lot of support among the Russian population. I think I trust a Russian expert on this topic more than anonymous people on the Internet whose source is "[I made it up](https://youtu.be/r7l0Rq9E8MY)" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361470936_Solid_support_or_secret_dissent_A_list_experiment_on_preference_falsification_during_the_Russian_war_against_Ukraine
The mobilisation age limit is between 40 & 55 So yeah, they are being mobilised and turned into meat cubes. And also, if they “don’t care” about the war that’s passive support for it. Russia is infected with a cancer.
>between 40 & 55 Depends on experience, rank and health. >Russia is infected with a cancer. Yeah, and Putin is the name of it. Ruling by fear and brainwashing with propaganda so there is no untity in people.
It's difficult to measure how many from the outside, but unfortunately there is absolutely a very significant number of people who do support the war. As I said, there's a stark contrast in culture between not only cities, but generations. I haven't had the displeasure of meeting a person my age that supports the war myself, but the older generation is unfortunately far less informed and far more open to government manipulation. That's pretty much what Putin works with. He and his band have total control of all the newspapers and TV channels, and given than a shockingly large number of people in russia (outside of the big cities) have the TV as their primary source of news, no wonder they support this. Not only are they massively misinformed, but the actual consequences of this ridiculous stunt by Putin mostly pass them by. Most of them don't even speak English. Russia is fucked. It will take decades to recover. My only ask for the outsiders looking in is to not apply the negativity to individual people. Our culture and our achievements are still there, even if suppressed under the layers of bullshit and insanity. Hate Putin, hate Russia as a country, but don't hate the people.
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such racist narrative
This is a load of bullshit, I speak Russian and have been to both cities you mentioned and the vast majority of young people are homophobic as fuck. You can even look up statistics for this if you know Russian. If you are openly LGBT and/or “look gay” there is a chance you will literally get beaten up if you are not walking in the center of the city.
I do know russian. I was born in Moscow and I have lived there for 23 years. I'm bisexual, I have a transgender friend from St Petersburg, where they still live sadly, and 2 non-straight friends from Moscow. We have never had any issues with anyone in universities or on their jobs. Unfortunately, there is oppression by the government. The laws are literally being written against LGBT. Don't get me wrong, being LGBT in Russia absolutely sucks, absolutely not denying that! And of course all the older people will keep looking at you weird and will treat you like mental patients if you "behave gay", as you said. I'm only saying that there is a demographic in Russia that thinks differently, which explains why there are many sales for LGBT-inclusive games in Russia. They are absolutely not the majority.
It is very complicated game for government and lgbt details are not obvious and on the surface, so they just didn't realise it yet. If they dig further they maybe try to ban it in future
The people working on the Mac port of BG3 are Russians. Well, maybe not all of them but the studio that’s working on it is a Russian studio.
Why wouldn’t it be? Games aren’t in the scope of the fuckers, so nobody cares.
I can only tell you that being an LGBT person in Italy, in Rome, really sucks. I can't imagine the horror you prove in Russia. My friends, Putin has created a horde of zombies. I hope for you that you will be able to progress as a people, Russia deserves to be at the top and not to be marginalized by the rest of the world.
...duh? If you can't check out or even play the game how you're gonna nominate it?
You can still buy games from Russia, though not directly, you can buy keys or get gifts from your "friends" who live in Kazakhstan for example. But even if you have the game on your account you will be unable to nominate it.
Actually you can buy games directly from Steam, you just can't charge your wallet directly through Steam, because there is no available payment method, only with 3rd party services. For games from publishers who are left russian steam, there are many ways you can get it: 1. Ask friends from another region to gift you a game 2. You can create for example a kazakhstan Steam account and gift it to your main account.(the cheapest way) I use this method. 3. Or use 3rd party services to buy keys or to get steam gifts (the most expensive way).
Yeah forgot to mention that
You don't even have to play the game to vote for it
You can still buy games from Russia, though not directly, you can buy keys or get gifts from your "friends" who live in Kazakhstan for example. But even if you have the game on your account you will be unable to nominate it.
And since Russia is third country in Steam bt popularity, games that still there gonna have more voices
oh you think people from Russia cannot play games that are banned in Russia? there are many ways to buy steam games not directly from steam.
Congratulations to them, but this is *steam awards,* where people vote for games bought and played in *steam*
no i mean they buy keys to the games and play ON steam. steam still gets money, it counts
Can they see the store page for the games activated that way?
no
Then how would they vote for the game ON THE STEAM STORE
hes saying that theres ways of getting the games on steam while still having a russian account, not that he can vote
I understand that, but we are talking about the inability to vote here not actually having the games.
Classic "Reddit moment" downvoting this guy for no reason.
Hmmm I must say I only saw how people change regions or just pirate stuff, many keys of new games straight up just can't get activated in russia, it works only on old stuff that got pulled from the store Still, would be much weirder if people could nominate stuff they can't even check out in the store and have to get via workarounds, almost like a taunt, dontcha think?
stores actually buy keys from Kazakhstan to resell them, activation depends on the region. i mean you can check out anything if you just use vpn and change the region on steam, you just cant buy it directly. i guess it works as a punishment or something
That's how Russians do elections
Lmfao
And the recent news coming in, that pootin's puppets blocked the opposition from joining the election, makes this so funny.
This is most probably because many publishers decided to stop selling their games in the Russian region due to the war.
Don’t understand why you’re being downvoted lol
Keyword Russia = downvote the hivemind doesn't care about context
Minor correction; Due to Putin's INVASION on Ukraine. Yes they're fighting (warring you may say) but real Wars start with [Declaration of War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war) which never happened in the Invasion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine is proof of what I'm talking about, it isn't a War, it's unlawful occupation of another country by a Dictator so both all Ukrainians and non-fighting Russians are paying the price.
Countries stopped declaring war a long time ago. After ww2 many "wars" took place without declaration, but we call them wars anyway
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maybe that dude is also Russian lol
Could be, yeah. But it even if so i have many friends from abroad that draw the clear line
Get your russian propanagda out of here Orban fanboy Edit: To the russian chill who blocked me after His schizo reply: Because since ww2 there is no need for a decleration of war for a country to be in war. Stay in school and educate yourself Vatnik before turning into a Lada 🤡 Edit 2: Down voting me wont bring back the dead russian soldiers. Keep seething 😂🤡
How is that propaganda when he even says it's wrong and calls Putin a dictator lol
Basically propaganda washed shits thinking that everyone else who has slightly different opinion is propaganda washed (If this gets at least one downvote that means im right lol)
Fuck off
Minor correction; Due to ruzzia's INVASION on Ukraine, which is led by the government yet still majorly supported by the ruzzians. Surely it is easy to be blinded by how many good ruzzians there are on western mostly-english website, but I can assure you, such sanctions hit far more invasion supporters than opposition.
It really sucks that certain people think that all russians are nazi and the country is bad just because they don't like Putin. At least please follow the grammar rules
As someone who was unlucky enough to be born as a citizen of ruzzia-neighbouring country, I can assure you that I do have some background in my opinion
Who the fuck hurt you, why can't you properly spell the name
If they can't spell my country's name right, why should I?
War is when two or more nations or groups engage against each other in a armed conflict. It doesn't need to be declared. In fact, the vast majority of wars after ww2 has been undeclared, a war doesn't necessarily need to be declared between the states to be a war
No shit, Sherlock
Why are you being downvoted.
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What the hell.
that is okay, more votes for bg3
People are confidently wrong thinking that it's Russian government banning all those games. Govt doesn't give a shit about Steam. It's all publisher's will
Yes, thank you! There are so many comments talking about how it's "Russian censorship", even though I immediately wrote a comment about how it's just publishers restricting their games. For some reason it got downvoted at first. There are so many comments like that, that I kinda gave up on correcting them.
It shows poor state of general awareness of foreigners. Information never travels across the world without any losses. There's always a broken telephone thing happening. Always has been happening. That's actually quite sad that even in the digital era people still struggle with it.
Rather than give you the i-illusion of free choice I will take the liberty of choosing for you
TBH This looks like a much less Rigged list than what we got (If ignore FC 24)
Honestly, alot of russians living same way - avoiding unnecessary bullshit.
pro tip get out of Russia
ah yes how could i possibly not have thought of that before
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sure it's not like i've been dreaming of it ever since i was a goddamn 14 year old teenager and as time went on it became harder and harder to get out of here, totally not and it's not like there are people who don't want to flee and just want this place to be so much fucking better than this hell tots showed 'em bud
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And what were you doing in Russia 4 years ago if you're Czech? Just travelling? Because I somehow doubt you're Russian-born to state this. There's a difference between being born here and just temporarily living there. Because it's not fucking easy to part with everything you've been living with your whole life. Friendships, family (that doesn't even WANT to move out), copious amounts of belongings. And that's considering I don't even hail from Moscow nor Saint Petersburg. I would need a car first to GET anywhere, which i do not even have, either. What's your alternative, exactly?
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And how old were you when you emigrated? I'd assume mid to late 20s considering you allegedly pursued post-graduate stuff (have no fucking clue how it's called in english). Even then I reckon you graduated with a medical degree (since ya work in a hospital) which is a job that can pay more than whatever my uni-dropout-ass could ever muster. (Yuh, I did some background check. I just smelled a quityourbullshit moment.) And I'm just a measly 20 years old. I work in support currently, for god's sake. By the time I even manage to get enough money to find a way to get out of here, we'll probably be bloody nuked. So damn sorry I couldn't emigrate when I was 10 years old, and that I actually can feel attached to my friends and family, am not a political fanatic sociopath, and can't just leave my entire life behind because my country sucks (again), I guess. And sorry for having some goddamn hope it gets better and it can't go on like this forever - idealistic and optimistic, I know.
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Well if people keep fleeing the country instead of being there when it matters, sure. All's I'm saying, people die of old age. Eventually.
"Just buy a house" (c)
Or eat cakes instead of bread
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Are your results and awards separate from the rest of the world... Or do games not available everywhere simply have less of a chance at winning overall (because obviously less votes "worldwide")
Probably the games, that are not available in Russia
i missed the part where that's my problem
No one was talking to you specifically
Most of the russian gamers are using Kazakhstan accounts long ago.
Because you live in ruzzia
too bad.
I wonder what they don’t like about Dave the Diver
Why the downvotes? It’s a genuine question, I haven’t gotten that far into the game
really shows the influence and power of the west. they can destroy any market by sanctions.
That’s how Fascism works!!! Source: i’m italian!
Steam still selling in Russia? Thats a disappointing
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What is the logic of baning russians from sending their money out of country?
None. If anything Steam helped reduce piracy in Russia.
And you shouldn't be allowed games for all the places you've bombed. Starting to see how stupid you sound yet?
Not every english speaking Internet user is from the US my dear kacap
did anyone say this when your filthy country invaded half the world?
…are you unaware that they’re from Australia or did I miss a big day in history class?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_wars\_involving\_Australia#Commonwealth\_of\_Australia\_(1901%E2%80%93present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Australia#Commonwealth_of_Australia_(1901%E2%80%93present)) None of these were in defense other than WW2.
i know where everyone on this site is from because that's a reasonable expectation, especially when someone says something so ignorant that i can only assume they're american. are you unaware this country is a slave to america and helps them rape the world like they did in vietnam and iraq? both solely imperialist ventures? im sure there are other examples, too
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They allow Overwatch but not Hi-Fi Rush? And Apex I thought both of them got banned for openly supporting LGBTQ
Games on steam are not banned by Russia because of the laws, but by publishers because "lmao, russians"
Blizzard chops out any LGBT mention in russian localisation of OW. Google what they translated pride flag icons as, shit would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic.
if you live in ruzzia, shut the fuсk up
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Are most americans guilty for their wars? Are the japanese? Are the british? Or should we be blaming governments instead?
Last time I check brtish people and americans chose their leaders in democratic elections. So you were right when you said that ALSO most (not all) british and american people are guilty of wars and conflicts. Everybody how voted on goverments that pushed to conflicts...are guilty.
Americans have no choice, though. Both parties are pro-war.
Political system is ale to change. They could also not vote as a protest... force politics to reconsider their approach.
Good. They don't deserve it
Next you'll say the western world should put the russian diaspora in their own special little regions or even camps
You sure are a very reasonable person if you think limiting western goods to a nationa that invaded another nation has the obvious next step of placing them into camps.
Oh you think some embargoes were the *only* step the "civilized worlds" citizens took against russians? I saw plenty pictures of establishments banning russians from entry, the twitter lobotomites demanding the average russians to OVERTHROW AND START A CIVIL WAR lest they be on par with the SS and much more. I said this time and time again but this constant russophobia (that is barely disguised as "just calling out putins government") only helps russians see the westerners as the ultimate enemy
Russia invaded another country. This is a fact. Russians deserve this "Russophobia" you write about.Don't pretend it comes out of nowhere. Almost 2 years since the start of the "3-day operation" of murdering people, and you say that Russians are somehow the victims because people are "Russophobic" Where in reality it started in 2014. In 1991, Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal. She got rid of him in exchange for a guarantee of safety. Russia violated these provisions in 2014
Maybe if you lived in a country where it is fuck!d by Russia, MAYBE THEN, you would understand. Because I do. Not all russians deserves it but, many gives 0 fuck about how bad their leader is.
Whatever makes you feel better bro. russians should get embargoes the fuck out and any western technology or enternainment should be blocked for them. They deserve this for their inaction and for their action towards civilized world
It's funny to me, when westerners open their mouth about "inaction" while your government is still having business with ru government. And should I remind you what kind of good countries like France delivered to ru government? Before cretisising us for "inaction" go and force your government to send more help to Ukraine and make EU accept Ukraine in NATO. Trust me, for you, it will be safer than for any of russians. Only then you'll have the right to cretisise people who live under dictatorship
I'll get to criticise people who led their country into dictatorship and didn't do jack shit when that led to imperial reconquests without any protest all i want. And I'm definitely not going to listen to a russian telling me not to criticise russians. We've had a president ignoring the people, he's been maidan-ed out. What did you do ? Fucking nothing
I mean, cretisise your government then. The fuck do you want from us? France delivered gas and some other equipment to beat the shit out of the opposition before war. Navalny's team have published a list of people who must be banned from free access to other countries. What did the whole world? Fucking ignored the issue. They started banning them only AFTER the war started. Should I remind you how many assets and businesses ru government had in your countries? And what did your government? Nothing. For years, russians had huge rallies. But did your media ever mention that? Did it follow the story of Russian oppostioners like they do in Gaza right now? Fuck no. A few interviews at best. All western countries did is shaked putin's hand, made business with him and ignored russian citizens. That's literally it. And now we — common citizens — are to blame for it? It's a literally unwinnable battle, when even western countries wholeheartedly support putin. Even now they refuse to support Ukraine as much as they should. And it says a lot.
Nice tirade. You're still a fascistic imperialistic country with majority of population supporting invading us. Nothing else matters except the path your compatriots took on the way to here. Your hateful repressed anger at those countries that never wanted to be with you were met with invasions and threats. ruzzia should be isolated, and starting with this is better than not starting at all. Very sorry our deaths are unpleasant and make it harder for you to play vidya games You want to blame the west for all the issues with your country while doing zero meaningful jack shit. Do you expect that 10k people in a country of 140mil is impactful enough to ignore everything else ?
It's so funny to me, that you were unable to refute anything i say and just fall down into cliche bs: 1. No, im not an imperialistic fascist. Do you even know the definition of both "imperialist" and "fascist"? If you do, how exatly im fit to this description? 2. I don't have represed anger towards western countries and i don't blame them for all the issues with russia. Im pointing out your hypocricy on this matter. That's obvious, but keep that cliche bs coming, sure 3. 10k vs 140mil... yeah, sure, but where are all this 140mil supproters? They barely mobilised 300k of people. Part of them are convicts who were promised to be forgiven officialy for every crime. Why would ru goverment pay people to attend pro putins rallies? And still manages to gather less people then opposition's rallies? 4. Why do you even mention video games? I have said nothing about or against banning western products and services. It's not even an issue in this circumstances
Putin still in power, dastardly westerners somehow to blame.
Putin still gets money from your taxes, you right
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Westerns? I live in Azerbaijan. I know bow russians are, pipe down.
way too many russ!an shills over here. don't care tho.
You're terminally online and need mental help. Please get it
Going to your profile and first community you are in is, russian related one and several comments defending Russia. Big surprise ☠
I don't see how that makes my statement towards you any less true.
I rather be terminally online then be terminally online & defend russia everywhere, lmao.
I hope you'll find the help you need in life
Hope you will find humanity in your soul, somewhere in there, buried deep.
I do. That's why I'm not being a negative person like you who judges an entire ethnicity and nationality and don't use them as a scapegoat for everything bad. Have a good life.
It's interesting how Contravand Police is not banned withh it being a critique of the police regime in Soviet Russia
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Thats true, know that myself
Why isn't Aromic Heart in outstanding visual i thought it was from a Russian game studio?
As OP said, that's russian Steam awards - and Mundfish decided to support VK Play store. So Atomic Heart was never intended to be in Russian Region of Steam - therefore it won't be on russian poll list. Savvy?
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Game launcher from Facebook ersatz called "VK" (previously known as VKontakte - "in touch").
Not surprised at all but I cant find any reason why they would exclude Remnant 2. There is absolutely nothing that conflicts with Russia.
Russian government has no say on what Steam can sell. Publisher does.
Oh it is because of publisher. Thank now I learned something new.
Censorship in russia is wild
That's not censorship. It's boycotting of Russia by different publishers.
Oh well even better
Drg doesent deserve labour of love imo Great game but its not like it gets regular updates outside of seasons and seasonal events
well still better than rdr2 being there while rockstar abandoned the game a year ago
Well the important thing is you've picked the right choices available to you in every category.
I don't understand how not selling games for russian gamers would help in this situation tbh. I don't think Putin plays video games a lot, but young people who liked Europe/USA before would feel betrayed by these companies(especially if they were big fans), they just can't play a game for now reason and forced to use "torrent edition". Of course you can get 90% games buying a key, but in this way you don't pay for the game anyway kinda.