@Zochmenos It's all pretty muddy, but the close ties to the goverment, the name changing and pretending to not be a russian studio (Robert Bagratuni, not his real name, previously held a high role at mail.ru) does it for me. Just a few too many red flags. I get that they may not have much choice in the matter regarding their stance on the war, given that they might loose funding or worse, which I assume is the case for most russian studios doing high budget games, and that sucks. But going to great lenghts to hide that you are russian, while also not actually distancing yourself from their actions, is just a bit too shady for my taste. I guess to put it bluntly, my reason for not supporting the game is that it seems very likely that sales of the game will fund the war effort. And I'm not okay with that. It's not necessarily the studios fault, but from the information I can glean, they seem complicit. Multiplatform dot com has pretty comprehensive write up, and there are lot's of other bits around.
@Zochmenos There's a bunch of shady stuff if you google the game or studio, mundfish. But for me it's mostly the direct ties to mail.ru, vkontakte, gazprom, their non comment on the war and their old tos. The game does look great though, so it sucks that it might fund the war and send personal dato to fsb.
Maybe don't download/play this game? It'll take your information and feed it to the russian and chinese goverment, and it's success will fund the war in the ukraine. Not 100% sure on this, but it seems likely to be the case.
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@Zochmenos It's all pretty muddy, but the close ties to the goverment, the name changing and pretending to not be a russian studio (Robert Bagratuni, not his real name, previously held a high role at mail.ru) does it for me. Just a few too many red flags.
I get that they may not have much choice in the matter regarding their stance on the war, given that they might loose funding or worse, which I assume is the case for most russian studios doing high budget games, and that sucks. But going to great lenghts to hide that you are russian, while also not actually distancing yourself from their actions, is just a bit too shady for my taste.
I guess to put it bluntly, my reason for not supporting the game is that it seems very likely that sales of the game will fund the war effort. And I'm not okay with that. It's not necessarily the studios fault, but from the information I can glean, they seem complicit.
Multiplatform dot com has pretty comprehensive write up, and there are lot's of other bits around.
Re: 'Atomic Heart' Xbox Preload Now Live, Launches On Game Pass Later This Month
@Zochmenos There's a bunch of shady stuff if you google the game or studio, mundfish. But for me it's mostly the direct ties to mail.ru, vkontakte, gazprom, their non comment on the war and their old tos.
The game does look great though, so it sucks that it might fund the war and send personal dato to fsb.
Re: 'Atomic Heart' Xbox Preload Now Live, Launches On Game Pass Later This Month
Maybe don't download/play this game? It'll take your information and feed it to the russian and chinese goverment, and it's success will fund the war in the ukraine.
Not 100% sure on this, but it seems likely to be the case.