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If the US opposes values Valve has then they should.

I’m not going to pretend Valve cares about these causes though.

Yes. Maybe then people will blame the ones actually responsible. If it makes overthrowing a magat government more likely, it's good on principle

Its a free card game with paid or grind to get skins. One of those skins is a rainbow camelion.

Because the dev wanted to make it and other people wanted to play it.

it's art. the question should be "why not" and the answer is "no reason".

It seems to be one set of cards, as a part or a deck. Its pretty much a nothing burger.

This is the most sane take I've seen. It's honestly weird how ignorant this thread is, regional censorship is not new. Australia has a habit of banning violent games. The Middle East and China have a habit of censoring all sorts of things. Many countries have their own laws of what is and isn't okay and they fluctuate all the time. My friend in Germany couldn't play Wolfenstein because any games with Nazi imagery were illegal until relatively recently.

Literally every company that operates in those countries also censor their stuff. The only reason this article exists is because [thing but Russia] gets more clicks and outrage compared to [thing in fifty other countries]. You're free to hate Steam for it but this isn't weird or exclusive behavior. They're running a business.

Yeah, I don't know why it's news at all. It happens in every other country with any amount of censorship, US included.

But, it would suck if I were in Russia and suddenly lost access to my games.

Another reason not to rely on steam as a central point of failure.

Strange then that Google and Apple didn't take it down. Valve made a choice and not a good one.

Russia issued a lot of legal requirements that don't make sense. For example they at some point asked more money than we have on the planet, from Google.

Complying with the law on a territory not controlled by sensible human beings should be considered questionable at the very least.

CSGO trolls from Russia probably make up like 20% of their total revenue.

For the rubles, of course.

no good sides huh

People who love valve more than human rights

Non-traditional as to the religion. Orthodox catholic church is fucked up in head, and lately been standing on a wrong side of many things. Even going so far to in-fight with each other for their statements. They are like The Mouth of Sauron - they preach on behalf of government and lately it feels that they spit to vile shit out of their mouth just to please their government.

It's a dictatorship. It's not logic. Fuck the Kremlin.

Inb4 the ackshually, homosexuality is a modern concept that's been around for less than 100 years ☝🤓

Pulling out of Russia entirely is an option. It's not like they're relying on them to stay in business.

Because MS, Epic and Sony are scared shitless that valve will dominate gaming market after major hardware announcement and had begun digging dirt on them.

Only in last 2 weeks there been like 3 "major" anti Valve news. I find them to be astroturfing. All these news are nothingburgers.

My tinfoil shines on top of my head

This is a very naive and ignorant take. In the major cities, quality of life is on part with EU for many.

Furthermore, even with demographic splits (e.g. russians aged 18-24, urban russians), all major demographic groups show at least strong majority support for chauvinism, authoritarianism and genocidal imperialism.

There are some variations of course. But it's more along the lines of overwhelming/near absolute majority support (e.g 50+) or strong majority support (18-34). You also find interesting variantions where "middle age" segments tend to be less supportive (on a relative basis, the segment as whole still shows strong majority support) of genocidal imperialism than young adults/early middle age (18-34); likely because they have more to lose.

Russians have the capability to build a better future for themselves (without invasions), they just don't want to because they haven't gotten a taste of their own medicine (where they are treated like they treat others).

EU is massive in enabling this attitude. Consider the fact that Merkel, even from retirement, is promoting russian genocidal imperialism by claiming that Poland and the Baltic nation are responsible for the full scale invasion:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/06/angela-merkel-poland-baltics-blame-ukraine-war/

When it's the russians and putin (a symptom, with the cause being russians) who are to blame for their own invasion.