GSC Game World showed itself
Yesterday GSC Game World blocked some of our videos and our channel got a strike. The reason was that we used the official STALKER 2 trailers in our news clips.
On the one hand, the reason could be that we fell under the distribution. After the 200 GB build of STALKER 2 hit the net, the game's developers removed leaked gameplay footage from everywhere they could reach. We did not use these frames, but since we discussed this topic, the strike could have arrived by accident.
On the other hand, it could be a petty revenge of the company for the fact that we regularly remind it of the chaos of the development of the first part of STALKER and share our fears that the situation with STALKER 2 is repeating itself. We love sharing memory pills, so we commemorate the famous initiative to sell NFT tags and a metahuman at a failed auction. Nobody likes uncomfortable stories.
On the third hand, the developers could be pricked by what we constantly remind: users from Russia and Belarus, despite the GSC Game World ban, will be able to play STALKER 2 or in the Xbox Game Pass service, or simply by downloading the GOG distribution in the xatab store !" on the day of release. The game is sold on GOG, and there are no security systems.
To understand the situation, I wrote to the representative of GSC Game World, who threw us a strike. I asked about the reasons for blocking the content and wished the GSC team the best of luck in completing STALKER 2. The answer I received was as follows [in the attached screenshot].
That is, these ardent patriots, who were the first to flee Ukraine after the start of the SVO, eating away Microsoft budgets in Prague, registering a company in Cyprus in order not to pay taxes in their homeland, decided to play politics. I will note again. THIS IS THE OFFICIAL RESPONSE OF THE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMPANY. An answer to two Belarusian, which is ironic, bloggers. Answer in Ukrainian. So impudent that it becomes clear that there is nothing to agree on.
I have only one question left for the fiery Cypriot patriots. If you banned the distribution of the game in Russia and Belarus, if you remove the ready-made Russian localization from STALKER 2, if it is so unpleasant for you to communicate in Russian, why are you climbing into the Russian-language information field and go to shit when your game company is fair and being criticized? Oh yes. Because that's where the core of your fan community is.
I hope now people who, despite everything, are waiting for the release of STALKER 2, will understand who they are dealing with and will not actually buy this game. Just. Out of principle.
We re-uploaded the deleted video to VK:
https://vk.com/video-192534154_456244662
The rest of the videos in the archive were not preserved, alas. But this is science for us. Now we will upload all the videos to other resources. Thanks GSC for the lesson. To demonstrate STALKER 2, we will use STALCRAFT videos.
P.S. Question for knowledgeable people. Is it possible to fight off a strike based on nationality?