Disable Russian and Belarusian merchants from selling through Kinguin

LMAO

Thanks for the laugh my dude xD

Hitler's account already blocked, and the war stopped. Coincidence?

It's more that the worse we make it for Russia the bigger the change the people end up revolting.

I like how they think Russians don't know how to pirate games and this action will do anything except making the common citizen think they are being unfairly targeted for something they had no influence on and rally behind the government. Like almost all the sanctions in history did. Said sanctions will also do virtually nothing to thieving Russian oligarchs though, because these would make the western rich companies pay real price instead of being public posturing and we can't have that, eh?

I also like how they were silent when Turks and Azeris invaded Armienia last year, when Turkey invaded and occupied 1/3 of Syria, when Arabs invaded and bombed Yemen to the ground, when UK and USA illegally invaded and destroyed Iraq, Libya, Syria, and mass drone bombed half a dozen other countries. I am against all wars but seeing crocodile tears now when West and their best allies did the exact same thing for the past 25 years to enthusiastic applause (or at best, silence) of the western media makes me mad. Hipocrisy much? :/

For some, I think its more of a matter of taking a stance and show "public support", like this case with Kinguin xD

Civilians do matter. Civilians pay taxes that feed and arm russian army. Civilians are parents, siblings, children and friends of soldiers. And only civilians can stop their crazy dictator.

I think that this deserves a pass, as it does not really promote the use of grey market or anything, it just informs.

With aragon789's comment as the tl;dr verison, here's a more detailed consideration on the matter:

You're just not allowed to link directly to grey markets or sexual content sites or torrent sites or malware containing sites or bigotry inducing sites or for-profit-action sites or so forth. You can discuss them as much as you'd like, so long as you don't actively encourge use of a particular site (ie, anything that can be construed as directly" directing traffic towards" a given site).

Thus, "This'd be a good ethical excuse to torrent that game" is fine while "Go get that on Piratebay right this moment" is potentially problematic; Similarly, that mention just now of Piratebay (or Kinguin) as a casual example is fine, while formatting it so the url is discernable [eg, .com, org] is again problematic, even if it's not actively hyperlinked. The description put up by the author of this thread is a good example of just where the line stretches to, and where it doesn't, in their linking to articles and mentioning names, while avoiding direct linking to Piratebay itself.

Conversely, users linking their erotic art in their giveaway descriptions is technically against site rules, but it's either overlooked or accepted so long as the site has an age-lock for the content (eg, as DeviantArt does) [that is to say, I'm not sure which the case is, as most of the links are from age-locked sites to begin with, and I'd never thought about enquiring into it until just now].

Well, there's at least one exception:

You can't encourage or incite violence through links, as with the other content types above, but you also can't do it on SG directly, either. So "I spent the entire lockdown loading up on porn from [url, suffix removed] and [url, suffix removed], and downloading happy magical unicorn porn off of PirateBay" is entirely fine, but leaving in suffixes or finishing that comment with "and that's why I decided to beat [minority members], and you should too" is not.

As a potential second exception, I do vaguely recall that mods are stricter towards users throwing out names for rom sites than they are for other content types, but as I can't recall or easily find specific examples, I may be mistaken on that one. It'd make some sense if they do, however, as there's a discernable difference between referencing a torrent site (which may have legitimate content) and referencing a non-legitimate* abandonware site (which is understood to violate copyrights as a rule).

Put another way, encouraging content infringement or directly assisting with such by providing links is an issue, while mentioning sites (without associated encouragement) that offer services of varying legality [as per PirateBay or G2A] is still under the realm of non-complicit informative discussion. Of course, the fact that rom sites are basically only ever mentioned within the context of encouragement could also be the actual reason I recall them being more heavily restricted.. so again, not sure about this one.

* [Archive.org is apparently an example of a legally legitimate option]

+1
Especially when it won't change anything for the "cause" they want to help

it's just another business stunt.
You know, like when the LGBT community gained popularity and suddenly many businesses support LGBT.

What's next, people stopped from buying things from steam?

It's about creating unrest on the people so that they stand against the government. Otherwise they'd just sit and watch. There's just so much local pressure a government can take before it falls.

And they have a second positive thing from it. They can block and ban a bunch of accounts with wallet/earnings on it.

Smart move^^

That government didnt came from Mars to them. Most of them loved Putin imperialism in 2008 when Russia attacked Georgia. Also most of them loved Crimea annexation, they didnt have a problem with that strangely. And as i see you are German so i think you should remember thing or two about accountability.

Unfortunately many Russians see that war criminal as their hero, it's time they open their eyes.

That beast is no hero, he is a dictator with imperialistic ambitions just like Hitler or Napoleon. A beast that threatens, kills, imprisons everyone who is willing to step up against him. I'm not against russians, they just need to get rid of that relic of the Soviet Union once and for all.

The Russian people are just as responsible for their leaders as their leaders are for them.
Putin is a cunt, they want him as a leader, therefor they are cunts.
If they don't want him for a leader they should get rid of him.
If they are too scared to get rid of him they need some help...sanctions are the only valid option.

All russians in germany losing their jobs?
I think all russians in Russia working for foreign companies (like VW or IKEA) losing now their jobs. But not in Germany.

So if Germany is bad, and the citizens don't care or are too scared, but Germany threatens with Nuclear weapons if anybody interferes, how do you make Germany change?

Russia doesn't have to change. But the rest of the world might dislike that and react accordingly. That's how freedom works.

Because the Russian political landscape isn't rife with corruption, totalitarianism, racism, fascism...
There is no opposition because they got murdered, poisoned, jailed, or just disappeared.
Or is Russia a perfect democracy in your version of reality?

russians will boycott soon if they lost everything.

And if they dont boycot, it means they are okay with what putlers do

What a joke, killing average citizens by the sins of their leaders...

You are a sheep too, just in a different herd, parroting what your group is saying.

So urge your nato buddies to stop interfering in Ukranian elections and politics. Russia was forced into these actions, quite literary, by the West. Nato will never have rockets in Ukraine pointed to Moscow, simple as that.

Also good luck with 200% price increase of gas. That should wake you up quite quickly.

You just believe in the magic power of democracy. Probably because you yourself live in such a country. They obviously already know about this war without the sanctions of the gaming services. And they have already tried several times to stage a revolution over election fraud, assassination of the opposition, restrictions on freedom of speech, and other problems. If you think that all Russians are now applauding Putin and throwing up their hands in a Nazi salute, they are not. To do the kind of things Putin is doing, you have to have a huge army of cops, telephone justice, censorship, and other trappings of an authoritarian regime.

This is actually good to read in contrast to other comments before and after. I am sorry that this affects you.
I live in a country where there are a lot of Russian background people and I have several good Russian friends. The difference between the locals living here is that the majority of them never speak highly of the history of USSR and WWII because it is known what kind of wrongdoings were done in the ex-soviet countries during the war and after the war. When I visited shortly Moscow in 2014 then the locals took pride in the history of the USSR and the WWII. I at that point understood that they way history is taught or how the culture is formed that they will never understand why their neighbors haven't forgiven them. It's hard to forgive someone if they are still proud of what they are done and they continue to teach this to their children. This right now with Putin, is history repeating itself. When you don't condemn the history it is hard to condemn the current actions. And I am very saddened that Russians and Ukrainians are forced to kill each other and have to pay the price. I would be happy if we got along with our neighbors, but sadly it is not possible yet. Maybe in the future new generations don't need to live in the past.

Exactly this.

Invading a sovereign country is not a "whatever reason"

Yep, they're giving the Kremlin the perfect means to create a Victimhood Complex.
You'd think people would learn from the Treaty of Versailles, but I guess not.

I think so as well. People who are from Russia, like gamers, youtubers, programmers, or anyone making money online, who have nothing to do with all this racism or nationalism crap, are forced to pick sides. Since it seems no one can tolerate Russians anymore, under such extreme isolation from the rest of the world, they are forced to identify themselves as Russians living in Russia before everything else.