At the beginning of this month, Ukrainian players awaiting exit Mortal Kombat 11, The game disappeared from Steam and PlayStation Store in their region. As it turned out, the fears were justified – the future fighting game in Ukraine will not be sold.
Russian distributor of the game "SoftKlab" Then he explained that the decision to remove entertainment from stores Valve And Sony Accepted by the publishing house Warner Bros., Therefore, all questions, they say, address him.
Now the situation was clarified by the Ukrainian edition of Playua, which took the comment from local support Sony:
Thank you for contacting the Customer Information Center Sony!
In response to your appeal about the disappearance from PSN Games MK11 We inform that this game will no longer be published for the Ukrainian region. Such a decision made Warner Bros.
To find out the causes and detailed information, contact directly WB.
In addition, a representative Warner Bros. Playua confirmed this information, adding that MK11 will not appear in the Ukrainian region due to local laws. However, if the laws change, the publisher can reconsider his decision.
Those who managed to pre -order the fighting wing will automatically return the money.
Details about what law the game violates, Warner Bros. Not provided. Ukrainian journalists suggest that the cause of the ban can be an exclusive Scarlet costume for Russia, reminiscent of Soviet uniforms.
Probably, the case is the law “On condemning the communist and Nazi regimes” (thanks, DTF) adopted in Ukraine several years ago. It prohibits the “public denial of the criminal nature of the communist regime”, “the dissemination of information justifying the criminal nature of the communist regime” and “production, distribution and public use of products containing the symbolism of the communist regime”.
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Foreign lawyers stumbled upon the law, read, realized that they had no desire to contact the like, and sent it to hell. The not those volumes of profit to sit and understand the lawying of such laws.
I sincerely sympathize with all the inhabitants of Ukraine who wanted to play in MK 11. This is worse than history with Metro Exodus.
But, something is not clear to me, if everything is because of the law against communism, then … what’s the problem? After all, this skin is only for Russia, what does Ukraine have to do with it (or I don’t understand something again and I don’t know?)? And in the game there is not a single hint of any "justification of the criminal communist regime". Yes, you look at it at Scarlett with this skin, there’s nothing to think about “justification” of anything in life looking at her. On the contrary, on the “example” of the character you will see how cruel the communist regime was (yes, this is not a ridiculous joke, sorry, I just wanted to discharge the situation a little).
If (locale == "UA_ua" && Skin == "SOVITPROPAGANDA)
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I give the developers a decision. But this is clearly not the problem
The main reason was called st_lt_fed, they just found some law with us and misunderstood. As far as I understand, this law does not concern games, as we calmly sell the metro and other projects.
In fact, this law prohibits the media, authorities and ordinary people to promote a communist ideology, to demonstrate symbolism associated with the USSR.
From the serious that the law entailed the renaming of the streets and the dismantling of the monuments.
But regarding games, we have no persecution.
P.S. I apologize for the politician, I just wanted to explain.
Maybe it’s a network game? There this skin will be present with players from Russia. And the skin is not the work of the community, but quite developers.
But there is "production, distribution and public use of products containing the symbolism of the communist regime".
Hmm … Why, then, as in Germany, not replace the "defamatory symbol"? They redraw Swaston, here to remake an asterisk for something else. Business. And no associations.
And in Tomb Raider 2013 Soviet bases, and Lenin stood, so it was not embarrassed? And then suddenly a skin. Due to some stupid laws, ordinary people, players who simply spend their leisure. Well, nothing new.
Sometimes the laws of my country cross the line and there is just the same. Of course, it is better to deprive the post-Soviet country of the game because of the skin-this is according to their laws "propaganda". And I will say that the publisher of Warner Bros. Games is purely suffering from garbage due to the fact that he is trying not to offend those who do not like this symbolism, especially in the western regions of Ukraine. And as for me this is complete idiotism, because the game does not have a hint of a communist ideology, but they know better.
It is very sad when games become a political tool, games, as creativity, should be available to everyone, regardless of the place of residence
But this set was missed by the eye or just scored.
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And the games of the Company of Heroes series are also raked in Ukraine. I am more than sure that if you delve into memory, everyone will remember one or two games containing attributes of the Soviet/communist system. I’m not talking about films (our products may not go there, but there is definitely the western one), or “inglorious bastards” (fascist/Nazi paraphernalia is there) for example, in Ukraine, prohibited. No, seriously, I, if not a resident of Ukraine, are not aware of all the little things, maybe the whole media content of at least some kind of communist/Nazi symbols in Ukraine is prohibited, you can say if so ..
Yesterday, the local Gameshop store in the newsletter assured that the game will be available for PS4, Switch and Xbox One, so you should not worry. And according to Steamdb data, the keys designed to activate in Russia can also be activated in Ukraine.
Total: the precedent is strange, but there will be no significant consequences from it, t.To. Ukrainians will not be left without a game.
The use of the Russian language in the UN (one of the six official languages of the organization) is regulated by the literary norms of the modern Russian language, according to which they speak and write to the UN in Ukraine.