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Valve bows to Kremlin: LGBTQ+ solitaire game [Flick Solitaire] pulled from russian Steam [cited a 2006 federal law prohibiting the "promotion of non-traditional sexualities"] (www.player.one)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well, given the sanctions, this ought to be a given. I don't understand how valve can operate in Russia at all tbh.

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Right? That was my question, why are they operating there at all right now

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Valve had a big piracy problem in russia and it was ofc because of service issues. While I obviously don't agree with this censorship and would prefer valve to entirely pull out of russia, I can see why they are absolutely not doing that. They want to provide the best PC gaming store service across the world, and they don't want competitors or piracy to eat into their sales

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