Originally posted by Lo Burattino:How did the devs not believe in their own game? Christ, many of their trailers have more than a million views despite the lack of devblogs and communications, that's pretty stupid and sad, even if I'm not in a CIS country Now imagine that the only way for you to purchase this game will be to register a PayPal account? Because you can't just pay with your credit card on Steam anymore due to US sanctions. So it isn't really about the war, the devs just didn't believed in their game, that it would have good sales in Russia despite obstacles, so they just went with greed instead, and they took a huge bribe money from VK (VK paid a very hefty sum, because it's the biggest IT giant). , I assume this still has to do with the war then To some degree, but it's more about taking a big pile of cash from VK (aka Mail Ru Group)! You see, if it was just an alternative place to purchase the game, then it would be just a measure to let more people to purchase the game without any hindrance caused by the credit card companies, but they are gonna make sure that no one will be able to get it from Steam too, even the gamers that were fine with paying a slightly higher price with their Steam Wallet balance due to currency conversion, won't be able to purchase the game from Steam. Outside of Russia and the mentioned CIS countries, Atomic Heart will be published by Focus Entertainment."
" Atomic Heart will be exclusive to VK Play not only in Russia, but also in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
It's a pity tho For most countries it will be sold via Steam by Focus Home publisher, but they just need not to set a price in CIS countries and the game will be hidden from the Store in affected countries, so until there is no "add to cart" button, we will see the game page, but as soon as they make it purchasable, the game will disappear from store for residents of 8 countries (ex-USSR countries mostly), so it's not a global exclusivity like it was with Epic Games, it's a regional exclusivity contract with VK, that allows them to sell the game via their own launcher in a specific region only, Focus Home wouldn't get anything from sales in there). Originally posted by Jillas 🐰:The devs decided to not sell their game on Steam in 8 countries, instead of Steam they gonna sell the game in one of the worst game launchers known to gamers, because of that many people said they won't be purchasing this game if it won't be available on Steam to them, so you can bet devs will implement Denuvo to combat that! if they're not selling on Steam, why is the game still here?
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