Hey.
I wanted to know why the code for the collector’s edition of the war within is activated on RU RB accounts?
It turns out that those who could afford to buy a key on third-party sites for an overprice can play as before, but other people who cannot afford to buy a key for the collector’s edition cannot play.
Are these sanctions and the law for everyone?
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They’re for Russians yes. It is what it is at the moment.
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but the Russians who bought the key to the collector’s edition bypassed these sanctions because the key works on their accounts
Mhm, only certain payment methods and other things are being targeted by these sanctions.
If it were a full blockade Blizzard would just perma all Russians right away, which isn’t the goal of the sanction. The goal of the sanctions are to make it harder for Russians to access services and/or transfer money etc etc which you already experience by having to bypass it like that.
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Blizzard has limited the sale of its new games in Russia, even disabled gifts for RU RB accounts
The fact that keys from the collector’s edition work just looks like a division of people into the rich and not so rich.
If you have money to pay a reseller for a key, you can play
No? Your problem
With how things are, crying out loud about it is more likely to get the Russians unable to buy the game even like this rather than letting them in.
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that’s right, sanctions for all Russians should be the same.
And not divided into good Russians with money and bad ones without money.
Well, ask your leader about it.
Inbefore my post deleted.
ask who? a person who is not interested in anything except his own enrichment by profiting from others?
I think he is not very interested in World of Warcraft and I do not want to discuss this person.
It is not about him but about the fact that there are Russians who can play the new add-on on their RU RB account and there are those who cannot.
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Have you tried cd keys site?
unfortunately there are no keys for war within for russia, only keys for the collector’s edition
Well - spend some time, earn some money and buy collector’s edition, if you want to play WoW so badly. Imagine crying on Blizz’s forum and requesting to ban your own ppl, who can afford it, because you personally cannot. So low…
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I have enough money to buy a key to the collector’s edition.
but I think it is simply unacceptable to give money to resellers who profit from people.
the question here is more about the hypocrisy of the company or its short-sightedness in this aspect
it is not a question of hypocrisy . being american company their hands are tied doing anything monetary with russia . they wont sacrifice their american or rest of europe business just so that they can serve russian customers .
hypothetically speaking if china invaded taiwan .it would have same treatment as russia is getting now .
are you talking about a third party seller or blizzard ?if its a third party then blizzard has nothing to do with it .
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This is injustice and disgrace. European values are doing politics in the game.
Blizzard have no choice about sanctions.
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Blizzard cannot stop third parties from selling keys they have bought legally. (The legality of the resale is another matter)
Your complaint is with the resellers not Blizzard. It’s a bit like ticket touting (which is also in some territories illegal) If someone buys a ticket then resells it for a higher price, that person, not the event organiser, is to blame.
In terms of banning the players, it is not illegal for Russians to play games, only illegal for Blizzard to sell them products, so there is no reason to ban the players, sue the resellers out of existence? Maybe I’m not a lawyer, but even that wouldn’t stop them playing.
Finally, why do you want other people to not have fun?
Thats not illegal, it’s only Blizzard’s own decision (made for their reputation) but there are no sanctions that prohabits selling video games in Russia, and some amerian companies (such as Valve-Steam) still allow russians to buy games.
There is also the risk “John Public”'s punishment. Just an example when the media found out that a small cardboard box company was doing business with Russia, the media crucified them for being the “black sheep who supports the Russian war effort… yeah…with cardboard boxes…dont ask”. In short they stopped and I think they are going bankrupt now.
And I doubt Blizzard cares that much about politics to refuse income from a relatively large market… unless there is a serious reason behind it.
Steam, biggest gaming company in the world, still doing buiseness in Russia (there are some problems with payments because of paymnet system sanctions but they still allow to recieve gifts for russian accounts, or using prepaid cards for accounts registered in russia, and buy any games - ofc some game studies that publish game in steam can restrict russian accounts from buying their games, but no any general restrictions from steam itself). Somebody blames steam for it?