njm1314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t really know why they feel they need to Cave to Russian pressure here. They have all the cards. Russia will never ever stop Steam from running in Russia. If they try to cut off Counter-Strike the entire country would collapse immediately. I’m 100% serious that is not sarcasm at all.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 days ago
What’s preventing Russians from hacking Counter-Strike and making their own “Кантр-Страйк” servers?
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Exactly nothing.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 6 days ago
I mean, there’s DRM but that hasn’t stopped them ever before…
Do they stand to lose something if they switch? I don’t understand CS:GO economics, maybe there is a sanction-evading money flow via weapon and skin trading on Valve’s servers?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Unlikely? There are 3rd party websites that allow liquidation, but that’s all outside of Valve’s sites. The closest you can get to liquidation officially is buying Valve hardware like a Steam Deck with your store credit, but they don’t ship steam hardware to russia.