CD Projekt Red Announces Stopping Sales in Russia

As we all know, Russia officially declared war on Ukraine with the statement it made last week and started to implement military operations. After this news, companies from many sectors from energy to sports, from technology to automotive all over the world are against Russia. sanction announced their decision to implement.

In a post we shared with you yesterday, we conveyed that a statement about the game industry came from Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, in the statements made on Twitter Mykhailo Fedorovhas called on the game giants Xbox and Playstation, inviting game and e-sports companies to withdraw from Russia and Belarus. In another statement, Fedorov begged game companies such as Bethesda, Konami, Tencent, Epic Games. After these statements, a new move towards Russia came from a very famous game company.

CD Projekt Red has stopped sales in Russia and Belarus

According to the news Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher Based in Poland, which is the developer and distributor of world-famous games such as the series, and also the owner of the video game sales platform GOG.com. CD Projekt Redannounced that it has decided to impose sanctions on Russia and Belarus. In the statements made, these two countries game sale suspended expressed. In addition, in a statement made to investors, it was stated that the cumulative sales revenue share from the two countries in the last two months was 5.4% and 3.7%, respectively.

made by the company on social media. in the announcement“In light of the Russian occupation in our neighboring country Ukraine, we, as CD PROJEKT Group, have decided to stop the sales of our games in Russia and Belarus until further notice.” expressions were used. In addition, the company “We have started working with our partners to stop digital sales and physical deliveries in Russia and Belarus of all games distributed on the GOG platform, as well as CD Projekt products.” added his words.

This statement put CD Projekt Red among the technology companies that have imposed sanctions on Russia. Earlier, Apple announced that it was suspending its sales in the country. In addition, Spotify closed its office in Russia and blocked content belonging to state media. Finally, other technology giants such as Google, Meta and Twitter announced that they have decided to impose sanctions on the country.