Sony Pulls Call of Duty: Modern Warfare From Russian PlayStation Store - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2020 / 3,051 Views
Activision will be releasing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC this Friday, October 25.
Despite the game still launching digitally on the Xbox One and Windows PC in Russia, Activision has announced Sony has pulled the game from the Russian PlayStation Store.
В основе Modern Warfare - полностью вымышленная история, тщательно созданная, чтобы доставить удовольствие всем игрокам. SIE решили не продавать игру в российском PS Store. Мы с нетерпением ждем выхода игры в цифровом варианте для ПК и Xbox 25 октября.
— Call of Duty Russia (@CallofDutyRU) October 22, 2019
Activision has confirmed to Eurogamer about the game being pulled from the PlayStation Store in Russia:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a fictional game that has been thoughtfully created to entertain fans and tell a compelling narrative. Sony Interactive Entertainment has decided not to sell Modern Warfare on the PlayStation Store in Russia at this time. We look forward to launching Modern Warfare digitally in Russia on 25 October on PC via Battle.net and on console via Xbox.
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Unless the other stores are forced to do the same at some point, this will make Sony look pretty bad. Though not as bad as Blizzard since the situations are different.
Best decision ever
Interesting move.. is this part of there new censorship strategy?
Yes it is, Sony got so powerful and crazy that they even prevented MS from releasing physical copies there. And in fact they also demanded that this game don't get released anywhere.
It says in the article that you can purchase CoD MW on Battle.net and Xbox in Russia..
Digital, but the physical version on PS4 and Xbox aren't available over there as well. Which shows this isn't solely Sony move. Why Sony would censor a title in a single country and fully where in any other game they asked removal of a content in all territories? You are just making wild speculation.
Wild speculation? Please tell me why Sony would pull the digitel version of CoD MW from there store while there competitors dont?
Maybe Sony will sell the physical versions because they are already printed and made and too late to pull from the shelves.. i dont know, thats why its odd.
Guess your reading skill is lacking. There won't be physical release from any of the platforms.
Please explain what sense of censorship you have from this that have anything else that Sony have made, like removal of content IN ALL TERRITORIES. BAN of certain type of games ON ALL TERRITORIES. Nope, neither case have to do with they not selling a specific game on a specific area for non-disclosed reason.
So COD MW is being sold as a digital game only for PC and Xbox and no PS version at all? Thats even stranger. I reckon there is alot more behind it than Sony just doing it because they feel like it nonsense which seems to be how you think it is.
That's odd. Wonder what the reason might be.
@VAMatt if that's true, Sony isn't much better than Blizzard bowing down to Winnie the Pooh lol
The Russian government may not want the bad PR associated with banning it. Also, they're not quite as dictatorial as many Western people tend to think. They likely have some legal protection that makes a ban difficult to implement. Instead, they just pressure that companies in some way that the public doesn't see.
Note that I have no idea if that's the case here. But, it's hard for me to see any reason that only Sony would pull the game other than pressure from government. I suppose there's a possibility that they think the general Russian population will be offended in some way, and they want to avoid that. But, that seems highly unlikely to me.
If it is only Sony, explain how the game isn't officially available in physical copies there? CoD isn't a digital only title.
Well, odd decision, let's wait for the reason
There is always an excuse I guess
Even better is saving money by not buying CoD =p
No. Physical release was also suddenly cancelled for all platforms that’s why I don’t think that it is only Sony’s decision. So, officially the game is only available on 2 platforms in the country
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