During the day this Thursday from CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer behind games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher, announced that It will stop selling all its video games in Russian and Belarusian territories, as support for Ukraine.
Through a statement on Twitter, the developer pointed out that “in view of the Russian military invasion in our neighboring country of Ukraine, until further notice the Group CD PROJEKT has made the decision to suspend all sales of our games to Russia and Belarus.”
As they added, they have already started working with their different partners to suspend digital sales, as well as stop the physical distribution of their products, as well as all the games that are distributed through their GOG platform.
“The entire CD PROJEKT Group stands firm with the people of Ukraine. Although we are not a political entity capable of directly influencing the affairs of state, and we do not aspire to be, we do believe that commercial entities, when united, have the power to inspire global change in the hearts and minds of the people. common,” they added.
They finally pointed out that “We know that the players in Russia and Belarus, who individually have nothing to do with the invasion of Ukrainewill be affected by this decision, but with this action we want to shock the world community into talking about what is happening in the heart of Europe.”
It is worth mentioning that since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, different companies have taken measures in support of the Ukrainian people. Recently, one of the creators of Doom, John Romero, designed a new level of Doom 2 in order to raise funds to help the people of the country.