Comment by klik99
7 hours ago
IIRC the interview that quote was from came with the story - Russia was seen as a lost cause by the game industry, there was so much piracy that nobody even bothered trying to give legitimate ways to purchase, why invest in distribution when they’ll just pirate? Now of course Steam does heathy business there so that’s obviously not true. But indicates writing off piracy is a self fulfilling prophecy
Not anymore they don't.
Putin's 3 day special military operation has been going on for 4 year and 3 months, btw.
Steam is still accessible in Russia btw. Sometimes it's spotty, but it's because of Russia's own restrictions, Valve itself is happy to keep doing business there.
Does Valve just have an internal Russian entity that processes with a domestic payment processor, then?
All of the international payment processors (ie, anyone piggybacking off Visanet) are in compliance with the sanctions.