The Russian developer behind the mystical RPG is telling players to pirate the game if they can't buy it due to sanctions placed on Russia. in a on the Russian social media platform VK first stained by Vicegame developer Four Quarters reached out to Russian fans who are currently unable to access Steam or the Nintendo Switch eShop to purchase . Both and they have temporarily stopped accepting Russian payments, effectively excluding the entire country from their inventories.
The developers invited gamers to use game torrents, even including a link to a game torrent. loop hero on the Russian torrent site RuTracker in his post. โThere is no telling when this will all end, so in such difficult times we can only help everyone to raise the crossbones (along with vpn) and share the most popular distro on rutracker.โ Four Quarter, according to an English translation from Google Translate.
Many fans of loop hero have asked if there were ways to directly support or compensate developers. Due to in Russia's state banks, many Russian game developers have been unable to collect their profits. Instead of sending donations, Four Quarters asked fans to take care of themselves.
"We are very grateful for your support, but the truth is that all is well with us, send this support to your family and friends in this difficult time," Four Quarters wrote.
The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has stalled, but not completely stopped, the development of the new loop hero to update. The upgrade is nearly 80 percent complete, according to Four Quarters, and it plans to complete it soon. The developer is working on a new patch as well as a completely new version of loop hero for the switch. After the update is released on Switch and PC, players can look forward to a smartphone version of loop hero. But how quickly that happens depends on the outcome of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and whether and when the US and EU plan to lift sanctions. Among for him and From the West, the Russians have been effectively blocked from Western tech companies and all their offerings.
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