Four Quarters, the developer behind the highly regarded deckbuilding roguelike loop herois encouraging players to pirate their game if they can't find any legal means to purchase it amid ongoing sanctions imposed on Russia after its military invasion of Ukraine.
The sanctions imposed on Russia have made buying games from online stores like Steam very difficult for Russian gamers. When concerned gamers turned to VK, a Russian social networking site, with questions about how to buy loop hero and support Russian independent game developers amid sanctions, Four Quarters replied in a post on Sunday encouraging players to "raise the pirate flag" and download the game instead. In the post, Four Quarters linked players to a torrent version of loop hero on RuTracker, Russia's largest BitTorrent tracking website, and reminded gamers to also use a VPN.
Kotaku He has reached out to Four Quarters for comment but has not received a response at the time of publication.
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The war between Russia and the Ukraine, which Four Quarters denounced in a post pinned on Twitter, negatively impacts both Russian developers and Russian gamers. While players are unable to purchase games online, Russian developers have not been able to collect any payments made through Steam. This is due to the store. stop all bank payments to Russia and Ukraine. VK players, apparently aware of this fact, offered to send the loop hero devs direct donations. However, Four Quarters doubled down on their stance in a VK post yesterday, telling gamers, "There's nothing wrong with torrenting."
โWe are very grateful for your support, but the truth is that everything is fine with us,โ Four Quarters published, according to to Google translation of the post.. "Send this support to your family and friends at this difficult time."
