For Russia closed access to the game series Total War
- Apr 03
From Steam and Epic Store all Total War series disappeared. The popular ruler has more than a dozen projects, including Rome, Medieval, Troy, Shogun, Napoleon, as well as sequels, additions, continuation and fantasy trilogy Warhammer.
Alternative to the PC on the scale and detail of the development of its empire on a strategic map with real-time battles, no one came up with, and she remained beloved for many fans of strategies for several decades.
The development of The Creative Assembly from the UK, which is controlled by the Japanese Publisher SEGA.
Since the end of February, many foreign companies have closed access in Russia to their projects. Rockstar Games, CD Projekt, Electronic Arts, Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Valve, Epic Games, Bloover Team, Bethesda, Niantic, Supercell, GSC Game World, Techland, Behaviur Interactive. Many of them loudly and publicly reported their decision.
As it turned out, they seized their games from catalogs and many other developers and publishers, but without a public notice.
In the Epic Store store during the spring sales, the first Total War game appeared: Warhammer, originally released in 2016. In all countries, except for Russia and a small list of states from the American sanctions list, it can be activated for free, saving the amount in the area of 3439 rubles, according to which the project is offered outside the action last to April 7, 2022. The publication can be supplemented with a small amount of free additional content from the official site of the Total War series.
When trying to activate a gift for the Russian account, an error message appears and inaccessible to the region. In the Epic Store, the residence region can be changed every six months, but it is not recommended to do this without residence in the location. An attempt to fictitively change the region can lead to deactivation of some games or even blocking the entire account.
Only in the PlayStation Store closes the eyes, but EPIC and Steam regional control is carried out rigidly.
All Total War series projects are not available in both stores. You can only download free additions to your past purchases. Thus, the developers want to show that, at the moment, do not earn profits in Russia, as other coarsened business companies in the country are doing different industries.
The good news is that the limitation will not affect the performance of previously purchased versions of any projects of the series. In any of the stores, they are available for launch.
It is also important to note that the restriction is definitely not coming by the Epic Store itself, which free arcades and old games for the whole world continues to roll out every week, whose activation for Russia does not interfere with.
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