Comments on: XVM and Politics

By: Barbu Mateescu

Barbu Mateescu — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:27:39 +0000

OK, first things first: I’m a romanian, so I *might* be biased.
But… While Ukraine has some romanian territory, it´s because of Stalin (as an aftermath of the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact). It was not Ukraine per se, but the Soviet Union that took a chunk of my country; of course, because Russia wasn´t an adjacent country. So, hating Ukraine for taking that would be… misguided. It was just a pawn in the soviet (read: russian) map-chess game.

Meanwhile, each and every effort to bash the russian expansionism (even a coloured line in XVM) should be supported unconditionally. Between a police state (US) that wages wars all over the globe, and a “stronk Russia” that waltzes into every neighbour country, I think the rest of the world should drop petty rivalries and unite against the armed political terrorism.

By: Louis Dunn

Louis Dunn — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 05:29:36 +0000

I don’t think this is such a bad thing – For XVM to get involved with a political comment is actually raising awareness to what is happening. It’s incredibly brave on their part, and I don’t think that glossing over things is the way to do something. If you see an injustice or something you don’t agree with, you should speak out and say “hey, this shit just ain’t cool, yo”. The fact that XVM developers have done this actually makes me think positively – The more a community speaks out about world topics, the more chance there is for people to actually listen.

The WoT community is pretty toxic as a whole – The NA servers give shit to anyone who isn’t “from around these parts” – The EU community gives shit to Turks, Polish, Czech and anyone who doesn’t speak in English (and the English just give shit to everyone, including the English people) – The RU servers are notorious for teamkilling people whom are from outside Russia (hands up anyone who has been teamkilled on the test server by people with RU after their name, purely because you had something other than RU after your own name)

The fact that developers for a mod for WoT has decided to throw out a comment like this is of course going to rub people the wrong way, but I also believe this may also galvanise other people’s opinions, perhaps more vocal people who want to say something similar. Maybe XVM doing this gives them that incentive to say “actually, those XVM guys took a risk and did something, maybe I should do something”

WoT does live streams, and streamers do things for charity, but I have yet to see anyone hold any type of discussion on what is happening in the Ukraine, everyone seems just too dis-interested/ignorant/worried of repercussions to speak their mind…. it’s a shame really.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:36:07 +0000

Russians butthurt over XVM modders supporting Ukraine?

How terrible…

By: ionutbanu36

ionutbanu36 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:47:40 +0000

Bucovina and Basarabia were stolen from Romania

By: Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek

Hustodemon Zewel von Lelek — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:03:22 +0000

well, actually, half of the Belarus was Poland bewore WW2… and half of the current Poland was Germany… and there was a West Ukraine AFAIK, in twenties… and Lithuainia, Latvia and Estonia were for some 40+ years part of USSR… and all of former Czechoslovakia was once part of Austrian Empire, so beware of what you call stolen country and shithole… or learn history little less selectively ;)

By: ignorant

ignorant — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:41:57 +0000

poor opressed mass murders xD

By: Steiner011

Steiner011 — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:03:08 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3vX6bESrYA

By: capa_grilos

capa_grilos — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:53:59 +0000

it wont cost them shit because they don’t make a living out of xvm! wohoo! if any, they will be happy for not having thousands of people around the world complaining xvm servers are down or some shit ahahah

By: Nagas

Nagas — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:46:47 +0000

First of all, you miss the point. Second thing, I only say what Ukrainians and people that do business there are saying which is “corruption is a very big problem in Ukraine”.
I will leave you this link: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2013/results/
check 144 position.

By: Nagas

Nagas — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:37:09 +0000

Have you ever heard of Eurasian Economic Union? Did you knew that EU was offering Ukraine to join union but Janukovich was asking for a lot of billions euros? Do you know why EU did not exploit Ukraine then and there? Do you know what is the purpose of NATO? Its not EU and US who are going away from Russia its Vice Versa.