How Mail.Ru protects Russians from offshore fascist games

A Mail.Ru representative called World of Tanks a “Cypriot, offshore” game, where “people in Nazi tanks attack, shoot Russian tanks”. This statement was made by Mikhail Kochergin, director of the gaming division of the company's marketing, on February 4 at a meeting of the expert council on eSports and the industry of educational games in the State Duma.

Asked by one of those present, if the Belarusian developer is not a competitor to Mail.Ru, Kochergin noted: “No, this is not competitors. We do not have such a game, and we do not plan to release. " Let me remind you that last year, the company launched the project tanks.mail.ru, which some users considered something like World of Tanks.

Kochergin’s speech begins at 15:43 , the mention of World of Tanks at 16:41 :

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A representative of Mail.Ru also called on the state to start regulating the Russian video game market, for example, by protecting local producers from foreign ones: “What we are seeing now is pressure from foreign companies. First of all Chinese. Which enter the Russian market and squeeze Russian producers very strongly. ”

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Upd: Update from the Mail.Ru press service:

The comment made does not reflect the position of the Mail.Ru Group. In this case, the employee significantly exceeded his authority and spoke on a topic that is not in his field of competence. After discussing the incident, we decided to part - Mikhail Kochergin no longer works for the company.