The assumption that this decision was made because of poor performance seems more of a stretch than assuming the work was pulled away as a response to Russian aggression. This seems to be them severing financial ties with companies within Russia, just as countless other companies are doing, including Visa, Mastercard, etc, while sanctions are imposing restrictions on banks.
I do understand how silly it must seem. It's just... Nowadays specificity can be comforting. Hopefully you're right, though. Even if the GotY edition comes cheap every now and then, it'd suck to have to buy it again, especially for people who already owned the base game + season pass. The GotY version being separate from base+SP was a bit baffling to me back then.
I literally laughed out loud reading this reply, as I was about to post the same thing.
Same thing happened with Arkham Knight on Steam. It was delisted due to its poor state and refunds were offered.
I didn't make any light of the situation in Ukraine. Sorry I don't find devs from here potentially losing their jobs because they were born in a "wrong" country to be a cause for celebration.
The question is, are they actually doing transactions with the Russian office or with Saber's HQ in the US? I might be wrong about this but things like that are usually handled by the accounting department in the HQ and then they transfer money to the workforce in the local offices.
