Couldn't agree more. Removing a skin doesn't do anything other than * off all the people that were in the middle of acquiring it. "Oh yay, my helicopter that's already in the game doesn't have a grinning face on the front now...That will solve the Russia invasion of Ukraine!".
What's next? Change every label in the game that has "RU" or "Russia" to a made-up country? It's a game...it's made-up! If people can't handle make-believe, maybe they shouldn't be playing violent video games?
They didn't disable content for China Rising in BF4, or even make a peep about the Uighur Genocide and other humanitarian rights issues across the world going on...Why does this sort of thing matter now all of a sudden? Do we just pull content every time something we don't like or agree with happens? What about all prior BF titles? Should we replace all models with fluffy bunnies and kitty cats?
I completely understand the sensitivity of the situation, but this seems more like virtue signaling than anything else. If they really cared about the people of Ukraine, they would completely remove Russia from the game. Relabel everything to a fictitious country or faction like CelicaGTX said. I mean we already have ridiculous No-Pats, just make it the Allied and Axis factions.
At the end of the day, I can still play as Boris (Russian) with an AK-24 in an MI-24 Hind and kill people for in-game incentives for progression. Did they disable my ability to get T1 on the MI-24 Hind so I don't get a new skin for it? Nope.
What is going on in Ukraine is terrible and hopefully ends as soon as possible with no more lives lost, but this is a video game with a Russian side. Doing a weekly mission for a skin doesn't mean you support Russia or the invasion.
I can only hope this break in weekly missions makes them look at them a little more closely and put some effort and logic into the missions. Why is a skin for a helicopter have tasks that are completely unrelated to the skin? How about some synergy here. If the reward is an LMG skin, make some tasks related to LMGs perhaps. This is not rocket science, but it seems like almost every design choice in this game was made and approved by people that have no clue what they are doing.
