Dear players of the world,
We are shocked, like everyone else, by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by the war and all of its consequences. As Europeans who suffered from the war in recent history we would like to address our first words to all the victims and those who are suffering from this tragedy: our hearts are with you.
As a gaming service, we believe that a great part of our mission is to build bridges between people all over the world. It makes us particularly sad to see the world tearing people apart and building walls.
The Asmodee Group decided to donate 500 000€ to humanitarian associations (International Committee of the Red Cross and Children’s Village) on behalf of all entities at Asmodee, including BGA, as we firmly believe that we have to support the Ukrainian people at this time.
Furthermore, our group will organize first needs goods logistics for refugees through our local organizations in Poland and in Germany.
Last, the Asmodee group is sending a large numbers of board games to refugee camps in neighboring Ukrainian countries, through humanitarian associations, to offer moments of distraction to families that had to flee their country.
During this difficult time, we can only hope that entertainment and culture will continue to be driving forces for people to share happy moments together.
Concerning BGA specifically, we see no reason to punish Russian/ Belarusian players as we cannot know if they support the actions of their leaders. We would like to continue to connect people using board games, even over the battlefront lines, because there are humans with good feelings on both sides, and if everyone is aware of that it makes the world better.
We decided to remove all penalties received by players geolocalized in Ukraine for turn based games in which they were unable to play since Feb 24th. If you are having trouble with any additional account issues on BGA caused by this war, please contact us using the contact form so we can help.
This statement will be displayed as a link on BGA homepage for all players from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Despite the situation, we encourage you to play with the whole world and to keep BGA a peaceful place to play.
The BGA team
We are shocked, like everyone else, by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, by the war and all of its consequences. As Europeans who suffered from the war in recent history we would like to address our first words to all the victims and those who are suffering from this tragedy: our hearts are with you.
As a gaming service, we believe that a great part of our mission is to build bridges between people all over the world. It makes us particularly sad to see the world tearing people apart and building walls.
The Asmodee Group decided to donate 500 000€ to humanitarian associations (International Committee of the Red Cross and Children’s Village) on behalf of all entities at Asmodee, including BGA, as we firmly believe that we have to support the Ukrainian people at this time.
Furthermore, our group will organize first needs goods logistics for refugees through our local organizations in Poland and in Germany.
Last, the Asmodee group is sending a large numbers of board games to refugee camps in neighboring Ukrainian countries, through humanitarian associations, to offer moments of distraction to families that had to flee their country.
During this difficult time, we can only hope that entertainment and culture will continue to be driving forces for people to share happy moments together.
Concerning BGA specifically, we see no reason to punish Russian/ Belarusian players as we cannot know if they support the actions of their leaders. We would like to continue to connect people using board games, even over the battlefront lines, because there are humans with good feelings on both sides, and if everyone is aware of that it makes the world better.
We decided to remove all penalties received by players geolocalized in Ukraine for turn based games in which they were unable to play since Feb 24th. If you are having trouble with any additional account issues on BGA caused by this war, please contact us using the contact form so we can help.
This statement will be displayed as a link on BGA homepage for all players from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Despite the situation, we encourage you to play with the whole world and to keep BGA a peaceful place to play.
The BGA team