THE SHORT VERSION
- Maddy Makes Games removed Celeste and TowerFall from the Xbox store on purpose, and Maddy Thorson said the studio did it to support the BDS boycott.Maddy Makes Games 主动将《蔚蓝》与《塔倒》从 Xbox 商店下架,Maddy Thorson 表示此举是为了支持 BDS 抵制运动。
- Both games remain on sale on PlayStation, PC and Switch, and neither report says whether the removal is permanent.两款游戏在 PlayStation、PC 与 Switch 上仍在销售;两篇报道都没有说明这次下架是永久还是暂时。
- Microsoft has previously acknowledged supplying Azure and AI services to Israel's Ministry of Defence while saying it found no evidence the technology was used to target or harm people.微软此前承认向以色列国防部提供 Azure 云与 AI 服务,同时称内部审查没有发现相关技术被用于针对或伤害他人的证据。
Two games come off one storefront两款游戏从一个商店消失
Maddy Makes Games has removed Celeste and TowerFall from the Xbox store, and the studio says the decision was deliberate. GamesIndustry.biz reports that players noticed both games had disappeared from the platform on 29 October, and that Maddy Thorson confirmed the removal on social media the next day. Eurogamer reports that the two games were delisted suddenly earlier this week and that neither can now be bought inside the Xbox ecosystem.Maddy Makes Games 已将《蔚蓝》与《塔倒》从 Xbox 商店下架,工作室表示这是有意为之。据 GamesIndustry.biz 报道,玩家在 10 月 29 日发现两款游戏已从该平台消失,Maddy Thorson 次日通过社交媒体确认了下架。Eurogamer 报道称,两款游戏在本周早些时候突然被下架,目前在 Xbox 生态内都已无法购买。
Both games are still sold on PlayStation, PC and Switch, so the removal is specific to Microsoft's console rather than a withdrawal from sale. Eurogamer treats the pair as one decision and lists them in a single sentence, which matches how the studio described it. Neither report includes a statement from Microsoft about Celeste or TowerFall, and neither says whether the removal is permanent or temporary.两款游戏在 PlayStation、PC 与 Switch 上仍在销售,因此这次下架只针对微软的主机,而不是全面停售。Eurogamer 把两款作品视为同一个决定,并在同一句话里并列提及,这与工作室的说法一致。两篇报道都没有微软就这两款游戏的表态,也都没有说明下架是永久还是暂时。
What the studio said, and what it left out工作室说了什么,又省略了什么
"For those who're asking, yes we delisted Celeste and TowerFall on Xbox," Thorson wrote. "We did this to support the BDS boycott." Both outlets carry the same two sentences and neither quotes anything longer from the post. The confirmation gives the act and the reason in one short answer, and it does not mention a date, a contract, or any discussion with Microsoft before the games came down.Thorson 写道:「有人问起,是的,我们把《蔚蓝》和《塔倒》从 Xbox 下架了。我们这样做是为了支持 BDS 抵制。」两家媒体引用的都是这两句话,没有更长的原文。这条确认用一句简短回答给出了行为与理由,却没有提到日期、合约,也没有提到在游戏下架前与微软有过任何沟通。
The post does not argue the case. It does not describe Microsoft's conduct, set out the campaign's demands, or ask players to do anything, and both outlets supply that context around the quote rather than inside it. GamesIndustry.biz describes Maddy Makes Games as one of several developers supporting the boycott, which places the studio in a group rather than at the front of it.这条帖文没有为抵制本身做论证。它没有描述微软的行为,没有列出这场运动的诉求,也没有呼吁玩家做任何事,相关背景是两家媒体在引语之外补充的,而不是引语本身提供的。GamesIndustry.biz 把 Maddy Makes Games 描述为支持抵制的若干开发商之一,这把它放进了一个群体,而不是置于队首。
Why Xbox is on the boycott listXbox 为何在抵制名单上
The two reports explain the campaign differently. Eurogamer says Xbox appears on the BDS list because of Microsoft's partnership with Israel and its prison system, attributing that reasoning to BDS itself, and notes that the company has supplied Azure cloud and AI systems. GamesIndustry.biz traces the boycott to an Associated Press investigation into whether Microsoft's Azure and AI technologies were used by the Israeli Ministry of Defence to target civilians or cause harm in the conflict in Gaza.两篇报道对这场运动的解释并不相同。Eurogamer 称,Xbox 被列入 BDS 名单,是因为微软与以色列及其监狱系统的合作关系,并把这个理由归于 BDS 自身的说法,同时指出该公司提供了 Azure 云与 AI 系统。GamesIndustry.biz 则把抵制追溯到美联社的一项调查:微软的 Azure 与 AI 技术是否被以色列国防部用于在加沙冲突中针对平民或造成伤害。
Microsoft has answered the allegation before. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the company acknowledged supplying the ministry with software, professional services, Azure cloud and AI services, then concluded after an internal review that it had no evidence to date that its technology had been used to target or harm people. Eurogamer states that reports, including one it links, dispute that conclusion. BDS has also asked consumers to cancel Game Pass subscriptions, boycott Xbox franchises including Call of Duty and Candy Crush, and stop buying Microsoft gaming products, according to Eurogamer.微软此前已回应过这一指控。据 GamesIndustry.biz 报道,公司承认向该部门提供软件、专业服务、Azure 云与 AI 服务,但在内部审查后认定,截至目前没有证据显示其技术被用于针对或伤害他人。Eurogamer 表示,包括其文中链接的一篇在内的多篇报道对这一结论提出反驳。据 Eurogamer 报道,BDS 还呼吁消费者取消 Game Pass 订阅、抵制包括《使命召唤》与《糖果传奇》在内的 Xbox 系列作品,并停止购买微软的游戏产品。
The developers who moved first更早行动的开发者
Celeste and TowerFall are not the first games to leave Xbox over the campaign. Eurogamer reports that House House said a few weeks ago that Big Walk would not come to Xbox, and that the developer of Tenderfoot Tactics did the same in 2025. GamesIndustry.biz names Ice Water, the studio behind Tenderfoot Tactics, Speculative Agency, the developer of All Will Rise, and Dan Dilorio, the creator of Luck be a Landlord, as other developers supporting the boycott.《蔚蓝》与《塔倒》并不是第一批因这场运动离开 Xbox 的游戏。Eurogamer 报道称,House House 在数周前表示《Big Walk》不会登陆 Xbox,而《Tenderfoot Tactics》的开发者也在 2025 年做了同样的事。GamesIndustry.biz 点名了其他支持抵制的开发者:《Tenderfoot Tactics》的开发商 Ice Water、《All Will Rise》的开发商 Speculative Agency,以及《Luck be a Landlord》的作者 Dan Dilorio。
"We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets," House House said. The studio added that it made the decision with the belief that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests. That statement attaches a condition to the withdrawal, which is more than the Celeste post does. Thorson's note leaves open when, or whether, the two games return.House House 表示:「我们很希望人们能在 Xbox 上玩到这款游戏,但在微软和/或 Xbox 被移出 BDS 抵制对象之前不会。」该工作室还说,做出这一决定是相信世界可以发生有意义的改变,协调的集体行动能够对抗最强大的利益。这份声明给退出附加了条件,比《蔚蓝》的帖文说得更多。Thorson 的说明则没有交代两款游戏何时回归,或是否会回归。
What the reports do not price报道没有标价的部分
Neither report puts a number on what the delisting costs. Celeste and TowerFall are older releases that have been sold on several platforms for years, and neither outlet says what share of their sales came through the Xbox store. Neither says what happens to players who already own the games, whether the studio has contractual obligations to Microsoft, or how a storefront handles a title that a developer withdraws on its own.两篇报道都没有给出下架造成的损失数字。《蔚蓝》与《塔倒》都是在多个平台销售多年的旧作,两家媒体都没有说明 Xbox 商店在其中占多大比例。它们也没有说明已经拥有游戏的玩家会怎样、工作室对微软是否有合约义务,以及商店如何处理开发者自行撤下的作品。
The reports leave the commercial side open, which is where the risk sits. A small studio that relies on storefronts for discovery is giving up one of the places where its games are sold, and it is doing so without a public dispute with the platform holder. Romero Games' move to a new publisher while keeping ownership of its shooter describes a different version of the same calculation, with a studio treating its publishing arrangements as something it can renegotiate.两篇报道把商业层面的问题留空,而风险正在这里。依赖商店曝光的小型工作室,等于放弃了游戏销售渠道之一,而且是在没有与平台方公开争执的情况下放弃的。Romero Games 更换发行商、同时保留其射击游戏所有权是同一笔账的另一种算法:把发行安排当作可以重新谈的东西。
The next test is who follows下一个考验是谁跟进
The next signal is whether other developers follow. GamesIndustry.biz already lists four studios or individuals supporting the boycott, and only one of them has pulled two games from a major platform. Microsoft has not commented on these two titles, and the company is arguing about money elsewhere: Xbox said consoles are supply-constrained as hardware sales fell 14%, and Gears of War: E-Day reportedly sold 400,000 copies.下一个信号是其他开发者是否跟进。GamesIndustry.biz 已列出四个支持抵制的工作室或个人,其中只有一个从主要平台撤下了两款游戏。微软没有就这两款作品表态,而公司在别处正为钱发愁:Xbox 称主机供应受限,硬件销售额下降 14%,《战争机器:E-Day》据报道售出 40 万份。
The wider test is whether a storefront can be treated as a political site at all. Activision's agreement this week to remove real news footage from Modern Warfare 4 after bereaved families objected is the same shape of decision made for a different reason, with a publisher changing a product after public pressure rather than a court order. In that case the change arrives as a patch. In this one it arrived as an empty shelf, and neither outlet says when, or if, it fills again.更宽的考验是:商店究竟能不能被当作政治场域。动视本周同意在遇难者家属抗议后移除《现代战争 4》中的真实新闻影像,是同一形状的决定、不同的理由:发行商在公众压力而非法院命令下改动产品。那一次改动以补丁形式到来;这一次是一格空掉的货架,而两篇报道都没有说它何时、或者是否会重新填满。
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