I really, really, really hope that if something causes isotropic to shut down that I as a general Internet user am able to use its replacement. If isotropic is asked to shut down because there's a competing product available to some people, it's effectively equivalent (to me) to saying "OK, now that people in Russia have access to a competing licensed product, we can't let you have this free program available to everyone. No, we don't care that you can't possibly use our application because you have no interest in moving to Russia, we'd be losing potential business if we let people from Russia access it. So we have to shut it down completely. Unfortunately, it costs money to develop a program for platforms available in other nations, and so many of our Russian players would love to be able to play an official licensed version, so we went with them first. Since our app is simple, it works well with the systems that Russians have that are less powerful and have smaller screens. Sure, we could make something that works for a larger market, but they'd expect something so much more polished, and hey, it's easy to move to Russia and so many people have already that it's no big deal, right?"
Ok, buying a particular smartphone isn't as big of a deal as moving to Russia, but....I don't want to buy a smartphone just to play Dominion online. Most apps for mobile phones are (or at least *should be*) simple games that work well with the given interface or productivity apps suited for the "go anywhere" nature of the smartphone. No one should be porting games solely to smartphones just because they'd work there when people would gladly pay typical PC game prices for something equivalent to that smartphone app just because the intellectual property that the app represents is so awesome. Maybe I wouldn't care much at all if isotropic weren't available, but it feels very wrong to let them exist while there's no competing product but force them to close because some subset of the population has access to a competing product. Please have it be possible for everyone who can play isotropic now (ie, any internet user) be able to play whatever causes it to shut down. Please.
Please.