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Steam and 5 publishers fined for geoblocking (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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Good, fuck geoblocking. Bandai 340k Capcom 396k Focus 2.8m Koch 1m Zenimax 1.6m Valve 1.6m

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_170

Judgement from the EU court of justice: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2023-09/cp230147en.pdf

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[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point I just lost hope to make you understand. One last chance: Italian man wants to buy Skyrim in Hungary and he is told he can't. That, under EU law is not allowed. That is geoblocking. That is against free trade in the EU. This is exactly the same as if you would tell Californian man he can't buy Skyrim in Mississippi.

You don't want to understand, am I right? I don't get you.

[–] Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You don't want to understand, am I right? I don't get you.

No, I understand. You are fine with regional pricing as long as there's absolutely no way to enforce regional pricing. Which, when talking about a purely digital storefront, means there will be no more regional pricing.

This has already started happening in some regard. Recently, many games on Steam have already had their regional pricing removed, to the ire of gamers in poorer regions.

Truly a massive W