Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine::Valve has failed to convince a court that it didn’t infringe EU law by geo-blocking activation keys, according to a new ruling.
Good. Fuck all DRM
Good, a well deserved fine for shitty price fixing actions.
Having lower prices for poorer regions isn’t price fixing. The real issue is that it’s hard as fuck to find a way to have localized pricing when every bordering country, richer or poorer, uses the same currency.
Localised pricing is good though? Is it really fair ask someone in India to pay the same price as an American? If you can’t geo block keys, you can’t stop people taking advantage by using a VPN to buy games from whatever country got the lowest price. The result will just be publishers keeping the high price for every country, screwing poorer regions over.
Also, what they did wouldn’t really qualify as price fixing.
Now let’s see Australian consumers get fair pricing from Valve. We get royally screwed.
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I agree but I’ll check it out in a little once more bugs get ironed out.
Lost lemmings
Which bugs?
Geo-blocking bugs, duuuuuh
Sometimes I wonder if these out of context messages are bugs in a lemmy app, user error, or bot.
It probably happens a lot on reddit too, but they get 10x as much comments so it gets buried
Wrong thread
