BASED EU BACK AT IT AGAIN, WARNING VOLVO OF GEOBLOCKING KEYS BETWEEN EU TERRITORIES
europa.eu
THE WARNING ALSO INCLUDES Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax
WATCH JOURNOS AND DEVS TURN THINGS AROUND AND TALK BAD ABOUT IT IN 3, 2, 1....
NO MORE PRICE FIXING FOR YOU, KIDDO
NICE
This is more likely to mean they stop selling games that break the law in those specific countries (which is why they're probably blocked in the first place)
Valve is in the right here.
No
this means that right now some publishers are regionlocking keys in bundle and key sites to endure different prices between EU locations
ie: Humble
the thing is protecting the customer so that everyone in EU can pay the same price for the same keys, as EU is intended to be
in the case of Volvo, they are just permitting that restriction because it is their store and their APIs, so basically if Volvo turns off the feature in the entire EU, the keys will be valid EU-wide
Yeah, I’m sure they will just not sell their product in the eu.
And it’s not about legality, it’s about regional prices for poorer member states being made available to richer states, thus cutting profit for publishers
>we would rather have no money than a little less money
You’re either greentexting wrong or have literally no reading comprehension
Based illiterate posters
does any EU member have lower prices?
All that means is that EU is going to get a single high price, screwing over the countries that have lower prices
this desu
yes, in key sites like humble, gmg and places like that
not in Steam, though
Steam price will be the same as always (Euro), but key sellers will have to normalize their prices to the entire EU
They aren't going to average out the price, they're just going to make everyone pay whatever the higher price was
The geoblocks were to enable having drastic price differences between countries and the the publishers only going along with it if they were able to prevent people from wealthier nations getting to buy a dirt-cheap key being sold to customers a dirt-poor country.
I guess now east europeans would be expected to pay German prices even though Germans are far richer than some some east euro slavs?
and also because russians, like chinks, hack every fucking game they get into and everyone begs to ban the fuckers.
All they need to do is not geoblock the keys, if it's illegal to sell a certain game in a territory then just don't sell it there, but if lolilover192 buys his key via a VPN or 3rd party site it should still work, they didn't sell the game in the territory that banned it and thus didn't break any law.
lmao valve is done.
key sellers sell Russian or something keys anyway, not from any EU member state
that is overkill for poor countries, lad
anyway, EU is already the cucked country
Is Valve in compliance with Article 11/13? Better cut off service to the entire continent just to be sure.
>Russians
>eu
I was not aware of that
cool then this is even better, I guess
They are going to end up fucking up regional prices for everyone
East Europeans already pay the same prices as Germans
It isn’t, everyone will just pay the higher price now
The store itself won't be a problem. The workshop and screenshots/artgallerys on the other hand could be either filtered or blocked off for the EU.
Fucking sweet. I already bought MHW from some Estonian since fuck local pricing.
Do you have any idea what economic integration is?
if you ramp up the price, you lose the most pirating countries
if you use an average price, you entice rich countries to buy more, while poor don't get that cucked
this december I got 3 keys revoked from my steam account, that I bought from g2a
I've bought easily 200 keys in total, and this december was the first time this happened
then I saw some people claiming the devs regionlocked the keys in my country
they literally cucked the humble monthly keys inside EU
based EU to the rescue
aaand you're fired
it may have to do with this
>focus official store
focushop.nexway.com
go there and paste pic related prices from EU
FUCK GABEN
FCUK STEAM
FUCK JEWS
I like that every time the EU makes a regulating law americans assume companies will just cut off selling their shit in the richest continent on earth
The most pirating countries aren’t going to buy the game at current prices, how do you “lose” them by increasing the price? You think losing the Romanian and Bulgarian “market” is worse than letting rich countries buy your product at gypsy rates?
price fixing was literally introduced to make pirating countries buy games, lad
all the key resellers business is around this fact
Based and yellowpilled
East Europe (not russains) and Balkan people pay the same price for games on steam even tho the income is 4x smaller than western Europe
fuck Steam and the fat jew Gabe, inb4 chink copypasta
>tfw I can finally redeem Wolfenstein-game keys without a VPN in germanistan
What a shame that Nu-Wolfenstein turned to shit with TNC.
>based EU will let me use cheap russian keys
jews btfo
>russia
>EU
found the zoomer american
regional prices for vidya has been a thing since the first home vidya system, just like it’s been a thing for every fucking type of merchandise
things never cost the same everywhere
>geoblockng is OK when steam does it
>if you disagree your a chink shill
fuck off jew
This law is only for EU. Soviet keys are still only for Soviets.
>without a VPN
why would you need a VPN? this applies to EU-member states only, not to Russian keys or Japanese keys or whatever the fuck you're buying
I am talking steam price fixing, retard
the official reason is piracy
Publishers control the prices, not Steam.
Check Factorio, it's 70PLN in Poland (like 16 euro)
>being this retarded
Russia isn't part of the EU
And the prices won't decrease, the "cheaper stores" will just increase prices to match Steam.
>American education
1) Russia isn’t a member state
2) even if it were, you don’t live in one and so this doesn’t affect you in any way
>inb4 I-I’m not even a mutt haha
>thinks Russia is in the EU
>not a mutt
>Publishers control the prices, not Steam
wow so why does Steam work with scummy publishers? if Steam is truly consumer friendly they would stop working with them or force them to price fairly
Steam is also part of the problem
>wow so why does Steam work with scummy publishers?
??
Why should every key cost the same when not everyone has Euro shit?
yeah they should just get rid of 99% of their business partners, that doesn't sound like suicide at all
Wolfenstein-games are geoblocked in germany because of nazi-symbol BS, despite a recent judge's decision to allow them in video games
buuuut Yea Forums told me that Steam is consumer friendly and not like those fucking CHINKS
Of curse it's not, it's a business.
Unlike the chinks though, Steam won't harvest your organs.
That's already the case. East eurofag here. Steam prices are the same as in most other EU countries. Most games cost 60eur, while fuckers like KT sometimes price their games to be 70-80eur. Though I remember Steam splitting up EU into 2 groups, the rich ones and the poor ones. Poor ones had cheaper games but they just threw us all in with the rich countries years ago and never bothered to look back. Most of my friends just buy from cd key resellers now since it's way cheaper.
>based
>eu
are you fucking retarded?
not only is the eu shit, but this is also bad for both you and for people in those countries. no more cheap keys online for you and me, and none of the people in those countries will be able to buy games either.
german here can confirm, games cost 60 € but its not that much for us. feelsbad east eufags
couldn't g*rmans already circumvent those things though?
>EU
>Country
>What is purchasing power
Move to Japan and you'll be a millionaire in a month.
Epic wins again baby.
What do you mean?
There´s always ways to circumenvent censorship. I´ve got dozens of "restricted" games on my account and before I used Steam, I always got my hands on pirated copies or imports. It´s piss-easy to avoid if you´re not completly retarded
so valve raises the price for games in those poor countries and everyone living there gets fucked
based liberals fucking over poor people again