Valve, Capcom & Bethesda Fined $9.5 Million For "Geo-Blocking" PC Games

3 years 3 months ago

The EU have fined Valve and five publishers a total of €7.8 million (USD$9.5 million) over their practice of “geo-blocking” PC game sales on Steam. This basically means forcing users in a country (say, Germany) to only pay the German price for a game, instead of letting them buy a cheaper version of the same game from…

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