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Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite "internal discussions".

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 3 months ago (30 children)

The accounts are so important that you're willing to lose sales in that many countries?!

[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 months ago (23 children)

While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.

Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

some huge countries on that list, philippines, pakistan, nigeria, egypt

pretty embarassing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia too. Not exactly developing countries.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it's perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.

[–] BakedGoods 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am not even sure it's perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

It is very much not legal. The EU is a single market and goods (digital or not) must be able to move freely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I am not sure whether they can get by saying "we sell to Latvians, just not in Latvia". I mean regional pricing is still a thing here. I'm too tired to look it up now.

[–] BakedGoods 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No regional pricing in the EU. There were lawsuits over that a couple of years ago.

EDIT: To be more clear, developers could use regional pricing in the EU but Valve is not allowed to block someone from say Sweden from buying something from Poland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That sounds nice! Do you know which lawsuits were that? I'm interested in reading up on that. How does that work with different VAT rates?

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