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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I haven't read full document but I'm Polish and remember that back in the day when buying some games off Steam you've got some kind of eastern European version that was separate from global one.

Other than DLC being incompatible, the biggest pain in the ass was that the language selection was very limited, commonly just Polish, Lithuanian and Russian (which nobody speaks here). If you weren't fan of localization or wanted to play game in the English or original language you were out of luck.