Someone get Phoenix Wright on the case.
The EU is cracking down on sales practices that disadvantage customers, according to a report by BBC News. Six publishers have been fined €7.8 million (£6.9 million) for restricting cross-border sales, including Valve, Bandai Namco, Capcom, ZeniMax, Focus Home, and Koch Media.
The practice, known as “geo-blocking”, means that games are region-locked, disallowing customers from buying cheaper versions intended for different countries. Some European countries have lower incomes than others, so generally those countries get cheaper prices. The countries in particular that Valve geo-blocked were the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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