Category: digital single market

French court rules Steam games must be able to be resold

Post author By Randall
Post date September 19, 2019
Categories In av, consumer rights, digital single market, eu, european union, Gaming, regulation, steam, Tech, valve, Video Games

[ad_1] Valve’s lawyers attempted to argue Steam was a subscription service, according to French publication Numerama. The court, however, rejected Valve’s defense, saying Steam doesn’t sell games as part of a subscription package. The court went on to say Valve’s policy on game reselling is against European Union laws that govern the free-flow of digital […]

EU charges Valve and five publishers with geo-blocking games

Post author By Randall
Post date April 5, 2019
Categories In activation keys, antitrust, bandai namco, business, capcom, competition, digital single market, eu, european commission, focus home, Gaming, geo-blocking, Internet, koch media, personal computing, personalcomputing, Politics, statement of objections, steam, Tech, valve, videogames, zenimax
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[ad_1] The problem centers around activation keys. When users buy physical games, they often get activation keys, which they must enter to add the games to their Steam libraries. The Commission says Valve and the five publishers agreed to use geo-blocking so that activation keys sold in some countries — like Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary […]