sTeam operator Valve and five video game publishers must pay a fine of 7.8 million euros as per the will of competition officials in the European Union. As the European Union Commission on January 20, 2020 Reason She announced that the companies had violated European antitrust law. Valve owns and operates, among other things, the well-known gaming platform Steam. Other companies affected include Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media and ZeniMax.
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Valve’s fine (1.6 million) has not been reduced by 10 to 15 percent unlike the other companies involved (6.2 million in total), as the Steam operator – unlike other companies – is operating with the European Union Commission’s disapproval.
Games without limits
Roughly speaking, the commission estimated that companies are preventing consumers from playing video games in other European Union countries. Specifically, there should have been agreements that, among other things, would have resulted in activation codes required to activate games that only operate within certain national boundaries. In other words: A game purchased in country A cannot be activated in country B. So-called geographic bans have been banned since December 2018, which restrict use geographically when selling PC games on CD or DVD.
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