Valve, Capcom and more fined for geo-blocking games in Europe
Valve and five other game publishers for geo-blocking games in Europe.In a statement published on its website, the Commission said that Valve – along with Capcom, Bandai Namco, ZeniMax, Koch Media and Focus Home – had restricted sales of games on its platform based on the geographical location of users, which is in violation of EU competition laws.“Valve and the publishers restricted cross-border sales of certain PC video games on the basis of the geographical location of users within the European Economic Area (‘EEA’), entering into, the so called ‘geo-blocking’ practices,” the Comission stated.Geo-blocking refers to the practice of limiting a country or continent’s players from purchasing products from outside of their specified region,