Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?

• Nugscree@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There was a time when the swastika was not allowed to be shown in games because of a law in Germany, causing Wolfenstein (the uncencored version) to be banned. Maybe the country in question has similar laws?

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That only made it so that you couldn’t buy games with symbols like the swastika. I used to live abroad and moved back to germany and kept all my games.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Some games are region-locked because the localisation is done by building another binary, Fallouts were like that, and some other I can’t remember, maybe it was this

      I too am afraid to change region because Valve is very opaque in how they change availability, and there definitely were precedents of games not just being delisted but still available if you have them, but also disappearing completely from you library

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I suspect Germany was the reason Kane and Lynch 1/2 were so heavily censored. They even got a bright orange bulletin on the Steam store page claiming that Germans were unable to play the game if they resided in Germany.

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• fishy@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Some countries have huge taxes on entertainment while others have nearly none. I’d guess he moved to a county with a higher tax rate and Valve can’t just have people using a VPN to circumvent their local taxes. Valve is left without a way to determine where you were when you’d purchased the game so they geo lock the titles to where you purchased them.

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