Greedy publishers can’t make a weighted mean for prices…
Comment on Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?
exu@feditown.com 1 day ago
They can’t realistically restrict keys to only be valid for certain countries in the EU. Cheap keys in one country would mean everybody gets these cheaper prices and the publishers would rather not have that.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think it’s actually illegal to restrict this stuff in the EU.
In the past Steam actually had separate keys for lower income countries in Europe, that could only be activated there. However, either because laws changed or they started to actually be enforced, Steam had to change it.
You can still make the games cheaper to buy in those countries, but you also have to allow people from Germany, France, wherever to buy them (as long as it’s in the EU), which very few publishers want to do.