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Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries (steamdb.info)
submitted 11 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Looks like Arrowhead might be moving forward with PSN despite "internal discussions".

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[–] maynarkh 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are also EU countries. I am not even sure it's perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

No harm no foul until somebody makes a report I guess.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not even sure it's perfectly legal to sell stuff in the EU and not sell to residents of specific countries.

It is very much not legal. The EU is a single market and goods (digital or not) must be able to move freely.

[–] maynarkh 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I am not sure whether they can get by saying "we sell to Latvians, just not in Latvia". I mean regional pricing is still a thing here. I'm too tired to look it up now.

[–] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No regional pricing in the EU. There were lawsuits over that a couple of years ago.

EDIT: To be more clear, developers could use regional pricing in the EU but Valve is not allowed to block someone from say Sweden from buying something from Poland.

[–] maynarkh 1 points 11 months ago

That sounds nice! Do you know which lawsuits were that? I'm interested in reading up on that. How does that work with different VAT rates?