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Valve and five other PC game publishers were fined $9.5 million by the European Commission because they geo-blocked cross-border game sales in the European Economic Area. This broke EU laws around their Single Digital Market.

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The European Commission says the geo-blocking was to prevent games being activated outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Geo-blocking prevents gamers living in EU countries with higher average incomes from being able to save money buying them in EU states where they’re cheaper and then activating them on Steam. Activation keys were geo-blocked between 2010 and 2015, the European Commission said.

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