Valve respond confusingly to European Commission region-locking complaint

Earlier today, the European Commission released a statement claiming Valve and five other publishers may have worked together to breach EU international competition rules. The companies are accused of blocking the activation of Steam keys purchased from other nations, even if the purchase and activation locations are both EU member states.

The companies named include Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home (and their Interactive wing), Koch Media (including Deep Silver) and ZeniMax (Bethesda). So far, only Valve have responded (statement in full here on SteamDB), and their argument seems to boil down to ‘Yes, we did that, no, that law doesn’t apply to us and it wasn’t a big deal anyway’.

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