Commission fines Valve and five publishers of PC video games € 7.8 million for “geo-blocking” practices

In some countries, you either sell at a lower price or price out +90% of your customers (and that mostly means piracy).
Where I live before Steam gave us regional pricing (and allowed people to pay with local currency) most people pirate because they were priced out. I mean a AAA game release could be 1/4 of a minimum wage or higher.

Once Steam made those chances (and Blizzard did the same), local studies showed that PC piracy for Steam and Blizzard went down more than 60%.

Epic exclusives mostly don't sell (and get pirated) here since Epic gives us fake regional pricing (their prices are lower than for example in the US but still incredibly high, higher than what the market can afford, and they charge us for the currency conversion).

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