Valve and five major PC publishers – ZeniMax, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Focus Home Interactive, and Koch Media – have found themselves on the wrong side of European
Valve and five major PC publishers – ZeniMax, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Focus Home Interactive, and Koch Media – have found themselves on the wrong side of European antitrust regulators, it seems. Today, the European Commission announced that it is penalizing all six companies with a collective €7.8 million fine (around US $9.5 million) for making bilateral agreements that geo-blocked certain PC games in the European Union. Specifically, the European Commission says that all six companies “geo-blocked Steam activation keys which prevented the activation of certain of these publishers’ PC video games outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
