Is Europe a single political entity yet or are they still pretending that they're separate states?
This is a really good thing for European users, and being Australian I can sympathise with anyone who has had content arbitrarily withheld from them.
Wonder if this will actually apply to UK, Our games get arbitrarily delayed till Fridays
It would also mean that services like Netflix would be forced to become EU wide right? Only a good thing
Way overdue.
[QUOTE=kenji;47422544]Wonder if this will actually apply to UK, Our games get arbitrarily delayed till Fridays[/QUOTE]
If this goes through, I'm pretty sure it would.
[QUOTE=kenji;47422544]Wonder if this will actually apply to UK, Our games get arbitrarily delayed till Fridays[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure it would make much sense for the UK, we don't share the same currency so pricing is never going to be the same...
[QUOTE=ben1066;47422823]I'm not sure it would make much sense for the UK, we don't share the same currency so pricing is never going to be the same...[/QUOTE]
Neither does a lot of other countries in the EU.
[QUOTE=ScottyWired;47422521]Is Europe a single political entity yet or are they still pretending that they're separate states?
This is a really good thing for European users, and being Australian I can sympathise with anyone who has had content arbitrarily withheld from them.[/QUOTE]
Not everyone might agree to that. Even on steam, the EU is divided into two price zones in general, unifying them will drive a lot of people to retail, which already is often cheaper than steam.
[QUOTE=ben1066;47422823]I'm not sure it would make much sense for the UK, we don't share the same currency so pricing is never going to be the same...[/QUOTE]
It's incredibly simple to make pricing the same - hell your bank won't actually mark up your cost for buying something in Euros.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;47424313]Not everyone might agree to that. Even on steam, the EU is divided into two price zones in general, unifying them will drive a lot of people to retail, which already is often cheaper than steam.
It's incredibly simple to make pricing the same - hell your bank won't actually mark up your cost for buying something in Euros.[/QUOTE]
It may be simple, but I wouldn't be surprised if publishers and retailers put up a lot of resistance as they'd likely want retail and digital prices to remain consistent.
[QUOTE=ben1066;47422823]I'm not sure it would make much sense for the UK, we don't share the same currency so pricing is never going to be the same...[/QUOTE]
If it goes as anyone could imagine, we would just buy things at the current GBP to EUR rate.
Yes please. You wouldn't believe how ridiculously downgraded the German versions sometimes are due to less support and bugs that appear due to the censorship.
(Most games play normally though, it's just a few (fairly high-profile titles) that are completely broken.)
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