Game key activation (Latvia)

[Kapusta]

If i gonna buy key, will i able activate it on Steam? Cuz i can't pre-order game.

[AILAD]

I don't know about keys, but keep in mind that people who pre-ordered the game directly on Steam had the game removed from their library and got auto-refunded.

[Kapusta]

Originally posted by RevelationSpace:

I don't know about keys, but keep in mind that people who pre-ordered the game directly on Steam had the game removed from their library and got auto-refunded.

Yeah one of the store reply to me.
"Hello,

If your country is one of the affected by Steam removing the game from their store, it is possible that you won't be able to activate the code. Please keep in mind that if you can't activate the code due to region problems, we can always start a refund.

Regards"
Sony are just dumb buckets.

[Metodología de Investigación]

It will tell you that you're unable to redeem that key due your region

[Satyricon42]

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

[Frid]

I'm Latvian too and this is so funny.

Latvia is part of EU and NATO.

This is basically Sony's lazy use of maps and effort.

Make thread on Playstation Publisher discussions.

And people will play that game regardless, Sony will just miss out on profits.

[Apoc]

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

What a stupid statement. Steam has no choice in this matter, it's a decision from the publisher.

[shakeyourbunny]

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

You go complain to Sony with that, not Valve.

https://campaign.odw.sony-europe.com/support/index.html

As far as I can tell, this EU Regulation is nixed by existence of this country selection and you even can find generic PSN support there... except that on creating said account, Latvia is not in the list.

So, you get even in a country without the possibility of choosing your country in PSN PSN support.

Case Closed.

[Joe Snow]

my friend pre-ordered and gifted me the game and I still got it in my library even though it's already blocked here in my country. he did not received any refunds tho...

[Satyricon42]

Originally posted by Apoc:

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

What a stupid statement. Steam has no choice in this matter, it's a decision from the publisher.

Steam does have a choice. To force Sony to back track on their decision. Failure to do so makes them complicit to violating EU regulation. This violation occurs on their platform and yet they simply let it happen. If I were Valve I'd sue Sony over this. Sony commits a crime on Valve's platform and Valve should not allow that to continue.

[MaximumEffort]

Hey man, also from Latvia.

Mums nesanāk šo uzkapāt jo Sony ir kretīnu bars kuram rūp tikai akcionāri un skaitļu maģija. Būs jāapmeklē fano un janokačā šitas neriktīga veidā.

[Satyricon42]

Originally posted by shakeyourbunny:

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

You go complain to Sony with that, not Valve.

https://campaign.odw.sony-europe.com/support/index.html

As far as I can tell, this EU Regulation is nixed by existence of this country selection and you even can find generic PSN support there... except that on creating said account, Latvia is not in the list.

So, you get even in a country without the possibility of choosing your country in PSN PSN support.

Case Closed.

There is no law in these countries that forbid the sale of this game, and the game is playable without PSN connection, therefore the regulation applies. This is illegal. Sony is committing a crime. Valve is complicit to this if they let this continue.

File a legal report to Valve and the EU and stop Sony's criminal activities in its tracks.

[longjohn119]

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

I think that law only applies to countries that are part of the EU, Sony is a US based corporation so that law doesn't apply to them. The purpose of that law is so a company in say Poland can't refuse to sell in say Latvia. In other words one member country in the EU cannot refuse to sell to another member country in the EU.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Originally posted by shakeyourbunny:

You go complain to Sony with that, not Valve.

https://campaign.odw.sony-europe.com/support/index.html

As far as I can tell, this EU Regulation is nixed by existence of this country selection and you even can find generic PSN support there... except that on creating said account, Latvia is not in the list.

So, you get even in a country without the possibility of choosing your country in PSN PSN support.

Case Closed.

There is no law in these countries that forbid the sale of this game, and the game is playable without PSN connection, therefore the regulation applies. This is illegal. Sony is committing a crime. Valve is complicit to this if they let this continue.

File a legal report to Valve and the EU and stop Sony's criminal activities in its tracks.

There's not a single lawyer that would take up that case. "They won't sell the product in my region due to company restrictions!" because the publisher decides when/where it is sold.

[CrazyLamer]

That law also talks about merchandise, not digital content

[Satyricon42]

Originally posted by russell_john:

Originally posted by Satyricon42:

Geo-blocking this game in your country violates EU regulation. I recommend you to file a legal complaint to Steam and the EU. Sony is committing a crime and Steam allows it.

Regulation (EU) 2018/302

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018R0302

I think that law only applies to countries that are part of the EU, Sony is a US based corporation so that law doesn't apply to them. The purpose of that law is so a company in say Poland can't refuse to sell in say Latvia. In other words one member country in the EU cannot refuse to sell to another member country in the EU.

Sony has an officially registered European HQ and is registered the EU house of commerce. This regulation applies to all companies that do business within the EU market.