Steam must pay licence fees to sell games in South Africa

[Jamie McKane]

Steam must pay licence fees to sell games in South Africa

The FPB will demand that Steam pay an annual licence fee to distribute its digital products in South Africa, it told MyBroadband.

 

[czc]

Everybody hates the FPB

 

[B1nary]

True, you only need to look at the seething pot of hatred over at MYBB about this to see that In action.

 

[Donisia]

Good luck to them

 

[Solitude]

I dislike them so much.

 

[Crzwaco]

So
GOG
itch
battle.net
origin
uplay
and so many many more also have to pay right?

 

[DarthMol]

Hopefully Valve takes the same stance as Netflix and ignores them.

 

[Stefan9]

Don't need rating boards, never have. They can all go to hell.

 

[HavocXphere]

Good luck with that.

I'm guessing they get ignore by approximately everyone. What are they gonna do? Fly to the US and arrest GabeN?

 

[PsychoFish]

Naa, fight fire with fire. Steam must submit all 18000+ titles to the FPB and give them two weeks to classify and just fine them heavily for anything not classified after two weeks.

 

[murfle]

Naa, fight fire with fire. Steam must submit all 18000+ titles to the FPB and give them two weeks to classify and just fine them heavily for anything not classified after two weeks.

I like the way you think!

 

[B1nary]

I like the way you think!

That would be great , realistically though they would then prob say none of the games can be sold until classified...

and guess what something I posted about on here like a year or 2 ago is still not available.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/234080/Castlevania_Lords_of_Shadow__Ultimate_Edition/

 

[Glordit]

So
GOG
itch
battle.net
origin
uplay
and so many many more also have to pay right?

What about CD-Key selling sites? They technically sell games which are not rated by the FPB too.

 

[Crzwaco]

What about CD-Key selling sites? They technically sell games which are not rated by the FPB too.

But do they have clients where you can buy those CD-Key's?

 

[Glordit]

But do they have clients where you can buy those CD-Key's?

Their website can be seen as the 'client' however, the keys are redeemed through clients so it's a bit more complex than that.