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After Apple, Steam is also carrying up

IT information news on December 17: Russia rouble plunged amid continuing fallout. Following the Apple off the shelf Russia at Apple's online store merchandise Hou, Steam has also compelled to step in.

Valve Corporation (Ville software company representatives have half life, surviving the road) as well as to protect the Publisher of PC games on the Steam platform and decided to take action. Seeking to stop a player from using the ruble interest Steam decided to lock the Russian online store, stopped selling online game store, and activate. Prior to this, because the ruble plunge, area stores in the United States to spend $ 40-50 in games, players in the Russian regions with very low price you can get.

But the measure will not be easy to solve the problem, since PC games do not, such as Xbox video game to be effective, regional lockout. It is reported that measures affect not only Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia and its neighboring countries and regions have different degrees of being affected.

In this regard, some gamers have expressed their different attitudes. The players opposed this measure, arguing that only because of the different regions and with different pricing game is unreasonable. （via：engadget）