And what makes you say that?

I've imported games, movies, books and even consoles from the UK, France, Spain and Italy and never paid a fee.

About damn time!

Though as someone mentioned before there are some loopholes still in place for specific countries.

I got burned once buying way back when COD Black Ops in the shop (for PC) and when I start the game all the menus were in Polish with no option to change to English or any other language (maybe Russian).

That's the biggest load of shit ever, basically if you're a foreigner you're just fucked.

I thought I learned the lesson, so I basically stopped buying any other games in physical media, instead I would just buy the more expensive international version for every single purchase. I did so with BF1 on origin, paid the price in Eur and the day it releases I get everything in Polish once again.

Lucky me that the customer support guy was actually a decent human and changed whatever settings were needed to get the "normal" version of the game. It had automatically switched all the language settings to Polish just because I had a Polish IP at the time.

So yeah... about fucking time this changes.

Yes, but you can't change the country of an account, you can only make a new one in a different country. Xbox Live allows you to change the country a few times per year.

You know... i was thinking about it and since the trophies are the only problem, Sony could definitly have it on PSN aswell. It would just require you to go over a procedure to transfer trophies or the creation of a new account with said trophies when changing country. 

This legislation may make the whole process easier but SCE could definitly do it already. They are just weird that way.

... Obviously that I have had to pay fees, what else would it be?

Yes laugh at me all you want also ask for more govern intervention it is always good and necessary.

Internet exist beyond borders sure, and several companies have multiple locations, and funny enough you can find different prices on different locations (even within the same country, state or city). So, sorry, but price isn't solely determined by the existence of boundaries.

You may not believe but long term demanding that companies offer a single solution to the whole EU may be bad for customers.

I think you are making confusion. On this kind of conversation cost means what is internal for the company, what you are looking at is price being higher and value being lower (which sure is an issue... and a bigger issue is thinking that this law will make all content that is mandated to be offered at the same price to be the lower price).

It must be really good to live in these countries where you can summarize your thinking to only the possible good outcomes.

As I said before, your city is also a single one, still it's possible to go to 2 different stores of the same owner and see different prices... you know why? Because the cost to deliver the product in one place is different than the other and also the demand elasticity curve is different as well.

To mandate that companies practice a single price europe wide will make it that some places that got it lower will pay more and perhaps some places that paid more to pay less... there is very little reason to believe they would practice the lowest price available to all regions under new legislation.

I know it is talking exclusively about EU, ONU or any other supranational organization thank god still doesn't have supreme sovereign over the whole globe.

Because sure a product destined to polish market needs 25 different languages so you can buy in different countries ¬¬

Yes I understood the complaint of the guy, still that is a point he have to do to Sony or boycott them instead of seeking legislation about it.

Well, you also have all your digital content (games, DLC, films, etc) and your friend list. I really can't understand why they can't do something so simple.

@ bold: That's what you don't seem to understand, there's no "polish market", there's an European market.

It seems by several of your comments in this thread that you have some issue with consumer friendly EU regulations, which is puzzling to say the least as you're probably a consumer yourself, but most of all you're not an EU citizen nor do you live in the EU.

Feel free to correct me if I jumped to a wrong conclusion here.

It seems like you don't wanna talk about what you bought, what fee you had to pay, how much you paid and who told you to pay the fee.

What was the point about your first post in this thread then?

You are the one not understanding... even if the whole globe were to be considered a single market without any barrier, tax, etc the interest of several different places are different.

Every single product have a market and people interested in it. So when someone releases a product at some place he may make it direct to it, that is a prerogative of who creates a product.

Everyone eats, still each one have different tastes and products one wants to eat. So one selling to the whole world won't try to sell horse meat on Brazil, pork meat to jews or cow to Indians.

I have a problem with government intervention, as they may all seem like customer friendly, good intended, etc... but freedom of trade is better than government imposition. So if you want Amazon per say to sell at the same price to all EU markets you and others can request Amazon to do it, when you demand the government to do, the end result more often than not won't be exactly you had in mind.