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Shatts said:
DonFerrari said:

In Brazil your first option would be a violation of the Customer Defense Code, as you can't demand or give privilege to someone who buys one product to buy the other. Sales must be independent.

Nice, thanks for the insight. U sure there aren't any loopholes to that rule tho? I wonder how many countries have that rule in place. After listening to interviews of multiple publishers, one thing that makes it difficult was the different rules in every country, so perhaps this is part of the reason why they don't do much about it.

Theoretically anything that you are OBLIGATED to buy one to get the other is "illegal", but we do have the stuff like buying phones for a discount inside a plan. So behind curtains let's say you could divert 90% of your inventory to be sold through a membership plan, like pay your PS/Xbox in 24-60 parcels together with a sub or the like.

As far as I know there isn't a law that dictates how much of your product needs to be in each channel.



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