> what this does in practice is that these companies will likely no longer provide videogames at discounted prices for countries with lower purchasing power Do

> what this does in practice is that these companies will likely no longer provide videogames at discounted prices for countries with lower purchasing power Do you have any examples of this? Valve didn't lower the price for low income regions out of the kindness of their heart, they did it because otherwise nobody from those regions would buy the product at all. In cases of price discrimination like this it's the high income consumer that gets screwed over. Without it Valve has no choice but to offer the same low price, doing anything else would just reduce their revenue further.