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stop that german censorship crap immidiately
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apehater well everything is said above
BlackStar42X So looking at the previous comments, there is some confusion about whether this wish is about the German practice of limiting the access to games which were put on a list by the BPjM or whether this wish is about the practice of game developers to tamper with their own product to lower the age rating or avoid the game being put on said list.
In the first case: My serious impression is that GOG doesn't understand the meaning of the lists of the BPjM in the slightest. The legal consequence of a game being listed on list A or C is that they are not allowed to be advertised, which GOG _violates_ by advertising Quake III and 4 on the store pages of Quake and Quake II, for instance. It is NOT forbidden to sell those games but this is exactly what GOG does: you cannot buy the games. You don't even get a meaningful message about what is happening when you click on a link to such a game.
In the second case: GOG has no control about what game developers do with their games in order to achieve a certain rating. But it would be very nice and fair of GOG to point out censored software before you buy it.
neumi5694 GOG has no control whether a game gets adapted for the german market or not. If Disney ever decides to restore the Nazi crosses in Indiana Jones 3 or not or if Westwood puts the blood back in Command & Conquer is solely up to them.
Also GOG is not allowed to advert games that are on the index in Germany (they are allow to sell them but not allowed to show you the web page). There are not THAT many games on the index anywy, many have been removed during the last couple of years.
It IS leagal - if you are 18 years old - to ask a friend from another european country to buy those games and gift them to you and it works just fine, we did that a couple of times.
Then there is that 3rd kind of game which is strictly forbidden in Germany (like the KZ manager simulation), but GOG offers none of those anyway, they usually are not only illegal, but also utterly crap.
AliensCrew @ALaggyGrunt
Sorry to say that, but this is bullshit. It is not illegal to sell a game that is "on the index" and not forbidden (that's not the same) to a full age germans. GOG only doesn't promote such games and sell them to underage customers. But I think they already do this with any other game that has an age restriction...
IdkSomeNublette They don't have a whole lot of choice. Germany is a constitutional republic, and a sovereign nation. Selling illegal stuff to the locals is a good way to get in trouble.
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