We are working on a change for the better :)
The problem is that games are not accepted as "art", so many issues that are accepted in movies, theater, music, books,.. are grounds for censorship (by federal institutions and self censorship by publishers) in games :/
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From the BPjM probably not, but the USK is way more liberal with this
and since games marked as 18+ by the USK, can't be indexed that easy (see i.e. Mortal Kombat), this is a positive trend in the last few years
The mentioned games for GOG are 10~20 years old, waiting to get automatically deleted from the list after 25 years
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I forgot to mention, that you can find a list of the games that will be removed, if you check the link above ;)
But for the lazy people, here's the list ^^
https://www.gog.com/game/aliens_versus_predator_classic_2000
https://www.gog.com/game/blake_stone_aliens_of_gold
https://www.gog.com/game/blood_2_the_chosen_expansion
https://www.gog.com/game/one_unit_whole_blood
https://www.gog.com/game/bloodrayne
https://www.gog.com/game/bloodrayne_2
https://www.gog.com/game/cannon_fodder
https://www.gog.com/game/carmageddon_2_carpocalypse_now
https://www.gog.com/game/carmageddon_max_pack
https://www.gog.com/game/the_chaos_engine
https://www.gog.com/game/far_cry
https://www.gog.com/game/harvester
https://www.gog.com/game/kingpin_life_of_crime
https://www.gog.com/game/lucius
https://www.gog.com/game/medal_of_honor_allied_assault_war_chest
https://www.gog.com/game/painkiller
https://www.gog.com/game/phantasmagoria_2
https://www.gog.com/game/postal_2_complete
https://www.gog.com/game/postal_classic_and_uncut
https://www.gog.com/game/red_faction
https://www.gog.com/game/red_faction_2
https://www.gog.com/game/redneck_rampage_collection
https://www.gog.com/game/rise_of_the_triad__dark_war
https://www.gog.com/game/rune_classic
https://www.gog.com/game/shadow_warrior_complete
https://www.gog.com/game/sin_gold
https://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces
https://www.gog.com/game/total_overdose_a_gunslingers_tale_in_mexico
https://www.gog.com/game/unreal_tournament_2004_ece
https://www.gog.com/game/unreal_tournament_goty
https://www.gog.com/game/mortal_kombat_123
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I can understand some… but games like UT, STAR WARS, or Redneck Rampage, a parody of the Build engine shooters? o.0 Or, heck, Far Cry 1, which is barely anything more than a pretty tech demo of the CryEngine with like 20 minutes of actual story?
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Some of these I can understand (not saying agree with, just saying that I understand the reasoning), some make less sense. Blake stone, for an example... Is it because it was considered too violent when it was new, and nobody bothered doing anything about it afterwards?
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At their time, these games were "too violent" and got added to the "Index list" OR they just didn't wanted to let the game reviewed by the USK (bundled with a small fee, they give out a age restriction classification similiar to PEGI)
Games on the Index remain here for 25 years, or the publisher decide to pay a fee to get a second review of their game
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For the german folks:
Nettes Interview mit dem Geschäftsleiter der USK der ein wenig über das Review-Verfahren in Deutschland spricht und warum Spiele auf dem Index landen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG2KqvkY-UE
(sorry no subtitles :s)
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War nur eine Frage der Zeit...Far Cry 1 usw ist übrigens noch auf Steam im dt. Store. ;)
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Just like when Steam did this, I'm really wtf'ing.. I mean sure, there are some games I can see their point, don't agree with mind you, but can see where they are coming from. Then others.. Red Faction? Star Wars Dark Forces (I, not II), I mean really? What next? Super Mario World?
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Like the title says. GOG will remove some games from their store for german people within this week.
At the moment they are still available for purchase. They won't remove it out of your library, so now is the time to buy those titles, if you are interrested in playing them.
This was necessary because of our laws, but at least they are telling us, before they remove it and within the summer sale so that we can get the games cheap right now ;)
Source:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_de/blockierte_spiele_fur_deutsche_ipadressen/page1
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