Why are porn games banned in Germany? What a stupid place.
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IIRC they were very slow to label video games "art," with the various protections that brings. That's why Turok 64 had a buck-wild German port where all the humans are robots. Also why games with Nazis were either banned or massively censored until some time this century. Wolfenstein 3D was officially unavailable for ages, and as late as The New Colossus, they replaced a lot of blatant symbols and names with wink-wink alternatives.
Come to think of it, that affected games as late as The Orange Box collection. German TF2 has no blood, and dead players explode into junk props instead of ragdolling or gibbing. I don't remember if Left 4 Dead was similarly censored to hell because I don't remember whether they consider zombies people.
probably lobbied against by Grossen Kinkenspielezeug, they've got a lot of influence in germany
Fun fact: prostitution is legal in Germany.
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Don't you love it when a game distribution company controls such a large market share that they can make or break any developer/publisher. Simply for breaching some vague "morality" policy pushed by a bunch of puritans.
God, I love capitalism. /s
And that monopoly itself is subordinate to the supermonopoly of payment processors which are basically their own geopolitical superpower now.
The sort of thing digital-only currencies were supposed to fix, until that became a wiggly line for cocaine enthusiasts to bet on.
Like everything else now.
I feel like there's an opportunity here to make it more sexy to get all the horny sales.
Guys I'm really, really, really tired of purity culture
It's the puritans forcing companies to cover the legal asses that's the issue. Those people refuse to take responsibility for themselves & their kids, instead forcing the rest of the world to act as their personal morality police so they don't have to.
I don't think it was ever about the kids. Grown adults are freaking the fuck out on the regular about media and always have been =/
It's about control. If it wasn't sex, it would be something else. Eg.: it is already also several other elses.
Dude exactly. There's a ton of self-righteous people that just believe certain things shouldn't exist and if they ban all the sex stuff, they'll move on to the next thing.
I'm pretty sure capitalists just do this when left to their own devices. They claim the market is impartial but markets seem to be really great at manifesting fascism in places
Especially when butt stuff's "allowed". I mean, c'mon. I'm not one to kink shame, yet... just own it.
Besides, if your invisible friend is duped by the ol' trench run? Maybe lose that dead weight. 🤘🏼🤗
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Baphomet has always loved you, btw.
Become an undead predator who stalks and murders human beings without conscience... But god forbid you see a tiddy.
There's not even any tiddies! They're all (according to the dev) covered by scenery. But you can have sex with a bear in BG3 and that's not adult content
The sex with Halsen as a bear is like the only scene you don't actually see, it is merely implied. But the other sex scenes are just a slight change to camera angle away from full on visible penetration.
Except Minthara. There's a solid LXIX scene with her, and while not exactly porn, it would definitely make a teenager watching skinemax in the eighties very happy.
LXIX?
It's a number in Roman numerals that's nice.
Oh, lol.
It also pronounces a bit like "LICKS", which is a very nice coincidence.
10's: I remember (M14) going to a friends place to play GTA SA. He was the lucky few who had a dad that didn't care about it's 17+ rating. We all know the first thing we did after jacking a car.
Back then the game was still available to purchase from most game shops. Leisure Suit Larry wasn't tho.
Yea but BG3 was highly marketed and anticipated, whereas this will be the first time many are hearing of Nighthawks.
Valve should treat all games equally. So this is just favoritism bullshit.
Legally, they have to treat them differently, if Steam sells a game like BG3 and some government doesn't like it, they have a PEGI rating to point to.
But if Steam sells a game like this without a rating from an age rating agency and a government doesn't like it or requires ages verification for it, that's on Valve.
Valve also collected massively more money from BG3 sales than it would ever get from this game.
Well I hope Valve realizes they just gave the devs of this game the best excuse to un-hide them! >:3
Kids can watch any porn they like for free on the hub, but heavens forbid an adult wants to pay for and jerk off over RPG character tits.
FYI to anyone interested in games with sexual content: You can change the default settings so these games do still appear when searching.
The problem with this is that in the UK and now Australia, to view 'Adult' games you need to verify your age with a credit card. Something that isn't common to have in either country. And in Germany the game is completely delisted.
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This is really unfortunate.
I dont think Wadjet has ever published a bad game, although I think this is the first non-point and click adventure they're involved with.
I'm really curious to see how this game turns out, and this kind of complication means that it being a success is much less likely, even if it deserves it.
Im in australia, so it probs will be banned here anyway
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