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Posted February 26, 2015
Herzlich Willkommen!




GOG.com goes German. Not completely, mind you, but starting today we'll be spreading our DRM-free love in one more language. Whether you're here because of the news, or you've been with us for a while, here is what we're doing to make our German speaking friends feel a little more welcome on GOG.com:




-A German version of our website. You can change your language using the drop-down menu towards the bottom of every page.
-A German corner of our forums. Your home away from home.
-German customer support. If you're more comfortable talking to us in your native language.
-More games in German. We're rolling out 25+ German localisations for our games today, bringing the total up to 350+.




No big announcement would be complete without a huge sale! This weekend we're holding the German-riffic <span class="bold">Herzlich Willkommen!</span> promo. The highlight is a ridiculous 97% off Deponia, but there are over 25 other German gaming hits available as well. There is adventuring with the remaining Deponia games, the cult strategy of The Settlers, the tough and turn-based tactics in Blackguards 1 and 2, and many, many more feats of German game design.


Check out <span class="bold">the weekend promo page</span> to see the full lineup. The promo will last until Tuesday, March 3, at 4:59 AM GMT.




Update:
Two games from our catalog had to be made unavailable in Germany: Commandos Ammo Pack and Commandos 2+3. Offering or promoting these games is considered a serious criminal offence according to German law, and we have to abide by this law to avoid the risk of serious legal action taken against GOG.com and GOG.com employees. Rest assured that if you've already bought a game - nothing will retroactively disappear from your shelves.
Post edited February 27, 2015 by Chamb
Posted March 02, 2015
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VeganRene: Please read the gamestar article and you know more about gog. They crack the games, do reverse engeneering, delete bugs and playing the games complete. Play some games on mac und linux too. There is a "Break-Team" and a "Fix-Team".
They never make any changes to the content, though. If the publisher can't / won't provide the censored version for some reason GOG isn't gonna offer it.

Also the article isn't well-researched. It was written by someone who clearly has little to no experience with this stuff and who can't tell GOG's work apart from what, say, Bluepoint have done for their console HD remakes. GOG just don't work on their releases on such a level nor is it necessary.
Posted March 02, 2015
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VeganRene: Please read the gamestar article and you know more about gog.
Please read some postings from the blues (GOG staff) and you know more about GOG ;) They don't change stuff in the game files. Have a look at the Omerta forums, if you don't believe me. Kalypso released a patch that introduced a game breaking bug. Steam got a fix, GOG didn't. Eight months later, GOG got the patch, which introduced a new game breaking bug. It took GOG another six months until they released their own patch (probably the one another user did half a year earlier) to fix this issue, because Kalypso said that Omerta is too old now and that they can't support their games that long (They're the ones who broke the game twice, so they should fix it no matter how old the game is! But that's another topic).

GOG can fix things related to incompatibility with modern drivers and hardware. That means: they do the configuration of the emulator (DOSBox, nGlide). It's very very rare that they fix any ingame bugs. Omerta is one example and I think the first Thief game is bundled with some fan made patches. But that's all that I know of.
Posted March 02, 2015
I see some people say "German people hardly play German speaking/reading games. They play the English ones."

Actually, my wife and her family all play the German version of the games. Although Sims 3 and 4 are available in English, she installs the German one.

Also, I noticed the 'argument' about the German swastika ban and how stupid it is. Well, first of all, wrong place to debate that. GOG is a retail store and not parliament. Secondly, you hate regional lock? Well, maybe you can do better then without resorting to piracy? Open up your own online retail store and see how long you can go on before a government agency gets on your butt. Are you seriously willing to take them to court, stretched over years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees?

If regional locks are a big issue for you, use a Proxy to buy the games. If you're all savvy enough to argue at a forum, I'm sure you can figure out how to buy games using a Proxy.
Post edited March 02, 2015 by ginsengsamurai
Posted March 02, 2015
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ginsengsamurai: If regional locks are a big issue for you, use a Proxy to buy the games. If you're all savvy enough to argue at a forum, I'm sure you can figure out how to buy games using a Proxy.
It's still unclear if this isn't even more illegal than pirating, because of tax evasion (although the right of privacy is right at the beginning of the basic laws). Contradictions everywhere.
Post edited March 02, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted March 02, 2015
A salute to a time when Germany was actually bad-ass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM
Posted March 02, 2015
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Crosmando: A salute to a time when Germany was actually bad-ass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM
yes very bad ass.

and now not bad? Poverty, stupidness, social freeze etc.
Posted March 02, 2015
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Crosmando: A salute to a time when Germany was actually bad-ass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM
That's one way to promote a prison.
I was born in GDR and am happy that it doesn't exist anymore.

Sure, total spying, mind control and shooting people at the borders who want to leave is bad-ass in a (shitty) way, I guess.
Post edited March 02, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted March 02, 2015
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Crosmando: A salute to a time when Germany was actually bad-ass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM
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Klumpen0815: That's one way to promote a prison.
I was born in GDR and am happy that it doesn't exist anymore.

Sure, total spying, mind control and shooting people at the borders who want to leave is bad-ass in a (shitty) way, I guess.
Yes, the glory time of socialism. State sanktioned murder, spy devices in every apartment, total propaganda stupidity, free speech and thinking forbidden, etc. Glorious isn't it.
Post edited March 02, 2015 by Matruchus
Posted March 02, 2015
the real big question is now:

if gog rolls back to the state before german language, are they then also able to remove the censorship?

ps: hey gog i'm very disappointed about this crap
Posted March 02, 2015
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Matruchus: Yes, the glory time of socialism. State sanktioned murder, spy devices in every apartment, total propaganda stupidity, free speech and thinking forbidden, etc. Glorious isn't it.
Yeah, good thing we don't have those problems anymore hehe
Posted March 02, 2015
"The Unity will bring about the master race. Master Master! One able to survive, or even thrive, in the wasteland. As long as there will be differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. We need one race! Race! Race! One goal! Goal! Goal! One people... to move forward to our destiny. Destiny."
Posted March 03, 2015
Ah, the announcement of good news always foreshadows the bittersweet arrival of a good old insomnia sale. :)
Post edited March 03, 2015 by Lemon_Curry
Posted March 03, 2015
I'm german and I really don't care if GoG exists in german.
But guys really, you're doing geo locking now ? I need to use a proxy now to buy commandos ?
One step closer to steam again.

And no I don't really care for commandos but I know what this means for future games.
Post edited March 03, 2015 by Reaper9988
Posted March 03, 2015
I would have so gladly done without a German storefront and even without more German language versions of games if there would be no geolock in return. I really hate that.
Posted March 03, 2015
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ginsengsamurai: I see some people say "German people hardly play German speaking/reading games. They play the English ones."

Actually, my wife and her family all play the German version of the games. Although Sims 3 and 4 are available in English, she installs the German one.
And all the germans I know play their games in english, so ...

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ginsengsamurai: GOG is a retail store and not parliament.
What is debated here is not the original censorship enforced by ze german bureaucracy, but rather GoG's move to subject itself to the latter. I think it's reasonable to discuss this here.

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ginsengsamurai: If regional locks are a big issue for you, use a Proxy to buy the games. If you're all savvy enough to argue at a forum, I'm sure you can figure out how to buy games using a Proxy.
That's a possibility. But the point is that one of the things that *made* GoG so great was that they use not to have this geolock crap. I assume that the people who argue against GoG's latest move are actually supportive of GoG. We want GoG to succeed and to be an attractive marketplace for old games. And therefore we don't want them to fuck up like this.
Post edited March 03, 2015 by FT337mZn
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