Quite so, but I must admit surprise to one little bit of trivia uncovered in these forums. Was mortal kombat really banned in the land of the currywurst? Is it still?

Banned ?!... Why ?? Ô__ô

No clue. I'd never even heard of currywurst until you just mentioned it. ;)

Also, a question - I'm starting my Dark Souls run soon. But when are you starting a Meat Boy 100 percent run? >=)

Yes it was banned from being sold until 2005. Because of the massive violence in the games. But you were allowed to import it. And since 2005 if is not even banned anymore just on the index which means it can not be sold to minors.

Hmm, quite so, yet that legal morass is one I would not be happy at all to wade through. Who's to say that they haven't filed for a local GmbH in order to take advantage of fiscal bonuses? If so, games sold by gog would no longer count as imports. As for the harvester-Mortal Kombat apparent contradiction/hipocrisy, I think it's a question of popularity. I didn't even know about Harvester, but everyone has heard of mortal kombat.

At about the same time I decide to do weight lifting with my testicles. I hear they're both comparable in terms of the pain they inflict.

Quite a slow day here in the museum,so I'll be able to post more aften today.
Tomorrow there'll be a school visiting us in the afternoon. It'll be busy.

Come on, it's not that bad. I mean, sure, you need a controller...and then you need the patience to not hurl the controller through your monitor....but still, you beat Dark Souls! Meat Boy can't be that hard by comparison. =)

Yeah that might be the reason. Still it is strange and messy what is going on here.

Dark souls can be frustratingly difficult it is true. But that is only until you finally understand the game mechanics (look up shield stability, it's not explained anywhere in the game, and yet it is VITAL) AND you get the timing right, at which point you start backstabbing and parrying every single bastard in the game, except for those that can't be.

It's cruel but fair, I hear that super meat boy is about as fair as the Wehrmacht invading Pol... ooops!

Name any legal situation that isn't a mess, by definition, they all are.

And paraphrasing our good friend Crow. They could be trying to stay under the radar of the moral morons, of which every country has ample supply.

Fortunately no one seems to take them seriously in mine. I mean, 28 years ago, and still fresh from a dictatorship that almost bordered on theocratic, a bad italian singer showed her boobs on TV. Not only were the moral morons completely ignored, people demanded more footage of the nipple slippage. I find it funny that when they tried the "think of the children" card, they were replied with, "nothing any kid hasn't seen already."

It seems like GOG will be slowly implementing all the different bans, lockouts and what-not that some countries feel the ridiculous need to have.

If there's gear you want to grab that might be blocked out? I'd say do so now, before the hammer drops.

Has GOG had region bans before now?

In the next year it won't be a problem for me since I'll still be staying in Switzerland so I can buy all games without problem. So if gog does not do some other strange mess everything should be fine for me at the moment. But I am nevertheless angry about this happening.

First one was yesterday for the Australiens and today the German ones were added. There were not any bans that I know of before.

That is up to debate, can the selling to aussies of only the sanitized version of the witcher count as region locking? if so, then yes.

Hey, you're back :) Are you feeling better ?
I didn't know there were region bans...