For now, at least until the Islamists take over.

I don't want to start a big discussion, but since some peeps reading this don't know Germany at all, I have to set the picture straight.

It's rather two different licenses, one to own guns and one to bear guns. The first one is for sports, hunting as well as collecting. You are allowed to store weapons (except fully automatic firearms) and ammunition, both separated and properly locked, and you can transport the unloaded weapon to places where it is allowed to use it. Everything else is forbidden. To get that license you basically must have a clean police record, no history of drug abusable whatsoever, you have to take lessons and pass a test to prove proper knowledge and you have to provide evidence for your actual need, e.g. hunting or sports.

The license to bear weapons in public is so hardly restricted (mostly connected to professional usage) that a private person has almost no chance to get it.

All in all, that's not what I'd call easy to get and handle.

What do they drink, soured goat milk? :(

If I remember correctly, because GoG open a store in Germany, they have to start censoring games for Germany.

Now that the number of games censored is increasing, what is the benefit of opening s store there?

When GoG announce the news of opening store in Germany and have German language option supposedly to connect with German customers better. But having German language is independent of the store, so what's stopping GOG from closing the German Store so they can sell their whole catalog to German customers again?

Any benefits I did not see for keeping the store?

This has my vote for $64,000 question. Dunno what that is in German currency, though.

Obviously, they sell way more to germans with censoring than without.
Why should they close the german store and decrease their sales/revenue?

Ok so it is a case of German customers saying no no no, but their wallet is very honest.

Why should they do anything special regarding the German market. There are thousands of non-Germany based online retailers out there selling and shipping indexed or banned material to German customers. Amazon.com or amazon.co.uk for example.

You know what happened to them? Jack shit. Because Germany can do exactly jack shit if a company is not based in Germany. Like, oh I don't know, GOG or Valve for instance? They just need to grow a pair and tell the German government to fuck off.

the germans visiting and being vocal on the gog forums are a small minority.

That's a job for the germans to do. Gog is not their white knight to do their battles for them.

There is no battle for GOG. They have to do absolutely nothing except keep selling their games. Which is kinda the default state.

That was my first reaction, too.

About €56,772.82, according to Google.

Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, eh? :)

we don't need GOG to fight the german law. We need GOG to make some effort to better cater for their german customers. I mean, that was the whole idea of opening the german store front, wasn't it?
It is still perfectly legal to sell the affected games to adults. I have been ordering the retail versions of similar "banned" games from a german online shop for 15years and counting.

That this would be a problem at some point should have been clear to the GOG legal team the minute they started looking into opening the german store front. There was more than enough time to come up with a solution.
Instead the issue was ignored as long as possible, and when it wasn't any longer possible to ignore, well, screw the german customers.
GOG deserves all the blame for that total lack of effort to make things better for their customers.

Well, no, it doesn't.