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Posted June 21, 2016
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WBGhiro:
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Siegor: blood has to be green
You're shitting me?
Posted June 21, 2016
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Maxvorstadt: It seems as if GoG wants to kill it`s german market.
How is this GOG's fault? Sounds more like the fault of the German government.
Posted June 21, 2016
Not sure but it may be because of GOG laziness to check age??
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: blood has to be green
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tinyE: You're shitting me?
I don't think so, unless they changed it recently.

Edit: Jmich explains it better in the post below.
Post edited June 21, 2016 by Siegor
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: blood has to be green
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tinyE: You're shitting me?
It doesn't have to be green. The red blood falls under the general violence against humans tag from what I recall, so best way to circumvent that is by claiming it's not violence against humans, but violence against zombies or violence against robots. You can have games with red blood, but they will (most likely) be treated similar to adult videos, aka they won't be able to be advertised, and you'll have to ask the seller specifically for that title, as well as provide adult identification.


Edit: Damn, I miss SimonG.
Post edited June 21, 2016 by JMich
Posted June 21, 2016
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tinyE: You're shitting me?
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JMich: It doesn't have to be green. The red blood falls under the general violence against humans tag from what I recall, so best way to circumvent that is by claiming it's not violence against humans, but violence against zombies or violence against robots. You can have games with red blood, but they will (most likely) be treated similar to adult videos, aka they won't be able to be advertised, and you'll have to ask the seller specifically for that title, as well as provide adult identification.

Edit: Damn, I miss SimonG.
Does this apply to medical text books? :P
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: I don't think so, unless they changed it recently.
Recenty meaning more than a decade ago!? It sounds like you are thinking about Nintendo…
Posted June 21, 2016
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WBGhiro: You ever notice how all the banned games are foreign?

It's the gamocaust, I tell you.
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tinyE: Now that is an interesting point! No shit.
As you are a German I want to learn about this stuff, being totally serious here.

We all know about the laws pertaining to these games, but what about said production? I would imagine there are game devs in Germany, and some damn good ones, but are there laws in place dictating what they cannot include in their production?
Obviously everything that falls under §86 of the criminal code (use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations e.g. Nazis, IS, KKK etc.). Other than that it is at the discretion of the BPjM, if a game is approved, censored or banned from sale. It's weird sometimes.

Oh, and blood isn't green in any game that I've ever owned *chuckle*
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: I know in Germany there are laws stating swastikas cannot be shown and blood has to be green. Are there any others that might affect these games?
There are no particular laws, other than nazi symbolism is only allowed in historically accurate representations like documentaries. Games are screened by the USK to get an age approval rating even though there is an 18+ rating, some games are deemed so offensive/immoral they are banned from display in stores, not banned for sale but since that kills most sales automatically few shops have bothered carrying banned games.

The USK used to be very strict about things because of media witchhunts similar to the USA version of Jack Thompson. Which is why you get things like 20 year old games still being banned but the new Doom being sold without problems here.

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Siegor: blood has to be green
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tinyE: You're shitting me?
There are games with green blood in them but I don't recall which ones in particular. I do remember all hostile human NPCs in Half Life and Soldier of Fortune 2 being replaced with robots.

What was even more jarring is that when friendly npcs got killed in half life, they just sat down and shaked their head.

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tinyE: Now that is an interesting point! No shit.
As you are a German I want to learn about this stuff, being totally serious here.

We all know about the laws pertaining to these games, but what about said production? I would imagine there are game devs in Germany, and some damn good ones, but are there laws in place dictating what they cannot include in their production?
As I said there are no particular laws against production, only what can be displayed on stores to the public. Even if a German dev made an ultraviolent game that would be banned even today, they would probably just self-censor until the product is appropriate for the german market.
Post edited June 21, 2016 by WBGhiro
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: I don't think so, unless they changed it recently.
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mk47at: Recenty meaning more than a decade ago!? It sounds like you are thinking about Nintendo…
Hehe, I must be getting old...
You kids get off my lawn!
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: Hehe, I must be getting old...
You kids get off my lawn!
Well, you are writing on the geriatric outlandish gamers forum... ;-)
Posted June 21, 2016
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WBGhiro: Games are screened by the FSK
No. Totally wrong.
Posted June 21, 2016
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Siegor: blood has to be green
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tinyE: You're shitting me?
Sounds like germans seriously hate Vulcans.
Posted June 21, 2016
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WBGhiro: Games are screened by the FSK
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seppelfred: No. Totally wrong.
It's some board i don't recall which one in particular.

Right. USK.
Post edited June 21, 2016 by WBGhiro
Posted June 21, 2016
http://www.usk.de/
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