That's all you can do. I highly doubt you'd get banned either here or on Steam for doing that with something that was blocked in your country. You're doing the best you can to purchase the game that isn't available to you normally.

Now if you're doing it to abuse regional pricing or something (which you're not doing), then yea, your ass should get the ban hammer.

So... this is blocked so we can spend our time with more child-friendly titles like Succubus? :P

Not glamoring the blocking of Succubus; but its a prime example why the Bundesmediananstalt should have been put out of their miserable existence years ago.

Here's the kicker, by using a VPN your transaction is not within German borders but in whichever country's IP you assume. Then when you "come back" with your recently acquired game you already own that copy ("license") so you can keep it. If you stay within the EU you are even protected by REGULATION (EU) 2018/302. This is how GOG operates.
(I had a link but GOG is broken and didn't wanna work that way)

Steam? They do their own thing.

GOG is going lewd and I love them for it!

Thank you! TomNuke.

Nobody would argue saying that these laws are "questionable" at best (and btw - nobody wanted such laws, our politicians simply love to do what THEY think is best for our country and laws that are written rarely do change) but I still think that GOG/Steam simply could integrate age verification just for Germans. So nobody would be negatively affected and they still would get German money. The question is how much money they lose by not offering those games to Germans at all and how much money such a system would cost. It's absolutely not impossible and it is already done on several German websites.

A pirate demon girl who does a Johnny Silverhand impression? Ok, I'll bite :P.

Since it's Studio FOW we're talking about, I expect the tongue in cheekness and the adult content to be top notch.

Bring on the piratey lewds! Arrrrr!

No. If it were that (quote)siomply(/quote), it would have been done on Steam a long time ago.
As far as I know, the problem is that a store that qualifies for age verification has to verify it with ALL CUSTOMERS. No exceptions.
And if with your local disc store in Berlin or München it's not a problem at all, but the fact that Steam will check the age by ID of all its customers (from all over the world) - it's definitely not profitable and will bring more losses than gains. That's why neither Steam, nor GOG implement this nonsense.
And we, too, are not interested at all in fiddling with this absurdity because the Germans are making up their own Ordnung again.

P.S. I, too, am outraged and consider this (in any country) as censorship. You just don't have to put it on the back burner: in countries where there are no such absurd requirements the games are sold on Steam and GOG. For example in your neighboring France.

Hey, I really feel bad for you guys and think the whole thing stinks, but I don't know what someone like GOG can do. I think if it was easy enough, and they actually felt like they were losing money from the German market then Valve would have done what needed to be done. If Valve isn't willing to do it, then I can't expect GOG to do it either.

Is age verification enough? Valve actually does have age verification in place already on its store.

GOG tried to do something like that also, which I'm actually not noticing anymore. Did they just remove the mature content warning and age verification portal we had to go through to view mature rated games?

Not my cup o tea, but enjoy your smut! Looking forward to the next release!

Well a shame GoG removed the age verification, so no Subverse for germany, ladys and gentlemen.
Kinda weird though, since the common age verification should be enough for this game. As it was
visible for us all along.

It can't be enough, because Steam has always had age verification in place and Subverse in blocked in Germany, and countless other games.

just think someone threw a wrench into GoGs gears here, by complaining.
*shugs* all the weeks before release the age verification WAS enough, now all of
the sudden the question is removed and the games are geoblocked
(which is illegal btw in the EU)

"This game is not compatible with your operating system"?

Foolish GOGbears trying to keep their Linux users away from lewds. The game's powered by UE4, which runs on Linux much like... wax on pirate booties :P.