Ancient-Red-Dragon: Why is GOG selling censored versions of games?
Maybe because otherwise they'd need to implement an age verification system, and when for all these years they've been preferring to just restrict dozens of games from being sold in Germany (to take the most obvious example) instead of introducing optional age verification for those who'd want those that are just age-restricted, not outright banned... This way, with the publisher offering the patch to remove censorship, they wash their hands of it and anyone can get the uncensored game if they want it as long as the game itself, even in this form, isn't restricted there. If they'd just sell the uncensored version and such a check would be legally required for it, depending on what jurisdiction they fall under, then everyone who wants the game would need to verify their identity, which would be a far, far bigger problem. And selling both versions when the patch is freely available and they link to it would just be an unnecessary complication, if not even a legal gray area.
(Why that is so is another discussion. But, you know, violence, stealing anything not nailed down, lying, cheating, depictions of drug use, smoking, gambling, don't worry about it, just maybe at most place a little rating icon somewhere in a corner and it's fine. But <enter deity of choice> forbid even a cartoonish depiction of a sex organ or a female nipple (how do they know it wasn't "censored" by replacing with a male one, by the way?), not to mention an actual sex act! Think of all the young minds that'd melt!)
