Agreed. :) Personaly, i do love that GoG has released these gems to the public to enjoy. As long as gifting is possible there is no real problem to get these games. Just ask nicely :D
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To be honest, I have a feeling that they're moving to abolish the BPjM. That organisation has just seen one embarrassment after another of late, and it's just a matter of time until someone brings the "glorification of violence" provision of the StGB and the "mild endangerment" and "severe endangerment" provisions of the JuSchG to court and shows that it's unconstitutional by virtue of the fact that you simply cannot claim glorification or endangerment through the simple depiction of explicit violence. And the recent rejection of Mortal Kombat X is going to make it nigh-on impossible to blacklist any other titles in future without publishers going through legal appeals.

The system survives alone on disincentivising opposition - both the certification process and the appeals process are costly affairs that are a real crapshoot - hence the "Schere im Kopf" mentality. A publisher might get lucky with their certification or review committee and have progressive members, but they might also be stuck with aging parents' association representatives, backward child psychologists and church reps.

The BPjM, §86a and §131 StGB have survived hitherto on the simple fact that nobody has dared contest them. Gamers generally don't have the funds to mount a full-scale legal campaign, there's no association representing gamers, and the German development community is essentially dead, so there's no real industry motivation to challenge it.

But there's little doubt that all three are anti-constitutional - the only limitation that the constitution grants on freedom of expression is to protect youth, and it can be safely assumed that none of this is adequately aimed at achieving this goal, especially given that the systems in place to protect young people are so poorly enforced (USK/FSK ratings for one thing).

Once the legal challenge is mounted, there won't be much need for the BPjM anymore, especially as they don't seem to really give much of a shit about actually protecting young people. If they did, they'd do more about the way that many of these girls' magazines encourage eating disorders and foster distorted perceptions about sexuality.

I´m not even German. I just live here...

I would like to trade a gift code for Quake II + expansions. In return I will give you a game for the same price.

They are still here

http://www.gog.com/promo/bethesda_classics_wolfenstein_bundle_011015
http://www.gog.com/promo/bethesda_classics_quake_bundle_011015

It is for almost all of us, probably, but in this case your country is imposing the censoring!

You are correct but still in the German law the swastika (bacause the nazis misused it as their symbol) is considered anti-constitutional and therefore not legal as long as it is not used in the sense of art. This is so wrong since you won't become a nazi just because you saw a swastika. What would they have done if the nazis had chosen a square as their symbol? What would they teach children in geometry then? Would they forbid every second traffic sign? It's just ridiculous but it is the law.

Yes, it is ridiculous. For private use you are still allowed to collect and own these things. Just the public is the problem.

One of my favourite games of all times. And very ambitious, given its groundbreaking nature and how old it is. Incidentally, the people behind the Starglider games (Argonaut Software) are the company that created the Super FX chip and the Star Fox games. So 3D space games are in their blood.

Do you really think the government cares if we buy games or not? And if you don't pay taxes because of this (the only thing the governement DOES care about) you may have to pay a fine or even go to jail. So there is no real way for the little people to fight the censorship (voting never helped - they all think alike). The game developers and publishers however have a lobby and money they could (and sometimes already have) fight the censorship. We little gamers just have to swallow it or - much easier and much more often the case - pirate the game. In times of the internet publishers and developers should be aware that there is no way to prevent anybody to get what he or she wants and if they still want money for it they have to fight that they can sell their stuff here too - otherwise they won't get any money. Might not be legal but that is the way that it really is.

If anybody would be willing to trade with me, I'd be more than thankful. Just add me to your friend list.

You should post that request here

For me, i have that feeling that we gamers are talking and talking about the same things over and over again, til the thread is read by no one anymore and than life moves on.
Just like that. We all just talk about whats right and legal and about laws. But we dont do anything. And never will. Cause we can just be upset a few days on a forum for good.

i was surprised about a fps with 3d models released in 1988. although it was disturbing to not had textures on the sky surfaces, while i watched some gameplay.

There were others before, most notably Elite. But Starglider was the first game ever with voice samples. That was before there were any real audio tools available so Jez San actually did this by measuring voltages off the sound chip, and modulating the volume controls in real time to find what voltages came out on his Atari ST. Crazy times :D