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Exactly, and it's not even DRM as some like some to claim based on the definition of DRM. That word get thrown around to much if people don't like a situation on here. :/

Sorry, but that's ridiculous, bizarre, and untrue.

It makes GOG a store that follows the law, as it is required to do.

Of course they have a choice, they could choose to not sell the game.
Obviously the deciding factor here is the possible income for a company and there is really nothing wrong about that, but it leaves a bad taste and shows us that there is yet another boundary this service was willing to cross.

This occurrence is unique for now, but who knows what the future will bring? Maybe next time it's not just Australia, but a third of the world, or whatever.
Pure speculation, granted. Anyway, such matters become naturally more important to those affected.

And by the way, Nazi symbols aren't generally banned here in Germany, if those symbols are used in a work of art, for example, they are allowed. Most games still have to be acknowledged as art though, so it doesn't matter yet.

It has other options of following the law, such as:
a) Asking me to click on a checkbox that I am not living in Australia when I come to buy the game.
b) Not selling the game.

Somebody taking themself a right isn´t the same as possessing a right...

That does seem a bit much.

Well, a) probably doesn't cut it legally, as they would clearly still easily sell to Australia in violation of the law. And you really think b) is a better option? How does punishing the developer for Australia's fascist stupidity help anybody? That would only benefit the fascists.

Honest question: What do you think this would achieve?

Gog most likely feels that due diligence would not be met with option a, and have already directly stated why they felt b was an inferior option.

In the extreme, the developer could also chose not to release the game anywhere in the world because of the ban in australia right?

It would be a statement that GOG will not give a hand to policing the Australian censorship laws.

If all stores did this for all censored games, the outcry would be such that countries/companies would put pressure on Australia to come up with a better policy.

Why does GOG avoid selling DRM games? Because it believes that by leading through example it might bring about a change. It should have done the same here. Frankly, I personally find censorship more abhorrent than DRM.

P.S. I still think that, until proven otherwise by actually doing it, option (a) is valid.

Why are people trying to blame GOG? The blame entirely falls on the Australian government. GOG's decision prevents the idiosyncrasies of one government from affecting people from other countries. The only people affected are Australians, who have the power to elect a new government if they don't like the policies of the current one.

This issue is completely different from regional pricing, etc. Businesses do those other things because they make more money. Any reasonable person can see that GOG is not doing this to exploit its customers.

I know they stated it directly. I just disagree with them.

It isn't. When GOG introduced regional pricing for Witcher 2, they decided to avoid using geo-ip to enforce it, which meant that you could just change your country in your account's settings. GOG said that they did that because they didn't feel that IP-checking was the way to go. Half a year later, a court order would force them to do so.

That's a French court and a commercial dispute.

Who knows what another court would rule, or whether the Australian government would even want to take this to court.

But I am not in GOG's shoes, so it's easy for me to come up with "bell the cat" solutions.

I respect their decision and adapt myself to it.

Assuming they decided to implement your a) solution, they would be breaking their contract with the publisher, which is what also got them into trouble with Namco. How would Devolver Digital be moving from then on, is another matter.