Become an undead predator who stalks and murders human beings without conscience... But god forbid you see a tiddy.
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Guys I'm really, really, really tired of purity culture
It's the puritans forcing companies to cover the legal asses that's the issue. Those people refuse to take responsibility for themselves & their kids, instead forcing the rest of the world to act as their personal morality police so they don't have to.
I don't think it was ever about the kids. Grown adults are freaking the fuck out on the regular about media and always have been =/
It's about control. If it wasn't sex, it would be something else. Eg.: it is already also several other elses.
Especially when butt stuff's "allowed". I mean, c'mon. I'm not one to kink shame, yet... just own it.
Besides, if your invisible friend is duped by the ol' trench run? Maybe lose that dead weight. 🤘🏼🤗
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Baphomet has always loved you, btw.
Why are porn games banned in Germany? What a stupid place.
IIRC they were very slow to label video games "art," with the various protections that brings. That's why Turok 64 had a buck-wild German port where all the humans are robots. Also why games with Nazis were either banned or massively censored until some time this century. Wolfenstein 3D was officially unavailable for ages, and as late as The New Colossus, they replaced a lot of blatant symbols and names with wink-wink alternatives.
Come to think of it, that affected games as late as The Orange Box collection. German TF2 has no blood, and dead players explode into junk props instead of ragdolling or gibbing. I don't remember if Left 4 Dead was similarly censored to hell because I don't remember whether they consider zombies people.
probably lobbied against by Grossen Kinkenspielezeug, they've got a lot of influence in germany
They're not. The seller just has to verify customer age, same as when e.g. buying alcohol in the supermarket or entering a gambling hall.
Valve has simply been refusing to do so, even though eID makes privacy-preserving age verification trivial, frankly.
FYI to anyone interested in games with sexual content: You can change the default settings so these games do still appear when searching.

The problem with this is that in the UK and now Australia, to view 'Adult' games you need to verify your age with a credit card. Something that isn't common to have in either country. And in Germany the game is completely delisted.
Wait, so how both country pay for the game?
What do you mean?
They're presumably not sending cash, so what's the payment method? Direct bank transfer?
Debit cards normally.
Yep I can see them in search but I'm an Australian with no credit card, that's all I can see.
And unfortunately this doesn't help buy shit that is banned in your region.
Luckily GOG isn't affected at this stage.
Because it's too small so nobody cares about it. If it ever approaches the type of market penetration Steam has, they'll be getting the same pressures from the puritans too.
As soon as I saw the screenshot I started getting really excited, and lo and behold after checking the page it is by Richard Cobbett who did Sunless Seas/Skies!! Definitely getting it on release
Don't you love it when a game distribution company controls such a large market share that they can make or break any developer/publisher. Simply for breaching some vague "morality" policy pushed by a bunch of puritans.
God, I love capitalism. /s
And that monopoly itself is subordinate to the supermonopoly of payment processors which are basically their own geopolitical superpower now.
This is really unfortunate.
I dont think Wadjet has ever published a bad game, although I think this is the first non-point and click adventure they're involved with.
I'm really curious to see how this game turns out, and this kind of complication means that it being a success is much less likely, even if it deserves it.
I feel like there's an opportunity here to make it more sexy to get all the horny sales.
Has anyone considered the Edward Hopper estate having something to do with this?
At least in Germany you have to classify your game. You don't have to get it checked by an organisation (USK) for online publishing like steam (but you could if you wanted) but you have to at least fill out a questionnaire.
If you publish without anything, you will get your ass whooped properly.
Sounds to me as if they did nothing.
Well, we've got one side of the story. If the dev gives us what they gave Valve, then maybe we can see who is right.
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