Censorship in games how bad in your Country ?

[Retro Doomer]

So now we get to the age old question Ladies and Gentleman how terrible is the censorship of games in your country
can you play a mostly uncensored version of the game if you bought of buy a game from your local video game marked
or is it borderline unplayable where you got to the point that you nearly Import all of your games ?
I for myself wanted to buy the so called best version of Saints row,Saints Row 2 but that version is extremely censored in Germany
so my best bet would be Importing a UK version instead as it should run on my Xbox360 as it is still pal still it sucks as I have to pay far more
often then not just to get a version that is not North Korea style censored.
Saints Row 1 is apparently worse in Germany as the even cut whole Missions from the game.

It became a bit less worse over the years but its still not good.

 

[for.we.are.many]

Censorship of games and Germany, name a more iconic duo.
I'd like to throw in Half-Life as one of my favourite example for that, where they replaced the soldiers with robots. Nowadays you can get the uncut version on Steam in Germany. The soldiers are human again. They still have the robot voices though.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Censorship of games and Germany, name a more iconic duo.
I'd like to throw in Half-Life as one of my favourite example for that, where they replaced the soldiers with robots. Nowadays you can get the uncut version on Steam in Germany. The soldiers are human again. They still have the robot voices though

Its also horrific how many games we have and had on the Index which is crazy I hate censorship and but I can understand it for minors but not for games that are USK18 meaning for adults only anyway I hate if they treat us like little children its like of course you can join the Bundeswehr and fight in warn and die but no blood or violence in game that is far to naughty and you are not mature enough for that as a freaking adult.
Also its shit that we did not even get some games at all like Earthbound (Given not because of censorship it still sucks though) and Bond Golden Eye N64 for Censorhsip If I remember right

 

[Dani.]

Hey das ist ein cooles Profilbild jetzt bist du ein Gentleman.
Hey, that's a cool profile picture, now you're a gentleman.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Hey das ist ein cooles Profilbild jetzt bist du ein Gentleman.
Hey, that's a cool profile picture, now you're a gentleman.

Truly I am in best Regards yours truly Retro Doomer
If I can't be a noble in money and title let me at least be one in manners
just in case a new king arrives and appoints new nobles.

 

[Clippy]

Censorship of games and Germany, name a more iconic duo.

Censorship of games and Australia

 

[Retro Doomer]

Censorship of games and Australia

They go far beyond censoring games in the land of the Emu Regime they outright ban games there
the Australians should have never lost the war against the Emus as they now life under there tyranny.
I also found a fun...I meant of course Epic Video about it

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

how does game censorship even work in the era of Internet and international commerce ? are the games just delisted from the Steam store based on your IP address ? what if you already bought the game do they prevent you from downloading ? how would they prevent something being sold here when everyone shop online anyway and can freely get stuff from all around the EU ?

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I am not aware of any censorship here in France but it might be because I use the net in such a way that the local regulation doesn't usually impact me

 

[Retro Doomer]

how does game censorship even work in the era of Internet and international commerce ? are the games just delisted from the Steam store based on your IP address ? what if you already bought the game do they prevent you from downloading ? how would they prevent something being sold here when everyone shop online anyway and can freely get stuff from all around the EU ?

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I am not aware of any censorship here in France but it might be because I use the net in such a way that the local regulation doesn't usually impact me

Yes as far as I am aware they would either Delist the game according to you IP address or only sell you the censored version.
I am also not aware of any censorship in France so I am more eager to Import French games into Germany but to be safe I just get the UK versions because I am not sure if in France the game English language support or even German one.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

We don't really do the concept of censorship here in Argentina.

It's a lesson learned in blood.