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.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

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.

do they also do that on pc or is it mostly a problem with console games ?
kind of a foreign concept to me to have different version of the same game depending on the region since i am used to modern indie PC games

how hard is it nowadays to get Postal 2 i know its one of the games that is completely banned, or was completely banned ? idk

how is it for Austrians do they get the censored german discs ?

 

[Retro Doomer]

do they also do that on pc or is it mostly a problem with console games ?
kind of a foreign concept to me to have different version of the same game depending on the region since i am used to modern indie PC games

how hard is it nowadays to get Postal 2 i know its one of the games that is completely banned, or was completely banned ? idk

how is it for Austrians do they get the censored german discs ?

They do it on Steam so yes they do it on PC to at least when the get to a website first where they can implement there Tyranny by blocking you based on your IP the same way some Videos are not even watchable in Germany for our protection of course as they say.
Officially I am not sure I guess if you can buy it Via GOG it should be fine otherwise I have no clue as Germany can be very strict about it.

 

[qw90700]

Since video games in my country is English versions just because it is international language which tend to be for Americanos we only suffer from what Americanos censor just because our law is "similar" in that regard, not that we agree. It may actually hurt sells here and people who really disliked Americano versions get non-Americano versions from Europe (UK) or Japan (if the censored game is a Japanese game) in their own ways. However until PS1-era or so only Japanese games reached us so we could enjoy better ways to play games. Now stupid companies assumes everywhere is America when it is not Europe or some shit so we stuck with "American shit" editions lol.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Since video games in my country is English versions just because it is international language which tend to be for Americanos we only suffer from what Americanos censor just because our law is "similar" in that regard, not that we agree. It may actually hurt sells here and people who really disliked Americano versions get non-Americano versions from Europe (UK) or Japan (if the censored game is a Japanese game) in their own ways. However until PS1-era or so only Japanese games reached us so we could enjoy better ways to play games. Now stupid companies assumes everywhere is America when it is not Europe or some shit so we stuck with "American shit" editions lol.

Always proud to be a US Citizen my good Sir now we just need the First and Second amendment over here if they where so kindly to do so.
Anyhow one things that is better in Europe compared to the US are the Ps1 games despite some censorship as the boxes looked just finer compared to the tiny excuses of a box the Americans got.
This so sad to bad

I just like the Trump impression.

Also many of our Covers with some exceptions look better then the US versions unless you life in Germany in which case your Cover gets a large thick age Restriction sticker on it.

 

[CyberRabbit]

Here in the USA it isn’t bad at all
(The first and second amendments are really handy over here ;) )
However that still ain’t stopping the big companies (aka the banks) from trying to censor our games and to take away our gosh darn freedom
Quite a while ago two big bank companies were pressured by a women’s activist club (or a better name is a censorship club) to pressure steam to take down many nsfw games and one of the companies ended all support for steam altogether.
This isn’t even the first time they tried to do this to, they tried it back in the 2010s pressuring the same banks to take down games like mirrors edge, gta5, and Detroit become human, thankfully this failed

 

[SpcDaicon]

In Brazil (and most of Latin America, I think) we had the most effective form of censorship that exists: games never even arriving here.

But in all seriousness, our age-rating bureau was so amateurish they didn't know what they were doing half the time. What really drove the gaming market around here was the gray market. Pirated games, pirated consoles, bootlegs from China, smuggled games direct from Japan, jailbroken videogames, burnt cds, you name it. In such unregulated and decentralized market, censorship couldn't work.

We did have some episodes of moral panic where the government rushed to do something. One such episode was due to a mod for Counter Strike that took place in Rio but overall, censorship wasn't that prevalent around these parts back in the day.

Nowadays things are much more official and organized, games now come with proper age rating but the gray market still rampant.

Well, as a song here goes "no sin exists south of the Equator"