- Apr 26, 2018
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I more had the games like Wolfenstein and Hearts of Iron that have Nazi symbols in mind with my comment. I think those games themselves are censored in Germany. Although I believe their laws are getting more lax with stuff like that recently. Australia on the other hand is draconian with video game censorship as far as I know.It's not the game itself that gets censored though, there are a lot of very explicit adult games on German Steam.
The problem is the game page and the pictures and other media on there. That needs to be censored or rather Steam would need to set up an age verification process that prevents minors from seeing these images while browsing Steam.
Something more robust than just asking for your age. Steam won't do that so these games then get banned.
So if the Steam page was SFW then the game wouldn't be censored.
Still fucking stupid but it's not just the law that is the problem, it's also that Steam chooses to rather block the games and lose the income than set something up for this specific market. Which kinda surprises me tbh, I expect they lose a lot of income this way.
Point being that you can still obtain the uncensored or unavailable versions if you trade for them or get them gifted from an appropriate region. (Or fuck around with VPNs but that could get your whole account flagged so I wouldn't experiment with that without knowing exactly if it's safe or not)