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Sorry, the internet got in the way, I was sarcastic (at steam, not you) about it making sense, sorry. What you say here makes actual sense, thank you.That's on Valve. In the EU you have to have an age verification system. It's EU law. The problem with Germany is that Germany is the only country in the EU where an old catholic hag sued Valve because of the lack of said verfication system. Instead of implementing an age verification system which fits to EU law, Valve decided to shadow ban german customers from games with sexual content. Same would happen if someone in the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, etc. would sue them. Valve don't want to invest money into an age verification system. As long as no one goes to court no government cares about it. But it's EU law.
No, it doesn't. It just shows you don't know the background about Steam, and just a FYI: as a german you can buy said games on Steam. You just have to know how.
1. SG has nudity (the rating is irrelevant)
2. Germany/the EU requires age verification for the purchase of such material.
3. Steam are cheap/lazy f**ks and won't implement an age verification system to comply with German/EU law.
4. Steam simply blocks all content falling under the age verification requirement from users in Germany, so to comply with German law.
This is interesting because I'm not from Europe. Steam has hidden the webpage globally now, so you have to sign in to see it, while if I view the Epic page from the US, (17+ there) I have to verify my age with the date, but from the Netherlands it is PEGI 16, no check, can see the Epic page, japan, IARC 16 no check, can see the Epic page.The rating is not the problem by itself, at least not alone. It's the content shown. And the nail steam is hanging Ocean out to dry is "frequent nudity"
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But you are right the decision making on the side of steam is quite...
... questionable.
So I guess there's a very inconsistent approach. I'll try finding a free german VPN to see that, more because I'm curious.
I guess they have decided the theme of the game is sexual even if there is no sex (which honestly, it is sexualised to be fair).