Then what the hell was the point? Doesn't he live in Germany? You'd think these would be things that he'd know.
You guys didnt read a lot in this thread here or even his patreon posts?
First of all... its a Steam Issue alone. They dont want do bother with german right so they just geoblock "uncertain" content from the get go. Which is ilegal by the way and Steam got sued for that multiple times and had to pay penalties... and still, they dont care.
But you can buy it on Epic or GoG in germany, its released in a week from today there.
Of course Ocean was aware of all that and still it was worth it to try it. It was even close to get approved. But in the end... it didnt made it to a german Steam release. But the effort assured that it got a pegi 16 rating, which is really important for a global release and like that it was able to be released on Epic and GoG without any issues.
So all the struggles werent exactly pointless.