This is ridiculous. I thought Germany got better with the crazy video game rating requirements...

This time it's NOT about banned ingame content though.
Germany has a new law that makes Steam age ratings on store pages mandatory after November 15th - no matter what type of game or mod it is.

To fix this, devs/publishers only need to fill out Steam's age rating survey in the store backend (which apparently only takes 2-3 minutes) and the game will be relisted in Germany.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย λNTICITIZEN_1:

This is ridiculous. I thought Germany got better with the crazy video game rating requirements...

Unfortunately no, just like all games that only have a 'sex' tag are banned. In Germany, it is not checked, but everything is radically excluded

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Geldwäschebär:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย λNTICITIZEN_1:

This is ridiculous. I thought Germany got better with the crazy video game rating requirements...

Unfortunately no, just like all games that only have a 'sex' tag are banned. In Germany, it is not checked, but everything is radically excluded

So it's like a lack of an age rating is the same as there being hateful imagery before Germany saw that videogames can be a form of art... Wolfenstein had such things, and IRL the symbol was used during a dictator's time there.

What a silly law, its destroying creativity, the way it was meant to be played or experienced, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gaming warcrime

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Eric:

What a silly law, its destroying creativity, the way it was meant to be played or experienced, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gaming warcrime

Absolutely, and without the awesome SteamDB project it would've been way harder/almost impossible to even get a complete list of what was blocked. Some people made a Steam group to organize messaging all the devs/publishers about this stupid new requirement and to track relisting progress.
It's a big mess.

Ah bruh, i hope the Synergy dev acts soon...

Still waiting for this to be fixed. :(

Can someone from a free country upload the binaries somewhere?

Looking into this.

I didn't knew Germany was a Third World Country, got to be one to have such terrible laws right?

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Cultist ඞ:

I didn't knew Germany was a Third World Country, got to be one to have such terrible laws right?

I am from germany and I agree with you *nod* *nod* . the laws of this country make no sense anymore ...