Planet Bob

Recently I figured that I can easily order banned games from ebay.co.uk, by just logging in there with my ebay.de account. Once bought I just need to log back into ebay.de and then I can even one-click pay with PayPal, who automatically transfer the right amount of GBP. Worked marvellous, I had Resident Evil 2 GC arriving within a week.

 

That is surprising - do lots of games get banned in Germany (presumably for nazi references), or do you just like playing banned games?

 

Chris

That is surprising - do lots of games get banned in Germany (presumably for nazi references), or do you just like playing banned games?

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That is surprising - do lots of games get banned in Germany (presumably for nazi references), or do you just like playing banned games?

 

The situation is pretty desperate. German youth protection went sooo overboard in recent years, that publishers don't even try anymore to release games like "Mad World", "House of the Dead" or the Wii version of "Dead Rising" to the German market. They'll keep making german language versions though, knowing that we'll just import them from the U.K. or Austria

 

Only big AAA releases like Dead Space or Resident Evil 5 can afford to be pushed through the verification process by lawyers, so they get at least an 18+ rating, which means they can at least legally be sold to adults.

 

If a game gets an 18+ rating, you can get it here. Some, like Dead Rising are refused a rating and then they can get fully banned, i.e. even I as an adult can not buy Dead Rising from a German retailer. To be precise, I am actually allowed to buy and own it, but _selling_ it here is illegal.

 

While in former times complete banning was really limited to Nazi propaganda and stuff like child pornography, these days not even a comparably "harmless" zombie game is safe from this process, which I personally classify as outright censorship

 

BTW: Technically is the Gamecube version of Resident Evil 2 not banned, but it is not rated either and without rating it can't be sold here. The PS version is 18+, so it would've gotten the same rating presumably, yet Capcom didn't even bother to sell it here.

 

EDIT: For the second part of your question, I just like playing "good" games, unfortunately some of them are banned. I'm not playing games because they're banned. I did so 20 years ago, when in school it was cool to know 18+ C64 games