Showa American Story's store page is now blocked in Germany

[Schlumpsha]

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/contentsurvey/germany

A valid age rating is required for your game to be up for purchase in Germany. See link above. As of recently, the store page has become inaccessible for us Germans. And folks who wishlisted the game have the item greyed out due to the region block.

Please add a valid age rating. It's just a few automated clicks for the devs to do so in steam.

[redsimonDE]

Indeed, currently the game's store page is not accessible from Germany.

The reason cannot be that it wasn't released yet, because many other games which haven't been released have their store page accessible.

Probably some information necessary for rating hasn't been sent to Steam so that by default they hid the store page, which they are forced to legally now.

Dear developer, since you probably want the game to be as visible as possible (wishlists!) to have the best success with its future release, please make sure that Steam can reveal the store page in Germany again.

[Invasion_Dec]

I'm not in Germany, but would like to know one thing which might shed light on the actual cause of the situation

Was the store page of the game previously accessible?

[Schlumpsha]

Originally posted by Invasion_Dec:

I'm not in Germany, but would like to know one thing which might shed light on the actual cause of the situation

Was the store page of the game previously accessible?

Indeed. It could be visited previously. Just like a couple thousand games that became region blocked overnight.

Luckily it's no biggie for devs to file out the survey to get a valid age rating after November 15th. Plenty of games slowely but surely become available again for Germans. Subnautica 2 for instance.

[Whyren]

The storepage was previosly visible, i now have this game and 4 others in my wishlist that are greyed out and considered unavailable.

I´ll keep those games on my wishlist and keep an eye on their progress, if they remain unavailable i might pirate them to play them but i`d very much prefere to buy it and support the devs.

[Barbarossa]

I wonder why i could not find it after search. Indeed, the trailer contains several violent scenes. When it will be avaiable and i want to add it to my wishlist?

[redsimonDE]

Originally posted by Barbarossa:

I wonder why i could not find it after search. Indeed, the trailer contains several violent scenes. When it will be avaiable and i want to add it to my wishlist?

Violent scenes are not enough for the game being blocked in Germany.
What is the case here is most certainly that they haven't sent sufficient information to Steam about the game. That is why it became blocked around the 15th, when Steam complied with the new German law.

[AndreGon]

Originally posted by Schlumpsha:

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/contentsurvey/germany

A valid age rating is required for your game to be up for purchase in Germany. See link above. As of recently, the store page has become inaccessible for us Germans. And folks who wishlisted the game have the item greyed out due to the region block.

Please add a valid age rating. It's just a few automated clicks for the devs to do so in steam.

Can't you buy a key from sites like Instant Gaming or CDKeys and activate it on Steam?

[redsimonDE]

Originally posted by AndreGon:

Can't you buy a key from sites like Instant Gaming or CDKeys and activate it on Steam?

You misunderstand, the store page is only blocked by default like for all games which have not provided sufficient information to Steam about the game.
It is not blocked because of anything else.

The only thing necessary is for developer or publisher to fill out properly a questionnaire that Steam provides.

[dEEkAy]

The store page is blocked due to the devs/game not having listed information about age rating.

NO AGE RATING means no store page for germany. If it's rated 18+ or whatever, that's fine. Just nothing isn't fine anymore.

[Matti]

id be gigapissed at the devs and germany, if i couldnt buy and play this with a storepage (for dlc reasons etc.)

[redsimonDE]

I went to the discord of Showa American Story and notified the mods. Hope it gets solved soon.

[dEEkAy]

Originally posted by redsimonDE:

I went to the discord of Showa American Story and notified the mods. Hope it gets solved soon.

real Gigachad move. :D

[Mins]

hope this gets fixed by the developers! the age rating requirements/changes removed thousands of games from german steam :(

[redsimonDE]

To the mods/devs:
You can also look this up on SteamDB (Metadata -> restricted countries: Germany).
It is entirely possible that you just have to fill out the questionnaire again. It has helped with the same issues with games from various other companies before. Reason might be some update that changed the questionnaire.

[Schlumpsha]

Guess this Chinese game studio is either too lazy to fill out a 10 question survey. Or just plainly isn't interested in one of EU's largest consumer markets. Seeing as nothing has been done about the issue at hand for months.

Oh well... Time to move on and focus on other games instead, I guess.