Why is the free Unreal Gold not available in Germany?

[Wurm65]

It was never on the list or censored in anyway here.

[wuddih]

the version on Steam is not the seperate USK 16 version that was released in Germany. with the existence of that version all other versions do not have permission to get advertised and sold publicly. they are basicly automatically on the index.

https://www.gog.com/game/unreal_gold
get it there, gog does not really care if they break any youth-protection law in some random country.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by wuddih:

the version on Steam is not the seperate USK 16 version that was released in Germany. with the existence of that version all other versions do not have permission to get advertised and sold publicly. they are basicly automatically on the index.

https://www.gog.com/game/unreal_gold
get it there, gog does not really care if they break any youth-protection law in some random country.

The version was censored by the developer. To prevent the chance of indexing.
That is not the same as other versions being indexed.

There is just a version the developer made.
That way gog does not break anything.

Also, the versions are identical if you change some settings.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Originally posted by wuddih:

the version on Steam is not the seperate USK 16 version that was released in Germany. with the existence of that version all other versions do not have permission to get advertised and sold publicly. they are basicly automatically on the index.

https://www.gog.com/game/unreal_gold
get it there, gog does not really care if they break any youth-protection law in some random country.

The version was censored by the developer. To prevent the chance of indexing.
That is not the same as other versions being indexed.

There is just a version the developer made.
That way gog does not break anything.

Also, the versions are identical if you change some settings.

USK does the review process for the BpjM.

the game developer/publisher entered a targeted version for this to the USK, it got rated and passed onto the market and with that this version can no longer be indexed but this does not allow the developer/publisher to sell an altered version of it that would infringe the age rating conducts that were applied to the product by the USK.

would be a bit illogical if you give the USK kittens and puppies for the review and then sell bloodleeching monsters instead and no one would give a f, wouldn't it be?

no one acting on this matter does not make it legal. gog does break the german law, they have to prevent in Germany residing people from even seeing the "uncut" version or advertise and sell them the USK 16 version that was rated.

it does also not matter how easy it is to revert the changes that were done for the version that got the USK rating.

[Muppet among Puppets]

To make it simple:
If you look for a game version on the index, and it isnt there, its not on the index.

Also, its not about the german people. Only criminal relevant banned things are to be kept away. Youth protection only determines the public accessibility that would affect under age people.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Aw... Multiplayer seems barren, unless you download the unofficial patches..
Explains why it´s free.

Oh well.. It was to good to be true anyway. No matter. At least we can still have the single player.

It's free as part of the 20 year anniversary celebration./ And for the most part, Unreal's Multiplayer died pretty fast once Unreal tournament came out.

[僕の名前 (仮)]

There's even Unreal 1 mod for UT, I played custom campaigns from it and also I know people play Unreal coop from it.

[Wurm65]

Unreal was never on the list UT 2004 was but it got removed... its OK I got it on CD and picked it up again from GoG. Still would have liked to have it in my steam library though... but ♥♥♥♥ happens.