Hi,

during the Summer sale I tried to purchase "Blood 2", "Rise of the Triad", "Return to Castle Wolfenstein", and similar ones.

However evertime I press the "put to shopping cart button", the number of games (highlighted in green) increase by one and then shortly after decreases again and when I look into cart the game is not added to the shopping cart.

I am over 18 and already purchased other games like those like "bodycount" etc., there I never was asked for 18 years and a game requires to be 18 there never was a problem either.

Or are those game still on german forbidden games index and thus not available to me?

I already tried to contact the GoG support however nobody answered yet.

Maybe someone of you could be of help.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards
Novar80

It's probably based on your location, as there are a number of games and content that are unavailable for purchase (and usually hidden from view) to specific country locations because of local law, politics and what have you...

I presume you are a resident of Germany, according to your forum profile.

Those games are region locked, which means they are restricted from sale in your region.

See Region Locked Games on GOG v2 for further details. The spreadsheet linked in the first post lists the three games you mentioned as being blocked in Germany.

VPNs and gift codes (purchased by another user in another country) are the standard ways to get around it. The former is not officially condoned, but GOG is perfectly happy with the gift code workaround.

Copy paste of my post from an an earlier discussion on the topic

Fellow German here.
Reading your post, made me check the five games you mention (Blood 2, RotT (original and 2013), RtCW and Operation Body Count).
Turns out I own two of them (probably purchased via a VPN).

Of these two, I can click the "Buy as a gift" - button on one, and it will be added to the cart - but I can't actually purchase it (greyed out on check out).
The other I can't even put into my cart as a gift.
The counter jumps to "1" for the fraction of a second, but then back to "0" again.

Of the other three that I don't own, only Operation BC seems to be purchasable for us Germans (which would explain, why you own that one already) - at least that one can be put in the cart and I could buy it, if I wanted (nothing's greyed out here).

It looks like GOG changed something in regard to region locked games.
Because prior to this, the store pages for games that we Germans couldn't buy, also weren't shown to us.
Now they show us the pages, but don't let us purchase the games.
I don't know what's more frustrating.

But hey: VPNs are a thing, you know?

I think they had to disable some site features for the sale. By this time next week, I'd be willing to bet it'll be back to you not being able to see violent or Nazi games, Aussies & Kiwis not being able to see "perverted" games, Japanese not being able to see international versions of some recent AAA games, people outside Japan not being able to see JP-specific versions of those same games, etc.