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General discussionWolfenstein 3D about to be removed from BPjM's "Index"(23 posts)(23 posts)
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Posted October 29, 2019
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Swedrami: While on the other side of the planet the streets of Canberra are teeming with junkies, crack heads and drug fiends perpetually waiting for those incentivised stat bonuses to kick in.
Eh, cut em some slack...they have to deal with huge arse spiders/drop bears/marmite/etc.
Posted October 29, 2019
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Crosmando: 10 years later, brownshirts marching through the streets of Berlin with Hitler portraits because Germans don't know how to chill out.
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Swedrami: While on the other side of the planet the streets of Canberra are teeming with junkies, crack heads and drug fiends perpetually waiting for those incentivised stat bonuses to kick in.
The Joke > Your Head
Posted October 29, 2019
I thought there were specific laws (that still exist) against any and all video games that feature Nazi imagery (or the shooting of Germans or both, I don't know the exact details).
Posted October 29, 2019
Real reason for banning the game was that there were a lot of old Nazis at the BPjM in the 1990s who thought it offensive that one could kill Hitler in the game. They've now mostly died off, so the game could finally be released.
Posted October 29, 2019
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Swedrami: While on the other side of the planet the streets of Canberra are teeming with junkies, crack heads and drug fiends perpetually waiting for those incentivised stat bonuses to kick in.
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Crosmando: The Joke > Your Head
Don't worry, I got it.

I just felt a bit like Haw-haw!'ing and pointing at Australia's similarly ridiculous and severely outdated ratings and classification system, and how the ACB gets their panties into a bunch over things like virtual drug use.
Posted November 20, 2019
In related news: the ROW versions of New Order, Old Blood and New Colossus are no longer region-locked for German IPs on Steam.

Meanwhile, we're still waiting for Wolf 3D and Spear of Destiny to get their region lock removed. <:(
Posted November 20, 2019
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HunchBluntley: But what about Germany's still-impressionable youth? Probably better leave it on the Index another 27 years, just to be safe.
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Nergal01: The impressionable kids really don't care about a 25+ years-old game. Or old games and movies in general, which is why so much stuff that was banned or "just" indexed in the 70s, 80s and 90s is no longer considered problematic.

The authorities around here have become a lot more tolerant towards violent media over the past decade or so. If anybody had told me ten years ago that Mortal Kombat X and XI would'nt have any trouble with our youth protection agencies, I would've called them crazy! But there it is. Notorious video nasties like Evil Dead, Romero's Dawn of the Dead or Last House on the Left suddenly get their restrictions lifted and become freely available again, while most of the new stuff doesn't even have to deal with all this.

The thing about Wolfenstein 3D, though, was this: the game had been banned under §86 of our criminal code of law back in '94, which means that the game was treated like a propaganda medium. Which is pretty ridiculous, but that's how it was. The ban was formally lifted last month, which clears the way for the full de-listing.
Well, sometimes I thought that the games weren`t banned for protecting the youth, but instead banned because the government didn`t want that people to come on the idea that one could fight against Nazis.
Post edited November 20, 2019 by Maxvorstadt
Posted November 20, 2019
Cool, hopefully GOG removes the regional lock soon!
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