• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Not with your stupid restrictive content laws thanks. Can’t even have Nazia in Wolfenstein cause they’re the bad guys.

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Germany sucks as a place for tech startups, but not because of this. Your information is years outdated, the law has long since been adjusted to include digital media under the art and expression exclusions for the use and depiction of Nazi imagery.

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          6 months ago

          By default yes, but you can contact steam support and ask them to disable no violence mode for you. Usually takes less than three days.

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              6 months ago

              But that’s on Valve, not Germany. Experts say they probably could have released the original with no problems back then.

              • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                6 months ago

                How is German law/policy on Valve? You realize that the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle refused to rate Half-Life and Half-Life 2 until changes like changing human blood to green and making enemies robots were made right? So it would stand to reason that Valve would proactively submit a version of TF2 that incorporated the required changes they’d been forced to make for the German market in the past.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      They couldn’t have Nazis in Wolfenstein because Germany didn’t allow Nazi symbolism in videogames regardless of context before 2018. Since then you are allowed to use Nazi symbols as long as it’s clear Nazis are the bad guys.