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Posted March 18, 2017
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DanTheKraut: Companies which are located in Germany because the German law ends at the German border. The BPjM can't do anything when it comes to none German stores (located in Germany) except indexing the website and there are no shops on the index.
gameware.at and some other store nearly got "indexed" - which essentially means that google.de can't list them. It took them a lot of effort to prevent this...

A company like GOG indexed basically means killing it for the German market.
Posted March 18, 2017
It would be interesting to see how many people end up on GOG's website through a search engine.
Posted March 18, 2017
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stryx: If your company is located within the EU and you are (also) selling to German customers, you'll also have to abide by German law, because the German law is enforcable through EU law.
Show me that specific law pls and show me a few shops outside of Germany which really follow the German youth protection law (I can only name 1 which is Ubisoft).

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DanTheKraut: Companies which are located in Germany because the German law ends at the German border. The BPjM can't do anything when it comes to none German stores (located in Germany) except indexing the website and there are no shops on the index.
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toxicTom: gameware.at and some other store nearly got "indexed" - which essentially means that google.de can't list them. It took them a lot of effort to prevent this...

A company like GOG indexed basically means killing it for the German market.
As mentioned before there are no shops on the index only 2 Aamazon.co.uk sites from Dead Island.
Post edited March 18, 2017 by DanTheKraut
Posted March 19, 2017
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stryx: If your company is located within the EU and you are (also) selling to German customers, you'll also have to abide by German law, because the German law is enforcable through EU law.
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DanTheKraut: Show me that specific law pls and show me a few shops outside of Germany which really follow the German youth protection law (I can only name 1 which is Ubisoft).
You're looking for "REGULATION (EC) No 864/2007 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II)"

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32007R0864

Here http://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/versand-ins-ausland-anwendung-deutsches-recht-ausrichtung.html

you can see how different national laws can affect a web shop selling it's products within the EU.

Especially "Lauterkeitsrecht" in the first part and "Kein Ausschluss anderen zwingenden Rechts" in part two.

The article argues from the point of view of a German web shop, but it works the same the other way around.
Posted March 19, 2017
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DanTheKraut: Show me that specific law pls and show me a few shops outside of Germany which really follow the German youth protection law (I can only name 1 which is Ubisoft).
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stryx: You're looking for "REGULATION (EC) No 864/2007 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 11 July 2007 on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations (Rome II)"

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32007R0864

Here http://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/versand-ins-ausland-anwendung-deutsches-recht-ausrichtung.html

you can see how different national laws can affect a web shop selling it's products within the EU.

Especially "Lauterkeitsrecht" in the first part and "Kein Ausschluss anderen zwingenden Rechts" in part two.

The article argues from the point of view of a German web shop, but it works the same the other way around.
If this would count 99,9% of the none German stores would violate the youth protection law of Germany. GOG violates it anyway.
Posted March 21, 2017
As it seems, the newly released Army Men RTS is locked at least in South Africa.

Stay tuned for MaGog's official confirmation around 7PM UTC.
Post edited March 21, 2017 by muntdefems
Posted March 21, 2017
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muntdefems: As it seems, the newly released Army Men RTS is locked at least in South Africa.

Stay tuned for MaGog's official confirmation around 7PM UTC.
It's locked for me, redirects me to the frontpage
Posted March 21, 2017
Confirmed: it's regionally locked in South Korea and South Africa, like the rest of the series.

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The newly added game Army Men RTS is regionally locked in KR, ZA
Posted March 22, 2017
*sigh*

Well not really a surprise. I've added it to the list...
Posted March 24, 2017
Outlast 2 re-rated to R-18+ in Australia

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/03/outlast-2-has-been-re-rated-r18-in-australia/
Posted April 20, 2017
Looks like Saints Row IV: Game of the Century Edition is regionally-locked for Australia:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_saints_row_iv_gat_out_of_hell_44912/post39
Posted April 20, 2017
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Grargar: Looks like Saints Row IV: Game of the Century Edition is regionally-locked for Australia:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_saints_row_iv_gat_out_of_hell_44912/post39
*sigh*
Oh well. I'll add it as soon as MaGog verifies it.
Post edited April 20, 2017 by ElTerprise
Posted April 20, 2017
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Grargar: Looks like Saints Row IV: Game of the Century Edition is regionally-locked for Australia:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_saints_row_iv_gat_out_of_hell_44912/post39
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ElTerprise: *sigh*
Oh well. I'll add it as soon as MaGog verifies it.
The rating for the uncensored version was refused twice and GOG doesn't sell the censored version which has a rating in Australia.
Posted April 20, 2017
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Grargar: Looks like Saints Row IV: Game of the Century Edition is regionally-locked for Australia:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_saints_row_iv_gat_out_of_hell_44912/post39
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ElTerprise: *sigh*
Oh well. I'll add it as soon as MaGog verifies it.
Well, MaGog hasn't tagged it as blocked in Australia yet, but its entry doesn't include any kind of regional pricing info for Australia, so you can consider it semi-official as per MaGog's standards.
Posted April 20, 2017
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muntdefems: Well, MaGog hasn't tagged it as blocked in Australia yet, but its entry doesn't include any kind of regional pricing info for Australia, so you can consider it semi-official as per MaGog's standards.
Alright. I'll add it then.
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