Weird, do we know the reason why Steam randomly decided to not include the age verification on Germany?
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Because age verification in germany is only allowed with secure means. So no clicking "I am an adult let me in" but verification of your actual id card by an independent 3rd party.
Would cost steam more than they would gain
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However ... they would have to do the same for all games rated 18+, but no one seems to care about these.
Eventually, the U.S. will follow. Parents will find out their kids are watching porn on Steam and they will shit themselves. Steam will be required to add a more appropriate means of age verification. Oddly, I am for this approach because it limits access to inappropriate material to underage people who then clog up the forums with ignorance.
Interesting that Germany has such strict requirements considering its approach to drinking, smoking, and sex in general.
Interesting that Germany has such strict requirements considering its approach to drinking, smoking, and sex in general.
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Are you for real?
Those nudities weren't "eye candy". They had a meaning.
"He is aware". Aware of what?
Never heard in my life of a director or a screenwriter who changes his/her work because of soundtrack before this: fucking background music is just fucking background music, for chrissake.
p.s.: a message to the "the dev is always right whatever it happens" dudes: remember that facepalms count as likes.
No they would't and here comes the funny part. Because they have an official age restriction by the USK (
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).See, the problem with those games containing sexual content is not, that they are only for adults, but it's because they've not been controlled by the USK and therefor could be on the "index für jugendgefährdende medien"(index for media harmful to minors). -> In a lawfull sense they shall not be made accessible to anyone under the age of 18 (the fines are even more hefty, than if you sell a Call of duty, which was controlled, to a minor)
they also tried to block porn sites via DNS. Spoiler, didn't work
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Suddenly a quote came to my mind. This is from a book:
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Let's see how your p.s. works in the opposite direction.
He changed it for steam release, not for music.
"I made adjustments to a few scenes to not risk losing any music."
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A few lines lower in the same dev log.
"Notes: No scene got removed. Just single renders were altered for the sake of keeping my new licenses and keeping the Steam rating for Season 1. "
Amber the Therapist will take the MC to the cabin as part of trying to help the MC heal.
And will Amber, as Bambi, come out to play at the cabin...
But then, will we get more on this visitor to Amber's house with the next update or, more likely, Season 2?
I'm looking forward to some 'Bambi' stories...
I suspect this visitor would share a few just to annoy Amber...
Cheers!!
Regardless of how you view it, Ocean was clear in his dev log. The very first line of that section states specifically, "I made adjustments to a few scenes to not risk losing any music."
Yes, it continues to say he did not omit scenes. He didn't. He just cut the height of those dynamic moments out of those scenes. And he continues to say that it allows him to keep the Steam rating. That is twice in the same paragraph that he says he wanted to maintain the music and save the music license.
There is nothing to argue here. Ocean made it clear.
Background music for this Dev isn't just any background music, it's the music that gives him scene "ideas" he can't think of any without it... and the scenes fit the music, apparently. I'll be skipping every animation and muting the music lol.
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And I thought the age verification would also affect titles that had been rated by the USK.
When I order a FSK18 Blu-Ray, the recipient has to be at home, having his ID card ready. I thought it was the same for USK rated media.
I didn't think of that. But if it was for the missing rating, half of the Steam portfolio would have to be locked in Germany and not just games with sexual content. Except for the medium to big publishers no one cares to get a rating in Germany. The USK can't test every indie game.
Also .. if you look at GOG or Steam, I am quite sure there are there are also region locked games that have been rated, like House Party.
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