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Starting on November 15, 2024 @Steam will no longer display games to customers in Germany if the game is missing a valid age rating. (x.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Older titles should be restricted to +18 by default, at least they would stay purchasable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't know if they can legally pretend it has a rating though

[–] Kelly 17 points 3 months ago

You are probably right but there has to be some kind of path forward baked into the regulations.

It will be a bit of a farce if retro gaming becomes illegal because no one submits the paperwork for 8-bit consoles.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Requiring new releases to provide this information going forward makes sense. But I expect a lot of older titles have no one actively paying attention to go get this paperwork filled out, and will get blocked as a result. This law should've just applied to everything new released after the law takes effect, grandfathering in legacy content.

[–] derekabutton 10 points 3 months ago

If nobody is paying attention, then nobody will care about not getting paid. It may sound disappointing, but I'm sure a German who wants something specific can find ways to get to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Man, the Germans have a history of taking L's.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is there a list (ideally sorted by rating) with affected games?

[–] TrousersMcPants 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Considering a lot of games on steam don't have a rating at all, it's probably going to affect damn near everything but AAA games, honestly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No it fortunatly doesn't. The games don't need an USK (official german) rating. Steam seems to have it's own rating system which seems to be enough

[–] TrousersMcPants 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, ok, that's not so bad then? Still pretty annoying though