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Since September 2022 the current owners of the game IPR are finally allowed to sell it in Germany: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/wolfenstein-3d-available-

by tpmx 3y ago

Since September 2022 the current owners of the game IPR are finally allowed to sell it in Germany: https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/wolfenstein-3d-available-in-germany-after-30-years https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/wolfenstein-3d-available-... ... interestingly, its legal text has also been changed on Steam. Per the Wolfenstein 3D SteamDB page, we can see that lines suggesting the game's story "should not be construed" as glorifying the Nazi regime's beliefs or actions have been added. It's difficult to see how a game that's all about shooting Nazis in the face and then killing Hitler could be seen as glorifying Nazism, but hey.

msla 3y ago
> It's difficult to see how a game that's all about shooting Nazis in the face and then killing Hitler could be seen as glorifying Nazism, but hey. Because censors only want control, and if they can get that by doing something utterly absurd, they can rub your face in how much control they have. Laughing at them only goes so far: If they do something apparently idiotic, they're still the ones capable of enforcing an idiotic law, and punishing you for not going along with the idiocy.
arp242 3y ago
The full text is "The story and contents of this game are not intended to and should not be construed in any way to condone, glorify or endorse the beliefs, ideologies, events, actions, persons or behavior of the Nazi regime or to trivialize its war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity." That last part applies a bit more. Does it really need "Wolfenstein 3D® and Wolfenstein®: Spear of Destiny™ is a fictional story set in an alternate universe in the 1960’s. Names, characters, organizations, locations and events are either imaginary or depicted in a fictionalized manner"? Probably not. But the law can work in mysterious ways and was probably written by the Vorlons to mess with us all, so it doesn't hurt to add stuff like that. But it's just a standard thing they add on, like "this movie is fictional and any similarities are coincidence".

by tpmx 3y ago

msla 3y ago

> It's difficult to see how a game that's all about shooting Nazis in the face and then killing Hitler could be seen as glorifying Nazism, but hey. Because censors only want control, and if they can get that by doing something utterly absurd, they can rub your face in how much control they have. Laughing at them only goes so far: If they do something apparently idiotic, they're still the ones capable of enforcing an idiotic law, and punishing you for not going along with the idiocy.

arp242 3y ago

The full text is "The story and contents of this game are not intended to and should not be construed in any way to condone, glorify or endorse the beliefs, ideologies, events, actions, persons or behavior of the Nazi regime or to trivialize its war crimes, genocide and other crimes against humanity." That last part applies a bit more. Does it really need "Wolfenstein 3D® and Wolfenstein®: Spear of Destiny™ is a fictional story set in an alternate universe in the 1960’s. Names, characters, organizations, locations and events are either imaginary or depicted in a fictionalized manner"? Probably not. But the law can work in mysterious ways and was probably written by the Vorlons to mess with us all, so it doesn't hurt to add stuff like that. But it's just a standard thing they add on, like "this movie is fictional and any similarities are coincidence".