South Park: The Stick of Truth censored for European release

[p1ngpong]

Aw shucks I always wanted to carry out mock abortions and rapes in a game.

 

[Yepi69]

Aw shucks I always wanted to carry out mock abortions and rapes in a game.

Guess we'll have to buckle up our hands and do it ourselves.

 

[Ashtonx]

Aw shucks I always wanted to carry out mock abortions and rapes in a game.

Duke Nukem Forever + random japanese eroge.

 

[weatMod]

Of all the issues to pick up on in Europe it was abortion?
I always thought the main anti abortion nutjob types were US bred creatures.



I guess if you are going to split the difference between Europe, the middle East and Africa it could make more sense but that really seems odd.

>Europe
>UK

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...OURS-police-Nelson-Mandela-Twitter-jokes.html

 

[Pedeadstrian]

After seeing the $60 price tag on PC I was completely turned off by the game. I doubt i'll even pirate it.

Anywho, sucks for European console gamers. Censoring a South Park game just seems wrong considering that over-the-top shit is what South Park is even about.

Wait... you think the cost of the game is so high that it isn't even worth pirating? Kids these days...

 

[GamerSince83]

Sometimes I wish they would censor their Pron instead.......Some things can't be Unseen

 

[weatMod]

Sometimes I wish they would censor their Pron instead.......Some things can't be Unseen

1 guy 1 cup?
but yeah they actually do censor that too now

 

[ilman]

>Implying that the downloadable version will not be affected when Steam has been enforcing requested region locks and/or releasing region-specific versions for the last couple of years or that the boxed versions won't when these have to go through censorship just like any other media

Sure, brah.

Uhh, it says the PC version will be unaffected, so your argument is invalid. Our lord and saviour Gabe Newell spared us europeans unlike the evil that are Microsoft and Sony.


Ok, I'm gonna stop with this now.

 

[Jayro]

Censored in Europe?

 

[gokujr1000]

Any censorship done to the game will probably be just as funny anyway, Matt and Trey know what they're doing.

 

[Pedeadstrian]

Any censorship done to the game will probably be just as funny anyway, Matt and Trey know what they're doing.

Funny? Sure. Just as funny? Iuno. Those scenes where people crap their pants when they die are funnier than the text saying they are crapping their pants.

 

[Hells Malice]

Wait... you think the cost of the game is so high that it isn't even worth pirating? Kids these days...

Yep, I guess it's part of having values. But I do know most kids don't have those these days, eh guy?
Shit overpriced games aren't worth my time, period. Pirating saves my money, not my time.

 

[Satangel]

Yep, I guess it's part of having values. But I do know most kids don't have those these days, eh guy?
Shit overpriced games aren't worth my time, period. Pirating saves my money, not my time.

But what if the game is actually good, and not a 'shit' game?
I've heard some positive things about this game, and they sure took their time to make it. Surely it's worth playing...

 

[drakorex]

 

[Mario92]

I guess this is because of Germany. They have similar restrictions like Australia has. Remember how Nintendo blocked +18 content from eShop during day? Germany. Last of us cencoring? Germany.

With console versions my guess is that it's just much cheaper to produce same game for whole region instead of printing out specific version for one country. With PC we do have online downloading and patching in place so it's super easy to make differend version for one country.

>Implying that the downloadable version will not be affected when Steam has been enforcing requested region locks and/or releasing region-specific versions for the last couple of years or that the boxed versions won't when these have to go through censorship just like any other media


Sure, brah.

German versions of titles has been around for ages and they usually get the non-violent versions of games and region locked mostly because of law. e.g. L4D2 there's no blood and bodies dissapear quickly. Latest news about steam region thing is about mass trading between regions and key reselling which are mostly people taking advantage of regional price differences. If you have been trading with regular users you shouldn't be effected.

I guess boxed versions are shipped with cencored version on disc and as game is steamworks then it just patches the game when user connects online and lives outside of germany.

 

[bkifft]

I guess this is because of Germany. They have similar restrictions like Australia has. Remember how Nintendo blocked +18 content from eShop during day? Germany. Last of us cencoring? Germany.

With console versions my guess is that it's just much cheaper to produce same game for whole region instead of printing out specific version for one country. With PC we do have online downloading and patching in place so it's super easy to make differend version for one country.


German versions of titles has been around for ages and they usually get the non-violent versions of games and region locked mostly because of law. e.g. L4D2 there's no blood and bodies dissapear quickly. Latest news about steam region thing is about mass trading between regions and key reselling which are mostly people taking advantage of regional price differences. If you have been trading with regular users you shouldn't be effected.

I guess boxed versions are shipped with cencored version on disc and as game is steamworks then it just patches the game when user connects online and lives outside of germany.

Just to get rid of some common misconceptions: most censorship in videogames for the German market doesn't happen because German laws require them, but because publishers choose to do them.

There's only a few subjects banned per law in Germany: "Volksverhetzung" ("incitement of popular hatred"), "Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen" ("using insignia of unconstitutional organizations" like swastikas) and certain types of pornography (like child, animal and rape).

Nearly everything else is fair game, it just can happen that the German video games ratings board "USK" denies giving a rating for a game if they deem it to be to extreme. This results in in implicit "18" rating with the added drawbacks that you are not allowed to advertise said game in any way and are only allowed it to put it on sale in dedicated store sections to which minors don't have access.

But as not being able to advertise a product and sell it openly (both of which you are allowed for a game that's explicitly rated as "18", shops are just not allowed to sell those to minors (thus most stores will check your ID at the cash register)) has a huge impact on the sales, most publishers choose to censor their games in order to get an "18" or even better "16" rating.



And the really strange thing: as far as I know the German PC version for Stick of truth will only have the swastikas of the ginger nazi zombies removed (whited out) while still including the abortion scenes.
I'm gonna import a ROW key nonetheless, I want the full unaltered game like the developers designed it.

 

[Deleted User]

>Implying that the downloadable version will not be affected when Steam has been enforcing requested region locks and/or releasing region-specific versions for the last couple of years or that the boxed versions won't when these have to go through censorship just like any other media

Sure, brah.

I'm not going to comment on your use of greentext, but Steams always made it pretty easy to get around blocked or censored games. I mean, I remember just getting an american friend to gift me Left 4 Dead 2 uncut, and with the use of online key shops (GreenmanGaming, etc...) it shouldn't be that hard.

Worst comes to worse, simple patch to fix region specific censors.

 

[WhiteMaze]

After seeing the $60 price tag on PC I was completely turned off by the game. I doubt i'll even pirate it.

Anywho, sucks for European console gamers. Censoring a South Park game just seems wrong considering that over-the-top shit is what South Park is even about.

60$ for a South Park game?

Hey I know what should be censored. Their greed.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

It's $60 for a full fledged RPG game, stop bitching about it Christ.

This isn't some little shit downloadable title, this is a big RPG made by a big RPG developer released as a full console game. Please realize this and stop crying.

 

[Mario92]

Just to get rid of some common misconceptions: most censorship in videogames for the German market doesn't happen because German laws require them, but because publishers choose to do them.

There's only a few subjects banned per law in Germany: "Volksverhetzung" ("incitement of popular hatred"), "Verwenden von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen" ("using insignia of unconstitutional organizations" like swastikas) and certain types of pornography (like child, animal and rape).

Nearly everything else is fair game, it just can happen that the German video games ratings board "USK" denies giving a rating for a game if they deem it to be to extreme. This results in in implicit "18" rating with the added drawbacks that you are not allowed to advertise said game in any way and are only allowed it to put it on sale in dedicated store sections to which minors don't have access.

But as not being able to advertise a product and sell it openly (both of which you are allowed for a game that's explicitly rated as "18", shops are just not allowed to sell those to minors (thus most stores will check your ID at the cash register)) has a huge impact on the sales, most publishers choose to censor their games in order to get an "18" or even better "16" rating.



And the really strange thing: as far as I know the German PC version for Stick of truth will only have the swastikas of the ginger nazi zombies removed (whited out) while still including the abortion scenes.
I'm gonna import a ROW key nonetheless, I want the full unaltered game like the developers designed it.

Oh OK thanks for enlightenment. Still pretty bad situation though. I hate that kind of thinking where adults can't choose what to buy for entertainment just because of "why won't anyone think about the children?!?"

AND that won't change my toughts that devs alter the game because of germany. Why else they would?