German Law to Blame For 18+ Rated Wii U Content Block In Europe

[Viper1]

runqvist said:

Viper1 said:

runqvist said:

Viper1 said:

runqvist said:
The law applies only to public television.

Tell that to EA and their Origin platform.

Or Sony and PSN.

You should take a look at barozis post, he explained it pretty nicely.

Then have Barozi explain it to EA and Sony because both of them are abiding by that same law.

I bought dragon age from origin, it works perfectly fine. German law does not supercede laws of other countries and it only applies to end customer, not the seller. If the customer is in Germany, german law applies to him. If the customer is in for example Poland, it is the polish law. It does not matter where the store is located.

It does apply if the seller is in Germany.  That's the whole point of this debate.  

Commercial laws apply to the country of origin for the store.  Individual laws apply to the consumer in their country of residence.

Lusche said:

but origin is selling usk18 games, even in germany ?
xboxlive and steam also selling usk18 games without problems, also in germany.

its just a (stupid) decision sony made.

Unless Origin recently found a way past this, they too were subject to it. 

XboxLive and Steam get past it the same way that PS+ does...a wallet system that verifies age.  That might be how origin gets past it now as well and probably how Nintendo can get past it.

Point is, at some point, EA Origin and PSN were just as affected by this problem as Nintendo is.  In fact, Sony completely removed all 18 rated games form the store rather than implement a time period.