| Viper1 said: Amazon.de is still based in a different country just like Sony and MS's European operations are based out of the UK.
Lusche may be correct but I'm still thinking there is more to this than simply NoE being asshats. EA Origin had this exact same time schedule last year. Now that's too coincidental. That means something exists that is regulating some kind of sale to certain hours. How they go around it is the real question we need to be asking. Lusche, I doubt they are so misninformed that they are taking an active policy based on an inactive regulation. They are based in Germany and have German lawyers on the payrole. I've never once heard of a business enacting a policy that hurts their sales based on a law that no longer applies. And if that were the case, it could fixed in 5 minutes by removing the code that applies the time restrictions. |
while amazon sony and ms are not located in germany they still have to follow german laws if they want to sell their products in germany. the same laws that are applied to the companies based in germany trying to sell their products in germany.
the only reason i can see is because of usk18 trailers in their shop which could fall under the tv station law and that they cant seperate it with the games in the store, because trailers you can get for free and anyone can access it and this might be a problem, because for games you have pay for it before they can play it. (7year can click trailer with no problem, but cant play the usk18 games because he/she cant buy it without cc stolen from parents)
But i think its unclear in the law for those trailers on 'new media' which we german call consoles, pc, internet, handy ..., because its unclear if those laws applies to the new media ...
they are just playing it safely, while other companies are pushing it or bending the law.
