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General discussionI boycott GOG ... well because of (lost) principles(2 posts)(2 posts)
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Posted October 02, 2015
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toxicTom: While I don't think they can be fined for selling blacklisted or banned stuff to Germans, since they are no German company the BPjM and KJM have another way to punish GOG: They can blacklist the site as a whole. This would mean gog.com would disappear from all search results of German targeted search engines - and you can imagine how bad it would be for business to disappear from google.de.
That's why with the launch of the German site the Commandos series was made unavailable for Germans. GOG already takes a risk by selling Mortal Kombat and Harvester.
If I personally would make for example Wolfenstein buyable on GOG.com from Germany territory (site language doesn't matter) I would personally go to jail. :) Or fined or smth. There was some legal explanation about it somewhere on the forums.
Posted October 02, 2015
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Trilarion: There was something somewhere is not really a confidence inspiring statement. But I guess you would not need to go to jail. Usually companies have to pay fines if they do wrong. It's not like they can even go to jail. Or if anyone it would probably have to be the boss (the guy who is responsible for everything, has the biggest office and the most comfortable chair).
Sorry for not pointing it out. There was information, but no detailed explanation, see update in the first post:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/bherzlich_willkommenb_gogcom_goes_german_163a1/page1
You won't get details on who would have legal troubles from me (employee or the company owner) - I'm just a developer. :) But does it matter? We just can't sell some games in Germany because it's illegal. Similarly even if some drug were legal in Poland and not in your country, I couldn't sell and send it to you.
Post edited October 02, 2015 by Johny.
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