Is there a reason to ever buy PC games in Germany?

Is there a reason to ever buy PC games in Germany?
It's probably easier to just pirate non-german versions instead of hoping an uncut patch or whatever will turn up.
At least on consoles you can just import from Austria/UK

they stopped censoring violence recently

>Only German (text) included
Jesus, I thought they only did that to Russian versions to curb grey key markets. Aren't you guys EU with equal prices and all? What gives?

Yeah, they always say that and sometimes put it on the cover but it's censored.
The Definitve Edition of SD didn't even release in Germany

I only play Japanese games so I don't care. Also consoles are even worse than PC in that regard.

>Low violence version

That's it. I think Max Payne 2 isn't in the Steam Store either. It was funny to see some greyed out games (later: just empty rectangles) in early Steam Sales because they were indexed/banned
Doom (the original) got a german release in 2011

That shit barely happens anymore from what I know. No idea what their issue was with Sleeping Dogs, though. But you can activate pretty much every game you wouldn't be able to from a non-German IP anyway. I'm from Austria and I have to activate all my German mates' keys everytime they buy something their government doesn't want them to play.

>pirate in Germany
Doesn't Stasi monitor your traffic though?

It's not like the government doesn't want them to play games, they just made a half-assed list of criteria and an institution that has to evaluate games and decide the rating and if it gets a release or not. So when a game gets a 18 rating, devs censor the game to get a 16 rating and sometimes censor for the 18 rating.
It's not like the USK hates games, the people who work there actually like them but they can't bend the law/criteria so easily especially when so many older people think that violence in videogames turns people violent/schoolshooters.
The guy who went for a barbecue at a kindergarten with his DIY-Flamethrower didn't play videogames
No, that was the USA I think.
As in they spied on german citizens/politicians, one agent from the BND was an informant for the CIA and I think he fled to the USA. Then Merkel used the refugee floodgate to make everyone forget.

Otherwise the probably monitor as much as other countries. You can get fucked by torrenting on public trackers for german porn and popular movies/games though

It´s piss-easy to activate uncensored games.

If it's the German version why is the store page in English?

You mean by annoying your friends like this?
>I'm from Austria and I have to activate all my German mates' keys everytime they buy something their government doesn't want them to play.

You can use Steam in different languages

He probably just has steam set to English. Pretty sure steam determines what store you see based on ip.

No, I´m not retarded. Most games aren´t even region-locked. And even if they are, I just use a VPN.

yeah. i said recently, dumbo. australia is much worse

They can take your access to those games. Using a VPN is against the Steam user agreement

>Recently
Yeah, I heard that some years ago too

Using a VPN to buy games is against the user agreement. Not activating a key or gift.

So I have to buy keys from shady keysites?
Pirating seems safer and easier

>shady keysites
Buy key that might get revoked
>pirate
End up having to pay a hefty fine of 1k+

You could just find a guy that buys you the game in his region and gifts it to you, that´s what I do most of the time

>australia is much worse
not a single fucking thing has been censored for years ever since the r18+ rating was put in place and even before that it was rare

>End up having to pay a hefty fine of 1k+
lol
Also the shady site gets some information about you.

>You could just find a guy that buys you the game in his region and gifts it to you, that´s what I do most of the time
So basically what I said earlier?

No, you said he had to activate a friend's keys for him. That´s not the case. I´ve got a trader that just buys me whatever the fuck I want and I just activate the gift (with a VPN, if it´s required). I pay less than I would in the german store as well. But If you´re hell-bent on pirating and you´ve got a safe way to do it, just do it.

>PC gaming

lol


PS4 is completely region free.