Dying Light: Platinum Edition was officially released yesterday, October 19, 2021, on Nintendo Switch but the digital version on Nintendo eShop is not available on entire continents like Europe and Australia because of censorship applied in Germany.
This is a notoriously impactful repercussion of notoriously stringent rules posed by Germany for the distribution of video games, which led to the censorship of many games in the past, before those regulations were significantly relaxed in recent years.
As is well known, Germany has a long history of censorship and deletion of violent games due to its draconian Youth Protection Law, which set extremely stringent rules for developers, causing in some cases bizarre changes such as the transformation of blood into green material or, in more complex cases, the complete removal of the game from the market.
These rules have been updated and in recent years are much less stringent, so much so that they have also allowed the distribution of potentially controversial games such as the new Wolfenstein, despite the fact that playing the Nazis in games was something of a taboo in Germany until recently.
However, Dying Light had encountered the old version of the law at the time of its release, and was censored in 2015.
Today’s problem is that the jurisdiction on Dying Light: Platinum Edition refers to that of the first version released on the market in 2015, but the consequences are amplified: being Germany the Nintendo’s European base, the European and PAL territories section of Nintendo eShop in general follows the rules valid for that country.
As an extreme consequence, Dying Light: Platinum Edition is not available in all of Europe, Australia and New Zealand in version digital. “As the digital version of the game is banned in Germany due to the nature of the content and this country is the place where the European Nintendo eShop is officially registered, it is currently impossible to officially distribute the game in European territories and also in Australia and New Zealand” , Techland reported in an official communication.
“We are currently working with our partners and local authorities for remove the block As soon as possible. “Considering the situation, it is also rather strange that the same thing has not happened to other titles as well, but it is likely that there has been some lack in the certification process of Dying Light: Platinum Edition as a new version of the game. on the market. On the other hand, the cloud version of Dying Light 2: Stay Human already appears on the eShop, so obviously there was some problem. In any case, the issue should be resolved soon and the title should still be available in physical edition in other countries.
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