wraggster
November 30th, 2011, 23:11
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Quake, id Software's 1996 classic, has been removed from Germany's list ofindexed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Pers ons#Legal_consequences) titles, a category created by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (BPjM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Pers ons)) which makes games commercially equivalent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Pers ons#Legal_consequences) to porn.
A historically significant milestone of technical and game design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_%28video_game%29), Quake's freedom follows in the footsteps of the recently rated DOOM and DOOM 2.
Bethesda Softworks, whose parent company acquired (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/24/bethesda-parent-company-buys-id-software/) id Software in 2009, told us after the DOOM titles passed the BPjM (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/31/doom-and-doom-2-now-acceptable-in-germany-berlin-renamed-e1m1/) that an appeal of indexing is allowed after 10 years.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/30/quake-now-acceptable-in-germany/
Quake, id Software's 1996 classic, has been removed from Germany's list ofindexed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Pers ons#Legal_consequences) titles, a category created by the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (BPjM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Pers ons)) which makes games commercially equivalent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Pers ons#Legal_consequences) to porn.
A historically significant milestone of technical and game design (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_%28video_game%29), Quake's freedom follows in the footsteps of the recently rated DOOM and DOOM 2.
Bethesda Softworks, whose parent company acquired (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/24/bethesda-parent-company-buys-id-software/) id Software in 2009, told us after the DOOM titles passed the BPjM (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/31/doom-and-doom-2-now-acceptable-in-germany-berlin-renamed-e1m1/) that an appeal of indexing is allowed after 10 years.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/30/quake-now-acceptable-in-germany/