• TacoTroubles
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    587 months ago

    Why can’t the german government just be happy with their most famous game developed there GOLLUM by Daedelic studio? Why do they need more?

    • @leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
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      137 months ago

      To be fair, it has gotten a lot better. Games rarely get censored anymore. Dying Light 2 comes to mind. The Index also has become rare, also the complete confiscation.

      But yes, I’m with you, the authorities have to go, the European classification should be enough!

      • redfellow
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        77 months ago

        I’ll forever be salty about Carmageddon having zombies with green blood.

        • @leave_it_blank@lemmy.world
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          17 months ago

          And please never forget the Multiverse of Soldier of Fortune 2, with their alternate timeline of Robot Humans. That was for me the most rediculous thing in my gaming career!

  • @De_Narm@lemmy.world
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    177 months ago

    Just for context, you can’t actually apply anymore and it’s been like that for about a year. And that’s not the first time period for which aplications are blocked.

    In addition, both founding a start-up and actually applying is a lot of bureaucracy. You’ve probably run dry of money long before it’s approved.

    Lastly, I believe they mostly fund mobile games.

    • @pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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      107 months ago

      Short story time. In USA, over 25 years ago, a Russian immigrant used to give me rides down the peninsula to work in the early hours. I wondered at his ability to survive and provide for a family in our high cost of living area. He told me that applying for government and nongovernmental aid and so on was easy for him because he was used to the much worse Soviet bureaucracy.

    • @Yrt@feddit.de
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      67 months ago

      Not only this, they cut the budget starting 2025 by a lot and only productions with >400k on their own will be qualified to apply for a state funding. Cause that will be a good reason for each state (Bundesland) to rise their funding (Berlin has some millions and Hessen 260k/year funding budget). Or at least that was one of the arguments to cut the state budget.

  • @Nath@aussie.zone
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    37 months ago

    They have Egosoft and their X universe games. Epic sandbox galactic games. I love my X3 empires.

  • @sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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    It can’t be easy with all the 5 week vacations, 37,5h work week, and basic workers rights to try to develop as much as the US dev sweatshop. Let’s not even mention ma/paternity leave.

    Edit: Seems yet again I’ve managed to showcase a lil bit of my ignorance. Learning is fun. I’m not sure if the downvoting is happening because of my sarcasm or if my sarcasm wasn’t obvious, or for other reasons🙂.