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Old 09-04-2009, 06:56 PM
Widar Widar is offline
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I thought the only censored thing in all versions was the swastika? I can understand that,but i sure hope nothing else has been cut?

I'm from Holland and i reckon i'll get whatever they have in store (sometimes the stores i go to have US and or UK versions prior to Benelux versions) But now i'm a little confused..is the Benelux version more censored than the UK version?
I can´t say if the UK version is censored more or less than the Benelux version. Only the developer knows for sure.

There can be many different country versions of a game look at Fifa for example. I don´t know if what is on the DVD is really different though for the different country versions. Just the setting of software settings (switches/indicators/flags) would make more sense per country version, allowing DVD game content to be accessible or not. The same way that extra DLC items are sometimes already on a game DVD but only accessible after a switch has been set.

The USA and Japan use NTSC TV system DVD´s. In Europe (including UK) it is the PAL TV system. So I doubt that you will be able to buy a console USA NTSC version in a Dutch store because a European market PAL TV would generally not support NTSC. For a PC game of course this NTSC issue would not be applicable.

Next to that there are different ways the censorship is being handled for consoles specifically. There could be different DVD versions per country, with content cut or altered per country version. This would require extra work for the developer with many DVD images and software versions. A different approach could be one single game DVD for all countries but with content turned `on` or `off` depending on the current IP address or the country code of you console, meaning the country you are currently playing the game in. This - according to some - is the direction developers are going to take in the future, which I really don´t hope!

That would really be bad news, because that means that the accessible game content on your game DVD would change depending on where you are playing it (IP address or console country code). For instance GOW1 and GOW2 are not allowed to be sold in the FRG. And the COD5 DLC´s are censored - ostensibly ´for the youth only´- in the FRG, even if you have bought and paid for them when your console was in the NL or when you played on a Dutch game console. For instance at the moment USA armed forces personnel that have bought COD5 console DLC in the USA cannot re-download this DLC at a base in the FRG, even though they have already paid for it!

A developer could also be instructed by Microsoft to not allow a console game DVD or some DLC to be played in country X if that game/DLC is censored in country X. The EU commission could instruct Microsoft and Sony to operate this way. That would mean that your GOW1/2 game console DVD would function when you have a Dutch game console or when you are when you are in the NL (IP address), but it would then not function in the FRG. And the same would then apply to your DLC.

In that case it really would not matter in what country you buy your console game DVD.

At the moment, thankfully, to my knowledge this is not implemented and hopefully it never will be.

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In Dutch - Of er verschillen zijn tussen de Benelux versie en de VK (UK) versie is mij niet bekend, dat is nou juist het probleem.

De VSA versie is NTSC en die kunnen wij niet op onze PAL systemen afspelen. De Benelux versie herken je zo, daar staat zowel tekst in het NL als in het FR op de achterzijde, voor NL, Vlaanderen en Wallonië dus. Het VK (UK) heeft zijn eigen versie, net als de BRD. Oostenrijk heeft volgens mij tezamen met Zwitserland ook weer een eigen versie. Niemand publiceert wat per land gecensureerd wordt, vandaar mijn vraag aan de ontwikkelaar. Hier in de BRD is het echt een probleem. Mensen kopen daarom nu bij voorkeur over de grens om die reden. Waanzin!

Bijna elk land heeft een zogenaamde `jeugdkeuring´ en die bepalen wat wel en niet `in de winkel` voor verkoop mag liggen en waarvoor reclame gemaakt mag worden. Volwassenen mogen zogenaamd wel altijd alles kopen, maar als het product niet in de winkel mag liggen en er ook geen reclame voor gemaakt mag worden weet je niet dat het bestaat en zal je het als volwassene dan ook niet kopen. Officieel heeft dit geen censuur, maar officieus en praktisch bezien is het wel degelijk censuur die zowel voor de jeugd als voor volwassenen geldt.

Het hakenkruis is in NL overigens niet verboden, in COD5 Benelux is het dan ook niet gecensureerd bijvoorbeeld.

Wat vervelender is zijn eventuele subtiele `onder de motorkap` wijzigingen. Deze zijn veel moeilijker waar te nemen dan visuele zaken en grijpen op spel functionaliteit en werking in, zoals in het nieuwe PC spel HOI3 bijvoorbeeld.

Last edited by Widar; 09-04-2009 at 07:01 PM.
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