Why? Germany

well I don't want to be rude or anything... buuuut.... you guys DID start a massive genocide... <.< I'm just sayin', better safe than sorry u.u (joke btw << , I am not accusing anyone of being nazi, just a little, joke, k? move along please >>)

In my country I can't buy Skyrim on Steam but I can vote for it.

Because your government sucks and thinks that everything must be censored.

World war would be a reason, but the other heavy reason is all those fucking purists who think that massacres are videogame's fault (columbine, Anders Breivik, etc). We all know that games aren't guilty of making people go insane, but they insist on that, fuck logic.

Just use a proxy temporary or ain't it that easy? :p

And to answer the title: The most ridiculous thing I've seen on Steam is THIS

The developer don't forbid the game. The government does.

god damn, i have to see everyday 1-3 "not available in my country" sales! :D :S STEAM WTF!? this world really is a shit place to be

Germany also banned Origin, now that was epic !
Enforcing them to remove the spyware.
Also your EULAs are the bestest in the world.
I'd not complain that much just for a game :P

I was wondering why they had that on the Dead Rising thing

It's region restricted here, and I'm not in Germany. Now there's two region restricted flash discounts at the same time (Fable III being the other... or the first, whatever).

Germany is very heavily censored. a friend of mine has the game, but requires a VPN every time he wants to play. By german law (i believe) it's illegal for capcom to sell that game to you. So they make it as hard as they can to not let you have it. though there are easy means. the previously mentioned VPN is one method

ask merkel

Germany and Australia: Enemies of your gaming addiction.

Check out Dawn of Discovery. They use that game to taunt the entire world.

the devs are not to blame, blame the country and politicians for not allowing that stuff. its pretty stupid indeed

My country doesn't even have game censure but there are a lot of them that are region restricted here too. I guess they hate my dirty third world country money.

Capcom

nuff said

Blame your country, not Campcom:

List_of_banned_video_games#Germany

and here

USK

"As you are probably aware the first Dead Rising was banned in Germany and as we are still awaiting a verdict from the USK for Dead Rising 2 it would be remiss of us to promote the sequel to consumers in Germany"

Here you can see that USK actually banned it:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Rising_2:_Off_the_Record

Rating(s):

* ACB: MA15+
* BBFC: 18
* CERO: Z
* ESRB: M
* PEGI: 18
* USK: Banned

I think it is a measure by Capcom to "penalize" Germany because the countries marks such games as violence propaganda. Or it might be because zombies don't like Germany.

Voting for sales

Capccom has always been like that.

too long, didn't read LOL

Here's something ridiculous: the base price for Rage in Europe is still 49.99€.