It's like both games were like M or AO rated. TL DR It's nice Valve really filed for early re-evaluation for HL1 and HL2. That's why German users need to install a free DLC 'HL1 uncensored' to get in uncensored (as of 2017). With HL1 GoldSrc I believe this actually is/was a different version for German users. When HL2/Source engine discovers this, it censors itself so to say. When you started HL2 in Steam the game itself checks for this lv-flag in your license attributed to your account. But German users (that just means: Store region Germany) sort of get a low violence flag on their specific individual license of that game. Because there is only one HL2 version on Steam. In detail with Source-1 games there is something in every Source SDK / engine working a function IsLowViolence() and g_ragdollLVManager etc. So almost all game publishers then just make a censored version that was allowed to be sold without age verification. It was never banned(only L4D2 is though) but only not allowed to be sold without age verification. Valve really filed for an early re-evaluation of HL1 and HL2 in Germany. Y U so unlogical Germany?īut I'm really impressed with Valve and also customer support this time. Definitely is! While everything else is getting little bit more restricted over time (at least how I perceive it) gaming/age verification crap is becoming less restricted.
