Clearly enough people want these "butchered versions", or else companies would have stopped releasing games in Germany long ago.
Look, it's just wrong what you're saying. People who are really interested in Killing Floor know about the cuts in the German version. They would be able buy it over Steam (German and uncut!) or import it from outside Germany. People buying a CUT version in store usually look at the frontcover first, then read the text at the backcover and finally have a look at how much money it costs. Most of them never get to know that their version was cut-down horribly. The second "retail"-group gets pissed and searches for some bloodpatches. (Only a few games like the "steam-only" ones are difficult to "patch".) You don't even know how many people buy a cut retail-version of a game and then use bloodpatches. You don't know how many people would be pissed if there weren't those patches. Pointless argument.
Second thing: Is it more effective to release a cut-to-death version of a game, accepting the silly German laws and angry gamers. Or would it be better to force people to import a version from outside? With the last mentioned method Tripwire would "act" and not write one or two half-baked sentences about how they dislike the German law in this point...
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