How USK is referenced in the Salzburg Jugendgesetz
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Could you please check where this information comes from? I know that Wikipedia states it, but the source on Wikipedia is Gesetzlicher Jugendschutz | BuPP which in turn points to the Salzburger Jugendgesetz (Salzburgian youth-law) in the current version.
I’ve read through the paragraphs referenced on bupp.at and also searched the whole law for “USK”, “Software” and “Deutschland” (Germany). USK and Software had no hits in the whole text. Germany was mentioned twice in §38(2).
Unfortunately I did not find an official English translation of the text so I will provide a link and the original here:
“(2) Programme, die auf Grund des §§ 11 und 12 Jugendschutzgesetz, Gesetzblatt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2002 I S 2730, in der Fassung des Gesetzes vom 10. März 2017, Gesetzblatt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2017 I S 420, nicht freigegeben oder für Kinder und Jugendliche nur ab einem bestimmten Alter freigegeben sind, gelten auch im Land Salzburg als nicht oder nur ab einem bestimmten Alter freigegeben. Die Landesregierung kann jedoch auf Antrag des Eigentümers bzw der Eigentümerin oder des bzw der sonst darüber Verfügungsberechtigten eine hievon abweichende Entscheidung treffen.”
RIS - Salzburger Jugendgesetz - Landesrecht konsolidiert Salzburg, Fassung vom 28.11.2024
Translated with DeepL.com (free version):
(2) Programs that are not released on the basis of §§ 11 and 12 of the Youth Protection Act, Law Gazette of the Federal Republic of Germany 2002 I p 2730, in the version of the Act of 10 March 2017, Law Gazette of the Federal Republic of Germany 2017 I p 420, or are only released for children and young people from a certain age, are also deemed not to be released or only released from a certain age in the province of Salzburg. However, the provincial government may make a different decision at the request of the owner or the person otherwise entitled to dispose of the property.
So Salzbourgian law only references/uses the German youth protection act to decide for which age a program is to be released, or if it should not be released at all.
Since the PC (and XBOX/Microsoft) is already rated and released with “Keine Jugendfreigabe” (https://usk.de/?s=darktide) this should not matter for PS5 as well.
Anyhow. Maybe Fatshark aims to get a different USK rating by removing ragdoll?
Since the USK apparantly must be done for each platform, maybe the USK is now more strict than they were last year?
So if the USK now insists Fatshark removes ragdoll on dead enemies for the PS5 release and Fatshark needs to be consistent in their versions for all platforms, then there’s nothing we can do about it. Except for PC-masterrace who can mod the game (hopefully…).
Still leaves me confused. Did the USK want ragdoll removed before and Fatshark just didn’t comply and no one noticed? (As @Heretical_Cactus already stated).
Edit: After reading up on the Dead Island 2 situation I honestly think this is it. Dead Island 2 had the same restriction before it was released in Germany (and maybe nobody there checked for Austrian idiocies). Now with the PS5 release the USK got a new look at Darktide and is now enforcing their previous ruling.
In any case I got another reason to be pissed about Austria’s federalism and Salzburg in particular. Not that I didn’t have enough reasons already.
Time to learn about modding Darktide (Since I live in Vienna it’s not even illegal)!