Ok, so ... the whole story about Zenimax, Wolfenstein, Geo-Lock, and Germany is not as funny and arbitrary as you guys may think. Sorry to be that guy, but since it also has affected me in the past, here goes ...
Wolfenstein 3D was only ever sold in its heavily modified SNES version in Germany. The PC version and all other versions are still banned from sale, because of the way it employs the barbed cross, etc. The display of the barbed cross in media, as well as other symbols and songs hostile to the German Constitution, is prohibited by the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. An organisation or individual who ignores this, commits a Federal Crime in Germany.
But Zenimax is probably also taking this step for much more pragmatic and mundane reasons, and beyond the purely criminal aspect.
Germany has a federal government agency that reviews books, movies, and also games with regards to its content, and specifically how appropriate this content is for children and adolescents. The BPjM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Department_for_Media_Harmful_to_Young_Persons] has the power to declare a medium as harmful to the youth and place it on an index list, which means that the (in this case) game can not legally be sold to minors, it can not be advertised in the press, it can not be advertised in stores, it can not played publicly where minors could be exposed to it, etc. you get the pictures.
In theory, for games targeted at an adult audience, this should not be a problem. In practice, however, this means that most department stores, and many game stores, will not carry the game, many online sales platforms will require additional steps to verify the age of the customer, etc. and the game virtually disappears from the general marketplace. Sales are heavily affected. For some games this has been the kiss-of-death in Germany in terms of sales revenue.
Now take into consideration that Germany is one of the biggest game markets in Europe (estimated revenue at US$ 3.7 billion currently), I do not think it is far-fetched to think that Zenimax is making appropriate changes to Wolfenstein for specifically that reason. Jim Sterling will tell you that Game Publishers are only happy when they get ALL the money, and the alternative would have been to not sell the game in Germany at all.
And then, by comparison, consider how humorous Germans may find it, that the US FDA has banned this for sale in the United States: Kinder Surprise [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise] ...
