In Germany, the master degree is considered as such. Basically the final test before you decide for or against "the whole brutal game of joining a doctoral study program".

A professor that I know clearly said: "In a master's thesis I expect something scientifically novel. It does not have to be something deep, but if you want 'a 1 before the comma' (in Germany, the grading at a uninversity goes from 1,0 to 5,0 where 5,0 means 'failed'), it has to be something scientifically novel. The number after the mark is to distinguish whether it is really a deep discovery or not."

Be also culturally aware that in practice, for a final thesis

- 1.0 means "good",

- 1.3 means "average",

- 1.7 means "bad",

- everything below (from 2.0 on) basically means "failure" (you get a degree, but are marked as failure).

So, the professor clearly stated that every grade for a master thesis that "is not in practice a failure grade" means "some novel scientific discovery". And every grade that is better than "in practice 'bad'" means "some very non-trivial scientific discovery".

I know that many professors think this way, though most of them would phrase this more diplomatically.