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Apple Have Removed Games With The Confederate Flag From The AppStore

The scorch the earth policy never seems to work. It only ever annoys everyone, because frankly, none of us like to live in ashes.

Apple seem to have adopted the style with their approach to the Confederate Flag though, which I hear is a pretty hot topic right now. The company have gone about banning games from the AppStore featuring the controversial flag.

The problem though? It seems to be taking down historically accurate games as well, like Ultimate General: Gettysburg. The developers are rather displeased with this. They said in a statement on developer Game Labs' website they said:

We accept Apple's decision and understand that this is a sensitive issue for the American Nation. We wanted our game to be the most accurate, historical, playable reference of the Battle of Gettysburg. All historical commanders, unit composition and weaponry, key geographical locations to the smallest streams or farms are recreated in our game's battlefield.

We receive a lot of letters of gratitude from American teachers who use our game in history curriculum to let kids experience one of the most important battles in American history from the Commander's perspective.

Spielberg's "Schindler's List" did not try to amend his movie to look more comfortable. The historical "Gettysburg" movie (1993) is still on iTunes. We believe that all historical art forms: books, movies, or games such as ours, help to learn and understand history, depicting events as they were. True stories are more important to us than money.

Therefore we are not going to amend the game's content and Ultimate General: Gettysburg will no longer be available on AppStore. We really hope that Apple's decision will achieve the desired results.

I can't imagine this will stand for too long. You can't look good when you are trying to covering up parts of history even if you disagree with what is happening. At least, I hope for Apple's sake, they take on a more constructive and selective focus.

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