Apple Removes Afghanistan '11 For Depicting Taliban as Enemy

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Afghanistan ’11, game with US and Taliban forces, removed from App Store
Polygon Dec 6, 2018 A historical wargame has been removed from the Apple App Store for depicting U.S. and Taliban forces. Ironically, killing the enemy "is not the focus of the gtame" Among the very best ways to learn about that war is through Slitherine’s well-regarded strategy game Afghanistan ’11. Unfortunately, Apple has elected to remove that title from the App Store. In an email sent to Slitherine, the software and hardware giant called out the game for depicting “a specific government or other real entity as the enemies.” The game was delisted the same day. Apple’s decision, which comes more than one year after the game went on sale for iOS devices, came as a shock to its publishers. “Historical rigour is a fundamental key of Slitherine and Matrix Games DNA,” wrote Paulo Paglianti, Slitherine’s global public relations manager, in an email to Polygon. “We never portrayed an ‘enemy’ for its [ethnic] origin In 2015, the company chose to suspend the sale of Civil War games featuring the battle flag of the Confederate States of America. Titles such as Ultimate General: Gettysburg were eventually reinstated.

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Apple Pulls Strategy Game Afghanistan '11 Due to Taliban Feature
https://www.bleedingcool.com › Games Apple has just added another game to their list of  banned titles after they deemed the strategy game app Afghanistan '11 inappropriate for ...Unfortunately, Apple has a very strict and, at time, very stupid policy, when it comes to who can and cannot be featured in any way/shape/form, and alerted publisher Slitherine that the game was pulled. Tweet: Apple have just pulled Afghanistan '11 from the app store because its got "people from a specific government or other real entity as the enemies". You mean like every realistic game ever.... and people wonder why we don't do iOS anymore. http://www.slitherine.com/store/641/Afghanistan.11 …  this is dumb as hell. It’s no different than every World War I or II game out there that features the Germans, or Vietnam War game featuring the Viet Kong, or even Revolutionary War games featuring The British.


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The strategy war game Afghanistan '11 has been removed from the iOS App Store for featuring the Taliban as enemies in the game.

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Afghanistan '11 is the sequel to the highly praised and innovative Vietnam '65. It enhances and builds on it: Afghanistan '11 changes the paradigm of ...