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Apple Rejecting Violent App Screenshots for Infringing Long-Standing Policy
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I thought the US is just bigoted regarding sexuality and not violence. Learn something new everyday I guess.
Modern Combat 5 is now on sale for $0.99. I'm guessing this was a coincidental preplanned sale rather than Gameloft deliberately daring Apple to pull their app until they update their gun-filled/violent screenshots.
This is not at all what this is about.It's getting a bit ridiculous. I want to see a statistic about all the lives that guns save, or all the lives that could have been saved, if someone had a gun, as in the many school shootings around the country lately, but I know I'm not going to find it, because, as we all know, guns are scary...This kind of thing boggles the mind.
Just like TV stations don't air commercials with frontal nudity during prime time hours when children could be watching, Apple wants to make sure that developers do the same for their app in the App Store (which is not age-gated as you probably know).
No moral panics over violence in media still pop up from time to time, some people have been trying really hard lately to reboot the outrage over violent games.
I think they should ban all violent games, even Angry Birds. I think all games should have cute fuzzy animals like bunny wabbits and have peaceful themes. No guns, not shooting, nothing gets hurt or killed.
Did I miss the part where you told us how old your kids are? But in all honesty, if you don't want kids to use apps - don't hand them your iPhone.
Conspicuously dumb. Nobody else is doing this. Steam is not doing this. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are not doing this. Apple is innovating here, and innovating real dumb.
In the future, there will be one game on the app store. It'll be about three middle aged brothers, sitting around a plain table in a nondescript kitchen, having a frank, but generally good natured discussion about tax reforms.
You get double points if you manage to squeeze "egalitarian" into a sentence.
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Nah. Nintendo did it first. Remember all the hooplah over the lack of blood in Mortal Kombat for the Super Nintendo?
Yeah.
And that's Apple using it's own bias. You enforce a rule 100% equally for everyone or you remove the rule you refuse to enforce properly. Anything else is just unacceptable. Shame on Apple.
Angry Birds promotes outright genocide of pigs and using suicide to achieve this, it's no coincidence that you are destroying these pigs by dismantling buildings. Angry Birds Seasons ingrains in the player that every major holiday and season is built on death and violence, Angry Birds Space promotes going to the stars for the sole reason of further elimination of pigs. Angry Birds Transformers has two sworn groups of enemies joining forces to exterminate pigs who can't transform.
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Indeed I do, but you can go on Virtual Console right now and see guns. Nintendo never had a problem showing guns. Blood? Sure, but we're just talking about guns.
Several people have already suggested simply not showing the apps in the App Store, rather than censoring the screenshots. (Just as if they weren't on the store.) The entire App Store doesn't need to be "age-gated."
Screenshots are intended to accurately depict what the user is getting. Censored screenshots will probably give rise to other problems like users complaining that they thought they were getting pixels, when they actually got guns.
Gun porn is. Look at the situation in that screen shot. It's a massively violent event about to happen.
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I'm all for porn theaters, but you can't put the "screenshots" in public.
This is just ridiculous and embarassing
How is apple supposed to attract awesome developers when they let in crappy rip offs and reject great apps because of something so stupid
How is apple supposed to attract awesome developers when they let in crappy rip offs and reject great apps because of something so stupid
Off topic I know, but your signature is larger than most of your posts and frankly most of us don't care how many and which Apple products you have. It screams obnoxious with the boldening of the type.
No offense but what are you trying to achieve with it?
What about long established video game box art on my store shelves that feature guns and or lightly bloodied protagonists? Perhaps we should brown bag them and put them on the top shelf away from the prying eyes of innocents.
also, how is something like this offensive?
In related news, Mario was recently banned for encouraging children to kerb stomp turtles and anthropomorphic mushrooms.
also, how is something like this offensive?
In related news, Mario was recently banned for encouraging children to kerb stomp turtles and anthropomorphic mushrooms.
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