App Store Rejects "Uncomfortable" Sweatshop Game

[DataSnake]

Y'know what the saddest part here is? ...I mean aside from the whole censorship etc. etc. stuff and turning a blind eye to a real issue.

It's that the game is actually pretty fun. It's got nice cartoony graphics, pretty hilarious dialogue, and the game just flows pretty nicely.

I would love to play it on my iPod Touch.

So tell that to Apple. I'm not being a smartass here, I mean literally tell that to Apple. If enough customers make noise they may start paying attention.

 

[Abomination]

Who makes these type of decisions at corporations? If they had just let the game go by there'd be next to no publicity, next to no fuss. But because they DID oppose the game the media is going to lap this up.

How stupid. How very, very stupid.

 

[KeyMaster45]

The website to play the game on is running extremely slow. No doubt because of all the free publicity it just got from Apple removing it from the app store.

 

[yellowmage]

Reminds me of Phone Story, which did the same thing for smartphones and was barred from the App Store for its trouble (probably because it was aimed, with not much in the way of subtlety, at Apple itself). Except it was then released for Android devices. It'd be nice to see the same thing happen here.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well Apple said a long time ago that anything not completely brain dead has no place on their store, their legacy continues.

 

[General Vagueness]

uncomfortable with consumers learning how their "i" device was manufactured, a more accurate description.

thread's over, we can go home

 

[Olas]

Perhaps it's for the best.

If anyone tried to play a game about working in sweatshops on a device built by workers in a sweatshop the hypocrisy would probably reach critical mass and open up some sort of black hole.

 

[mooncalf]

Apple just want to make phones and sell gimmicks, why do people have to complicated that with all their messy emotions?

 

[mokes310]

Apple: Protecting the world from information since 2008

I don't use Apple products because I don't like the closed platform; this is why
(also not a fan of the UI, but that's mostly just personal preference)

Should read: "Apple: Protecting the world from information since always!"

Yet another reason why Apple is just the worst!

 

[Something Amyss]

uncomfortable with consumers learning how their "i" device was manufactured, a more accurate description.

That's total crap.

...Apple's products are manufactured in mainland sweatshops, not offshore sweatshops!

 

[Something Amyss]

Perhaps it's for the best.

If anyone tried to play a game about working in sweatshops on a device built by workers in a sweatshop the hypocrisy would probably reach critical mass and open up some sort of black hole.

No, that would happen when they used their sweatshop-produced products to tweet about how horribly wrong it is to support sweatshop-produced products.

 

[DaxStrife]

"If you want to criticize religion, write a book."

Writes a book, tries to sell it on the Apple store, gets banned.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

uncomfortable with consumers learning how their "i" device was manufactured, a more accurate description.

That's total crap.

...Apple's products are manufactured in mainland sweatshops, not offshore sweatshops!

It really depends on what you consider 'Mainland.'

See:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.403301-Poll-Where-do-you-live-Now-with-better-poll-options

Only 30% of Escapists who answered the poll live on the North America continent, and an very small number live in China.

 

[NightmareExpress]

This seems like an appropriate action to take by a company guilty of what's being represented.
I don't see anything particularly wrong about the title, but it may be because it can encourage thought and questioning in regards to consumerism. And for ethics to get in the way of business, that's bad mmmkay?

 

[Something Amyss]

It really depends on what you consider 'Mainland.'

"mainland" doesn't refer to your home country. Well, it can, but doesn't automatically.

also, more specific to this case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_China

But still, I can't believe someone decided to not only bust down a joke for semantics, but incorrect semantics at that.

 

[CBanana]

Looks like this time, the app banning story has only made a handful of gaming news sites and a few tech news sites. In this case, it looks like Apple has for the most part succeeded in squelching the message. I guess if you ban enough apps for political reasons, people stop paying attention.

 

[Slayer_2]

A little too close to home for Apple. Since that's where their hardware (and most hardware for that matter) is produced.

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

The website to play the game on is running extremely slow. No doubt because of all the free publicity it just got from Apple removing it from the app store.

Maybe this game is a bit too "small" to be released on Steam, but i bet it would be greenlit in a heartbeat if devs decided to publish it now.

 

[Dogstile]

As if anyone who played this would be anything but a massive ass-hole, people would just play it like a even more fucked up Dungeon Keeper. Not that I don't commend their efforts to spread awareness.

Its free to play, go give it an actual go before telling everyone who played it that they're assholes. Its actually pretty good, its level based and it's got a lot of information in there. Calling everyone who plays it assholes and comparing it to dungeon keeper without playing it is an asshole move in itself.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Practically everyone appears to have the same idea, and I must agree. Wouldn't want to draw attention to one's own dubious manufacturing practises.