Apple Rejects Unpleasant Horse

[Callate]

Note to Apple: this is the kind of decision that ends up cutting into your market share. Just ask Nintendo.

 

[RA92]

Please don't encourage him...

But c'mon! He made a pun about sending a horse to the glue factory!

That shit is is Orwellian!

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Put it on Android. And Steam. Then PSN and XBLA eventually. Not everyone cares about being kid friendly, and some like a dash of dark, wholesome, mature pepper in their oats.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Why would apple piss off Pop-Cap like this? Why not just make the process longer rather than just going "Nope". This is a sign of what i thought of the app-store; Apple's overprotective had makes it stagnant as a real source of innovation. There are proabaly 100s of "Unpleasent Horse"s out there that were rejected on some kind of "Wholesome" whim whist piles of banal shite make it through every day.

Look at my horse
My horse is unpleasant
But Apple said no,
"it's got mature content"

They said "Get on your train, we won't publish your game!"
and we came back again and said "Oh c'mon really"
Oh thats random!
Do you think so? Well i'd better not tell where the i-phone games are made.
Sweet iphone games yeah! Sweet iphone games. strange iphone games yeah strange iphone games!

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but if I'm right, is it scary that I picked up the tune you'd written the words for?


Maybe he is unpleasant horse's nemesis!

 

[Luke Cartner]

Just put it on android instead; the stats indicate it'll reach more people that way and no nasty apple to deal with

 

[DAJ_]

Look at my horse
My horse is unpleasant
But Apple said no,
"it's got mature content"

They said "Get on your train, we won't publish your game!"
and we came back again and said "Oh c'mon really"
Oh thats random!
Do you think so? Well i'd better not tell where the i-phone games are made.
Sweet iphone games yeah! Sweet iphone games. strange iphone games yeah strange iphone games!

*Doo doo do doo doo
Do doo doo do doo doo
Do doo doo do doo doo
Do doo doo do doo doo

C'mon iTunes, it's not so bad to be perverse
You've always been in our good graces, it's true

"I think you know that we really don't encourage advertising this sort of thing"
Shut up Apple, take the damned horse.

 

[MarsProbe]

What an unpleasant decision. Maybe try Android?

That would be a good idea. That way, I'd be able to play it, having an Android phone...

 

[teh_spartan]

you can alway publish an un cut version on cydia! i will buy

 

[Dexiro]

They'll probably edit the iPhone version to something incredibly camp, like replacing the meat grinders with a field of flowers and kittens.

 

[Woodsey]

Have a "mature" (I hesitate to use that word) section then.

 

[Maetrix]

Put another Android vote in for me..

 

[Olrod]

Apple don't want it? Too bad for Apple.

Release it on a platform that deserves to have it.

 

[ALPHATT]

well they won't have any problems publishing on the PC

 

[mambodog]

Seems like there's a lot of FUD in this thread, so let me explain how the app store ratings process works:

1. dev fills out a form indicating the level and type of mature content in the game
2. Apple checks the game to make sure it's not buggy or breaks the TOS, and also that the content matches what they said in 1.
3. Apple approves or denies app

Sounds to me like they filled out 1. in such a way as to get a lower rating, and Apple didn't agree with their assessment.

 

[v3n0mat3]

The Android community hereby welcomes you.

 

[eljawa]

ehhh...Coming from the jerks who wont ever even consider porting final cut pro to PC (while microsoft ports everything to mac) i am not surprised

 

[porpoise hork]

It is interesting that they approved "5 Minutes to Kill Yourself" and not this.

Can say one of two things: either that Apple has double standards when it comes to approvals, which is likely, or that Unpleasant Horse is one sick, depraved little game, in which case I must acquire it.

its not really interesting.. its all about money.. time warner who owns turner networks who owns cartoon network has paid apple alot of capital over the years for various projects including a ton for their recent live vid streaming app on the ipad.

so it only makes sense that apple gives them some breathing room with various apps and not the same for a small indipendant dev..


so these guys should just put it on the droid and call it done.