They might as well ban the Turkish flag too as that is a symbol of the genocide against Armenians --or the Soviet flag as it symbolizes the oppression of many nations and peoples by the soviet regime.

And apple would cede, if the people affected made enough of a fuss, so this whole thing is more about perception and PR more than actual beliefs in justice, etc.

Doesn't the Soviet flag represent engineered famines that killed tens of millions? Certainly on par with the South's flag.

I guess no one heard about holodomor famines.

The US had slavery too, so why not ban the US flag?

Well just about every country in the western hemisphere (n and s America) had slavery, so we should ban all the rest too.

First thing I checked was Wolfenstein 3D - and it's still there.

The messaging on this is really bad. You can't feign outrage at symbols of slavery without doing the same for symbols of genocide.

Well, I guess that's a very delicate subject to talk about.

In Wolfenstein 3D you can't play a nazzi shooting Americans (for example). You play the good guy shooting the bad guys.

I also don't think the problem is the flag. IMO the real problem is that in most of the games you can play on both sides. Kids can easily start identifying themselves as the side on which they play and forget the important details. Like... history.

As a kid growing up in USSR, we often played various WWII themed games and someone had to be the nazi. We usually did a coin toss and as far as I know, none of the kids turned into the actual nazis or far right extremists. Sometimes kids play is just that - kids play...

That's fine. I don't think Apple is saying, "We believe this game is morally wrong", I think Apple is saying, "We don't want to touch that with a ten foot pole."