Great story Patrick. I love to see good quality games that try to educate. I mean as a kid I was so focused on catching Carmen SanDiego I didn't realise I was learning some geography and history as well :P
When you throw shit in the fan, expect to get some collateral spray. He should have known the content he produced would be banned. All he had to do was disguise the bad stuff enough so that it wasn't blatantly obvious.
All companies have a responsibility to be ethical. Apple doesn't want to be seen as condoning any form or violence towards children and they have every right to enforce that on THEIR hardware. If you use their platform, you are agreeing to their policies. If someone sued Apple for allowing this content, they would have no defence in court IMO.
Yeah this shit is real, and real people are being harmed in other countries, but it's not the companies that are the problem, it's the corrupt governments that turn a blind eye. It's great to focus people's attention towards this stuff, but eventually if there is no action against the governments (a la Libya, Egypt etc.), the problem simply comes back.
I actually liked that there was trash loot in games like morrowind and fallout etc, but i think the solution is not to remove it entirely but put it to better use. Surely in these worlds they could create some sort of recycling system as part of crafting items. Eg. Melting down metal forks for steel or iron to create arrow heads etc.
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