Our Civil War game has been removed from AppStore

As you may have been already informed, Apple has removed our game from AppStore because of usage of the Confederate Flag. Ultimate General: Gettysburg could be accepted back if the flag is removed from the game's content.

We accept Apple's decision and understand that this is a sensitive issue for the American Nation. We wanted our game to be the most accurate, historical, playable reference of the Battle of Gettysburg. All historical commanders, unit composition and weaponry, key geographical locations to the smallest streams or farms are recreated in our game's battlefield.

We receive a lot of letters of gratitude from American teachers who use our game in history curriculum to let kids experience one of the most important battles in American history from the Commander's perspective.

Spielberg’s "Schindler's List" did not try to amend his movie to look more comfortable. The historical "Gettysburg" movie (1993) is still on iTunes. We believe that all historical art forms: books, movies, or games such as ours, help to learn and understand history, depicting events as they were. True stories are more important to us than money.

Therefore we are not going to amend the game's content and Ultimate General: Gettysburg will no longer be available on AppStore. We really hope that Apple’s decision will achieve the desired results.

Apple started the Mac by challenging Big Brother. Now, with this literally Soviet-style erasing of American History, they have officially become Big Brother themselves.

I’d say Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave, but he’s not - he hosted Bill and Hillary several times at his house. Rather I’d say his corpse has a big fat grin on its face right now. Tim Cook is following his instructions exactly.

I know it isn’t going to make any difference for anyone, but I personally pulled all my auctions from Amazon for one month and have decided not to buy at Walmart or Ebay for one month.

I don’t use Apple so that doesn’t matter. I’m sure they don’t care about such a small user, but I myself really don’t want to use their services right now. I really feel like we are heading into a Fahrenheit 451 time.

Years ago I remember my mother and I discussing how Hucklebury Finn was being censured, which we thought was crazy as Twain was trying to make a point (for a Victorian) on how badly slaves were treated. Taking the n word out actually defeated his purpose. Slowly the whole American experiment of freedom of speech has been slowly being destroyed by political correctness. We have gone from a free people to a people who are being as speech restricted as some of the people we used to pity.

HF was the beginning. Now we are really getting to a Nazi Germany type of restriction on reading. Only if it has to do with sex are the censors going to let it pass.

I'm waiting for them to ban Fahrenheit 451, the most prophetic novel ever written. Ray Bradbury had it all over Jules Verne.

Just reading a list of the quotes is remarkable.

How about this one:

“Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Or this one:

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Here's one:

“Remember, the firemen (bookburners) are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”

School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

And the one that's always made me shudder with Bradbury's prescience:

And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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