Oh dear, sweet, Apple. Did making a game out of selling and growing weed suddenly get too much for your sensitive soul to bear?

Pah! What a load of bollocks! So it seems the reason behind removing this game was indeed it’s content, for Apple, even though Google insist that when THEY removed it from the GooglePlay store it was because of a publisher issue.

“This was entirely Apple’s decision, not ours,” developer Manitoba Games said in a statement on its website. “We guess the problem was that the game was just too good and got to number one in All Categories … There are certainly a great number of weed-based apps still available, as well as games promoting other so-called ‘illegal activities’ such as shooting people, crashing cars and throwing birds at buildings.”[Mashable]

Although this statement also side-steps the issue, it does seem to indicate that it was the ‘illegal’ nature of the game’s themes and content that gave Apple cold feet about continuing to sell it. While they do say they will release a censored version, there is never any mention of exactly what it was that was quite so offensive in the first place. There are plenty of weed focused apps left so it can’t be just the substance, can it?

There is some vague mention of kids and some muttering about the game being “intended for adults.” Did someone get upset that their child was spending too much unsupervised time on the app store and learning to sell drugs?

Oh heaven forbid you parent your child… That is what Apple is there for, isn’t it? To act as a surrogate parent?

[Mashable]