There were folks, like the GamerGaters, operating in bad faith – not particularly interested in free speech or education, but in advancing a regressive political or social agenda. There were reasonable people genuinely torn about it. There were plenty of people angry about Apple’s action for the right reasons. They reversed their decision because they were criticized, not because they’d seen the error of their ways. They didn’t pull any games with swastikas in them back in June. They are a big corporation that chases the mainstream political zeitgeist in order to be more palatable to their customers, not out of some moral certitude. Intention & Ignoranceįirstly, let’s not kid ourselves about Apple’s motives. Why am I writing about it? Well, I think there’s still a number of issues worth digging into here. So: a relatively short-lived controversy, now many weeks in the past, and almost immediately resolved to the satisfaction of most rational people. Apple almost immediately walked back their blanket ban and reinstated apps that Apple perceived to be including the flag for “educational or historical uses”. Controversy ensued, with much denunciation of Apple’s move – not all of it in good faith. In June, Apple briefly removed nearly all games that featured the Confederate Battle Flag from the App Store. (Mexico is quite a fun experience, incidentally – if you’re lucky, you can intervene in the Second American Civil War and steal back the lost states.) 1.7 is a more modest update, though Mexico has received a good deal of necessary work. Just a few months ago, Kaisserreich 1.6 released, overhauling the Indian subcontinent. India is divided and headed for war, and the United States, robbed of the moderating influence of FDR, seems destined for a second Civil War. German colonies, greatly enlarged, extend across the globe, but a showdown between the forces of Syndicalism and Mitteleuropa is imminent. The defeated Entente powers of Britain and France fell to Socialist revolutions, with the royal family fleeing to Canada and a rightist French government in Africa. In Kaiserreich, the Central Powers won the First World War. Despite the engine’s age, Darkest Hour is a great experience in its own right – the final and best iteration of HoI 2, and far superior to HoI 3. As in Darkest Hour or any Hearts of Iron game, players choose a nation and guide it through war and peace from 1936 on, making important decisions, designing and directing their armies, and so on. Its alt-history setting is well-thought out and realized. Kaiserreich, a popular alternate history mod for Darkest Hour, recently released its 1.7 update. Kaiserreich is an exhaustively complex scenario for the Hearts of Iron 2-derived strategy game Darkest Hour, packaged as a full modification, and celebrates its tenth anniversary this month as well.
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