Smuggle, er, Snuggle Truck (PC/Mac/iOS)

There are guidelines for approval. Every developer gets them.

I don't know, man. A "Mexican smuggling sim" is rather offensive. If this got through, what would be next? Nigger Jim's Soft Shoe Banjo Dance sim?

I bet that's already for sale on the Android store.

To whom is it offensive? The people pay to be smuggled. No one would be offended by Jackass: The Game, where white people do stupid shit of questionable legality.

Granted, none of us has played it, so I guess we don't know what the story is, if any, but it seems pretty harmless. I guess I'm just curious as to what the guidelines diff mentioned say and which part this violates that other games don't.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Oh, fuck off. There needs to be some kind of a consistent standard, e.g. they don't want the equivalent of M-Rated games or something. Yet they allow plenty of blood, including worms eating babies in Super Mega Worm, but we can't have cute looking Mexicans in a truck? The case-by-case inconsistency is what they shouldn't be able to do. I understand that their control is the trade off we get for not having it be the wild west like on Android though.

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This is a fair point. No one likes working on a game that seems to be well within the guidelines only to have it shot down in the end. There does have to be a clear, well-defined standard.

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It's fucking impossible to actually discuss video games on this forum anymore. Every God damned thread turns into a contest to see who can latch onto the most minute piece of bullshit and destroy the discussion.

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You do tend to oversimplify a bit in your posts and then are forced to clarify later. Which you seem perfectly capable of doing and might be better advised to do from the get-go.

Or you could just, you know, ignore reactionary posts to yours and talk to the other people.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

To whom is it offensive? The people pay to be smuggled. No one would be offended by Jackass: The Game, where white people do stupid shit of questionable legality.

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White people aren't a minority (yet). Like it or not, this changes the perception of things.

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Originally Posted by Josh

I don't know, man. A "Mexican smuggling sim" is rather offensive. If this got through, what would be next? Nigger Jim's Soft Shoe Banjo Dance sim?

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This is probably the logic they used, but I don't think this is really negative toward Mexicans at all. I guess it makes light of a kind of serious plight for immigrants, but dark humor shouldn't be prohibited in and of itself if it's not wrongheaded.

They should have made them Canadian.

Then no one would want to help them.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

You do tend to oversimplify a bit in your posts and then are forced to clarify later. Which you seem perfectly capable of doing and might be better advised to do from the get-go.

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True. Conference calls and good posts don't mix. :cry:

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Or you could just, you know, ignore reactionary posts to yours and talk to the other people.

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I could theoretically, but I can't in practice.