{"id":8600,"date":"2016-12-30T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T01:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/?post_type=cool-stuff-found&#038;p=8600"},"modified":"2016-12-30T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T01:55:55","slug":"control-culture-clash-iran-clash-of-clans","status":"publish","type":"cool-stuff-found","link":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/control-culture-clash-iran-clash-of-clans\/","title":{"rendered":"Control and Culture Clash in Iran over Mobile MMO &#8216;Clash of Clans&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran is in the process of banning Clash of Clans, a move that epitomizes\u00a0that country&#8217;s attempts to control culture clash and behavior. According to <em>TechCrunch<\/em>, the game has been pulled from a popular third party app store in Iran called Cafe Bazaar and will soon be pulled from its other legitimate source.\u00a0Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s interesting to me: Clash of Clans has only officially been available for a month in Iran, and it&#8217;s being played by two-thirds of the mobile gaming community. Iran&#8217;s religious leaders have deemed it to too addictive and promotes both violence and tribal conflict. At the same time, the game was being played on the black market before its release, where it will still be available.\u00a0It will be interesting to see if there&#8217;s any kind of backlash from the country&#8217;s mobile gamers. I&#8217;m far from an expert on Iran, but it&#8217;s hard to see how the country could possibly stop the world at its borders forever. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Clash of Clans\u2014like Game of War and every other successful MMO\u2014are addictive. But I&#8217;ve yet to see a successful attempt to legislate addictive behavior. Below is the SuperBowl 2015 commercial for the game that is pretty darned amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[746,155],"class_list":["post-8600","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-censorship","tag-iran"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Control and Culture Clash in Iran over Mobile MMO &#039;Clash of Clans&#039; - The Mac Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iran is in the process of banning Clash of Clans, a move that epitomizes that country&#039;s attempts to control culture clash and behavior.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/control-culture-clash-iran-clash-of-clans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Control and Culture Clash in Iran over Mobile MMO &#039;Clash of Clans&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran is in the process of banning Clash of Clans, a move that epitomizes that country&#039;s attempts to control culture clash and behavior.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/es\/cool-stuff-found\/control-culture-clash-iran-clash-of-clans\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Mac Observer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacObserver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/clash-of-clans.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MacObserver\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minuto\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/es\\\/cool-stuff-found\\\/control-culture-clash-iran-clash-of-clans\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/es\\\/cool-stuff-found\\\/control-culture-clash-iran-clash-of-clans\\\/\",\"name\":\"Control and Culture Clash in Iran over Mobile MMO 'Clash of Clans' - 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