Of course, however it is still far less effort than dealing with controversy and putting up even more effort. The way I see it, such option would be best way to end this discussion for good.
Call of Duty (2003) had localised versions showing both censored and uncensored imagery. It just goes to show that in 18 years, the industry has really gone backwards in many respects.
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What?
You would buy a dlc containing nazi stuff?
What is wrong with ya?
No, this is actually a valid tactic. Creative Assembly does this to get blood and gore in their games, without pushing up the age rating.
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Exept gore is present and this game it’s already aged rated 18+?
Oh come on, this isn’t difficult. We’re talking about iconography which is banned in some countries, he mentions DLC, you are incredulous that anyone could want such a thing, and I explain that DLC is often used to circumvent certain restrictions. Are you following yet? 
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I really don’t
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I’ll tell you that much.
You are quite showing it that you don’t use it that well. Do you?
Because doesn’t make it any less illegal adding dlcs on the main topic.
The product would still contain censored and illegal symbols. Despite being separated from the game. Its still related.
I guess you don’t know how stuff work.
Instead of raging like a child, just think about what was said, in connection with what is being discussed. I’m sure you’ll get there eventually, when you’ve stopped be morally outraged. 
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I don’t really care to be honest.
I’m far from being even slightly angry, I’ll tell you that much.
Which it’s selling separate illegal content?
I guess you’re the one that should think about what has been discussed.
Sure buddy.
I know enough history to blame the nazis for this censorship, and to be completely happy with it.
Don’t need anything further to remind me of that evil, nor to remind me that here are still people today who revel in it.
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Just going to ignore that the Soviet Union was also very censorous then and that the battle of Moscow has a NKVD unit in it
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“whataboutism” is a bad argument technique.
Whether you like it or not, the USSR’s excesses (nor almost anyone else’s!) just haven’t received the same well deserved opprobrium as the nazis’, and the existence of other evil doesn’t affect the evil of those b@$^@&ds - and, more impportantly IMO - that evil is being resurrected around the world today.
I mean the Nazi party and atrocities were horrible, and they were a bunch of c*nts… But censorship will eventually rewrite history and thus doom us to repeat… I rather stare at the stupid symbols knowing they were the “bad guys” and knowing history then the alternative…
Also could you imagine if someone made a proper Roman game, with all the eagles and swastikas all over the place… Your average mong’s head would explode… F*ck people are stupid… And censorship helps us forget how stupid we can be…
Before the Nazi’s that symbol meant “Good luck in time of war”… And many Asian religions use it in various forms… Just my 2p…
Not that it matters…
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Right so we should hide and censor everything from the past that we find to be wrong through a modern lense, is that the line of argumentation you’re coming from?
And what do you mean by “whataboutism”?
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They should model the “glorious” (Russians were always called this in propaganda news reels) raping of 8 million Berlin women from ages 5 - 80 by the Russian soldiers… Just saying man… AAAAALL sides do horrible things… That’s war… But, hiding it just lets us forget, which lets us repeat…
Look at Kosovo… The atrocities there were so bad I had mates that got committed to mental institutions after their tours…
I saw shit in Afghan and Iraq that was next level, I force it into the mind of every civilian that asks me about my time overseas… I am obligated to do so, so we in the West don’t project our stupid innocence onto these monstrous cultural ways of treating each other… And it is monstrous…
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Our schools aren’t teaching our children, and where do the kids get their “history” lessons… No joke, games… Legit… Their parents are far to busy working 7 days a week and working 12 hours a day to care about the past…
As a game dev I would feel obligated to make sure my “historic” games were as accurate as possible…
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Purely from an economical standpoint, they would never include the option as the game will get banned as a result in a bunch of countries, leading to legal issues for users who bought stuff in those countries, as well as losing out on future revenue from potential customers in such countries.
Historical accuracy etc etc etc etc is an entire moot point as the developers will never purposefully shoot themselves in their financial and metaphorical foot.
This has been discussed before and has always been a big, flat nope from developers / moderators.
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Whataboutism - Whataboutism - Wikipedia
arguing that something isn’t bad because there’s something else just as bad.
We censor everything all the time and we look at everything through the eyes of our modern lives - but we don’t need to do that for nazi evil - even the nazis knew they were evil and said as much.