[STEAM] 'This Wasn't Intentional': Fortnite Developer Responds After The Simpsons' Apu Error

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developer Epic Games has said it will adjust an image within its newly-launched

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season that depicts shopkeeper Apu Nahasapeemapetilon with light-colored skin.

Fans spotted the image earlier this week on the wall of Moe's Tavern, where a classic picture from The Simpsons depicts Apu, Barney, Homer and Principal Skinner during their tenure as barbershop quartet The Be Sharps.

Apu is erroneously shown with the same yellow skin tone as his fellow singers, though as many were quick to point out, the character is depicted correctly in other pictures within the same location.

As bad as this looks, I’m pretty sure this was an oversight. He’s on a different picture presented correctly

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Now, amid press reports that suggested Epic Games was somehow trying to erase the character, the developer has responded with a short statement posted to social media. "This wasn't intentional, it's being adjusted in our next release," Epic Games

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, in an update on its Fortnite Status account.

Recent years have seen Apu take more of a ********* on The Simpsons, following the release of the 2017 documentary The Problem With Apu which

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. Long-term The Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria subsequently announced he would no longer portray the role — and since then, the character has only appeared without dialogue.

Earlier this week,

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to a positive response. Fans have poured praise on the game's Easter egg-stuffed recreation of Springfield, though there has been

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, which need to be bought multiple times to be fully re-customized.

Next up for Fortnite is a major end of year event on November 29 that will see The Simpsons' mini-season end and a new Chapter Seven era of the game arrive — with the expectation

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