Rising Sun Flag
On August 16, 2011, the company website of Wargaming, developer and publisher of "World of Tanks" and "World of Warplanes", announced "World of Battleships", a free-to-play naval action MMO, intended to complete the "World of" war trilogy developed by the company. On August 2, 2012, the game was renamed "World of Warships". After a petition opened by South Korean players was signed 40,000 times, Wargaming removed the Rising Sun Flag from Imperial Japanese warships in July 2013. After that, more than 12,000 signatures were gathered requesting reimplementation of the Rising Sun Flag, but the decision was not overturned. On November 14, 2013, the game entered closed alpha testing.