The controversy continues for Medal of Honor when GameStop announced that it will ban the game from its military based stores. This includes the retraction of advertising and promotional material. The ban affects up to 49 GameStop stores across the continental U.S and its bases around the world. This was confirmed by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.
The ability to play the Taliban in multiplayer mode was a contributing factor, as much of the controversy that surrounds this game seems to centre around. GameStop released a statement saying that in respect for military personnel, both current and past; they have “agreed to have all marketing material pulled by noon today and to stop taking reservations”
Sparking people’s curiosity, such controversy is often the catalyst of increasing sales. Speaking with Industry Gamers Michael Pachter of Wedbush Morgan Securities believes that Medal of Honor should go on to sell an estimated 3.5 million units worldwide, with any controversy unlikely to have any detrimental impact.
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In most if not all war games you play as americans killing other nationalitys, but as soon as your another nationality killing americans they go psycho and all patriotic on us, but then again this is the same country that believe's in religous freedom but doesn't want muslims worshiping near ground zero. crazy yanks.
I think the point is that people are currently dying in this war. Is it a case of 'too soon'. Of course this game is going to get flak, it's happening right now.
http://snarla.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/venn-diagram-al-qaeda-islam-muslims.jpg
Yeah, some of the terrorist organisations may represent a small amount of the overall numbers, but they are doing a good job in killing people. Right now. The reasons WWII games were so popular was it was both a wide setting with a lot of content and history that can't really offend anyone too greatly.
So if I go back to quake 3 and make custom skins for all of my players as "American Soldiers" and "Taliban Soldiers" is that insensitive? It's no more than a custom skin. Gamers aren't going to care who they look like. The only reason they need to look different is so that you can differentiate between friend and foe.
It would be more understandable if there was a single-player campaign based on Taliban activities. Even then it seems a bit daft.
for once holding an AK or an RPG7 infront of you will feel right
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