EA Cuts Taliban From Medal of Honor

[Catalyst6]

I do understand their not wanting to hurt active soldiers by including them, after all they really try to be nice towards soldiers. However, this reeks of simply bowing to media pressure and using "respect" to try and cover it up. I'm disappointed in EA.

 

[SextusMaximus]

I'm not buying this game anymore. Don't cave in EA.

 

[TaboriHK]

The overwhelmingly negative response in this thread actually really bugs me as a gamer. Because a lot of you sound exactly like the reactionary zealots that want gaming to be taken away from us. This is not a step towards censorship. You guys are acting like someone's private request has never changed your mind about something.

 

[Megacherv]

I'm disappointed in you, EA.

You are disappointed that they listened to soldiers and families of soldiers and used better judgment in making a decision?

Weren't they being advised by other soldiers anyway?

Goddammit, you're just gonna let Jack Thompson win?

 

[katsumoto03]

"Don't start thinking this war, your war, is more important than any other war just because you're in it."

Of course, I' sure most Americans in the military don't play KotOR so this quote is lost on them.

 

[Bobzer77]

Well we all know it's the Taliban at this point, who cares if they don't call it that.

 

[Slick Samurai]

EA got hit by a car and should have just finished crossing the street. Instead they went home, provoking further attacks on the gaming medium now that they know the publishers will bend. We've played Nazis, Imperial Japanese, Viet Cong, and all sorts of bad guys from history in games. This would have been no different, media got their freak on for vidya game hatin' then left.

Same thing happened to Mass Effect, and BioWare stuck their ground.

 

[hardband]

Wow, just wow. Jesus did it ever really matter that they were called the Taliban? God, some people are thick. I mean it is a very sad thing to lose a family member to war, but just because you can play as them in a VIRTUAL experience does it make a difference?

If all they were going to do was rename them, isn't it pointless. Even if they weren't called Taliban in the first place we could probably guess it.

I wonder... would this sort of thing ever happen in books?

 

[feeback06]

Meh, wasn't going to buy the game anyway. But people really need to start worrying about more important things then playing the "bad guy" in a video game.

 

[Nedoras]

Wow, I really didn't think that they would cave in. Oh well, I guess that the idiotic mob screaming "this is offends me, even though I know nothing about it other than that the word Taliban is involved, so it must offend everyone and must be stopped" somehow won. Way to go EA. You gave the idiots a morale boost -_-

 

[ryai458]

So absolutely nothing changes except the name, weak.

 

[nub the samurai]

I had a bad feeling when i checked the Medal of Honor website about 2 or 3 hours earlier when i saw they changed them to OpFor. seriously EA, i am disappointed

 

[Nabirius]

I'm disappointed in you, EA.

You are disappointed that they listened to soldiers and families of soldiers and used better judgment in making a decision? It's not like they were being forced to do anything. They chose to heed the wishes of many people who's lives have been changed by their interaction with the Taliban?

I wouldn't have minded either way really, but it sounds like they at least used good reasoning and judgment in this call.

I kind of see what you are saying, and normally I might agree to some extent. But once Jack Thompson made his voice heard I instantly wanted EA to continue. It feels like we have just surrendered to once of gaming's biggest adversaries (in terms of publicity, not merit). It's not just about Jack Thompson (although he is the most notable example), it's about all the people who continue to level criticism at video games for doing anything controversial, movies depict the Taliban all the time, they aren't demonized for it, what the fuck?

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I shake my head disapprovingly at everyone involved.

EA are weak for buckling under a bit of pressure, and the assholes who took issue in the first place will have confirmed that they are ridiculous people if a name change is all it takes to appease them.

A rose by any other name, and all that...

 

[cefm]

So you're still shooting U.S. soldiers?

Just goes to show that the people expressing their outrage at this were just a bunch of self-promoting fucks who never actually gave a shit about the issue, just how much media-whoring they could get away with.

 

[Kelethor]

Quick, could someone with a more prominent status as myself write an open letter to EA so that the US forces are renamed as well out of respect for all the casualties in all of the other wars that happened, too?

It's nice to see them with so much respect and understanding that I think it is fair to ask for removing all references that might upset people.

As a German, I am very happy with the successful removal to any Nazi relation in video games, but was shocked to hear about so-called "uncut" versions existing in other countries. This is clearly deeply hurting for any German that ever lost a relative during the World Wars.
Therefore I applaud EA for their move and will be happy to see them pursue their path of removing offending references from all videogames.

I can't wait to see "Them vs. the Opposing Force: Random World at War" coming out during the holiday season or even better the modernized remake "Them vs. the Opposing Force: Modern Armed Conflict (dramatized)".

Man, I better secure rights to any trademarks that use "we, us, them, ..."

Umm, I don't think that they removed Nazi's. I mean, I was playing CoD 3 the other day, and I totally pushed this Nazi off this tower, and....Ohhh, SARCASM!! :3 You so Funny

 

[Canid117]

Way to stick to your guns EA.

 

[Lillowh]

I had a lot of hope for MOH. This just broke that hope and trust becasue they gave in to the very people the industry is about to go up against in court this november. The uneducated and/or uncaring people that don't realize that Video Games are an art form and that they should be able to put in their game what they want. They didn't bother to find out it was just the name for the faction. Morality wise the NO RUSSIAN level in MW2 was more insulting, but because people that don't play games hear that you're playing as the Taliban (they think you play them the whole time because the media is vague and tries to rally people in their stupid cause thats fueld by their absolutely ridiculous belief in religion) they complain and call it disrespectful even though every other game has the Taliban just as a different name. This game is now a pass for me, not only becasue of the fact they're not called taliban anymore(one reason i was looking forward to this game is that if they had the balls to be one of the first games to actually label a faction what they're basing it off of, the game should be equally balsy), but becasue they're giving in to the censorship they should be fighting against in a month.

 

[HotFezz8]

so they've achieved the media storm they wanted, got themselves lots of free press, now are reversing the idea to make themselves look like the good guys.

fuck them, im still not giving money to a copmany that pathetically exploitatitive

 

[Bretty]

I think EA made the right decision here, the families of fallen soldiers didn't like it. The Organizations that help families of those fallen soldiers didn't like it.

Sounds to me like EA are being a good member in society and that most of you are short sighted and childish...

Yeah, EA is really the one that needs its mentality changed here.