Soushi said:
rockyoumonkeys said:
Soushi said:
Taliban takes excerpts from the Qu'ran and twist them to fit thier own meaning and stereotypes.
You know who else takes excerpts and twists them? EVERYONE ELSE. Republicans, democrats, christians, atheists, EVERYONE DOES THIS. It is not terrorism.
Soushi said:
rockyoumonkeys said:
Soushi said:
(ie: some harmless name changing)
Harmless name-changing indeed.
Except, apparently, when EA does it. ZING!
But if the name changing is covering something bigger, Ie: censorship and this plauge of politial correctness, then it becomes not so harmless. The name changing is just the tip of the iceburg, its what is underlying that really counts.
BTW: it is up to other people to decide wether it is 'zing' or not.
This is you blowing this crap way out of proportion. As I said before, the whole Taliban thing was a bad decision from the start, and EA fixed it themselves. They misjudged the public's response, and since it's their product, they can change it however they like.
There's no larger menace here. This is not the tip of the iceberg. This is one little ice cube floating in the ocean. There's nothing beneath it, and in a short while it will be gone. If this has any larger implications, it will be better quality control in the future, to prevent such misguided decisions from being made.
This is you acting like a spoiled, insensitive, and entitled child who doesn't care about anyone but himself.
Besides, since i am argueing that there is something beneath the surface, something that goes far beyond the simple name change, something that has the potential to influence far more than just one game, your final argument is fundamentaly flawed (or at the very least circular). I could be mistaken, i am open to that possibility, but i am still arguing over principle, not for my own presonal gain or experience.
Anyways, this is your opinion and you have a right to think that way. I might disagree with you, but hey, that's jsut the way things go. Heck, i agree with you, i hope this is all over nothing and there is nothing below the surface. I am more than willing to discuss this with you, all i ask is that you don't have this disolve into name calling.
My argument is neither flawed nor circular. I'm telling you flat out that you're blowing this out of proportion, that there's no larger problem, that this isn't the tip of the iceberg. This is one decision EA made to change something that SHOULD have meant more to families of fallen soldiers than to people playing the game. As I've already explained repeatedly, it has zero impact on the game or the gameplay or your enjoyment of the game. It's something you probably wouldn't even have noticed if they hadn't announced it. But it's something that meant a lot to the families of those soldiers, and if making the change makes them more comfortable, I can't understand why we wouldn't all support such a change! After all, what have we really lost? NOTHING. We still get the game. We still get the multiplayer. We just don't get the juvenile pleasure of saying we're the "Taliban".
It just appears that game companies have so fallen over themselves to be as "realistic" and "accurate" as possible, that they completely forgot to take into consideration the feelings of the people who are actually affected by these wars.
The problem is that people who go off about "political correctness" are just giving the impression that they're only concerned with their right to be completely insensitive towards others. People who go off about "censorship" have completely misread this entire situation.
You shouldn't WANT to make this such a huge deal. Like I said, all you're really doing is making yourself look selfish, insensitive, and entitled. You SHOULD
want to say "it's a tiny change that has no effect on how fun the game is, and if it makes some families feel better, I'm all for it. Good to see that EA is capable of biting the bullet and correcting a bad decision." I seriously don't understand the mindset of someone who can get so upset about something like this.
