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GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases
donniebaseball23 writes "EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 12, but it's already seen a fair amount of controversy thanks to the publisher's decision to allow people to play as Taliban in multiplayer. The controversy just got escalated another notch, reports IndustryGamers, as the world's biggest games retailer GameStop has decided it won't sell the title at its stores located on US military bases. The new Medal of Honor won't be advertised at these stores either. GameStop noted that they came to this decision 'out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform.'"
Actually, they signed away most rights when they joined. If the Col. sez "no one gets to do X" and X is something like a controversial game or the dangerous and useless facebook, then they might have to give that up. No lawyers will be assisting with that, I can assure you. I gave up mine too, but I got mines back, son!
What's next though; playing PacMan as the Ghosts?! Surely not! Blasphemers! Game Stop, STOP them from gaming!
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
but how can you justify making the game completely unavailable to them?
I'm going to guess that the GameStop executives had an emergency meeting on the topic "What high-profile action can we take to defuse this controversy real quick", and the geniuses came up with this.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Maybe someone who just lost a friend to the Taliban might not really be in the mood for seeing a game where they can re-enact killing their friend.
Perhaps my father was killed by VC, does that mean that nobody should make historically accurate Vietnam games? What if my grandfather was killed by a German, does that put ww2 games in bad taste?
Sure the time scale is greater, but its just being fucking 'PC stupid' to go to lengths like this. I think if I was killed in Afghanistan, I would be pissed off by politically correct assholes who want to sweep everything under a rug, 'out of respect for the survivors'.
What the HELL is wrong with a factually depicted game? Telling an accurate story is very respectful of those who served.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
If this was the case then how about the people who see adverts for GTA when their loved ones have died as a result of street violence, or WoW when their family has been eaten by evil dwarves? How about other games that let you play as "the enemies of the west", or even as enemies of humankind! (Battlefield2, Left4Dead) I disagree with this type of censorship, "in case someone is offended". Nobody has the right to not be offended, and certainly nobody has the right to be offended on behalf of anyone else, especially me! I am a serving military officer, and I find being patronised in this "politically correct" manner offensive!