GameStop: No Medal of Honor for Military Shops

[toastninja17]

[citation][nom]alanwake10[/nom]Keep the game as it is. Americans are shot in most action films, so why cry over some pixels being shot?[/citation]

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[randomizer]

Has anyone asked the terrorists if they like being shot? Or the Germans for that matter?

This is obviously a publicity stunt by a company looking to work on its corporate social responsibility.

 

[nativeson8803]

so dumb man

 

[Travis Beane]

[citation][nom]supertrek32[/nom]By censoring a game, you're fighting against what those soldiers are fighting to protect.[/citation]
You, sir, deserve a cookie.
Don't care for the game myself though. I've just hoping Battlefield 3 (Not Bad Company 3) will bring back the franchise.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]Cp8427[/nom]This is just silly. So it's okay to make games about killing jews, germans, japanese, etc., but not Americans? I don't like where this is going....[/citation]

my thoughts exactly.

 

[mjinspace]

Wow... I never thought I would say this...

GOOD JOB EA

 

[col_krismiss]

As a U.S soldier that is the reason I don't play war games, good guys get shot. (Sarcasm) That is ridiculous, even if it was somehow offensive, don't buy the game. In Afghanistan I played Modern Warfare 1 and 2 in front of Afghans and they weren't offended at all, they know its a game and not real, why do we have the trouble making that distinction?

 

[antilycus]

because America has become a country full of whiners, crybabies, lazy workers and overpaid useless executives. It's actually quite pathetic.

 

[kingnoobe]

Out of respect my ass. I'm in the army and currently in Afghan, if anything I find this more disrespectful. What you think I'm a freaking whiner that can't handle a game.

 

[squallypie]

Yeah seriously... what, its like if i kill an American ingame, then a real american soldier gets heart-attack out of nowhere?

But im telling you, this game is going to be a HIT outside America..

I think those who complain dont really play any video games. And, i think they don't know that they are going against blablabla freedoms and still take pride in *defending* those freedoms outside America

 

[distanted]

[citation][nom]kingnoobe[/nom]Out of respect my ass. I'm in the army and currently in Afghan, if anything I find this more disrespectful. What you think I'm a freaking whiner that can't handle a game.[/citation]
+1 for making sense +1000 for serving...
I'm not convinced this isn't some perverted attempt to gain free publicity for the game, like when studios convince groups to picket their latest movie. One thing I do know: the people often the most outraged are not the people most directly affected by the subject matter. BTW: The Army uses (or used) FPS with trainers acting as the enemy to teach new NCOs squad tactics, so maybe these protestors should tell the Army they need to stop offending those poor fragile soldiers before they ship off to a country that has been at war for over 30 years.

 

[theshonen8899]

I really don't understand. Why is Medal of Honor getting heat for having American soldiers in crosshairs when Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 does the exact same thing.

 

[Guest]

From my understanding, It's not in the storyline just multiplayer game play.So that doesn't really make sense to get bent out of shape. If you have two teams that are going to fight each other and one side is going to be the US, the other side would have be Taliban. We can't be killing at our coalition allies in game play, that would be more detrimental to moral and our mission. If anything it might help solders think like the Taliban if they only have AK's and RPG's, and save them from a real life ambush! So the way I look at it , It's only a video game but they might just help endanger the lives of US soldiers in real life rather than protected them from a video game that they will just buy off base.

 

[elbert]

I have to agree with Gamestop on this one. First person shooters already have enough questionable content. Shooting at human figures is enough desensitizing for our youth. Shooting at any recognizable nationality or religious group is going a bit to far over the line of reason.
Don't get me wrong I like and play first person shooters but this is were I, as a player would have to, draw the line.

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]winner4455[/nom]They have Gamestops at military bases?[/citation]

Yes there is.

There one on Wright Patterson Air Force Base that i'd used to live near by.

http/odin.aafes.com/conus_ner/wright_patterson/info.htm

 

[jefe323]

i'm in the military, and while i understand it might be hard to play as insurgants killing us soliders almost every fps out right now (and for the past 8-10 years) has someone killing us soliders.

If Medal of Honor has to be removed, why arn't the rest of these games? Either remove them all or remove none of them, don't create double standards

Just my 2 cents...

 

[titosor]

When a soldier dies, it's tragic because we know that he had a life, a family, friends, and that he was one of us. When a character in a movie or game dies, it is only as tragic as we are attached to the character. Character attachment happens through excellent storytelling. I was brought to tears when CPT Miller died in Saving Private Ryan because the story got me emotionally involved in his character. I could have cared less when Optimus Prime died in Transformers 2 because that movie didn't make me care about him. Similarly, it is NOT tragic when a cookie cutter multiplayer game character dies (more an avatar than a character due to the lack of a personality outside of battle cries and taunts). There might be some controversy if a game wove an incredible narrative and got us very attached to a soldier character who shared extremely similar traits with a real soldier (family, friends, etc.) but without this we might as well be pitting aliens against aliens. Like others said, if we're going to get hung up about labels slapped onto a game's cast then we should have flipped about countless other games already.

 

[battlecarrysabot]

[citation][nom]frostyfireball[/nom]"GameStop will not be selling the upcoming Call of Duty from Electronics Arts out of respect for those who have served or are serving in the armed forces."You might want to change that to:GameStop will not be selling the upcoming Medal of Honor from Electronics Arts out of respect for those who have served or are serving in the armed forces.[/citation]

Thats funny as hell. EA just is a copy cat all around the board.

 

[Mr Pizza]

WHO GIVE A SHI*!!!!!! IN ALMOST EVERY GAME YOU CAN KILL AMERICAN SOLDIERS! ITS A GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hihiman1]

Here comes the propaganda. "Our country is #1" , "Our soldiers fight for our country(which is #1 btw)" , "Playing games or watching movies where our soldiers die means you don't care about them!"