GameStop: No Medal of Honor for Military Shops

[chick0n]

So Gamestop is trying to tell me its perfectly ok for Americans to kill talibans, so Taliban are not human beings?

and its totally NOT ok for talibans to kill Americans?

I guess Gamestop need to know how many "CIVILIANS" were killed in the middle east for the past 7 years.

 

[chick0n]

forgot to add, its just a game for f's sake. my god.

I want the game. Gamestop don't sell it? who cares, I NEVER buy games at OVERPRICED Gamestop anyway hahaha

 

[chindoboi]

I believe the issue at hand is that the war at Afganistan against the Taliban is still on...hence why it has become such a sensitive issue...

 

[tr1ppz]

The military doesn't make decisions for EA. The AAFES requested it, and out of respect EA will go along with, but it was still EA's decision to do so. And it's still politics being played out.

But the military does make decisions for what it wants sold in its stores. And out of respect Gamestop chose to honor that. So big ups to Gamestop. I didn't comment on EA's involvement whatsoever. And yes I do feel proud to disrespect anyone who "claims" to be in the service and is not.

 

[mr_tuel]

I certainly hope our armed forces can handle the thought of being killed. Otherwise, they probably need to reevaluate their career choice. They fight for freedom just to be told they can't buy a game on base because some corporate know-it-alls think they know best.

 

[borath_the_great]

Oh, common! It seems someone is over paranoid that the rest of the world players will become taliban fighters after playing the game... I think it's good for american solders to play as talibam fighter as well, in order to better know enemy's mind.

 

[Guest]

GameStops are on some military bases, and where they are the AAFES store is supposed to *not* sell the things GameStop sells. That way they don't compete with them. But the GameStops charge local sales tax, where the AAFES store does not. The only "military discount" I have ever heard of these GameStop stores offering is 10% off used games. I won't buy anything from them because of this relationship. AAFES made a bad move with GameStop, it doesn't benefit us in any way. When you buy from AAFES, most of the profits go back into the military installation so you are also helping to support your own bases if you buy from AAFES.

 

[Griffolion]

I think it would be more dis-respectful to not stock these games for the serving people of the army, it should be their choice whether they wish to expose themselves to MoH. From what i can gather, quite a lot of the serving people wouldn't mind playing the game. If any of them wished to not play the game out of some respect/moral issue, then simply don't buy it! We shouldn't even be thinking about censoring these sorts of things because wouldn't this be doing exactly what these extremist terrorists want to do with the whole world anyway? It just seems very OTT.

 

[everygamer]

Sounds like Gibeau is using the single player game as the defines, the part that tells a story. The controversy is over the multi-player mode where one can play a Taliban and shoot at US soldiers. The multi-player mode in most games has little to no story so that aspect of it being an art form is not present. I would not say they should have to change the single player game in any way, I agree with the story telling aspect. As to the multi-player mode .. there are many games out there right now where one can play on the side of the bad guys and shot at US solider's why is this game getting the attention. Why didn't GameStop ban those other games because of their multi-player mode content (like Bad Company 2 .. Russians killing US soldiers).

 

[Guest]

I can't wait to shoot the ak-47 on marine's heads!

 

[klsdivan]

So as a show of respect they are not giving the service personel the option to choose if they want to buy it.

I would say that taking away their choice of playing a game is showing them no respect!

 

[builderbobftw]

Wait, In COD4 you can get assigned as terroits fighting marines,in multi, and no one cares.

 

[Guest]

I agree with EA (I really just said that?) - the whole situation is infuriating.

Why does the movie industry get away scott-free with everything from brutal terrorist depictions to sewing girls together mouth to anus, yet the games industry gets lambasted and hung out to dry if it dares to even consider such things.

The media needs to grow up and realise that age ratings are there for the exact same reason as the movie industry. The rest of us don't need to be babied into appreciating what's morally right or wrong, especially when 99% of the people who are supposedly *offended* actually couldn't give a damn.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]cronik93[/nom]You are a whiner and can't handle a little video game.I don't see how people get offended by shooting a pixel.[/citation]


You dumb ass, he was saying that banning the game was disrespectful.

As the saying goes, L2Read.

 

[Christopher1]

[citation][nom]distanted[/nom]+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.[/citation]

This is possible. It is VERY possible that this is all an attempt at publicity.... oh wait.... no, that goes out the window because the Army has CONFIRMED that they issued this order.
Not about publicity, it's about the generals and stuff being idiots who don't realize that war is WRONG in real life and that they are fighting a BAD WAR in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

[Guest]

The publisher is exercising their rights by making the game in the first place.

Gamestop is exercising their rights by deciding what they want and do not want to sell in their stores.

Customers can exercise their rights by choosing to buy or not buy the game.

THERE IS NO CONTROVERSY. Everything is fine, this is the way America is supposed to work.

 

[back_by_demand]

Of course, the guys on the base can get it sent to them by mail order

All this means is sales via Gamestop will be lower

 

[fritter87]

[citation][nom]supertrek32[/nom]By censoring a game, you're fighting against what those soldiers are fighting to protect.[/citation]

quite possibly the best response ever

 

[Guest]

So they do have respect for the military men, but not for the elderly or cops being shot at in GTA?

This whole respect thing for being right or wrong to play a game is wrong!
You either take all violence games out of the racks, or allow this one too!
I'm sure there are many games out there displaying an act of violence that some people had to suffer (like an acid attack in the face, or so...) that gamestop IS selling.
Either they don't have no respect for such victims, or their choice is biased.

 

[thebigt42]

ouch ouch my head! If there are any flying saucers around reading thing....I WANT OFF THIS PLANET! PLEASE Give me a lift.