Update: Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter also told us that he see this as having no impact on the game's sales, and he expects the title to sell 3.5 million.
Original story:
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, as the world's biggest games retailer GameStop has decided it won't sell the title at its stores located on U.S. 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."
The company elaborated in a statement:
"GameStop has agreed out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform we will not carry Medal of Honor in any of our AAFES based stores... As such, GameStop agreed to have all marketing material pulled by noon today and to stop taking reservations. Customers who enter our AAFES stores and wish to reserve Medal of Honor can and should be directed to the nearest GameStop location off base.
"GameStop fully supports AAFES in this endeavor and is sensitive to the fact that in multiplayer mode one side will assume the role of Taliban fighter."
[Thanks to Kotaku]
4 Comments
September 3, 2010
lol
September 6, 2010
Oh, so we can still get it from other gamestop stores? Lol Then really, i dont get it...because trust me, soldiers will be dying to play this game
September 6, 2010
Amoah, a bit tasteless but correct none the less. A noble effort on the bleeding heart hippie who proposed this, even though when it comes down to it... everybody plays cops and robbers, but guess what... someone always has to play the robbers.
Get over it.
September 10, 2010
It's stupid. I'm a solider and granted yea you can play as taliban and kill american soliders, but there's one important fact everyone seems to forget. Its a game. Just like when the NAACP attacked capcom for RE5 and how FOX news attacked Mass Effect 1 its just some bleeding heart somewhere taking things too seriously. No matter what happens in the world there will always be a bad guy, and the bad guy of this game is the taliban. So simply put get over it and find more important things to do then harp on video games for their "realism"