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The saga of Medal of Honor goes on. As we reported on Friday, Electronic Arts bowed to pressure from various critics and decided to remove the name "The Taliban" from MoH's multiplayer. This apparently isn't good enough for the U.S. Military. Our armed forces have declined to lift a ban on the title at The Exchange, the chain of stores located on its bases.
“Out of respect to those touched by the ongoing, real-life events presented as a game, Exchanges will not be carrying this product,” Maj. Gen. Bruce Casella, the commander of the U.S. Army & Air Force Exchange Service, said in a statement.
"Merchandising a product that presents depictions of American troops engaged in an active combat zone as a game could construed as inconsistent with the Exchange’s ongoing desire to treat its patrons, and their family members, with the respect their service warrants," Judd Anstey, a spokesman for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, told the Los Angeles Times.
I understand that you sign away certain freedoms when you join up with the military, but still, this is ridiculous. The men and women of the armed forces are called on to put their lives at risk to protect our freedoms, and yet they don't have the freedom to purchase the games they want at "official" stores? There's something so not right about that. Sure, you could order it from Amazon, but it's this principle of the thing that's important.
Rank and file soldiers are the most affected by the "real-life events" Casella mentions, and I doubt too many of them are against the right to buy a freakin' video game at their base stores. If you really don't like it, you don't have to buy it. Military people put their real lives and safety at risk all the time; if they want to blow off some steam by pretending to kill (or be) The Taliban or anything else, the powers-that-be should let them. In other words: Politics suck.
Anyway, the game comes out on October 12, and you'll be able to pick it up in local stores...as long as you don't live on a military base.
Source: The LA Times
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m.lucero89
I play airsoft and can find replicas of my favorite guns at www.airsplat.com and when I'm not playing fps are my way to stay on point.
MarioSal
I love playing first person shooter games because I get to use the models of my favorite airsoft guns. Not the same as the real thing, but just as good on a rainy day, or 3 in the morning when the neighbors are asleep. I go to this link because I can find airsoft copies of the guns from my favorite games: http://www.airsplat.com/airsof t-video-games.htm.
nascarguy
This makes me sick to hear this crap being former military, and being deployed with a combat division, it scares me to think that bowing down and lowering standards to be Politically Correct will make things all better. I played this game that was borrowed from a friend and just loved it. It was the best game out there that actually looked and felt like a accomplished mission took place. The head of the military posts, bases doesn't want to hurt anyone's feeling. These are are rewarding and for-filling for those who live in those types of communities that are special, that the game should of stayed the way it was. Since our CIC - President has never served in the military, and is breaking it down in many pieces for solid waste, I wish that we can go back to non- PC military where men were men.
I disagree with both parties and think that adjusting something to not hurt someones feelings is a crock of soup. Stop catering to the sensitive, let this soldiers etc, have fun with this game, I do agree, that you either make a military game as factual as you can or do not make it at all. Give me a break.
Not that I really care about what anyone thinks, I will not buy this game
senbonzakura
You guys are a bunch of hypocrites, you guys talk about freedom for EA to sell the game but then you automatically denied the freedom for the military to ban the game. Freedom goes both ways; the military has the freedom to accept or denied any content neassiary, just like every individual has the right to go to Wal-Mart or any other store off base to buy the game. They're just saying that they are not selling it on base that their god given right; just like it's your god given right to criticize the military for banning the game. It's not like there saying that any military member buying the game is going to be court martial or thrown in the brig for buying the game so why in the hell are you complaining about it?
senbonzakura
You guys are a bunch of hypocrites, you guys talk about freedom for EA to sell the game but then you automatically denied the freedom for the military to ban the game. Freedom goes both ways; the military has the freedom to accept or denied any content neassiary, just like every individual has the right to go to Wal-Mart or any other store off base to buy the game. They're just saying that they are not selling it on base that their god given right; just like it's your god given right to criticize the military for banning the game. It's not like there saying that any military member buying the game is going to be court martial or thrown in the brig for buying the game so why in the hell are you complaining about it?
Bethanator5000
Wahwahwah. My husband is active duty Air Force and this is not a big deal. There is a GameStop and WalMart 10mins off base.
Wilford_Grimley
My solution? If one is so inclined, they should be able to download the ability to replace every instance of the words "Opposing Forces" with "Taliban" in their copy of the game.
Wilford_Grimley
My solution? If one is so inclined, they should be able to download the ability to replace every instance of the words "Opposing Forces" with "Taliban" in their copy of the game.
Mr_Paisley
This just goes to show how rather useless names like "The Taliban" are in games. Would these "enemy forces" or "enemy opposition" or whatever it is, be any more memorable if we called them "The Taliban" while playing? Does it, really make a difference if call them "Al Qaeda", "Hawaiians", or "Terrorists"? It's just a name, and that's proven even further when you look at how easily they simply wiped the name "Taliban" to call them something different.
ChynaDoll
You know i find it kinda ironic they use games as recuting tools,but when some one does something they dont agree with o its banned.
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