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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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Empyu
My personal veiw on this is that it feels wrong. There are several other forms of media that feature military men fighting for their lives, but for some reason Medal of Honor gets singled out? There has to be something wrong about that.
But there's a perspective a lot of people are failing to see. Let's look at this in the context of a different gaming controversy. After the shooting at Columbine, a game was made based on the events that occured. The game was free and avaialable to anyone on the web, so it was easy to avoid if you didn't want to see it. But what if instead of a satire, it was an accurate portrayal of events. What if it was sold on store shelves? Could you seriously demand that it be sold in any store in that area? Could you seriously say you wouldn't give up just a little bit of freedom for the sake of someone else?
I've thought about this a lot, and if someone can come up with a way that this situation differs. In my heart I want to say that what the military is doing is wrong, but it's hard to do in this context.
SpeedMac27
MILITARY=DOUBLE STANDARDS!!..JUST A FACT
SpeedMac27
FORMER 11BRAVO HERE, AND I MUST SAY JUST ANOTHER CASE OF HOW THIS COUNTRY ACTS LIKE IT HAS MORALES, YET, REALLY THIS COUNTRY IS SO INMORALE AS A WHOLE, IT DOESNT SURPRISE ME THAT WOULD B ALLOWED TO HAPPEN, VIVA MEXICO!!
Knives39
if they wanna ban one military game why dont they just ban all war related thing over there seriously what a bunch of bs
gambit1023
@matches...kind of scary that someone who is protecting our freedoms wants to censor us on this subject. I have all the respect in the world for our service men and women but just remember this....who pays you're salary and what right do you have to tell us to be quiet?
gambit1023
i think this is such a crock...apparentely it's ok to train soldiers to kill real human beings but it's not ok for them to kill virtual ones? What a BS double standard!!!
lowkevmic
This is crazy!! I totally understand where they are coming from, but really?? Because of a few fallen soldier's moms who feel like this would be disrespectful to them, they change the name, and now they still won't carry the game on base??!!
What difference does it make?? This is war, people live and die through it all the time. Every single soldier knew this even before signing up that they are potentially signing their life away, but they did anyway. So why should those men and women who are in service be restricted from enjoying something because of those who are not out there who feel they know what's best for those who are? Or feel compelled to want to champion a cause that isn't even worth fighting. This is nothing more then censorship. Of course others would argue that this is no big deal, but it is. What would happen when a concern mother is unhappy with how something on tv or in a movie is being portrayed. Are we supposed to change everything because one or two people aren't happy with it??
But whatever, I don't live on a base so I will be going to gamestop or anystore for that matter to buy this game when it comes out!! I mean seriously how can you deny a game when the guy from Tier 1 has the most awesome beard in gaming??!! If that doesn't make you feel safe and proud to be an American, I don't know what will...
freechild
GAME - activity engaged in for diversion or amusement.
Peaz_Li
The military is merely exercising their own right to not carry a product they don't agree with. You have the freedom to say what you want as long as it doesn't cause harm to another. If the military deems the digitized killing of troops to be offensive then yes they have every right to voice their opinion and not carry the game. As for me, I won't be buying the game because DICE doesn't support its games and I don't feel like playing a broken game for a couple months like I had to with BFBC2.
down311
Just like a woman, you make the changes they want and it still isn't good enough.
MOH looks pretty good but between Halo and Black Ops, I can spend my $60 bucks on something better, I don't need 3 shooters in 3 months.
The Icon Don
wow really.....EA actually decided to switch the Taliban to the opposing force or OpFor as it will be presented in the game, and the U.S. military will still not lift the ban. what will EA have to, remove the actual "opposing forces" from the game and make the U.S. fight monsters. or will they move the "active combat zone" and move it to canada or something. i don't know what the hell was going through there mind, but if that was the case, then many military games would have been banned long ago. They need to put this on national television because i really want to know what's on the minds of the people banning this game that's dedicated to the soldiers
Matches Malone
Blah...blah...blah. Unless anyone who posts here is currently enlisted in active duty, you have nothing to bitch about. Moving on.
xion665
Sooooo, they complained about the name then EA changed it. Now they say they're still not gonna carry the game in Exchange locations? Really. LIke i said in the last article concerning this, I had a high school friend of mine killed by the Taliban and my brother may soon be heading over to Afghanistan but i still think they should have kept everything as it was. You can't please everybody all the time and if you try, you just won't please anybody.
cardinalsfan1122
That's just ridiculous. Soldiers should have a right to exercise their freedom even more than normal people do because they fight for them every day. That's ridiculous.
JustTheBeginning
So do they ban every movie that uses the US military name? I mean seriously, what hypocrites.
Treeclaw
lol thats hilarious. guess they should have just left the name Taliban in there.
Bloodhavoc28
This issue is kind of a 2 sided coin. On the one side I can agree with the military simply out of respect for those who made the greatest sacrifice for the freedoms we enjoy. On the other side of that coin though, EA was simply exerting their right to free speech as video games are a canvas of creativity and speech of the mind. Being a former Army soldier myself, I can appreciate EA's decision to change the name out of respect, but don't exactly agree with it. What's the point of being able to say what we want if we catch flak over it?
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