If you live on a US military base and was impatiently awaiting EA’s Medal of Honor 2010 reboot, you’ll have to venture off the base and hunt down a civilian GameStop retail outlet to purchase the highly anticipated, highly controversial title.
Apparently, GameStop has decided to join forces with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), in its effort to discourage soldiers from playing as the Taliban. It’s a controversy that just won’t go away.
This report comes to us courtesy Kotaku, according to a memo obtained by the site, all GameStop stores in military bases have stop taking orders for the EA shooter in the US.
MOH 2010 is being pulled as the player is able to play as the Taliban in the title’s multiplayer, with the decision made “out of respect for our past and present men and women in uniform.”
The memo continues:
“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.”
Medal of Honor will come available on October 12th in the US, Europe’s date has been changed from the 9th to the 15th of the same month.
Makes sense.
There is one thing that worries me about this. What if there is someone who has a lot of flashbacks from fighting in the war and there is a scene that looks like a place he fought? He or she might go into a flashback and start freaking out. That would be a horrible thing to happen.
That would be a horrible thing indeed. Wouldn’t want that to happen.
ahhhh speak of the devil!
lol
maybe you should send patcher this link.
Good idea