GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases

donniebaseball23 writes "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, reports IndustryGamers, as the world's biggest games retailer GameStop has decided it won't sell the title at its stores located on US 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.'"

What?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Gimmie that!" *yoink*
"But...!"
"Because I respect you!"

Re:Seems like EA

[PostConsumerRecycled]

But that's just my opinion, since I believe there is a special circle of Hell reserved for Electronic Arts.

No no. Electronic Arts is a special circle of hell. At least according to some who have worked there.

Re:Censorship?

[vandelais]

That's why I don't play FreeCiv

Re:Censorship?

[Anonymous Coward]

I recently lost a friend in a tragic block-stacking accident. I demand Tetris be removed from store shelves immediately.

Re:Oh no! No play-as-enemies?

[RavenChild]

So just change the Taliban to Nazis? Problem solved.
Now how should they sell the game in Germany... Change them back to Taliban? Problem solved.
But what about US bases in Germany... Change them into... lemmings? Now comes copyright infringement. The studio is doomed.

Re:Censorship?

[stealth_finger]

this guy actually assassinated my mother's mother's father's mother's father's uncle's mother's mother's father. How could they to market this game to me? The disgrace.

Right, you light the torches, I'll get the pitchforks, let's get this thing banned!

Actual Story...

[kevinNCSU]

Everyone is way off base with the motives here. This isn't about protecting the soldiers or respecting them. The real story is a bunch of top level gamestop employees got their asses handed to them last night in a game of CTF by a bunch of people with "USMC" as their clan tag so now their trying to take precautions to prevent that from happening again.

Re:Popular in military?

[Bu11etmagnet]

It's banned amongst the Taliban. The game allows you to play as the Americans, killing freedom fighters!!!

Re:Censorship?

[Subura]

My brother was a trireme who was killed by a phalanx so thank you for respecting my loss.