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Video game publisher Electronic Arts is pulling a controversial feature that would have let players join the Taliban from Medal of Honor, one of the most anticipated releases of the year.
As originally planned, players in virtual battle online could team up in squads, one side of insurgents designated as the Taliban, with U.S. troops as their target. After rising criticism — including a sales ban in Army and Air Force exchange outlets — EA decided to change the game.
To be sensitive to families and friends of fallen soldiers, the game will be changed so that the "Opposing Force" or "OpFor" — not "Taliban" — will be in the multiplayer mode, says the game's executive producer Greg Goodrich. "Medal of Honor is a big thank-you letter to the troops, and if this one word caused some troops to not be able to receive that ... let's change it and hopefully people will get that."
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
How can they change it now? Retail release is in 2 weeks. All of the publishing should heve been done for a while now.
Nevermind that it's completely assinine to relabel one of the teams (call it differently abled but you're still cripple) but unless they wait until the last minute to publish the act doesn't seem logistically possible.
Was there a massive delay in release or something?
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