bostonowns: as soon as a peewee football league'er gets hit wrong and ends up in a coma, madden will be banned. we had one person in our local highschool die at a football game from being tackled wrong and madden wasnt pulled yet.. all the kid got was a scholarship fund made in his name at school :/

I'm sorry your son died in Iraq.

This doesn't give you the excuse to curbstomp my freedom to blow up pixelated representations of Taliban-style soldiers.

You know what they say....any press is good press.

I will now buy this game and wear one of my many marine t-shirts while playing the taliban in the game.

Or better yet, I'll buy as many copies as I can afford and give them away to active duty military members.

Go fark yourself lady. I'm old enough to make a decision to join the Marines and I'm certainly old enough to choose what farking video games I want to play. All she is doing is preventing service members getting them w/o having to pay sales taxes.

They came first for Pac Man,
and I didn't speak up because I don't play retro games.

Then they came for the Tekken,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't play fighting games.

Then they came for the Madden,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't play sports games.

Then they came for my Halo,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

How about we have the biggest LAN party ever, invite the Taliban, and the prize will be winning the war for whichever side is victorious. Then all we'd have to do is lower the minimum age for joining the military to 13 years old. We'd win, easy.

CygnusDarius: Am I the only one that doesn't have Gato Negro on the ignore list?.

I don't have him on ignore either but since all those other people didn't respond to him I didn't want to break the streak.

DashiKun: bostonowns: as soon as a peewee football league'er gets hit wrong and ends up in a coma, madden will be banned. we had one person in our local highschool die at a football game from being tackled wrong and madden wasnt pulled yet.. all the kid got was a scholarship fund made in his name at school :/

sorry to hear that.. ;/
i just boned my girl on her .

But seriously, if we're supposed to give up our rights during the war in Afghanistan, then let's do it right.

We're spending less than 1% of our economy on the afghan war, and we have fewer than 60,000 people deployed.

If this is a war we want to win, then increase taxes to 90% on all income about $50K a year and randomly draft fifty million men and women between the ages of 18 and 65. Send the money and people to afghanistan for five years, and get this damned war done with.

Or, admit that this is just a forever war, and only America's WalMart class is being asked to pay the direct price.

+1 link tag

She has repressed her anger and is inappropriately redirecting it at a game.

I agree that we should have a discussion about the place of violent video games in our society, and my part of the discussion is "Mind your own business. The first amendment protects us from self-proclaimed arbiters of 'taste'."

Whether it is a grieving mother or a crazy ass disbarred Florida attorney, the answer is consistently the same.

The Larch: if we're supposed to give up our rights

You take your little games seriously.

DarthBrooks: In other news: Minesweeper to be deleted from Windows as it's an insult to IED casualties.

*snerk*

So let me get this straight... the young men who are fighting and dying, ostensibly to protect our freedom, no longer have the freedom themselves to purchase a legally produced product on base?"

Um, yeah... that makes sense. Something tells me that if this woman's son were still around and she tried this, he'd be correcting her right quickly.

Just chill.

GreenAdder: Come on, lady. There are so many better reasons for wanting EA to stop making games. That's the best you could come up with?

FFS, this.

AbbeySomeone Another case of my feelings are hurt so everyone should kiss my ass and accommodate me.
Ain't real life - suck it up and STFU.
DNRTFA

I'm glad you decided to grace us with your presence at this thread too in order to bestow some more timeless wisdom upon us. And you didn't disappoint!

U B funny

TomD9938: You take your little games seriously.

This woman takes "little games" seriously enough that she's successfully worked to ban some of them from sale in some retail channels, and she's hoping to remove some of them entirely from all retail channels.

If you don't think these "little games" matter, then you should write this woman a letter and tell her to STFU and worry about something that does matter.

Personally, I worry a little about our addiction to an endless war being permenantly fought by the American underclass. But, I worry a lot more about asshats like you who seem to think it's OK to temporarily suspend the Bill of Right for the duration of what is starting to look a lot like an endless excursion.

Likes long walks on the beach, going out for dinner, banning games, seeking compatible woman

Ship her to the front

Her son died six years ago? Shouldn't she be out trying to ban Counterstrike?

/TERRORISTS WIN

I find it highly amusing that someone would choose to unwind by playing a fictionalized virtual-reality version of THE SAME JOB THEY JUST PERFORMED WHILE WORKING.

A more important priority would be buying back the MLB rights and putting out another excellent "MVP" game.

/still bitter about that

At first I was all like, "fark MoH it's a crappy franchise anyway." But then I looked it up and found out on the official website that they've started working on BF3, so I was all like, "that's cool."

/farkin free advertising
//how does that work?

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: How about we keep the video games and stop sending 18 year olds off to die?

Normally I'd tell you to leave your stupid dirty hippie comments in your hole-ridden pickets, but you have a valid point there.

"Ken was killed by the accidental discharge of the unmanned M-240 machine gun on his tank." (new window)

The Larch: TomD9938: You take your little games seriously.

This woman takes "little games" seriously enough that she's successfully worked to ban some of them from sale in some retail channels, and she's hoping to remove some of them entirely from all retail channels.

If you don't think these "little games" matter, then you should write this woman a letter and tell her to STFU and worry about something that does matter.

Personally, I worry a little about our addiction to an endless war being permenantly fought by the American underclass. But, I worry a lot more about asshats like you who seem to think it's OK to temporarily suspend the Bill of Right for the duration of what is starting to look a lot like an endless excursion.

Fight The Power!!! (play video games) It's your constimatutional right man...

You and this woman are both twisted.

PeppaJack: How is this any different than a game involving Nazi's? Germany killed more of our soldiers than the Taliban and every other terrorist organization combined.

People don't seem to think much. It seems like most people just throw themselves into emotional reaction.

If people thought, they'd actually make sense, and we wouldn't have controversy after controversy without conclusion. Men want to fight because of reasons beyond video games. If not, why would these video games be so popular? I feel like everyone is looking for that Person To Blame, and that Person better not face them in the mirror. It seems to be the new American Way.

I sincerely want to know if there is any evidence that the Founding Fathers knew that shyster lawyers would high-jack the legal system to cry wolf over spilt coffee. How do you develop a fair way to deal with that? (open-ended, I am really curious).

Virtual reality is virtual, and the off button on the gaming console reminds us of that. You can't fix headstrong/stubborn/trigger-happy/dumb. It's not the video game's fault. Parents have to teach that the TV isn't real

/didn't read TFA
//am drunk as a something that guzzles beers without counting and then plays pong.

COD? Eh, whatever.

I'd care if a good/non-EA game was banned.

Way to besmirch your sons memory and sacrifice mom, worthless coont.

FTA: "As a military command with a retail mission, we serve a very unique customer base that has, or possibly will, witness combat in real life."

Retail Mission

I don't know about you, but if they ever bring back the draft...I want my mission to be the retail one

I call BS on this one. Heck, the US Army even has their own FPS, that being "America's Army". C'mon: Kids playing army simulation games? That's a recruiter's dream come true!

Hey "Mother".. you know who banned video games also?

WireFire2: You know what they say....any press is good press.

No, no, this is the BEST kind of press. It doesn't get any better than this. Controversy sells games, this has been proven time and time again.

A great example is Call of Duty. It has been a long running series, but was mostly undifferentiated WW2 games. They did well, well enough to fun sequels but they weren't the kind of thing that non-FPS gamers were going "Man, I gotta get me some of that." Then came Call of Duty 4. A really good game over all, but what really drove sales was the controversy. It features US Marines getting blown up by a nuke and your character crawling from wreckage while dying. That one scene did more to sell the game than anything else. The firestorm of controversy was more marketing than you could hope for. Not only did a ton of people hear about it, but they all wanted to see what was up.

When they released World at War, the next game back in WWII, it did ok but nobody really cared. Game was fine, just didn't make headlines. The next game, Modern Warfare 2 returned the controversy and thus got the headlines and sold a TON of copies.

Whenever retards get up in arms can call for something to be banned, they drive sales better than anything else. The reason is people say "Man, if they want it banned, it must be really extreme. I want to see what it is."

Micheal Moore's best salesmen are angry right wingers. His movies have really sucked since Roger and Me, very undifferentiated quality, not entertaining and very preachy. All in all, something that probably wouldn't have a real large audience, only seen mostly by True Lefty Believer(tm) types. However then a bunch of angry righty tards stir up a shiatstorm. People say "Well I'd better go see what all the fuss is about!" The movies do great. He couldn't hype them that well even if he had a massive budget to do it. His enemies are far better at marketing than anything else.

It is just how it works. If someone produces something you don't like the most effective measure you can take is to not talk about it at all. Don't mention it, don't refer to it, just ignore it. The more you try and hate on it, the more people will just have to see what the hell is so damn interesting as to generate all the hate.

sycraft: When they released World at War, the next game back in WWII, it did ok but nobody really cared. Game was fine, just didn't make headlines. The next game, Modern Warfare 2 returned the controversy and thus got the headlines and sold a TON of copies.

No, the problem is that Treyarch sucks at making games and Infinity Ward...um, sucks less.

Dear Mother,

Over the years the Medal of Honor franchise has seen numerous difficulties in the market. First we chased out some great developers who made the series notable, then we spent years running the franchise into the ground while losing market space to games such as Call of Duty and Halo. While we have tried to do many things in order to get people to pay attention to the franchise, despite our valiant efforts the demographic we aim for has chose to ignore the Medal of Honor games. Your current battle has seen our latest edition of the series smeared across most major news networks and has caused a lot of discussion about the content of the game, much like the vilified Grand Theft Auto series.

Our team at EA would just like to say thank you, you've done in a short time what our marketing department has been trying for years, namely to get people to actually realize that we still make Medal of Honor games (with the newest one being released in October 2010!). We are sorry for your loss but thankful for our gain.

Sincerly,

EA Games.

Can't we establish a national kitchen themed prison and federally mandated beatings for women like this. Sorry women but you get what I mean here right? I mean I am all for federally mandated cock punches for men that actually do the bidding of these c?nts.

I vote for cock punches and beatings of people who are trying to take our rights.

If someone produces something you don't like the most effective measure you can take is to not talk about it at all. Don't mention it, don't refer to it, just ignore it. The more you try and hate on it, the more people will just have to see what the hell is so damn interesting as to generate all the hate.

THIS

/Good or bad publicity is STILL publicity
//The same "ignore" strategy works incredibly well on nagging attention-whoring women too, at least a lot better than the "argument" strategy.

Brain: Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?

Pinky: Real life is like video games?

Brain:

"Meredith and her fellow military moms don't buy it, saying that by allowing participants to assume the role of Taliban and kill American soldiers like her son,"

I think the real question here is how did her son and other real american soldiers get trapped inside a video game?

Go drink some quickcrete lady.