[ALL] EA Pulls MOH 'Out of Rotation'

[Swarley]

EA Pulls Medal of Honor ‘Out of Rotation’
COO calls Warfighter an “obvious miss.”

EA has pulled Medal of Honor “out of the rotation.” During an earnings call for the third quarter of its 2013 fiscal year today, EA COO Peter Moore explained that the series encountered poor commercial and critical reception, leading to the decision.

“We are taking Medal of Honor out of the rotation,” Moore said, calling Medal of Honor Warfighter an “obvious miss.” Moore pointed to slow sales for the entire industry as well as “poor critical and commercial reception” for Warfighter as reasons for the series decline, calling reviews “lower than it deserved.”

“This one is behind us now,” Moore said. “We are taking Medal of Honor out of the rotation, and have a plan to bring year-over-year continuity to our shooter offerings.”

“Frankly, we missed on Medal of Honor,” added EA Labels president Frank Gibeau, "and we take responsibility for that.”

Medal of Honor Warfighter was released in October 2012 and received a 4.0 from IGN.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/30/ea-pulls-medal-of-honor-out-of-rotation

 

[IamMedellin]

not really surprising...

EA's marketing basically made the game look 2nd rate and aside from twigg, the best thing said about the game was that "It killed some time"...paraphrasing of course...

 

[Swarley]

Yeah I can't say I'm surprised either. The game felt rushed in my opinion. It's not doing EA any favors when Battlefield .5 is put out on the BF off years. My guess is Respawns new IP will take over on the off years of Battlfield. I for one would love to see Medal of Honor take a few years off and get back to their WW2 roots. Those games were a fucking blast on last-gen, and the WW2 genre hasn't been really touched in quite some time.

 

[MrBill]

The game was decent enough but it wasn't really offering anything that BF3 wasn't already delivering. It also lacked the arcade appeal of a COD shooter. Not good enough to be realistic and too good to be arcade.

 

[killgod]

EA always quotes "oh the poor industry".

No Peter Moore, your company has no fucking soul and is a giant corporate piece of shit that has zero interest in top quality video games.

 

[JayDizzle]

I liked some of the ideas they had for MP (mainly the reduced squads that still retained the Buddy-Spawn system) but it didn't feel like a complete game like Swarley had mentioned.

The plot of the SP kept me going for a little while because I enjoyed it from the first rebooted game... felt like any modern action flick featuring one-off characters but it just didn't go all the way when it came to the sub-plot of your guy having a family back home while you're out in the boonies killing 'insurgents,' etc.

There was no downtime after you played Super-Soldier; no expected PTSD, no remorse, etc.

A game like Spec Ops pulled off something like this perfectly yet a game steeped in honoring vets and sharing stories of what happens in "the shit" can't?

Especially if the missions are "based on true events"?

Then again, people buy shooters so they play hero, save the day and not live with the guilt of killing someone's father or brother that happen to be on the wrong side and on the wrong end of the player's gun.

As for the MP, I just couldn't bring myself to playing an all-nighter on it like I can with Battlefield or COD for the same previously stated reason.

It was fun and new for five minutes and then the maps felt too small and everyone figured out the best camping spots and killed that fun.

What's worse were the glitches that were too numerous to count, most of which infamously caused EA to stop all reviews from being posted from all the major video-journalism websites.

Felt like a nail in the coffin and the shit hadn't officially hit shelves yet.

Sucks that they won't make another one anytime soon so we get to eat cookie cutter BF sequels and other franchises that won't make the money EA wants (the new Army of Two is going to bomb and Dead Space 3 isn't going to hit the set benchmark by a country mile...).

 

[Slateman]

At least they're admitting it.

 

[PepperNY]

bring on Bad Company 3

 

[Swarley]

bring on Bad Company 3

I just pray that EA doesn't stick Danger Close on that and they stick with DICE. But yes, I really want Bad Company 3.

 

[JayDizzle]

Given the structure they had in the SP, I wouldn't mind them putting in some work on the Co-Op aspect... if EA puts it into BF4.

While I dug the mission set they had in BF3, I wanted more by the end of it and it wasn't just because I got to unlock new guns.

 

[Twigg4075]

bring on Bad Company 3

I thought MoH was solid and still don't know why it received so much vitriol and hate from the gaming media but it didn't really do anything groundbreaking either. I would love to see them bring back the Bad Company series.