It looks like EA's prepared to cast the Medal of Honor franchise back to the archive bin if the latest rendition in the franchise isn't a huge success.
Apparently the game's exec producer Greg Goodrich told the NY Times (via GI.biz) back in June that if the game doesn't sell three million copies, "I'm not going to be able to do another one."
EA's game's certainly been given plenty of hype in recent weeks, if not entirely for the right reasons. The controversial option that enables you to play as a Taliban soldier in the multiplayer mode has earned the game a few critics, with a UK MP labeling it "tasteless", and the US military banning its sale in on-base GameStop stores.
Whether justified or a big fuss over nothing, it certainly seems like crunch time for the series, which is will face off in the Christmas rush against Bungie's Halo Reach (woo!) and Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops.
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Atinetro on 12 Sep '10 said:
Looks like no Medal of Honor sequel then!
JammyJames on 12 Sep '10 said:
Nuff said...........close thread
metallicorphan on 12 Sep '10 said:
meh,it will p**s 3 million sales
Battlefield Bad Company 2 sold 2.3 million in 2 weeks
although Medal of Honor isn't as popular as Call of duty,Modern warfare 2 has sold 20 million,there is certainly some of the same crowd who will buy MoH
The_KFD_Case on 13 Sep '10 said:
Interesting. At present I'm leaning towards purchasing "MoH" yet it depends very much on what sort of DRM crap it ships with. I'm not interested in the console version, so it's the PC version without crippling and useless DRM or not at all.
pRM8 on 13 Sep '10 said:
I have it on pre-order and I hope it does do well, if only to give CoD and other shooters a run for their money so maybe some inovation can be pumped back into the genre instead of the same-old with a new shiny skin. Healthy competition and all that.
Im hoping MoH isnt the same s**t just re-packaged, I really am.
ted1138 on 13 Sep '10 said:
I've it bought and paid for on Steam, just waiting to download it next month.
But then I'm a MoH fan who's played all the previous games(the good, the bad and the ugly).
I'd like this to do well, just to keep the franchise going, but kicking it out the door between Halo and COD? What the hell were EA thinking?
zombiesinmyhead on 13 Sep '10 said:
Meh, don't bother with this poop, just play Call of Duty 4 again. I'm playing it on veteran at the mo, and the ghillie level is just one of the best video game levels ever. It really is a rare and beautiful thing.
PENGALENG on 13 Sep '10 said:
im getting it im a moh fan and a fps fan.
zombie i forgot all about that ghillie level, i remember at the time saying it was the best level id ever played, after xmas and the novalty of all these new games have worn off i think il play through cod4 again.
The Bossman on 13 Sep '10 said:
I'm getting this and BO, I suspect MOH will take up more of my time. I'm a long time MOH fan, I have MOH1, Underground, Frontline, Rising Sun, European Assault and Vanguard, and now MOH on PS3 when my LE comes in October. That's the thing with FPS games, you can buy 2 at the same time and it's no problem, but buy 2 football games, PES and FIFA, and it's sort of a bit pointless, unless you get them really cheap.
KMakawa on 13 Sep '10 said:
They will easily surpass 3 million, enough awareness has been created for this game.
Like others had said, Bad Company 2 got around 2.8 million in 2 weeks of sales, and that was from creating a few videos online about the game, and offering the limited edition conversion thing.
Medal of Honor is repeating that, and then some.
Medal of Honor needs to stay and return fully, as call of duty is in havoc, its primetime for the other shooters.
MattyR95 on 23 Sep '10 said:
WTF, they conceded they wont beat cod this year which means more people will probably buy cod, so they aren't going to get those sales which means moh is dead.
andym on 23 Sep '10 said:
For any publisher/ developer to say they would beat COD would just be an obvious lie. Isn't MW2 the best selling game of all time now? Would anyone believe them if any company said they could outsell COD this year?
Its just being realistic.