Too Soon?

Really, this is something people should just let go of.  I think, personally, if you are ever going to let something be "ok now" then that time should probably be immediately, even if it still hurts you or some other people that is not a feeling shared by all.

Konami are dumb.

If the game flops, gamers will be unhappy.
If the game sells well, they're accused of profiteering.

And also, I don't know why but something about your post made me really dislike what you were saying.

I'm not a callous person exactly, I do care about what happens to people in an over-arching way, but I see little point setting a mental time period where a bad event can only be seen a certain way.  History has shown us that every event, at some point, can be talked about in a different light.  Or even joked about.

I think the issue is rather that the game is based on a conflict or part of a conflict that is still ongoing. So people are still a little sensitive about it.

"I think the issue is rather that the game is based on a conflict or part of a conflict that is still ongoing. So people are still a little sensitive about it."

People rather have short term memory. It's been only 60 years since 20+million people perished in world wars, 2 atomic bombs were dropped, 100,000+ people died in a single day of firebombing, 15 years since 800,000+ died in a few months in Rwanda, etc. The soldiers there are dying and sacrificing their youth for your right to enjoy playing their likeness in video game setting, among other things related to freedom of expression. In another 15 years, we might have a major conflict and only if we would be so fortunate as to discuss it as fodder for mediocre video games. I agree with you that it is not how soon the subject of a particular war is portrayed in a videogame but in what manner it is rendered.

For some veterans, there will never be any closure. They lost their friends, youth, went through hell and back and nightmares defy time and space. They share an experience far deeper and far more profound than any mere videogame could even begin to touch upon. War based shooter games are pure action games with requisite boundaries of taste and should be regarded as such, and frankly I think they would not trouble the veterans who would fail to see the resemblance or relevance to what they have done.

what really tickles my nerve is how most people talking about these things almost always are talking about the respect for the soldiers...
if you join any army you should know what you are getting into
what about the fricking civilians that are the victims of the soldiers!!!!