Weak.

I am actually glad for seeing it removed. This is one topic that is still a bit too touchy this day and age. I am sure 20 years from now this will not be an issue, but for now I agree with this type of thing just being left alone. 
 
PS: I read a comment from this story from a different news site earlier today and nearly lost my shit. Someone had the nerve to say that the soldiers of the US army are too sensitive and are a bunch of pansies. Kid needs to be slapped upside the head.

" I am actually glad for seeing it removed. This is one topic that is still a bit too touchy this day and age. I am sure 20 years from now this will not be an issue, but for now I agree with this type of thing just being left alone.  PS: I read a comment from this story from a different news site earlier today and nearly lost my shit. Someone had the nerve to say that the soldiers of the US army are too sensitive and are a bunch of pansies. Kid needs to be slapped upside the head. "

" I am actually glad for seeing it removed. This is one topic that is still a bit too touchy this day and age. I am sure 20 years from now this will not be an issue, but for now I agree with this type of thing just being left alone.  PS: I read a comment from this story from a different news site earlier today and nearly lost my shit. Someone had the nerve to say that the soldiers of the US army are too sensitive and are a bunch of pansies. Kid needs to be slapped upside the head. "

This is so lame.  I hate how society has forced these guys to change this.  In 10 years it will be okay to include the Taliban, but nooooo not right now.  

because me shooting American's as spetsnas is sooo much different

PUSSYS!!!

Fox News still  isn't satisfied.

Eh, I could see why people would be offended or off-put from the name, especially if the Taliban are more than just flash game target practice to them.  It's too soon for a lot of these people. 

lol

The Taliban sucks ass anyway

Pussies

Well this is stupid.

ah Americans and the way you amuse the world with your PC bullshit. George Carlin would have a lot to say about this.

" ah Americans and the way you amuse the world with your PC bullshit. George Carlin would have a lot to say about this. "

" Adrian Shepherd will have something to say about this. "

Remember, folks - freedom of speech isn't violated unless the government does it.  Potential customers or the media?  That's all fair game.

How silly of you, EA.

" @baconbits33:  Wait hold the phone, when did I ever say I had any sympathy for the Taliban? All I said was that I'm tired of having them represented as one-dimensionally in any kind of media. Also, it's fucking "you're" as in - "you are", not "your" as in a possessive. "

" @baconbits33:  Wait hold the phone, when did I ever say I had any sympathy for the Taliban? All I said was that I'm tired of having them represented as one-dimensionally in any kind of media. Also, it's fucking "you're" as in - "you are", not "your" as in a possessive. "

Hooray!  Show the mainstream media that they can bully the game industry into doing what they want!

crack under pressure, another reason to dislike EA :/

I don't have particularly strong feelings about it.  I would like a more descriptive name than the extremely vague "opposing force", but I'm unlikely to ever actually play.  When I do play games, I like a name I can pin on the enemies, even if it is a completely fictional name.

The Taliban, if I remember right, were a significant but not the only opponents in the United States' recent wars.  We never seemed to shy away from shooting Nazis, but maybe the issue is that we rarely get to play as the Nazis.

I don't think EA is likely to care what their customers think; they seem to care more about their image to the public than their player base.

Far be it for a video game to be allowed to be on equal footing with every other media. OH NO, THINK OF THE CHILDREN! Its all well and good books, TV and movies can tackle any subject with emotional maturity but heavens forbid you try to do it with video games..cause only kids play video games, right?

It's okay to live in a country invading another country, but HELL NO we can't have virtual depiction of the conflict!

So Giant Bomb crew is now boycotting MOH. All those shaved beards. Explains everything!

Name one positive effect the Taliban had on Afghanistan. One. And if you can make a case, I'll mail you a $5. "

Not to sound like a dick, but it seems like a creative copout. Changing the name alone isn't going to dissipate the idea that the "opposing force" is the Taliban.

I'm just glad its still coming out after all this BS.
 
I couldn't give a crap about the multiplayer I just want to play a good FPS SP campaign which hasn't been an option since COD4.

It'd be funny if the panties-in-bunchers settle down all thanks to a name change. Funny in a really sad way.

Blagh. 
 
People need to get over it. If they want to talk about abuse of free speech, they can take it up with the Michigan State Attorney who's publicly harassing a gay student council member at the U of Michigan (CNN video here). Or all the videos of animal cruelty floating around the web (pet maltreatment, etc.).
 
Now those are misuses of free speech. Including the Taliban in a video game, when the game is meant to be based on real life and reflect the real stories of soldiers, is not a misuse. If harassment of fellow citizens and animal cruelty are protected speech, so is shooting terrorists.

Great.  That was the only thing about the game that had me even remotely interested.  And I already didn't really care.  Now I'm just totally apathetic towards anything this game has to offer.

Oh so you mean they're the OpFor eh?

Bah - you can't justify what the Taliban have done to the Afghan people. Yes they aren't demons, no one is a demon - the Taliban are made up of people. They're just very bad people. Go read a list of what the Taliban banned when they controlled the majority of Afghanistan (they never controlled all of it) - they banned music, they banned kites, they banned plastic bags, they banned women's education, they banned all other religions, they banned and they banned and they banned. Most Afghans HATED the Taliban, and the Taliban weren't even Afghan! They were originally from Pakistan, and most of the Taliban leaders are not native Afghan people.   
 
Yes they aren't demons. They're just evil people who are fighting for a medieval patriarchal society in which women have no rights at all. Say what you will about the West, Anwar, but we allow our girls to go to school. The Taliban didn't. We allow women to divorce their husbands and retain property. The Taliban didn't. We allow people to listen to MUSIC. The Taliban didn't. We allow gay people to live. The Taliban didn't.
 
Renaming the Taliban to "Opposing Force"?  I don't like it either by the way. 

"Opposing Force"? Has anyone made a Half-Life joke yet?

I kind of thought the way that AA handled it was rather clever where you were always playing as the Army in multiplayer.

I have to say that this saddens me but it doesn't shock me. At the end of the day EA is a major entertainment company and will do whatever is necessary to ensure that they make the most money off of their products. Part of that is avoiding bad publicity that can affect sales and having your game paraded on Fox News as being anti-American isn't conducive to that. Pushing free speech is the realm of the little man or a product that thrives on being controversial (South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, etc.). It's sad but true.
 
The only thing about this that makes me scratch my head is that in the multiplayer you're still going to have a force who is killing US soldiers (who are other players) in real world Afghanistan locations. So, they are going to be the Taliban (or one of the many other militias) in everything but name. To paraphrase a famous quote "A rose by any other name is still a rose."

Well, a name is only a name. Sad to see EA buckle under the pressure.

That is really fucking stupid/ Kinda saw this coming, though.

Should of just pulled through with it, instead of giving in like they did. For the sake of their own dignity. They going to call the multiplayer characters in GTA games ''misguided offenders'' next?

A write up on the Taliban from before the WTC attacks.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/144382.stm

that did it. i'm canceling my pre-order.
 
 
im not joking