EA benching Medal of Honor, still has plans for "year-over-year" shooter continuity
"... combat authenticity did not resonate with consumers."
It's a sad day for first-person-shooters, as during EA's quarterly/yearly financial conference call today the company revealed they will be side-lining the Medal of Honor franchise. Citing "poor critical and commercial reception" COO Peter Moore said that the company still has plans for yearly shooters, but for the interim they do not involve Medal of Honor. This is all your fault, Warfighter, but I guess journalists should take the blame too for not giving high enough review scores.
Noting that Medal of Honor: Warfighter had substantial negative impact on profits for fiscal year 2012, Moore said the following:
"This one is behind us now. We are taking Medal of Honor out of the rotation, and have a plan to bring year-over-year continuity to our shooter offerings."
Specifically, Peter Moore has two specific beliefs as to why Medal of Honor didn't have the results that EA was respecting:
"Medal of Honor was an obvious miss. The game was solid, but the focus on combat authenticity did not resonate with consumers."
"Critics were polarized and gave the game scores which were, frankly, lower than it deserved."
Obviously, these simple and succinct ideas behind the game's poor fiscal results and not any sort of analysis into the actual game's and cons. Obviously there's more to the story than meets the eye, but it's still interesting to get EA's perspective on the matter.
From a personal standpoint, I can't help but be... yeah, I'll say disappointed in the situation. As a huge fan of early Medal of Honor titles, from the PlayStation onward, and as a competitive Medal of Honor: Allied Assault player for a brief time, I hate to see what the franchise became. I hate even more that it's being set aside instead of given the opportunity to return to its roots. I could write a book on what the Medal of Honor franchise was built on. Maybe some other time.
Still, it's also exciting to think about what EA may have planned next. Will they keep trying to topple Call of Duty: Modern Warfare? Will they go fantasy and try and steal Halo's thunder? Obviously, after Medal of Honor's failure it's hard to see the company take any substantial risk, but we can always hope.
Source: Polygon
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I'm getting really *bleep*ing sick of these travellogue games which are simply "look these are SF they can go anywhere". There are far more interesting things that actually happen in military life without the need to go globetrotting. Operations like Rahim Kalay in Afghanistan, or the al Faw peninsula raid were pretty intense and lairy fights without the need for "save the world nonsensical bollocks"
People who migrate from CoD to more "realistic scenarios" soon hop on from MoH, and BF3 and go to Arma and Project Reality, because they are utter bollocks, as far removed from MilSims as the Sims is from Real Life. The fact that they give a reason as retarded as they show how utterly removed they are from the gamers, and instead cater to imagined plebs.
They make some great fps games. I agree, Medal of Honor didn't have much appeal. As long as they don't make a million Battlefield sequels and spin-offs in a year, I'm happy with EA.
Eh. Not like it get many EA games these days anyway, with them locking it all to Origin and going DLC/preorder-bonus crazy.