EA admits that Medal of Honor: Warfighter disappointed

Sales failed to meet expectations for the newest EA shooter. EA CEO John Riccitiello acknowledged that the game simply came in below expectations. This comes shortly after Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz said that the newest Medal of Honor was "likely to be a major disappointment."

[Sinner101GR]

They knew that before going in.

[StanLee]

They did. The didn't send review copies to game journalists before the game's release because of this.

[Blacktric]

That's what you do when your stock dips below 12$ while you claim to have a stellar year and keep hyping the aborted fetus that was The Old Republic.

[guitarded77]

Well, the article says they were disappointed with the sales, and felt it was a good game. They thought the poor reviews were wrong. Just making sure we don't get a different interpretation of what was actually said.

[Cam977]

What I don't get is why did they release it then? It becomes clear that they're money wh*res when a few days after release, they admit the game sucks.

[Tikicobra]

Because it's not about quality, it's about money. When has a publisher like EA ever tried to hype up a big release, and then right before launch say "meh, this isn't very good, let's not release it."?

[Hufandpuf]

Imagine pre-ording a game, then the company says, "Oh, we have to release it later then promised". That just doesn't fly.

[SideShort]

Are we even reading the same article? they never admitted their games sucks, they said the exact opposite. The disappointment was the critical reception.

[brich233]

Danger close will not be making another medal of honor i bet.

[DeadlyFire]

Well considering Danger Close is pretty much just EA-LA then its likely they will keep going.

I see some of DICE spill over into this game's development. I think EA is trying to spread its development to thin for small development windows of games and its hurting them.

Give the games 2 year dev cycles at minimum and I don't see a problem.

[humbleopinion]

The game did get a 2 year development window, and most of EALA studio is actually rebranded as a bioware studios working on C&C.

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

***"They knew that before going in."***

Hence the reason reason for all the hype EA was building for it in order to get people to by into the hype.

I didn't fall for it this time after BF3.

[Son_Lee]

Cut your losses and get cracking on Mirror's Edge 2 already!

[vortis]

I love Mirror's Edge. I sometimes just boot it up just to look at it. It's an architecturally beautiful game that relishes in a unique modernist, sterile aesthetic that just makes it a visual wonder to behold.

However, I have to disagree with you. I don't want EA forcing DICE to churn out Mirror's Edge 2 with "bloated costs" and obscene marketing tactics.

I'd rather DICE break away from EA, head to Kickstarter, use some of their own capital they raised while at EA and get some extra funding from the crowd to make a right proper Mirror's Edge 2...none of that corporate BS and focus group testing that will see the game with a horrible deathmatch mode, microtransactions from here to the moon, day-1 DLC, on-disc DLC, monthly subscriptions and all that other bullcrap publishers have been pulling.

I guess what I'm saying is, I don't want them to taint Mirror's Edge 2 with their turd-covered greed hands.

[Jinkies]

*Sigh*

EA will you just drop this rivalry with Activision's COD, it's not working out for you because the majority of people who buy COD are just people who play on it to be part of a crowd, for most of them it's the only game they probably buy. It's better when you guys stuck to making games for the audiences you already had. People wanted Bad Company 3 instead your given them Battlefield 4, people wanted a true survival horror Dead Space 3, your giving us a Gears of War/Lost Planet hybrid with RE5/RE6 elements despite knowing it's what turned Survival horror gamers the main audience of that franchise off Resident Evil, people wanted to see the Bioware they fell in love with instead you guys turn them into crap and force the two founders to leave and lets not forget despite having a promising future for improvment to reboot Medal of Honour and making it the best game you can you rushed and CODified it.

Honestly there was a time a while ago where you thought EA was turning over a new leaf then suddenly they just decline in quality even more. I still can't forgive them for what they've done to Dead Space.

[LOGICWINS]

Even though EA's been responsible for bastardizing certain franchises, I still have faith in them as far as fight sports go. The next EA MMA game has all the makings to be something truly special.

[Jinkies]

I'm not disagreeing with you (like literaly) but you can't really go wrong with sports games, they are basicaly the same games every year with updated teams and players with naturaly improved graphics.

If EA did mess up with their sport franchises then they would have really lost the plot in my opinion

[Cam977]

MOH should've stayed in WWII IMO.

[DOMination-]

When world at war came out people moaned that it was another ww2 game. Im not disagreeing with you but its funny how a few years on people want to go back.

The same thing with resident evil.. People moaned it was getting stale. Capcom changed it up on re4. Now probably those sane people are moaning that they should go back to their roots. Developers can't win.

[ironfist92]

Dont forget not giving us Mirrors Edge sequel

[MGRogue2017]

So they're planning on fixing this broken & buggy-ass game with patches/updates? well.. that's good news, I guess. The moment I started playing MoH: Warfighter's online MP, It felt exactly like BF3 in it's Alpha stage lol. I simply cannot enjoy it in it's current state due to continuously falling through the map upon re-spawning, being able to get out of the maps without any exploits at all & all kinds of weird sh*t. It really does play like a BETA.

So yes, sort it out EA. ASAP. otherwise this POS is going back to the shop where I will put the credit towards BF4 & in the mean time while you attempt to fix this so-called 'retail game', I'll be playing BF3 & BO2! You should be glad that I'm even willing to keep this POS! on my shelf, collecting dust. Very disappointed in this game ever since I received it on release.. Think I should have bought something like Ghost Recon Future Soldier instead tbh. :/

[SideShort]

Bro, you just have one f*cked up copy. I couldn't get my game to glitch that bad without throwing the console first.

[USMC_POLICE]

Well they put the beta out too late and it was only on 360. It should have been out early summer and on all systems

[Soldierone]

Next time make a good game that raises the bar and it won't happen. Or we taking the sleezbag route and blaming pirates still?

[GreenRanger]

I liked MOH on the PS1, long before it tried to be COD.
These days, if you play COD and don't like it, you don't even have to try the rest of the military shooters; they're all the same game.

[Pillsbury1]

Remember when the red ranger wore you're gold shield?

[GreenRanger]

I don't know which looked worse; the Red Ranger with the shield or the Green Ranger without it

[FragMnTagM]

Remember when grammar mattered and people knew the difference between your and you're?

[Pillsbury1]

@fragmntagm it's auto corrects fault not myne kno whut I'm saiyin?

[Outside_ofthe_Box]

***"These days, if you play COD and don't like it, you don't even have to try the rest of the military shooters; they're all the same game."***

Forget military games, shooters in general. There's only a handful of shooters this gen that doesn't have some CoD influence in them.

[vortis]

This.

I can't believe some idiot disagreed with you.

Did you not play Syndicate? It was COD in future-land.

How about Bodycount? It was COD in crappy future-land.

How about Operation Flashpoint Red River? It was COD in a China-land.

What about Medal of Honor: Warfighter? It was just COD except the 'C' was replaced with an 'M', the 'O' stayed the same and the 'D' was switched up with an 'H'.

Borderlands 2 managed to find itself its own niche but everything else (with the exception of Bulletstorm) has basically been a COD ripoff. Proximity-spawning idiot AI, fast-as-lightning gunplay, generic weapon handling, generic grayish-brownish environments, some evil Arab dude trying to blow up our freedom, even in space or in the future, doesn't even make sense. And lame-arse multiplayer to top it off where you're running around as fast as a BMW mowing people down like a Honda steel deck gas mower.

[sovietsoldier]

they knew it was crap and now so does the world.

[Ducky]

They said the same thing about MoH 2010 as well.

[Tzuno]

Where's Fifa 2014?

[USMC_POLICE]

I loved it multiplayer needs patching i prefer its sp over cod

[urwifeminder]

Put in 24 hrs online so far im happy traded 18 console games got pc version , some cash on farcry 3 pc as well seems my console days are almost behind me.

[Braid]

Yeah I agree. I agree that it's a big disappointment in terms of the so-called review authorities indeed, as, to be perfectly clear, it's no worse than any Call of Duty Modern Warfare game, if not better. There are some downsides for sure, but they are NOT particularly visible in this game, you can see them in EVERY military shooter out there but hey, I guess good PR and advertisement can make almost everything disappear like a magician, that's why you'll probably see no mention of those flaws in the reviews of the upcoming COD title.

Warfighter is the perfect candidate to be "the most underrated game ever". It has a campaign similar to Battlefield 3, story's not perfect but good enough to keep you going, side actions like driving literally kick arse, and it plays a lot better than any COD game as guns kick back when you fire them, making the game a difficult and more challenging experience. Plus, you're as good as dead if you don't prone or crouch too often, or don't use the cover system unlike the other game where you're a friggin Terminator. Graphics are other worldy if you have the right PC configuration, even better than BF3, and it has a good set of characters like Mother, Voodoo, Preacher etc. So what else would you expect from such a game? The person who buys the game knows EXACTLY what he's going to get, what is the big disappointment you keep talking about?

You know what, you're missing A LOT by jumping on the hate wagon, you can insult the game all you want all day long but this time you should know that the joke's absolutely on you. You may not like military shooters and that's perfectly fine, but double standarts, that I can't take.

[vortis]

The people hating on MOH also are hating on COD.

I hope reviewers tear COD a new one and don't cut it any slack.

I'm tired of reviewers who are paid in Doritos and Mt. Dew cutting COD slack.

Reviewers were dead-on with MOH and they need to rail on COD for the annual rehash that it is.

[Npugz7]

Danger close are in Danger!

[jayman1]

These people who say the game is awful are idiots. Have you actually sat down and played the game. Probably not because Medal of Honor Warfighter is an awesome game. I have it and the game is great. The reviews usually are about the story and not the multiplayer. The multiplayer is awesome on this game. There are bugs and some glitches and the mics are a pain in the @ss. Otherwise the multiplayer sets itself apart from other shooters. The mics are really not needed. Its just you and your buddy teamed up to take on the enemy and it is quite refreshing and fun to play. I give this game 4 out 5 for the multiplayer experience alone!