{"id":46702,"date":"2012-10-31T09:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46702"},"modified":"2012-10-31T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T07:27:13","slug":"ea-not-happy-with-medal-of-honor-warfighter-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46702-ea-not-happy-with-medal-of-honor-warfighter-reviews","title":{"rendered":"EA &#8220;not happy&#8221; with Medal of Honor: Warfighter reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA&#8217;s latest man-shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter hasn&#8217;t exactly been a big hit with the people playing it, but the publisher remains convinced that the people playing it are just <em>wrong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur internal assessment and mock review indicate the game is better than the scores,\u201d EA boss Frank Gibeau said in an investor call yesterday, adding that &#8220;While we&#8217;re disappointed in the critical response, we believe this is a good game. We are not happy with how Warfighter has been received.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gibeau also admitted that sales of the game were &#8220;weaker than expected&#8221;, and likely to affect the company&#8217;s third-quarter cash balance. Despite this, he&#8217;s optimistic that Warfighter is a &#8220;good game with a receptive audience&#8221;, and that EA would continue to support the game in the future with DLC. So no shocks and awe there.<\/p>\n<h5>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2012-10-30-ea-admits-that-medal-of-honor-warfighter-disappointed\" target=\"_blank\">GamesIndustry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2012\/10\/30\/ea-q2-fifa-sells-7-4-million-warfighter-below-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46473-mweb-sa-medal-of-honor-warfighter-servers-deployed.html\">Mweb SA Medal of Honor Warfighter servers deployed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/46433-medal-of-honor-warfighter-military-grade-mediocrity.html\">Medal of Honor Warfighter: military-grade mediocrity?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46280-medal-of-honor-warfighter-will-be-a-major-disappointment.html\">Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be \u201ca major disappointment\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/45927-medal-of-honor-warfighter-multiplayer-screenshots.html\">Medal of Honor Warfighter multiplayer screenshots<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We believe this is a good game&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":41142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,175,813,2717,2470],"class_list":["post-46702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-frank-gibeau","tag-medal-of-honor-warfighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}