{"id":8004,"date":"2010-10-13T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"disappointing-medal-of-honor-reviews-cause-ea-shares-to-drop-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8004-disappointing-medal-of-honor-reviews-cause-ea-shares-to-drop-6","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Disappointing&quot; Medal of Honor reviews cause EA shares to drop 6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to industry analyst Michael Pachter, EA shares dropped 6% yesterday as a result of investors being disappointed with early Medal of Honor reviews.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game is sitting on 75% on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamerankings<\/a>, and 74% on Metacritic. Sadly, in games journalism anything below 85% on a AAA game is perceived as a failure. Medal of Honor&#8217;s two biggest competitors received much higher review averages, with Halo: Reach sitting on 91.79% on Gamerankings, and Modern Warfare 2 having settled around the 93% mark on different platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Medal of Honor&#8217; reviews are not looking good,&#8221; said Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey. &#8220;This can dampen future catalog sales as word of mouth dampens consumer enthusiasm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Medal of Honor is being released locally on Friday, and we expect to have our own review in next week.<\/p>\n<p>However, early indications are that the game will not reach the critical heights achieved by market leaders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA hurting slightly following lukewarm critical reception<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}