Modern Warfare 2's Favela map removed for offensive religious imagery - Polidicks

[quote] Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer map Favela has been taken offline following complaints from Muslim players, who discovered offensive imagery contained within one of the map's rooms almost three years after the game's release. According to Kotaku, two paintings found in one of the map's bathrooms contained a quote attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, which reads: "Allah is beautiful and He loves beauty." The discovery of the text led to complaints from those of Islamic faith, to whom it can be seen as offensive to display holy teachings written in the bathroom. Activision later removed the map from the game's map rotation. The map won't reappear until the publisher can remove the offensive texture through a title update. "We apologize to anyone who found this image offensive," Activision told Kotaku. "Please be assured we were unaware of this issue and that there was no intent to offend. We are working as quickly as possible to remove this image and any other similar ones we may find from our various game libraries. "We are urgently working to release a Title Update to remove the texture from Modern Warfare 3. We are also working to remove the texture from Modern Warfare 2 through a separate Title Update. Until the TU is ready, we have removed the Favella multiplayer map from online rotation. "Activision and our development studios are respectful of diverse cultures and religious beliefs, and sensitive to concerns raised by its loyal game players. We thank our fans for bringing this to our attention." Activision has yet to provide an ETA for the title update. [/quote] Source: [URL="http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/cod_modern_warfare_2/news/modern_warfare_2s_favela_map_removed_for_offensive_religious_imagery.html"]Link[/URL] A screenshot of the offensive painting in question: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/kvIRi.png[/IMG]

are you serious here is the video in question: [video=youtube;4M6JIUn9bDU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M6JIUn9bDU&feature=player_embedded[/video]

Uhh...tweak the map instead??

What happened to growing a pair and ignoring things?

Really... The "Offensive" painting is a tree? :v:

Solid proof Call of duty is the worst game series ever!

[QUOTE=BaconMan_lol;37958532]Uhh...tweak the map instead??[/QUOTE] They took the map down, and sell the fixed version as DLC :v:

Don't give in like pussies, you stand strong that their points, while possibly valid, are total bollocks and they should fuck off. Doing this means they can get away with it again. [sub][sub]I also don't trust the validity of this.[/sub][/sub]

Let's just ignore the fact that this game is about shooting Arabs...

The game is like 3 years old

i cant believe people is THIS stupid

If I was activision I would make the frame 10 times worse

religious people throwing a fit and other people caving because religion gets a free pass on everything, what's new?

really? Are you fucking serious? that video actually prompted a change? I guess it doesn't take much effort to fix but still; what person is a) angry anough and b) sad enough to care about this? I know a lot of muslims, none of them are this fucking anal [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfA1jNiqoU[/media]

-Snip, I'm fucking Retarded-

[QUOTE=zakedodead;37958548]religious people throwing a fit and other people caving because religion gets a free pass on everything, what's new?[/QUOTE] it's an absolute travesty that people have to bend over backwards for religion not for any particular moral reason but simply because it's the easier option rather than letting them bitch

Or they could, you know, just take out the paintings altogether.

Oh god they actually acted on it. But why remove the fucking map, why not just remove the picture from above the toilet.

This is something so small, it took 3 fucking years to notice. And they took the map down over it.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;37958586]Oh god they actually acted on it. But why remove the fucking map, why not just remove the picture from above the toilet.[/QUOTE] They removed it until they remove the texture from the game.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;37958586]Oh god they actually acted on it. But why remove the fucking map, why not just remove the picture from above the toilet.[/QUOTE] They're going to tweak it in a title update, it's been removed til then.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;37958586]Oh god they actually acted on it. But why remove the fucking map, why not just remove the picture from above the toilet.[/QUOTE] They needed to make a patch to remove it, so in the meantime they removed it.

Hey well, at least they're responding proffesionally as a company. It's obvious they don't want any rif-raf, and that's good because neither do I Never mind the fact that Muslims are currently the over-expecting houseguests of the world

[QUOTE=usaokay;37958571]Muslims getting worked up over the littlest thing. Too shocking.[/QUOTE] those using it as an excuse for action in the developing world at least have an excuse; they're usually very angry impotent peoples in a great deal of turmoil so it makes sense they'd use religion as a reason; this is presumably just whiny manchildren capitalizing on the whole 'do whatever muslims want or we'll blow something up' image purported by the media

[QUOTE=Celestea;37958597]They needed to make a patch to remove it, so in the meantime they removed it.[/QUOTE] Who cares, just leave it there till the maps tweaked, I'm sure the idiots who complained can fucking wait, it's been there 3 fucking years for goodness sake.

Ray Bradbury got it right after all.

Hey, for shits and giggles, they should replace that painting with a picture of Jesus. That will piss off those Muslims even more! :v: *Edit* Well, actually probably not, considering the painting is in a dirty bathroom.

obviously shooting 100s of people in an airport wasn't offensive tho

DID THEY SERIOUSLY FUCKING REMOVE IT? What the FUCK?! When I saw the complaint video, I thought it was a fucking troll.

[IMG]http://u.cubeupload.com/riick/fuckyoumuslimbros.png[/IMG] Fixed it for my Muslim bro's. I have to admit, the tree was fucking offensive.