Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 launched across Australia last week, and many snapped it up following foreign praise and the expected presence of 32-player online functionality.
The Australian version of the World War II-based shooter has been, however, stripped of online multiplayer despite EA touting the feature heavily throughout its marketing material, website, and even the game’s included instruction manual.
Confirming the issue, EA spokesman Cameron Jenkins said, “Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 for Wii does not support online functionality in Australia. We’ve made an error in the documentation and marketing materials. We’re very sorry to have caused confusion for our customers and we will provide a refund to anyone in Australia who wishes to return the game to EA because of the lack of online functionality.”
No explanation for the lack of the feature was provided, although it’s assumed that latency issues would require EA to maintain local servers – something the company may have decided against.
Moral: Maybe think twice before picking up your copy, but by no means should it be avoided.
Source: Aussie-Nintendo
FAIL.
Yea, this is really lame.
EA, they hate gamers.
I bought MH Frontline on PS2… wasnt impressed, returned it to game within 72 hours, but then again Frontline was the 1st of the bunch,.. maybe they have improved!