Battlefield 5 is promoting stolen valor, and I refuse to play it because of it.
Alright. I know I will probably have this forum taken down due to it not being 'constructive', or not giving EA a standing ovation for their game. I simply want to point out a fact that has gone unnoticed. Battlefield 5 is, in its attempt to make a World War 2 setting more socially acceptable, promoting stolen valor. I have one major point to this claim. The Norwegian mission of Battlefields 5s mini-campaigns. Where a freedom fighter and her mother destroy an entire facility and undersea fleet of heavy water, which was originally being used in an attempt by the Germans to make a nuclear device. This story is false from the get go. It was not two women that took down an entire Nazi compound and fleet. It was the co-operation of Norwegian soldiers and British soldiers, through various bombings and attacks on the facility and fleet. Forty-one commandos were initially captured and killed during its first attempts. In the end, ten troops of mixed origin found a way to sneak into the facility via a ravine, destroying it and escaping despite approximately 3,000 Germans attempting to find and kill them before, during, and after the mission. In the end, the ten men were given the highest war honors, and became heroes. But still at the cost of the forty-one mentioned earlier. There was no rag-tag freedom fighter too big for her boots. There was no undercover mom. And the two didn't somehow escape the entire German deployment and take out the entire supply on their own. It was the effort of true soldiers. Who fought and died to stop a nuclear threat. But, I guess not having anyone of color, or anyone who is not a male is not good enough. In fact, I haven't seen anything saying that they were all straight, white males, either. So, because the truth wasn't enough of a shining tale of an underdog social construct rising against the oppressive norms, it was instead chosen that they would be replaced. Because looking good in front of a social movement is more important than respecting people who suffered and died for our safety. Its an attempt to piggyback off something you had no part in. Its stolen valor.
