Infinity Ward has managed to infuriate a number of communities between their lack of features and their insensitivity. They angered gamers by excluding the highly anticipated N0M4D feature, by excluding a colorblind option (which its predecessor, World at War, had) and by their ill conceived “Fight Against Grenade Spam” advertisement. Well it’s time to add another group to the list: Pakistanis.

The game features a map in the city of Karachi. To add authenticity to the map, Infinity Ward wrote the store signs in Arabic; and that’s the problem. Pakistan’s native language is not Arabic, rather English and Urdu. Both Arabic and Urdu use the same alphabet, but the words are different.

Kotaku reader Saad stated that “Infinity Ward probably thought, ‘Oh hey it’s a Muslim country so Arabic is the language.’” He went on to explain that, “To someone who doesn't know urdu won't be able to tell the difference. It's like Spanish and English. Some letters are same, some are different but the words are completely different.”

This is just another case of Infinity Ward’s insensitivity to their audience. If they were hiring someone to write the Arabic in the game, perhaps they could have just checked Wikipedia beforehand? Is that really too much to ask?

Via: Kotaku