Post by Gale Dancer Kuro Serpentina on Jan 25, 2013 13:15:09 GMT -5
Recently the whole Dead Island Riptide controversie has been flaring up, with its promotional statue of a female torso that has had the rest of it eaten off & its breasts left alone.
The Developers got a lot of heat for it, but I just rolled my eyes at it
Why?
Because they want me to get angry.
Let me clarify, I'm as discusted by it as most, the only thing is this: I know its what they want.
Let me bring to your attention, the Dante's Inferno promotion, where they had people picket outside their offices with religious messages on their signs.
The publishers who are doing this, if they have at least one brain cell, know what their doing with stuff like this is discusting and wrong and that is exactly why they do it.
For them, any press is good press, even when their being called monsters.
And they know this, they've pulled it all before, plenty of times
Also, let me pull your attention to where the statue for riptide is being released: Australia (Who are very PC when it comes to games, only recently inventing an 18 rating) & Europe. The two largest markets who would be the easiest to offend from this.
I've seen it all before & here's some advice for everyone into gaming & journalism:
If a game has an ad compeign that could be seen as offensive, its most likely on purpose to grab attention, in the same way a child draws on the wall, when it know its shouldn't, to get your attention.
And if it truely offends you, don't talk about it, don't spread the news of it. The rage it'll generate is what they want and it will only give them more reason to do it.
You want game publishers to grow up & stop doing this?
Ignore what thei doing & they'll eventually stop.
The Developers got a lot of heat for it, but I just rolled my eyes at it
Why?
Because they want me to get angry.
Let me clarify, I'm as discusted by it as most, the only thing is this: I know its what they want.
Let me bring to your attention, the Dante's Inferno promotion, where they had people picket outside their offices with religious messages on their signs.
The publishers who are doing this, if they have at least one brain cell, know what their doing with stuff like this is discusting and wrong and that is exactly why they do it.
For them, any press is good press, even when their being called monsters.
And they know this, they've pulled it all before, plenty of times
Also, let me pull your attention to where the statue for riptide is being released: Australia (Who are very PC when it comes to games, only recently inventing an 18 rating) & Europe. The two largest markets who would be the easiest to offend from this.
I've seen it all before & here's some advice for everyone into gaming & journalism:
If a game has an ad compeign that could be seen as offensive, its most likely on purpose to grab attention, in the same way a child draws on the wall, when it know its shouldn't, to get your attention.
And if it truely offends you, don't talk about it, don't spread the news of it. The rage it'll generate is what they want and it will only give them more reason to do it.
You want game publishers to grow up & stop doing this?
Ignore what thei doing & they'll eventually stop.
