Comments on: We Interrupt Your Scheduled WoW Post… http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:06:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: costumes http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/comment-page-1/#comment-2742 costumes Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:37:48 +0000 http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/#comment-2742 I am glad someone chose to finally clear things up on this. I have puzzled over it frequently. :) I am glad someone chose to finally clear things up on this. I have puzzled over it frequently. :)

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]]> By: Kirei http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1329 Kirei Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:07:56 +0000 http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/#comment-1329 I don't think EA thought this out fully. Obviously. They and others hire booth babes to wear provocative clothing and sell their product. I'm sure they are harassed without EA advertising it. Does it make it right? Of course not. But EA certainly didn't start it. Dante's Inferno is obviously being advertised to guys. Sex is a way to get some guys to pay attention, go figure. They'll be advertising the other sins that will get other guys to pay attention. It's unfortunate, but I don't think it should of caused the uproar it did. (I don't mean you specifically btw, this isn't the first time I've read of angry people at this.) .-= Kirei´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AGamerOfSorts/~3/IjaTOhsYpGg/6-most-talked-about-changes-in-32.html" rel="nofollow">The 6 Most Talked About Changes in 3.2</a> =-. I don’t think EA thought this out fully. Obviously. They and others hire booth babes to wear provocative clothing and sell their product. I’m sure they are harassed without EA advertising it. Does it make it right? Of course not. But EA certainly didn’t start it.

Dante’s Inferno is obviously being advertised to guys. Sex is a way to get some guys to pay attention, go figure. They’ll be advertising the other sins that will get other guys to pay attention. It’s unfortunate, but I don’t think it should of caused the uproar it did. (I don’t mean you specifically btw, this isn’t the first time I’ve read of angry people at this.)
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]]> By: General: A little bit of Lust, a whole lotta of Love. « A High Latency Life http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1328 General: A little bit of Lust, a whole lotta of Love. « A High Latency Life Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:42:07 +0000 http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/#comment-1328 [...] politically correct snafu. The blogosphere is no exception. Explaining it better then me is Destructive Reach, who is appalled at this, and Syp, who kind of says it’s not EA’s fault, but part of a [...] [...] politically correct snafu. The blogosphere is no exception. Explaining it better then me is Destructive Reach, who is appalled at this, and Syp, who kind of says it’s not EA’s fault, but part of a [...]

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]]> By: Sean http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1325 Sean Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:49:34 +0000 http://www.destructivereach.com/2009/07/we-interrupt-your-scheduled-wow-post/#comment-1325 Everything about this game, thus far at least, has been disgraceful. For one they are taking one of the last epic poems of the western world and turning what was a morality play into a bad God of War clone. Could they have hewed closer to the source material? Sure. How about an adventure game that has the player trying to piece together the stories of the victims of the various circles of hell? Perhaps you could get flashbacks of the individuals' lives triggered by artifacts in the environment, during which you might play out their last moments to figure out why they were doomed to the fate they find themselves in. Or continuing on in that vain, perhaps you could "save" people Minority Report style by figuring out and stopping whatever action they were to take that would have resulted in a mortal sin. The game aside, the marketing campaign has already upset quite a number of people. At E3 they stationed fake protesters outside the convention hall, calling for EA to stop production of the game because it promoted the devil, distorted Christianity, etc. No one knew for most of the week that these protesters weren't real Christian gamers upset about the game. Instead, in so far as people took the protesters seriously, they saw them as convenient caricatures of their idea of Christian fundamentalists. The current "lust" campaign is even worse and I agree with everything you've said. I only regret that its very ridiculousness has generated even more buzz around a game that should be forgotten before it is ever released. .-= Sean´s last blog ..<a href="http://grindingforpleasure.blogspot.com/2008/11/bring-out-your-dead.html" rel="nofollow">Bring Out Your Dead!</a> =-. Everything about this game, thus far at least, has been disgraceful.

For one they are taking one of the last epic poems of the western world and turning what was a morality play into a bad God of War clone. Could they have hewed closer to the source material? Sure. How about an adventure game that has the player trying to piece together the stories of the victims of the various circles of hell? Perhaps you could get flashbacks of the individuals’ lives triggered by artifacts in the environment, during which you might play out their last moments to figure out why they were doomed to the fate they find themselves in. Or continuing on in that vain, perhaps you could “save” people Minority Report style by figuring out and stopping whatever action they were to take that would have resulted in a mortal sin.

The game aside, the marketing campaign has already upset quite a number of people. At E3 they stationed fake protesters outside the convention hall, calling for EA to stop production of the game because it promoted the devil, distorted Christianity, etc. No one knew for most of the week that these protesters weren’t real Christian gamers upset about the game. Instead, in so far as people took the protesters seriously, they saw them as convenient caricatures of their idea of Christian fundamentalists.

The current “lust” campaign is even worse and I agree with everything you’ve said. I only regret that its very ridiculousness has generated even more buzz around a game that should be forgotten before it is ever released.
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