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In Defense of Sony

Submitted by on April 30, 2007 – 3:13 pm4 Comments

Goat.jpgI am probably the last person who would defend Sony, but the outrage over the whole goat incident just reeks of overreaction. I know some people on this earth are way too sensitive to things related to death, and I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is all the people who cry and cry over a goat that was already dead. I am kind of saddened that Sony had to apologize for something that they shouldn’t have to apologize for. The display of a dead goat might have been in bad taste, but just because a small portion of the population (PETA) is oversensitive doesn’t make it wrong. Anyone at the event had the choice to walk out if they felt it necessary so I feel no sympathy for anyone who was offended. I know Sony had to apologize to keep up appearances, but it’s a shame to live at a time when people have nothing better to do then complain about non-issues.

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  • http://www.farbot.com/ Paul Munn

    Baaaah. Just kidding!

    Using dead animals to advertise games is pretty disgusting. This looks like a pattern to me. Someone in PR is really, REALLY subscribing to the idea that any publicity is good publicity. I think it’s time for that PR team to grow up and not do something so patently offensive as use an animal carcass to promote your game. It’s so bad even I wouldn’t click through to try and read more about it in disgust.

    You know what would have been better? Get a few cases of those big fake, baseball-sized, plastic squishy eyes — even just the stress ball ones like this:

    http://www.officeplayground.com/eyestressball.html

    … give them away at your event, and call them Cyclops eyes. Show the video of Kratos doing the kill sequence on a Cyclops by ripping out its eye (20 of them gets you armor to unlock, by the way), and you get your point across. You’re advertising the delicious cinematic violence of the game and you’re not creating a bloody goat mess that some poor guy’s going to have to wipe up later.

    But would stress ball eyes have gotten news? Nope. Does God of War II need any MORE promotion via stupid stunts like this? No, really, it doesn’t, it’s already selling a zillion copies because it’s an unbelievably fun, well-made, and compelling game. You don’t need to drag poor billy out of his pen to sell more copies.

  • James

    “Hey, my caviar smells like…goat carcass?”

    “Oh no, that’s just the goat carcass.”

    “Oh, my mistake! How silly of me, now pour me more bubbly!”

  • Richard (Aeropause)

    Oh I agree it was a stupid move considering their past PR blunders, but the whole thing was so overreacted upon. It’s just a paper trying to sell copies.

  • Frank

    I think you’re missing the point, and Sony is trying to play it off as saying well, we got it from a butcher and returned it, so it’s not that bad. Humans kill animals every day for consumption, that whole circle of life thing. The fact that they did this (doesn’t matter that the act was innitially performed at a butcher shop) for ENTERTAINMENT purposes to sell a few video games, that is what people are upset over.