daroamer said:
This just in! Businesses and Microsoft partners caught developing software for a Microsoft product! News at 11! I heard from a friend of mine who works in the industry that some of the people who develop PS3 games like Uncharted are actually PAID Sony employees. Scary but true. |
I'm very surprised that you wouldn't find anything wrong with this. I expect good dialogue from you and logical arguments, but this is far from one of them.
There is a very distinct difference between releasing code as part of a product's extended capability, and pretending that you're a large group of end-users who are very interested in the product.
This would be like if any of the big companies released piracy hacks for their own system and then bricked all the hacked ones after a couple months.
This would be like if any of the companies sold their own products to themselves (ie: say everyone gets a ps3 if you work for Sony, except that they don't give you one, they just pay you back when you buy one from a store)
I would be appalled if I found out Sony did stuff like this. And, well, I am. Sony did this with the PSP. They did a viral campaign where they hired graffiti artists to graffiti the side of buildings, signs, etc to make it look like PSP was the underground cool hip peripheral that cool people have. I was really upset by that. It's the main reason why I do not own a psp despite having valkyrie profile (which is one of my top 5 of all time).
So yeah. I think there is a problem when you present your product in such a way that you make it look like its a trend buy having your own employees go around pretending to be end-users.
Forums online have major issues with any of the company's employees being members and either a) trolling other consoles or b) misrepresenting themselves. People have been called out on it before. I remember a specific one on neogaf where someone who was trolling the ps3 was outed by a mod as a microsoft employee.
