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Avinash_Tyagi on 29 April 2007
Kwaad said:

1st. It is greek food. *greek* they dont do stuff like we do today. Not modern greek. We are talking about historic Greek Food. ya'know. The kind of food they ate when they worshiped Zeus. Not God, well before Jesus.

2nd. It's Food. If that is animal cruelty, so is eating a cow... or a goat... or a chicken... or a fish.

3rd. This is F*king awosome. I wish I had been there. That was a party for children, The ones who LOVE God of War... Yup That it was. A party for children! 


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And i'm vegeterian so I can say that this is sick without any hypocrisy, Sony has a bunch of morons working for them



 

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jman8 on 29 April 2007

Is anyone here from the UK? I heard Dailymail is one of those tabloids that posts basically fake news and crap.



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Kwaad on 29 April 2007
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Kwaad said:

1st. It is greek food. *greek* they dont do stuff like we do today. Not modern greek. We are talking about historic Greek Food. ya'know. The kind of food they ate when they worshiped Zeus. Not God, well before Jesus.

2nd. It's Food. If that is animal cruelty, so is eating a cow... or a goat... or a chicken... or a fish.

3rd. This is F*king awosome. I wish I had been there. That was a party for children, The ones who LOVE God of War... Yup That it was. A party for children!


We'll Jesus is just an amalgam of Pagan gods

 

And i'm vegeterian so I can say that this is sick without any hypocrisy, Sony has a bunch of morons working for them


 I actually had a beautiful massive post written about this, and I decided agianst posting it.

I refrenced a religion that basically has 'jesus' just at 500BC... Same story, almost word for word. He dies, after 3 days, he rises agian, he lives life as a virgin... yadda yadda yadda... Same old story... just older... :P 



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johnlucas on 29 April 2007
Steve 3.2 said:

Wow... someone should put together all of Sony's ad campaigns for the Playstation brand over the past year into a book called 'What Not to Do For Advertising and Public Relations Majors'. Apparently Sony never learns from its past mistakes.

What really sucks is that this stunt is actually making a good game look bad. Sony is its own worst enemy right now.


Maybe not a book but certainly an article.

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gamingdevil on 29 April 2007
Kwaad said:

If you've seen some of the european PS3 comercials... holy crap. I dont see how they could be put on the air. Sony would be sued, and would LOOSE, if they saw the light of day in america. Sony Europe is totally wack. (in what they do)

However I really dont see a problem with this. It was an authentic Greek Party. Who cares. I wish I could've been there tho.

EDIT: The Sony Europe comercials... are really weird. I like them, but american culture would NOT accept them.


 No Kwaad, i am Greek and i *assure* you that it wasn't a authentic Greek Party. It was a SICK SONY PARTY!

 

You're insulting Greek people and i want you to recall. 




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lolita on 29 April 2007

I think this is of bad taste and it's cruelty. If it was Nintendo or any other company I would say the same thing because I'm sensitive towards animals. They do have feelings and they don't deserve to be treated this way, but I think the most horrible and stupid part of this is that it's for a video game PR and it wasn't neccessary.

Oh and I'm a vegetarian, just so you know.



VonShigsy on 29 April 2007
Kwaad said:

If you've seen some of the european PS3 comercials... holy crap. I dont see how they could be put on the air. Sony would be sued, and would LOOSE, if they saw the light of day in america. Sony Europe is totally wack. (in what they do)

However I really dont see a problem with this. It was an authentic Greek Party. Who cares. I wish I could've been there tho.

EDIT: The Sony Europe comercials... are really weird. I like them, but american culture would NOT accept them.


Yay, my 1st post and i get to quote Kwaad! Welcome me!

About the Sony advertising in general..it has become clear that sony are preaching to the age of 13-18, that automatically identifies anything violent,controvercial, based on popular urban culture or simply idiotic as "cool"

Sony though, are functioning on the moto of "every publicity is good publicity". There is no way that Sony P.R. didn't know that this stunt was going to be a nightmare on their hands, so it is logicaly to say, that they feed on the bad reactions, creating free hype for their products.

Negative Press for them is still Press, and possible damages they have to pay are still less than a big commercial campaign. It's smart yet controvercial move, one that a company with the size Sony has should not try it, because they risk of alieneting much of their supporters to the altar of profit. Sony fans are having a hard time as it is in this generation with the company recent choices, and it is hard for them to be argumentative when the company they follow, considers them to be all ignorant small kids that buy something on the "WOW" factor.

It's a shame though, because God Of War is a good franchise and they are promoting it just for the "boobs & guts" instead on focusing on the length or gameplay.

And Btw Kwaad.. Greek Parties do NOT have fresh slained carcasses in the background, neither did ancient Greeks ate offerings to the Gods. This was considered sacrillege. And they also HAVE discovered fire(FIRE BAD!) and had very good cooking skills, so eating the raw entrails of a gutted animal was out of the question.. But we are used to be considered as barbarians do to ignorance, so there...



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kber81 on 29 April 2007

Regards controversial commercials ... This one is my favorite. BTW I own WHITE PSP.

 



LordTheNightKnight on 29 April 2007
kber81 said:

Regards controversial commercials ... This one is my favorite. BTW I own WHITE PSP.


 Well the system is pretty nice. Sony just dropped the ball on enticing people to buy more games for it.



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VonShigsy on 29 April 2007

Sister = way more powerful & hot than nazi chick with glue on her head.



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