i cant believe any business would turn down free advertising. im sure the church of england's profits are up as a result of the matter. Sony, use my storefront as a setting for anything you wish, please.. just make sure gamers know its my store..
tastybytes, are you too confusing the Church of England for Starbucks by any chance?
I simply can't imagine Bishop VP of Sales and Reverand Marketing Guru sitting down and working out which product lines to pimp off of this saga. "Bibles or Holy Water? Cry me a river, man"!
Can I suggest you simply take stock that they kicked up a fuss because a place they consider to be holy and revered (by them) was used for a shoot-em up style videogame.
(And no, I'm not even slightly religious - I just think people are missing the r-e-s-p-e-c-t point here).
So am I allowed to sue McDonalds for someone throwing a hashbrown wrapper out the window of their car? I mean, McDonalds sold them the wrapper and someone used it to deface what I respect. Earth.
Complaining to Sony about something done by a third party was not the appropriate thing to do. Here, let me rewrite it:
So am I allowed to "complain to" "Sony" for "a third party developer" throwing a "video game" "on the market"? I mean, "Sony" sold them the "dev-kit" and "a third party developer" used it to deface... etc.
Complaining to the licensee of the development technology was a perfectly appropriate thing to do *if* you want to bring pressure to bear. Sony have seen their whole marketing landscape sullied by this story - I bet you all your free McDonalds vouchers that they watched the PR spin up on this *very* carefully indeed.
However, do they have a legal recourse to Sony? I think not. So it's a bit moot.
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i cant believe any business would turn down free advertising. im sure the church of england's profits are up as a result of the matter. Sony, use my storefront as a setting for anything you wish, please.. just make sure gamers know its my store..
tastybytes, are you too confusing the Church of England for Starbucks by any chance?
I simply can't imagine Bishop VP of Sales and Reverand Marketing Guru sitting down and working out which product lines to pimp off of this saga. "Bibles or Holy Water? Cry me a river, man"!
Can I suggest you simply take stock that they kicked up a fuss because a place they consider to be holy and revered (by them) was used for a shoot-em up style videogame.
(And no, I'm not even slightly religious - I just think people are missing the r-e-s-p-e-c-t point here).
So am I allowed to sue McDonalds for someone throwing a hashbrown wrapper out the window of their car? I mean, McDonalds sold them the wrapper and someone used it to deface what I respect. Earth.
@Andir 3.0
And what does McD have to do with the price of bread today then?
Complaining to Sony about something done by a third party was not the appropriate thing to do. Here, let me rewrite it:
So am I allowed to "complain to" "Sony" for "a third party developer" throwing a "video game" "on the market"? I mean, "Sony" sold them the "dev-kit" and "a third party developer" used it to deface... etc.
Complaining to the licensee of the development technology was a perfectly appropriate thing to do *if* you want to bring pressure to bear. Sony have seen their whole marketing landscape sullied by this story - I bet you all your free McDonalds vouchers that they watched the PR spin up on this *very* carefully indeed.
However, do they have a legal recourse to Sony? I think not. So it's a bit moot.
So what about the people who respect video games as an art? Who's respect is worth more?