Doc
06-17-2007, 05:00 PM
Moral censorship or brilliant PR ploy?
Editorial--(SG)- I have to admit, I fell for it. As a gamer, I am constantly on the look-out for censorship in any form. When I heard that the Church of England was persecuting poor Sony, I rushed to Sony's defense.... sorta.
The more I mull this over, the less sense this whole thing makes to me. First of all, Resistance has been out for a LONG time in game lifespan. It's been arguably the most successful PS3 title to date. Why did it take so long for the Church of England to find out their Manchester Cathedral had been replicated in a fantasy world surrounded by gun violence?
Incredibly, I first read about this controversy on CNN, which means that SOMEONE sent them a press release. I would be very interested to see who appears in the FROM line of that release.
Since when does Sony reply to negative PR in a public forum? These guys are professionals at playing dumb in the face of bad news. But their new blog is awash with opinion pieces defending Sony. Hmm and the blog launched the same day that this controversy surfaced.
It's just too convenient. I don't buy it. There's a little voice telling me that something stinks here. Could Sony have instigated, directly or otherwise, the Church of England controversy to play the victim card and rally support for its otherwise unremarkeable public relations effort? Hats off to SCEA if they did. You had me there for a minute.
Editorial--(SG)- I have to admit, I fell for it. As a gamer, I am constantly on the look-out for censorship in any form. When I heard that the Church of England was persecuting poor Sony, I rushed to Sony's defense.... sorta.
The more I mull this over, the less sense this whole thing makes to me. First of all, Resistance has been out for a LONG time in game lifespan. It's been arguably the most successful PS3 title to date. Why did it take so long for the Church of England to find out their Manchester Cathedral had been replicated in a fantasy world surrounded by gun violence?
Incredibly, I first read about this controversy on CNN, which means that SOMEONE sent them a press release. I would be very interested to see who appears in the FROM line of that release.
Since when does Sony reply to negative PR in a public forum? These guys are professionals at playing dumb in the face of bad news. But their new blog is awash with opinion pieces defending Sony. Hmm and the blog launched the same day that this controversy surfaced.
It's just too convenient. I don't buy it. There's a little voice telling me that something stinks here. Could Sony have instigated, directly or otherwise, the Church of England controversy to play the victim card and rally support for its otherwise unremarkeable public relations effort? Hats off to SCEA if they did. You had me there for a minute.