Comments on: Fire And Brimstone Over Stupidity

By: Ledo

Ledo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:59:07 +0000

I think they’re onto us…
they know we like cute males/females, and they’re using that fact against us.

It’s not enough anymore to simply have cute models in-game…
everyone associated with a game has to be good looking.
The developer, the publisher, the play-testers…and even the person serving you the game.

God help you, if you want to play their game with a mouse-mat that doesn’t have a –picture of a hot male/female model on it–…and the name of the game written in ultra-small letters on the back…somewhere.

Concentrated insanity, cherry flavor.
/agree

By: Yeebo

Yeebo — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:31:14 +0000

After linking here from Virgin Worlds, I followed the links around and read up on this. This entire incident sickens me. Someone makes a quality game, does their job promoting it, and has to deal with this sort of utterly assinine bullshit because they happen to be female and of above average appearance.

Agree with the rant 100%.

By: Brinstar

Brinstar — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:59:51 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever made any secret about my dislike for Kotaku’s editorial style. Part of me wonders whether they did it ironically, whether they knowingly did it to pander to their readership, or whether they genuinely fell for it. I’m not sure which would be worse. The former completely belittles their readership’s intelligence and the latter shows them as oblivious. It’s not just the Kotakus of the internet that fell for it either. Joystiq (which I like) and others were also guilty of the same to some degree. I tend to agree with you, Michael — they all fell for it, and it’s very sad.

By: Craig Huber

Craig Huber — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:20:47 +0000

I missed the majority of this, having been buried by work over the past few days. Thank god.

Definite /agree to the rant. (Quality vintage, I’d say.)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:02:40 +0000

I never said I was particularly bright, Union. :)

I know it’s going to happen, I just like to rant sometimes. Plus, they really – really – really fell for Ubi’s bait, and that chaps me.

By: Union

Union — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:53:33 +0000

10/10 on the rant but I’m not exactly sure what all the anger is about? Are you upset that people fell for UbiSoft’s marketing ploy? Aren’t you kinda feeding into the whole thing be being another blogger with an emotional opinion on this fiasco?

I really am not trying to be belligerent. But a ten paragraph post about how you are upset people are posting about something seems counterproductive.

Besides, as long as marketing departments continue to exist, and bloggers continue to thirst for content, psuedo-events like this will continue be fed into. In fact, it is only going to grow along side the gaming industry as a whole.

Imagine chastising the hollywood press for writing about actors personal lives, and not focusing on the movies. Seems silly huh? Ethical, but silly.

By: Cuppycake

Cuppycake — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:27:29 +0000

Well posted.

/agree.