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The Daily Mail reports that Sony's bizarre PR campaigns may of finally crossed the line when the corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company's PlayStation 2 console.
Sony has said that "It has come to our attention that at the God Of War II launch showcase, an element of the event was of an unsuitable nature. We are conducting an internal inquiry into aspects of the event in order to learn from the occurrence and put into place measures to ensure that this does not happen again."
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Bigmac573
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1 - teh horror!!
Its a fvcking goat. Who cares, go back to eating your meat.
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- 962 days 19 hours ago
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You, my friend...are a f@cking moron. You must've been born through @ss to write comments like those. A decapitated goat? This really shows how desperate Sony are for some real next gen games.
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2 - P A R T Y !
Topless girls, live snakes, eating food from decapitated animals.
Don't know about you lot, but that sounds like my idea of a party!
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kewlkat007
- 963 days 4 hours ago
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3 - See what happens
when Ken leaves office?.........I gotta say,this has no taste, fanboys or not, aside. If I had kids, that's not the kind of marketing I want, that would make them purchase a game. A little kid might be horrified..come on you don't need this..
The world has becomed more sensitive to animal cruelty, global warmings and such..so if there was a backlash I can see why. When I seen this I wasn't thinking a video game. Just because it's a Mature game still doesn't mean mature people are insensitive to animal cruelty. Well at least in this marketing fashion.
I mean, people eat meat everyday, but who wants to go to a farm and see Cattle get chopped up from the neck down.(ofcourse I'am not a vegetrian, but that doesn't mean every gamer mature or not, is a meat eater.
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EZCheez
- 963 days 4 hours ago
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3.1 - Agreed
This would scare the hell out of my kids, but I doubt there were any kids at the launch party.
I wonder if PETA has heard about this yet? They would have a field day.
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TheExecutive
- 963 days 2 hours ago
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3.2 - yeah
but GOW isnt for the kids anyway. They really shouldnt be playing that game or going to the parties... still kinda crazy i guess
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- 962 days 20 hours ago
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Take your kids to Iraq to see some real horror.
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Blackmoses
- 962 days 15 hours ago
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3.4 - ok...
why would you take your kids to a launch party with scantily dressed women all over in the first place? The goat, yeah it may have been in bad taste but I'm sure that grown ass'd adults were there to see all that could be seen. It would be no place to take a child in the first place. Idiotic comment! If you were going to take them there you might as well take them to the strip joint.
Stop trying to make the situation worse than it really is....
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Diselage
- 962 days 5 hours ago
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3.5 - No kid should see the game either
God of War II is not a kids game and if you were a responsible parent or adult you wouldn't let your kid play this game.
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- 963 days 4 hours ago
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4 - lol
Sweet wish I was there.
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kingofps3
- 963 days 3 hours ago
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5 - Not Good
This could get real bad as everybody wanna take shots at sony.
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Phantom_Lee
- 963 days 3 hours ago
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6 - Pssss...
just a dead goat, not like its the first time u see a dead animal...
....I hate kids....
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daomay
- 962 days 23 hours ago
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6.1 - lol
funny shiiit
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MySwordIsHeavenly
- 963 days 3 hours ago
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7 - haha
Screw kids...this is the GOD OF WAR II PARTY!!! I doubt kids were allowed to come!
Goats shall die!!!
RIP SOME HEADS!
Edit: Bladestar. We know their PR department needs...well...a new PR department. The only thing you fail to see is how much bad publicity MS gets over Vista and the 360 every day. The American Media doesn't exploit it because Sony is the leader and the one to take down. You'd have to be a complete moron to think MS has a good PR department...
And I say MS because I know your likeness. You're here to bash the PS3 and THAT'S IT! You don't want to further gaming production or the gaming community. You don't care about the future of gaming as long as you can own ONE system now and join a "side"...just to have your dreams crushed when that "side" eventually falls. It happens with every major gaming company!
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Good idea Sony, more bad publicity.
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Icewake
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9 - Freaks.
Lol@Sony.
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TheExecutive
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lol... now thats a party!
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tehcellownu
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its jus a goat calm down people..go eat your meat sausage pork its all goood.
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oh common you supermoral human. Go to your church. If you don't like Sony campaign, just don't buy their product. Don't bash it and act like some crazy puritan. Look now, I don't like bank commercials where everything is beautiful and everyone is happy.
So you need to understand that people do not agree with Sony only because they are fanboys, but it happens that those commercials that are so blasphemous to you, actually appeal to some.
And it's a dead goat from a butcher's. It's a BOUGHT piece of scenography. And it's GREECE, not USA! Do you have any idea how much Greece differs from America? Or do you think they should be bombed for that difference?
The point is that we're all different and it should stay so. So don't bash something just because IYHO you think is blasphemous, satanistic or whatever. It reminds me of Middle Ages and witch hunts.
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Between the possessed babies, the exploding Rubik's cubes, the racially-charged PSP ads, the fake PSP fansite, decapitated goats, and the negative publicity surrounding the PS3 launch, I think Sony needs a new PR department.
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- 963 days 1 hour ago
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Bubble for you.
Sony just gave Jack T. and company a reason to say violence in video games have desensitize gamers.
Jack T: "Just look at those comments."
I'm now awaiting the media backlash and angry parents this summer and X'mas.
Sony is batting a 400 in bad PR.
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deifen
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13.3 - racially charged?
I believe you are wrong with the "racially charged psp add" bit, considering there was another add with the black girl grabbing the white girl by the throat. I can see how the add might have seemed racist. However, I think americans are extremely touchy on the race issue. We tend to jump to conclusions without regarding facts.
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deifen
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13.4 - racially charged?
I believe you are wrong with the "racially charged psp add" bit, considering there was another add with the black girl grabbing the white girl by the throat. I can see how the add might have seemed racist. However, I think americans are extremely touchy on the race issue. We tend to jump to conclusions without regarding facts.
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- 962 days 23 hours ago
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13.5 - Agreed......heads must roll....not the goat's lol
I mean, some VP or executive gave the go ahead - he/she needs to be sacked.
And how about the editor of Playstation Magazine - the pictures should have never gone to print or brought up for higher management for deliberation.
Sack the lot of them. And stay away from Greek PR firms....or greek butchers come to think of it.
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- 962 days 10 hours ago
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I own a ps3 but i dont agree with animal cruelty. I know its been mentioned but its the GOD OF WAR party and after playing most of the game a decapitated animal is nothing compared to whats in the game. You go to a horror movie your gunna see some type of $hi+ you go to a GOW party and im sure you'll expect to see some $hi+ lets not take it too far. Sony's PR seems like it sucks sometimes but most people wont care or even hear about this stunt. Reminds me of the bennetton adds in the late 90's early 2k's (UK) which i add were totally irrelevent compared to this stunt. Bad PR is actually still PR if you check it.
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- 963 days 2 hours ago
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14 - Goat!!!
My big question is where the f*ck was the BBQ crew. You just know that Sony Catering is in a world of sh*t right now. I smell resignations!!! =P
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bung tickler
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BlackIceJoe
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I think this was not a smart move on Sony's part they do not need more bad news but at the same time GOW is not a kids game it is M and that is for Mature not E for Everyone. So I kind of think the press is making this sound worse then it is. Plus I would think the only way of going to be allowed in the party would be if people are 21 or over.
That being said sony could have done some thing different but they did not. Also I have gone to party's in the Past that were not of a goat but a pig and it was the same thing. It was a graduating party were people saw the pig open then people eat from it. So to me there is a fine line I am more turning on the side of this was ok. But I could see how some people could get mad.
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jennifercendejas
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wth?!? you went to a graduation party where people ate pig innards? <.< ^.^ >.> where?
ew.
do you think the guy who came up with the decapiated goat idea wishes someone would have given him the big veto? i would if i were him.
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BlackIceJoe
- 962 days 13 hours ago
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It was a graduation party and no I did not eat like the tongue and parts like that but a few did. It really is to me not that bad as long as it is cooked. Plus I have seen different things like this when I was in Romania I saw a chicken's head get cut off and it was still live then we eat it later. So in some parts of the world this would be ok. But in some parts of the world it is not.
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That_Whore
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17 - RATED
M for Mature
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17.1 - So is gta
doesn't mean they can hold a party where they get a bunch of pimps and hookers together, use them, beat them and take their money.
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18 - M for mature?
So you're basically saying I can go out and cut up some goats because I'm 17? Nice, think I'll go get some and have a party.
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- 962 days 16 hours ago
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Yes, you may buy yourself a goat, slain it and even eat it. It's perfectly legal. Also, you may go and shoot Alaskas wolves from a helicopter. You may also go to Iraq and kill real people! Wow! Now imagine THAT!
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19 - Personally
Harrison's decapitation would be a far more useful PR stunt.
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Retro-Virus
- 963 days 1 hour ago
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True !
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Inasid
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20 - WTF are people thinking?
This looks very baa-baad baa-baad for Sony.
Goats last words
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~paz...
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All this for a Video-game, shame on whoever was responsible for this.
Iam a PS-3 fan but I have my limits...this is pathetic to even comprehend, and ppl defend this by saying "what's wrong with such a PR stunt ?"
YEAH RITE ? Get a LIFE...oops arn't you LOTS happy that you just took one?
PETA.....FTW !!
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- 962 days 9 hours ago
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21.1 - Not 4 u bub
Dude, your the type of guy that wont buy this type of game. This was not a public show so ease up a little. Im not condoning it just think of it as something that wasnt meant for you. I hope your so morally sound about the manufacturing processes of both ms and sony which affect real people not dead animals.
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On one hand, I'm a bit gobsmacked. Surely Sony dont need publicity like that.
On the other hand, Meh. I'f I had a dollar for every Greek party with a dead goat I've been to......
Funny how no one cares about the topless girls. Cya, I feel like a burger.
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WTF.. I'm sure there will be lawsuit against Sony. Taking lives to promote your Games is plain just wrong. Yeah Sony just went down hill.
unless it's a fake, then it will be okay.
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23.1 - What lives?
The goat was killed at a butcher, they just showed the dead carcas at a party. It isn't anything bad, it is just that anything will turn into bad news, if sony has any part of it. I'm just angry at though that they didn't invite me to this party.
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Dude that Goat was about to get butcher anyways and be sold at stores to people to freaken eat.There is thousands and thousand of goats that died each day..No one goin to give a damn about one goat..all the xboxfanboys need to stfu there is thousands of dogs and cats that died on the road but no one gives a crap about it. Dont make you guys remind of the war in iraq thousand of innocents of life is bein taken each day..
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snoop_dizzle
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24 - this reminds me
of the way kratos behaves.
Just like in x-plays valentines day special.
A real ladies man(he wont appear for around 30 seconds).
But in all seriousness, um sony didn't make the best move here.
This might make um you know who go after the GOW series.
I all a sudden hear screaming and nashing of teeth. Oh no, he's approaching.
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Phantom_Lee
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24.1 - LOL
that was cool~
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awesome video... q:
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25 - Why sony?
Why didn't you invite me to this party? This seems to be honestly the greatest party ever. Hot naked girls feeding me grapes as if I was a god. Why? Only fanboys will cry about the goat? He at least lived to see the greatest party ever, which I will not.
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