THE TEARS!
The internet is full of Sony fans sobbing their guts up through their eyeballs over the LittleBigPlanet recall hilarity. Here are some of the places you can go to laugh at the mess.
Media Molecule – “I was so excited to get this game. No longer. Sorry, guys, but I’m going to have to cancel my pre-order. You can say it’s about “quality,” but we all know that isn’t true. It is only about fear. Well, you’re a business, first and foremost, and of course you have to consider the ramifications of offending fanatical Muslims. Now you’ve offended me, and as such I don’t feel you deserve my money.”
Three Speech – “As much as we’re all about free speech on Three Speech (and we really do want you to debate and discuss how you feel about SCEE and PlayStation) this is obviously a pretty contentious issue, so please try to avoid saying anything too inflammatory in this thread. Try to keep your comments measured and your criticism constructive everyone…”
Sony’s blog – “Since Sony is giving into terrorism, I guess I’ll just cancel my Little Big Planet pre-order and go buy Fable II next week.”
Eurogamer – “Stop having a go at Muslims. It’s PC idiots over at Sony who are massively overreacting.”
Nothing pleases us more than a global PR disaster.
filed in Uncategorized on Oct.20, 2008
October 20th, 2008 on 3:17 pm
It’s a potentially explosive issue for sure. With the way it’s been blown up out of all proportions, the game’s almost certainly going to bomb.
October 20th, 2008 on 4:03 pm
Or sell millions..
October 20th, 2008 on 4:18 pm
Sony – proof that not all publicity is good publicity.
October 20th, 2008 on 4:19 pm
“Try to keep your comments measured and your criticism constructive everyone…”
..’cause that what the internet is renowned for.. especially Sony fanboys.
October 20th, 2008 on 4:24 pm
@ Above – way to miss the gags there, genius.
The only thing these muppets are ensuring by recalling LittleBigPlanet is that when the game finally does launch, retards are going to cut out things that look like planes crashing into buildings, or Mohammed scratching his arse and smoking pole and stuff, and then upload screenshots of them to the Internet and cause way more offence then any Somalian song lyrics would.
I would join in, but I don’t own a PS3.
October 20th, 2008 on 5:17 pm
Sony’s Christmas cash cow BROUGHT TO THE SLAUGHTER!
You could not make it up.
October 20th, 2008 on 5:19 pm
Then buy one ;)
October 20th, 2008 on 5:39 pm
Hopefully there’s a level of Resistance 2 set in a mosque.
October 20th, 2008 on 5:43 pm
Internet tools are real life tools as well. I hope I could join those PC brigades that they hate so much and mow ’em down!
October 20th, 2008 on 6:05 pm
Why didn’t Allah prevent this from happening in the first place? THAT’S WHAT I WANT TO KNOW!
October 20th, 2008 on 6:14 pm
Looks like the only virgins Media Molecule will be getting will be the crying Sony fanboy type.
October 20th, 2008 on 7:42 pm
“Eurogamer – “Stop having a go at Muslims. It’s PC idiots over at Sony who are massively overreacting.””
Actually, it’s on PS3, not PC.
October 20th, 2008 on 8:17 pm
Actually, it’s Politically Correct, not Personal Computer idiots.
October 20th, 2008 on 8:23 pm
I do hope Ranger was joking…
October 20th, 2008 on 8:30 pm
Is it really THAT easy to cause Sony to recall a high profile product? A simple post in a forum is enough? Well, here we go:
“Dear Sony. Your shitty corporate logo deeply insults my religious beliefs. Please recall ALL your products ever made and change it pronto.”
October 20th, 2008 on 9:13 pm
…why are they even bothering with a recall when a patch would remove this issue?
October 20th, 2008 on 9:46 pm
Because then people would buy the game, deliberately not connect to the internet and purposefully offend themselves, which would clearly be Sony’s fault.
October 20th, 2008 on 10:01 pm
Allah was too busy playing Gears of War 2 on w4r3z to care about LittleBigPlanet.
October 20th, 2008 on 10:17 pm
When I was reading the blog bit it went something like “OH FFS, BLOODY MUSLIMS! NOT AGAI—wait, this is a GOOD thing!”
Nice to see my fellow Muslims are joining in the crusade against Sony, even if the reasoning behind it is pretty lame.
It’s like some freaky gaming Muslim-Infidel alliance, the first of its kind!
I’m gonna pretend I’m not buying LBP because of this!
FLY THEM FLAGS, BOYS! FLY THEM HIGH! HIGH IN THE SKY!
October 20th, 2008 on 10:56 pm
Actually you are all noobs. Sony had been infiltrated by Islamic extremists who planted these Qur'an lyrics in the sound track to SUBLIMINALLY MIND CONTROL YOU.
Good think Ken & Co. spotted this digital Jihad and thwarted it before we all turned into Little Big Terrorists!
October 20th, 2008 on 11:29 pm
Funny how this happens to the “game” everyone has been masturbating over for ages.
Divine intervention of some sort?
October 20th, 2008 on 11:51 pm
But wasn’t the dam song made by a muslim? why the fuck didn’t they make a big stink out of it then? I wasn’t going to buy this shit game but will now simply to make many mosque and mohamed levels. Offensive song ehh they haven’t seen any thing yet!!!
October 20th, 2008 on 11:53 pm
Hm. what is next on the list. Is Sony selling next time some burqa to female playstation eye users in europe because some could offended if the don’t wear it. :P
October 20th, 2008 on 11:59 pm
Another victory for the cause!
October 21st, 2008 on 8:58 am
You know as much as I hate Sony I think in this instance they should have told the PC brigade to go Fuck themselves and released it nonetheless. Its only a game!
October 21st, 2008 on 9:18 am
> But wasn't the dam song made by a muslim?
Yes, but the Satanic Verses was written by a Muslim, too.
If only I had a PS3 I'd create a Salman Rushdie Sackboy cavorting through a field of burning books. And blu-ray discs, of course.
October 21st, 2008 on 1:52 pm
at first I thought this to be a another dire Sony PR stunt, but now all the masses will know Sony to be what they really are…muslim hating FACISTS!!!!!
any al qaeda-like people here? come on..put a fatwa on Kens head! and while you at it, give one to Phil Harrison too…hes gone but still a fucker imho..
October 21st, 2008 on 2:24 pm
I was doing a pun. I thought that would be clear.
October 21st, 2008 on 2:30 pm
Someone didn’t learn anything from the first two comments.
October 21st, 2008 on 5:07 pm
stop posting to yourself constantly Trilby, it doesn’t make you sound anymore clever…just relax and have a laugh as this is UKR, not the fucking guardian.
October 21st, 2008 on 6:05 pm
There is a negative correlation between number of comments and quality of comments on UKR.
And I’m not helping.
October 21st, 2008 on 6:17 pm
Sony make SingStar don’t they?
How many songs that are in the SingStar collection have ‘offensive’ lyrics. If we can find something suitable I suggest we all email Sony demanding that the offensive SingStar title be removed.
October 21st, 2008 on 6:33 pm
I hate Muslims.
There, I’ve said it.
October 22nd, 2008 on 11:42 am
Wasn’t that refreshing! It’s good to admit such things, really.
The imbecilic fools on this comment bashing Muslims en masse have only need compare bilal’s unabashedly Uncle Tom-ish comment to your own. Truly, you otherwise liberal – white – gamers are as much rancidly ignorant knee-jerk muppets as any American neo-conservative sitting in a MegaChurch TM.
Really, just comapre his and other actual Muslims’ reactions to this to your own.
White people will always be the vicious savages they always have been. Blight of humanity, you lot.
There, I’ve said it.
Dammit, I’m so glad I’m Chinese right now. Oi, you fuckign chavs is want some CHINKY???
ps – Newsflash, bilal, you ignorant muppet – as a Muslim you should at least know that ‘Infidel’ is a Crusader byword used to demonize your own people to the point of worthiness of rape and death. The Arabic word of ‘Kafir’ means nothing similar (‘he who hides’). Good on you on perfecting that Uncle Tom angle! If this is the state of Muslims today, you have a hell of a lot of ignorance about yourselves to overcome.
October 22nd, 2008 on 1:49 pm
I apologise for that part of my mind going off on one.
Nevermind my bobbins grammar and apparent infinity for racial slurs against all, including myself.
Call one for the cult of Personality!
Signed,
Anonymous
October 22nd, 2008 on 4:01 pm
Faith No More.
October 22nd, 2008 on 9:45 pm
omg….I assume that the ranting idiot is a PS3 owner…..lets all pray for the sad fucker and hope he gets a life and moves out of his parent’s house before he turns 40.
and he shames me and the rest of the Chinese population in the UK.