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Gravestones Advertising Video Games?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the insanity-in-the-afterlife dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an insane bid to drum up publicity The Guardian tells of Acclaim Entertainment who are seeking to enlist the help of the recently bereaved, well the poorer ones anyway, to help promote their latest game." My favorite comment is a spokesman for the Church of England who said they wouldn't allow it saying "There was enough fuss with plastic flowers in churchyards." Anyway, I just found this really surreal.

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  1. Of course those ads will never be useful by Edmund+Blackadder · · Score: 4, Insightful


    If Acclaim was able to put their adds on gravestones they wouldnt get much benefit out of it.

    People that go to graves are usually not young and even if they are they usually associate the experience with sad feelings.

    Who would want to be reminded of that when playing a game?

    Thats one of those marketing tricks, where the purpose of the whole excercise is to get denied and get in the papers.

    1. Re:Of course those ads will never be useful by DeadMeat+(TM) · · Score: 3, Insightful
      If Acclaim was able to put their adds on gravestones they wouldnt get much benefit out of it.
      You kidding? They're already getting press coverage for their game!

      Talk about one hell of a publicity stunt (no pun intended). Even if they don't ever get a single ad actually placed on a tombstone, they're already ahead.

  2. It's True by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good taste has officially died and has been replaced with morbid curiosity.

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    That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit