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Church Threatens Legal Action Over Sony Game
An anonymous reader writes "The Church of England is threatening legal action against Sony over the game Resistance: Fall of Man. The game features a shootout in Manchester Cathedral, and the Church claims that Sony did not ask permission to use the interior of the Cathedral in the game. The Bishop of Manchester called the game 'highly irresponsible' due to the history of gun crime in the city. Sony denies the charge — a spokesman said 'We believe we have sought and received all permissions necessary for the creation of the game.'"
God dammit, why'd the church have to go and do this, now I actually have to side with Sony for once! Perhaps the church would've preferred it if instead of gun battles they allowed you to do something more in line with what some members of the church all too often get upto, such as indoctrination or molestation of children, slapping down homosexuals and so forth?
The church will likely win the lawsuit if it presses forward. SONY sold themselves out by using a house of worship in such a depraved fashion to reap the financial windfall without even consulting the building's owners first. Any atheist programmer on the planet could have come up with that concept, but leave it to a SONY developer to actually implement the idea. They knew the church would object to the radical idea of violence in a church sanctuary, but they decided to press ahead anyway at their own risk. Sony must be in bad shape when they are more concerned with shooting up churches and the legal recourse than actually programming their games worth a damn. The company execs need to realize that the world doesn't revolve around them like it did in 1996. Those days are over.
sigh, there are games with dedicated servers on the 360. I hate to break it to you sony fuckers but its purely based on developer choice and a publishers willingness to provide them or allow players to host them. Then again people scream there fools heads off before release claiming that its going to allow some people to rig the game and that the stats will be a fraud despite the fact they don't have a clue in hell what they are talking about.
Before someone accuses me of sony hate or being a 360 fanboy I hold the same contempt for xbox 360 fanboys who claim that dedicated servers are somehow inferior to client servers. They have there places, not every game needs dedicated servers however.
You mad
3rd Century? Like 200s....
I do believe you made a typo and meant 13th century...
If not, you are a bafoon indeed. The roman catholic church cannot even trace it's origins beyond 400 ad without cheating. Considering the church of england had to be 'birthed' by the roman catholic...wow. There was no 'King of England' in the 3rd century...hence no real need to bend Christendom to advance their political agendas.
Who is this that even the wind and the waves obey Him? Surely this computer must submit also!
What exactly happens in this level? Do you go in and kill all of the theists? I might just change my dim views on Sony...
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune