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EA Comes Under Fire for Shady PR Stunts
EA has come under heavy fire lately for some deliberately shady PR techniques. You can't argue with the result, however, that has pretty much everyone (including us) talking about it. The question is: will extensive discussion, and the resulting widespread anger that seems to accompany it, actually help their game sales? Stunts have ranged from their "win a date with a booth babe" contest to paying game site editors a faux "bribe" to fit with their sin motif. "Outraged Christian bloggers, complaining female and LGBT gamers, editors being sent checks made out directly to them — all of this makes for delicious copy, and much of the gnashing of teeth seems to be centered on the fact that the gaming press continues to fall for the contrived controversy to give the company exactly what it wants: coverage. The campaign has been childish, daring, and borderline tasteless. Writing checks directly to game writers is cheaper than advertising on a site, with a much better result."
Who cares what they think. If it isnt "The War on Christmas" its "Creationism" or stuff like this. If there's any group whose opinion I couldnt care less about its this one.
This is all just political correctness gone mad. As much as I think these things are borderline distasteful, companies and people should still be able to do them. The overly religious and overly feminist opinions arent really affecting EAs bottom-line, its just making press and letting people who dislike EA have something they can also whine about.
Heaven forbid we allow adults to do such things or have games with some nudity. Funny that slashdot is in an uproar over the lawsuits over hot coffee, yet PC crap like this also makes the front page.
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