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- Azimuth1, on 10/10/2007, -4/+173Summary: He wanted to have fun playing the demo of LittleBigPlanet but the rep was an annoying douche.
- guitarh3ro, on 10/10/2007, -12/+101So, he was pretty much like : HAY U GUYZ R IN MAI DEMOZ, DESTROYIN MAI GAMEZ! WTFZ!?
What a bastard. - Natetendo83, on 10/10/2007, -1/+70Wow so long story short that rep sucks and should take a desk job somewhere where he doesn't talk to anyone, ever.
- UncleCrapper, on 10/10/2007, -4/+68I had a similar experience some years ago when I attended a product launch for a major cellular carrier here in Canada. After the presentation and question and answer session we were invited to play with what I considered to be an exciting lineup of new cellular phones at several stations setup in the conference hall. Representatives of the various phone manufacturers were on hand to answer questions and take feedback, but the PR rep for one mobile phone company was nothing less than uncooperative and annoying. He would not permit us to insert SIM cards into the phones for testing purposes or really do much of anything -- something the other manufacturers were enthusiastic about and encouraged. I just ignored him and inserted my SIM into one of the demo phones anyway and started playing around, which pissed the rep off mightily. I called some colleagues over to show them the phone I was playing around on and they got excited and started throwing their SIM cards into the other models available. All the while the rep looked increasingly agitated to the point of livid, but what could he do? There were now dozens of people crowded around his demonstration kiosk all using his precious phones while he looked on unable to do anything, red faced, visibly angry and only offering curt answers to questions.
That's how you deal with ***** PR types. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+41"*crushed by wall of text*"
If you consider that a "wall of text," you have the attention span of a goldfish. - akatherder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40FTA: "I immediately took advantage by putting a silly top hat and snazzy vest onto my character"
It was at that point where I stopped questioning if the author was being whiny and I could truly empathize with him. - TotalHalibut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+40Only a product of the internet-generation could possibly believe that 9 lines of relatively well-written text could possibly constitute a wall capable of crushing anything. I despair at the ingrates of our time.
TB. - Jonmad17, on 10/10/2007, -2/+40I admire the man's professionalism.I would have stood up and told the guy off if I were in his place.
- CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26I agree with you that there are *real* problems out there... but seriously dude, if you're trying to sell a product, don't tell the customers to ***** themselves (figuratively)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -23/+48Are you an *****? Are you completely business incompetant? Is your head so far up your own ass you can see what you had for dinner last night?
If you can answer yes to all of the above, you may have a bright future ahead of you at Sony. Please apply within... - RickRoll, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29I think maybe you missed the point. The guy is a journalist and he is supposed to report on these things. A bad report can hurt a games sales, etc. Imagine if a movie critic was trying to watch a movie and the director kept interrupting him and *****.
- chris9902, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28He was at the Microsoft press event. What do you want him to say? "here is my 360 review of Mario Kart". nub.
- CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26... because he's a video game reviewer and those are video games....???
- kplex, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Where in the hell do Sony find these imbeciles for their PR work... seriously...
They could do with firing most of these idiots and using the savings to shave some cash off the price, that'll shift more units than alienating their customer base. - spawnfree, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17crushed by ADD.
- SimonDonkers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Early game demo's like E3 don't have the finished product. The final stretch in the creation is optimizing the game and fixing out all the bugs. Demo's regularly crash or run slowly and it hardly ever tells anything about the actual game. The press knows and understands this and tends to skip that part in there previews. There's a reason why the game isn't out yet.
- Langford, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17Am I the only one that thought it was weird that the game was designed in a way that it could be bogged down like that? Especially on a console? Granted I don't buy as many games as some people, but nothing I have bought for any console seems to have any similar issues. On a PC, sure things may slow down, because every PC is different and sometimes I may get resolution greedy. I guess maybe they just haven't finished working on that part of the game yet.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13You seem to have missed the phrase "On a side note."
- Daiken, on 10/10/2007, -8/+19Well it could be just because it's not finished. Then again if the creators are gonna act so uptight, I see no reason why I should even play it.
- flernk, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13You should probably have read the whole article.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11like what? not do his job?
all writers are just wasting their life right? they should all be out curing cancer and world hunger instead of writing popular publishments - SimonDonkers, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Or perhaps if you read more carefully, the people in the demo before where having lots of fun with a different PR rep. Perhaps the issue really is with the PR rep and not the game.
- MWeather, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12What's really troubling, is people like that VOTE!
- animaniacsrule, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11This article wasn't about his feelings on the game.
- 1773nium, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11A better distraction would have been
PR: "Look its Lindsay Lohan and she's SOBER!" - ivosilva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Nothing, therefore the "side note".... If it was related he would say "related news" or something.
- fcrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9What would never happen? That some unfriendly dude is demoing a game, Why not?
- hfactor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Yeah, I once had a screen like that.
- getliquified, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10that guy was an ass....let them have fun...games are supposed to be fun...remember?
- sexybobo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9... because he's a video game reviewer that was reviewing e3 and those games were also show at e3
- csb92376, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Isn't it ironic how a rep can get pissed off about a crowd of people looking at his products? Wow. Just wow.
- Synn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The point of a demo is to grab people's attention and have them want to buy the game. The rep was ruining the demo, making it less fun and less appealing. The game is supposed to be about freedom, but the rep was taking all of that away. The author wasn't being a child, the rep wasn't doing his job.
- Pyrogen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Except for the fact he didn't get to play it in any sense of the word. He was allowed to look at it, to move a character around, but had a rep going MOVE ALONG. NO TIME FOR FUN.
- vexxefx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5And he also can't count. It just gets worse.
- grumbel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4He isn't bitching about the demo, quite the opposite, he his praising it, he is bitching about the rep who didn't let him enjoy the demo.
- Skitals, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Amen. I would have caused quite the ruckus. Well, at the very least I would have gotten his name so I could get his ass fired.
- Skitals, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Big deal: the complete openness and canvas for creativity and fun.
- mandarin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Err first time ever getting into that website and immediately I have to take a survey and watch an ad. Is Gamepro owned by IGN ?
- Skitals, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2LBP is developed by Media Molecule. Sony is just the publisher.
- pig13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2FTA: He said when he got there the creator of the game was running the demo and was letting everyone do what they wanted. When the game's creator left a rep took over and started disabling everything and being a prick. The writer of the article just wanted to enjoy it like the others were before he sat down.
- Chupathingy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Like anyone would believe that! :)
- Synn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Blogger? He works for GamePro. They are a known video game publication. He's a journalist. And once again...you're not getting the point, LittleBigPlanet is about freedom...but he wasn't letting them have that freedom. These guys had already saw other people use it and wanted to enjoy that freedom for themselves.
- GawtMilk, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5...because it's fun?
- onlynameicanget, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Yeah, there's an "agenda" because people are digging down comments insulting a journalist who acted professionally in a bad situation. Fail.
- Elranzer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The rep sounds like he was J.P. from Grandma's Boy.
- mokkos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I agree. Sony should fire all their PR and Marketing department. Public perception of the PS3 is far worse than the actual quality of the system that they are selling even at the price it's selling for.
- Pyrogen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3He should be out there writing about how BUSH LIED AND ___________ DIED, you see. His JOB is to write about video games.
- 88iou, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I can't wait to try LBP. The rep may have been rude, but the writer comes off as a crybaby.
- inajeep, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4I thought that was funny that they were surprises. Had he been completely ignoring Microsoft press releases?
- HolyChimp, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Games? For the Wii?
Madness! -
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