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Yesterday, Penny Arcade posted this comic in regards to the new DC MMO announcement:



Today, Sony responded.

Gabe wrote:With that said I have to admit that those sons of bitches have a sense of humor. Smedley sent me an email this morning that just said he’d sent me a package. I assumed it was a bomb but just a few minutes ago a man showed up and proclaimed that he “had our donuts”. That’s not something I expected to hear today. We followed him out to his truck where he showed us our 1,200 freshly baked Krispy Kreme donuts.

Goddamn...Sony are bastards, but that's just beautiful. The pictures are still on the PA front page as I post this, go have a look...that's a fuckton of donut boxes.

That's just goddamn beautiful!

1200??

How much would that cost!!?

Probably in the neighborhood of $700.

Nice to know that SOE is spending money on worthwhile things, instead of, you know, making their games better.

Granted, Smedley probably paid for it out of pocket, but come on, what sort of message does it send where he's unwilling to donate to a worthwhile charity because of a bad review, but he's willing to blow hundreds of dollars on a childish prank?

...I'm going to go ahead and hope that there isn't shit in those donuts, because a) that would be fucking horrifying, and b) where the hell would they get that much shit from on short notice?

Molyneux wrote:...I'm going to go ahead and hope that there isn't shit in those donuts, because a) that would be fucking horrifying, and b) where the hell would they get that much shit from on short notice?

Manure.

Hotfoot wrote:Nice to know that SOE is spending money on worthwhile things, instead of, you know, making their games better.

700$ is chump change for the guy.

I don't think it's well played at all. Let's see, Penny Arcade gives SOE a hard time because, well, you know, SOE has a shitty business model and sub-par games.

Let's take a look at the history:

Everquest: Great, DOOM for MMORPGs. Wonderful. Throw on nearly a dozen expansion packs with broken content and so on, and we have a situation where a new expansion pack is coming out before the last one is properly patched. That's greed right there, and it's not playing to the player base.

EQ2: Just another Fantasy MMORPG. It has to compete with WoW, and doesn't do a very good job of it. But wait! Let's throw on a gimmick! Online pizza delivery should do the trick!

SWG: Same story as EQ with the expansions, and now with NGE, wow, talk about alienating your player base.

Now they're announcing competition to City of Heroes. Yeah, color me excited.

So Penny Arcade calls them on it, like they've been doing for a while.

Smedley responds by blowing a considerable amount of money on a practical joke. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo. Seriously, what is going on over there? Even if it's just a drop in the bucket for Smedley, I still think it's a shitty move that he did this and completely stiff Child's Play.

I am so upset - horribly upset - at the games SOE have screwed out of their potential. Like SWG and Planetside, which you'd think they couldn't screw up with some of the guys behind Tribes on staff.

This may be the best product SOE has ever delivered.

skyman8081 wrote:This may be the best product SOE has ever delivered.

Totally ripped off from Gabe's newspost about this where they gave away to donuts, man.

Anyway, still a true line.

How are they supposed to eat all those donuts before they go stale?

Perhaps Smedley had an ulterior motive by sending him the donuts. Thats alot of calories and sugar for a human body to consume maybe he figured the donuts would do him in.

LongVin wrote:How are they supposed to eat all those donuts before they go stale?

Perhaps Smedley had an ulterior motive by sending him the donuts. Thats alot of calories and sugar for a human body to consume maybe he figured the donuts would do him in.

They managed to give away most of the donuts.

Thats awesome. I would love to have been there and seen their faces.

Molyneux wrote:...I'm going to go ahead and hope that there isn't shit in those donuts, because a) that would be fucking horrifying, and b) where the hell would they get that much shit from on short notice?

They had their art guys whip it up. ZING!