Sony caught editing Halo 3's Wiki page

Count Dooku · Post by **Count Dooku** » 2007-09-04 03:07pm

http://www.destructoid.com/sony-is-a-di ... 2312.phtml

Oh Sony, what will we do with you.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2007-09-04 03:11pm

LOL! I actually find it amusing.

It was probably just a Sony employee bored at work though.

Paradox244 · Post by **Paradox244** » 2007-09-04 05:05pm

Ah, Sony. You can't convince me to buy your consoles, but you're always good for a laugh.

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2007-09-04 05:05pm

Praxis wrote:LOL! I actually find it amusing.

It was probably just a Sony employee bored at work though.

I think that's likely the case of nearly every single Wikipedia-edit-scandal we've seen recently. I mean is there really anyone in the world who's going to order some subordinate to sit there editing Wiki-fucking-pedia because it's ruining them?

What's pathetic about all this is this is kind of the whole point of Wikipedia. Any arsehead can go on there and write whatever inaccurate biased lies they want. I actually use Wikipedia often, but you can be assured I'm only looking for random bits of historic trivia and I'm wearing my extra-thick Captain Sceptical glasses. The fact that "Wikipedia is inaccurate!" is considered news really suggests that most people don't understand how it works, which is... concerning.

Intentional or not though, Sony has to run out of ways to publically embarrass itself eventually? Doesn't it? I mean, they're really going to have to start getting imaginative.

Also! I'm still waiting for "George Bush caught editing Wikipedia article on Irans nuclear program!".

Paradox244 · Post by **Paradox244** » 2007-09-04 05:08pm

Aaron Ash wrote:Intentional or not though, Sony has to run out of ways to publically embarrass itself eventually? Doesn't it? I mean, they're really going to have to start getting imaginative.

They seriously need some new PR guys. The old ones are obviously insane. Remember the goat offal thing for God of War, or those awesome E3 speaches? Man, I miss E3.

CaptHawkeye · Post by **CaptHawkeye** » 2007-09-04 05:16pm

I wish I could be surprised by this, but the fact that i'm not, nor anyone else, doesn't say good things about Sony.

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2007-09-04 05:17pm

Paradox244 wrote:
Aaron Ash wrote:Intentional or not though, Sony has to run out of ways to publically embarrass itself eventually? Doesn't it? I mean, they're really going to have to start getting imaginative.
They seriously need some new PR guys. The old ones are obviously insane. Remember the goat offal thing for God of War, or those awesome E3 speaches? Man, I miss E3.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2007-09-04 05:42pm

Damn you Ash, for making me snort water over my keyboard

Masami von Weizegger · Post by **Masami von Weizegger** » 2007-09-04 06:30pm

Seeing as the bigger game companies supposedly hire folks to go as far as registering on forums, becoming part of the community and then subtlety shilling for their products, it's not completely outside the realms of plausibility if it wasn't for the fact that the edit would just be removed.

People might be swayed by a recommendation from someone they "know" on a message board but not by an addition to a Wikipedia article that was probably only up for five minutes anyway.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-04 06:31pm

Aaron Ash wrote:

This looks like a major PR disaster that is just waiting to erupt.

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2007-09-04 06:34pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:This looks like a major PR disaster that is just waiting to erupt.

I really hope you're trying to make a joke.

Masami von Weizegger · Post by **Masami von Weizegger** » 2007-09-04 06:35pm

It did. Last year, I believe.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2007-09-04 06:36pm

Paradox244 wrote:
Aaron Ash wrote:Intentional or not though, Sony has to run out of ways to publically embarrass itself eventually? Doesn't it? I mean, they're really going to have to start getting imaginative.
They seriously need some new PR guys. The old ones are obviously insane. Remember the goat offal thing for God of War, or those awesome E3 speaches? Man, I miss E3.

I think they got new PR guys. I met a few Sony PR guys at E3 and they were all, on board from other companies.

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-04 06:43pm

Dominus Atheos wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:This looks like a major PR disaster that is just waiting to erupt.
I really hope you're trying to make a joke.

As Masami pointed it out, that poster looks like some inspection at a slave market, and it was intentionally so given that it was intended to draw a comparison between white and black.

Dominus Atheos · Post by **Dominus Atheos** » 2007-09-04 06:51pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
Dominus Atheos wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:This looks like a major PR disaster that is just waiting to erupt.
I really hope you're trying to make a joke.
As Masami pointed it out, that poster looks like some inspection at a slave market, and it was intentionally so given that it was intended to draw a comparison between white and black.

Yeah, no shit Sherlock, but you said "This looks like a major PR disaster just waiting to erupt" when that already happened a year ago. Don't tell me you never heard about it?

Fingolfin_Noldor · Post by **Fingolfin_Noldor** » 2007-09-04 07:13pm

Dominus Atheos wrote:Yeah, no shit Sherlock, but you said "This looks like a major PR disaster just waiting to erupt" when that already happened a year ago. Don't tell me you never heard about it?

Sadly, I do not follow every single misdeed of Sony.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-09-04 08:27pm

Aaron Ash wrote:I actually use Wikipedia often, but you can be assured I'm only looking for random bits of historic trivia and I'm wearing my extra-thick Captain Sceptical glasses.

You missed such a tremendous Opportunity when you said "glasses"; it would have been so much better if you had said "Captain Skeptical Spectacles".

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2007-09-04 08:34pm

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:
Dominus Atheos wrote:
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:This looks like a major PR disaster that is just waiting to erupt.
I really hope you're trying to make a joke.
As Masami pointed it out, that poster looks like some inspection at a slave market, and it was intentionally so given that it was intended to draw a comparison between white and black.

Yeah, but there was also an ad of the black girl beating up the white one.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2007-09-04 10:46pm

Uraniun235 wrote:"Captain Skeptical Spectacles"

Spectacular!
On-topic, yeah, this seems like a non-story.

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2007-09-04 11:19pm

Aaron Ash wrote:

Wow, Ziggy Stardust had a daughter, and she endorses SONY!