I think it was a pretty dick thing to do, implying that people somehow made a bigger deal out of it than it actually was, but I'm not sure Tretton has a mode other than 'asshole'.
I think it was a pretty dick thing to do, implying that people somehow made a bigger deal out of it than it actually was, but I'm not sure Tretton has a mode other than 'asshole'.
did you miss the long apology? it was pretty long.
You guys who are saying 'he's an asshole' and 'what a dick' don't seem to know what you're talking about...
The joke wasn't belittling nor was it in bad taste. Why do you think the BP oil spill got press for months? Tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. The reality is that bad situations are big news, and the way they get resolved or at least start to get reconstructed is deftly interesting to people. It's intrinsic in our nature, we care when something bad happens and we want to see how it'll get better. That's what Tretton was calling attention to in a light-hearted way, it wasn't asshole-ish at all.
For the record, I'm not saying the PSN outage is as important as a tsunami or oil spills, just an analogy.
I think it was a pretty dick thing to do, implying that people somehow made a bigger deal out of it than it actually was, but I'm not sure Tretton has a mode other than 'asshole'.
did you miss the long apology? it was pretty long.
The apology honestly struck me as insincere, coming after the joke about the press. I'd never seen Tretton before that conference, so it's not like I've got a distaste for the man or anything, but the whole time it came off (to me) as more of a dig at people who asked for an apology than a real one. @Bassman2112: I understand that big events like this get a lot of publicity, but the way he joked about it seemed like more of a "You guys just needed something to talk about, and this wasn't a big deal until you made it one" kind of statement. Again, could be wrong, but it really didn't seem like admitting that they made serious mistakes, which is what a lot of people were looking for.
Considering Jack made a small joke and then made a personal apology (which he stated on GT interview was not scripted) deserves respect from me. What he gave us was far better then the shit-tastic show Microsoft gave us, sadly they didn't even say sorry for such a kiddie on rails Kinect show that it felt like a slap in the face to the hardcore community. So, yeah..good job Jack Tretton on the Sony show..I know where my money is going next 12months!
I think it was a pretty dick thing to do, implying that people somehow made a bigger deal out of it than it actually was, but I'm not sure Tretton has a mode other than 'asshole'.
Why? No information was leaked at the time it happened but all the news sites acted like it did. It was just that they were hacked and didn't know what happened. The exact same thing happened to Nintendo a few weeks ago and they just admitted to it last Sunday, yet no one is talking about it. Nintendo does the exact same thing and gets a free pass, yet when it happened to Sony every dam news site on the planet went ape shit.
I think it was a pretty dick thing to do, implying that people somehow made a bigger deal out of it than it actually was, but I'm not sure Tretton has a mode other than 'asshole'.
Why? No information was leaked at the time it happened but all the news sites acted like it did. It was just that they were hacked and didn't know what happened. The exact same thing happened to Nintendo a few weeks ago and they just admitted to it last Sunday, yet no one is talking about it. Nintendo does the exact same thing and gets a free pass, yet when it happened to Sony every dam news site on the planet went ape shit.
It was mostly that no information was taken or endangered in the attack on Nintendo, going by the way this and other news stories talk about it. Even the group responsible for the hacking admitted that the security was much better on Nintendo's end, and that the method they had used wouldn't work now that it had been fixed. Sony got hacked, realized that people's information might have been in danger, and then didn't tell anyone before being hacked again multiple times. Lackluster security aside, waiting when you even think someone's credit card information was stolen isn't good.
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