I'm sure some of you noticed, as Patrick just retweeted the PR company for Duke on Twitter. Kind of sad, really....

Ungh, what a shitty thing to say.

I'm confused, who are you calling tacky?

This does reflect mighty badly on anybody associated with this PR company.

Take 2 wouldn't be that stupid...

I'm confused, who are you calling tacky?

Waiting to see how long it is before Take 2 releases a statement saying that PR firm went rogue and they won't be employed in the future. Not only is it tacky, it's dumb on their part...unless whoever runs their twitter account is a huge Duke fan, and then it's hilarious.

edit- oh, and trhe PR company just apologized, said they acted out of emotion, and will be issuing private apologies to whoever they secretly-publicly insulted. Nothing to see here...

Fucking seriously? PR agnecy going on twitter and whining is fucking laughable. They need better PR if they are posting dumb shit like that

I don't think "PR" means what they think it means. 

They apologize! Everything is alright now....right?!?!?

Wow, what an asshole.

http://twitter.com/#!/TheRednerGroup

Reading the recent tweets makes me want to punch the person behind the account, fucking amatuerish

I was following this as well, and it's disgusting. Not to dredge up old memories, but this PR Firm's stance has a very Kane & Lynch vibe to it. Very disgusting play on their part, and this "apology" is very telling. How DARE you threaten magazines/websites for their reviews of a game. The PR Firms job is to spin things, and they failed at that too. Spin the reviews by saying something like, "This is a resurrection of a classic franchised mostly designed through it's original creators, but completed by Take 2."

Make it a triumph of Gearbox releasing the unreleasable, and spinning the fact that now Duke has found a home that future releases will receive a proper revival. See "TheRednerGroup" I just did your bullshit job for you. It wasn't that hard.

This is disgusting, and insulting. Not just to reviewers, but in general to all those who appreciate journalistic pursuits at any level. Shame on you "TheRednerGroup". You should hire a PR Firm, not to spin this for you, but to show you how to do your damn job.

If anyone needed proof that game reviews are busted, here's a perfect example. Fucking ridiculous - 2K should drop their services or issue a serious apology if they want to maintain any sort of respect.

A few twitter posts made in the the heat of the moment. Rather unprofessional, but nothing to get excited over.

It's amazing; twitter has made it so easy to make the kind of conversational mistakes you used to only find in person online.

Should they be a bully about reviews?  No.     But  in their defense with lines like this   "Its a game with an odious personality, one that could only endear itself to the sociopathic and mentally maladjusted." - Jim Sterling , Destructoid 

Seriously, why do people type 'r' and 'b' like that? Are the words 'are' and 'be' so long that you need shorthand? Goddamn, I hate Twitter.

@Demoskinos said:

If the reviewer thinks the game is a bad game that is one thing but the absolute venom being spewed at this game is absurd especially when its being rated lower than games THAT STRAIGHT UP DON'T WORK is just dumb.

@TheRednerGroup

...based on today's venom.

@Demoskinos said:

@PrivateIronTFU: 140 characters is why. Shorter your words the more you can fit into a message.

Which just proves my point that Twitter is fucking awful.

Seriously, why do people type 'r' and 'b' like that? Are the words 'are' and 'be' so long that you need shorthand? Goddamn, I hate Twitter.

Which just proves my point that Twitter is fucking awful.

@supermike6: It saves you, what, like two characters? The way I see it is, if you can't fit your original thought into 140 characters, you probably shouldn't be using Twitter to begin with.

I know this thread was created first, but the alternative has much more detail, so I'm going to redirect the discussion over there.

NO ONE MOD SHOULD HAVE ALL THIS POWER.