EA is in trouble

I read on kotaku that EA shipped brass knuckles as a promotion of Godfather 2 all over the country for the press. But it was to late when they realized, those are weapons, and they are illegal in many states. Now EA is asking the press to have them back, but just shipping them could be illegal. This will put EA in some problems, check the article if ya want.

HAH!

Man, that's kinda pretty funny.

I'm sure it'll be solved easily and quietly via some fine.

Shurely you jest.

"Shurely you jest."

Ha, awesome. I want some official God Father II brass knuckles.

LOL, what the hell?

LMAO

The brass knuckles thing is hilariously dumb, but doesn't it piss off anyone else how game companies are always bribing reviewers with stuff like this.  That's exactly what it is, even if the reviewers aren't taking it that way.  They're BRIBES!

Thats really dumb.And the game ended up sucking anyway.

Duh...

Stupid promotion for the game anyways. Imagine how it was brought up:

Whoever made the decision to do that should get fired.

"The brass knuckles thing is hilariously dumb, but doesn't it piss off anyone else how game companies are always bribing reviewers with stuff like this.  That's exactly what it is, even if the reviewers aren't taking it that way.  They're BRIBES!"

So, what do you suggest they do, not review the game at all, or spend money to send it all back THEN review it or what?

I want one!
P.S: and yet guns are legal? >_<

"Al3xand3r said:

So, what do you suggest they do, not review the game at all, or spend money to send it all back THEN review it or what?

Optimally I'd say reviewers should pay for the games out of their own pockets so they can get a true sense for the value.  I think anyone (basically every game critic in the industry) who accepts these bribes from publishers / developers is compromising on integrity.  Send it back, refuse delivery, grow some balls?  I don't think any of them will do this though, they have a good thing going, and they're not going to throw it away because of a silly little thing like integrity."

Ouch, lucky it was just to the press though, right?

"Ouch, lucky it was just to the press though, right?"

I'm actually starting to like EA.

More fucked up shit like this please.

"Diamond said:

"Al3xand3r said:

So, what do you suggest they do, not review the game at all, or spend money to send it all back THEN review it or what?

Optimally I'd say reviewers should pay for the games out of their own pockets so they can get a true sense for the value.  I think anyone (basically every game critic in the industry) who accepts these bribes from publishers / developers is compromising on integrity.  Send it back, refuse delivery, grow some balls?  I don't think any of them will do this though, they have a good thing going, and they're not going to throw it away because of a silly little thing like integrity."

Professional reviewers do it to earn money, not loose them... Whether it's paid by the publisher, or the company they work for, or if they're independent then with the money their website generates, makes no difference to them I imagine. They still get it for free really. And I seriously doubt a $50 game and a brass knuckle would make anyone favorably review it. Now if they added a $1200 check on top, roughly a low monthly wage in value, that would be something one could bend their integrity for I guess. Free copies of games don't pay bills or put food on the table. I have a free Steam press account and I imagine most websites you visit including this one have that also since Valve was so liberal in offering that, it never makes me think the games are better than they really are though. It just sounds to me like you read that Giant Bomb article on integrity (which btw they were too hasty to accuse companies which turned out to perhaps be unrelated) and are taking it another step further."

Professional reviewers do it to earn money, not loose them... Whether it's paid by the publisher, or the company they work for, or if they're independent then with the money their website generates, makes no difference to them I imagine. They still get it for free really. And I seriously doubt a $50 game and a brass knuckle would make anyone favorably review it. Now if they added a $1200 check on top, roughly a low monthly wage in value, that would be something one could bend their integrity for I guess. Free copies of games don't pay bills or put food on the table. I have a free Steam press account and I imagine most websites you visit including this one have that also since Valve was so liberal in offering that, it never makes me think the games are better than they really are though. It just sounds to me like you read that Giant Bomb article on integrity (which btw they were too hasty to accuse companies which turned out to perhaps be unrelated) and are taking it another step further.

Haha

GamePolitics reported on this first. I saw it and almost got kicked out of my school's library for laughing ridiculously loud.

" Still, I think every little bit of influence the publishers have over reviewers/critics is a wholly bad thing for those who listen to the critics."

"I read about this on Kotaku earlier. A few dollars there, a few over here, and I'm sure everything will be settled. I do think it's stupid on EA's part not to realise this BEFORE sending them out, though."

Nobody is going to press any charges or anything, this is a non-story. EA won't pay a single dime out of their legal department.

Haha, how can you be so stupid?! :P