Uh, Capcom design people? We know you were probably in a rush to get Okami out, and it's a port, so maybe you think the majority of the game's inital sales have already come and gone, and you guys are really busy over there, and things get stressful when your girlfriends find out about you wearing their panties on Thursday afternoons for that "thing" you do with the guys, but seriously, could you focus for a second and stop leaving the IGN logo all over my game and related merchandise, please?
Last week the IGN watermark was discovered on the cover of the Wii release of Okami -- obviously, someone underestimated the tenacity and free time that internet matlocks have on their hands. We could facepalm if the BradyGames strategy guide had the exact same error, but what really spoils breakfast is that the watermark is in a DIFFERENT place on the guide's cover than the watermark on the game's cover. Argh.
Capcom has since offered replacement covers to owners of the Wii title, but I'm not sure we'll see anything to correct this error, considering nothing short of a bookcover would fix that problem. Everyone makes mistakes, of course, but you can bet someone got screamed at for this trainwreck. Basic Photoshop courses can have an incredible preventive effect for future screwups, so I hear.
[Via Slashgear — Thanks Jonathan]
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Next up Okami Tshirts and underoos with the IGN mark!!
"We know you were probably in a rush to get Okami out"
Don't WE know it, amirite?
ALL ABOARD THE FAILBOAT
TOOT TOOT
LOL....
HOW DOES THIS SHIT HAPPEN????
Someone got fired this week...trust me.
I want to get the IGN watermark tattooed on my butt.
"Basis Photoshop courses can have an incredible preventative effect for future screwups, so I hear."
Basic spellchecking functions have an incredible preventive effect for future screw-ups, so I hear.
^_^
Sorry, couldn't resist. I'll present myself for public flogging and stoning out back.
@Krip: Visualizing some guy at Capcom having the world's biggest "oh shit" moment makes me lol a little inside
Still better then a gamespot watermark.
IGN: Your source for images when you're under a deadline or your graphic artist is drunk and stoned on coke.
Guess it's bad, but not as bad as the "faux-pax" that is Super Mario Galaxy's "U R MR GAY" on their original release boxes.
@bassbeast - ARGH!
I fail. Fixed.
BTW: When can I expect a Destructoid watermark to hit a game cover? That'd be the shit.
Sorry, but I fail to see the big deal. The original material belongs to Capcom, not IGN. No, I don't know why the original hi-res artwork that Capcom owns was not used for the Wii cover or why IGN apparently had a print-quality, high-res cover available, but the Okami cover was not the original property of IGN anyway.
And this most certainly is not worthy of me bothering to contact Capcom in order to get a replacement cover. Hell, I thnk Activision's f*ck up with "Guitar Hero III" would be more of a corporate embarassment than this Okami/IGN logo issue.
@John B - Sure, legally there's no issue. If anything, it's free advertising for IGN, why would they have any issue with it. It just makes Capcom's designers look like complete amateurs and makes me giggle uncontrollably.
Amusing, but like John B said, not a big deal. Still, it would have been much cooler with a Dtoid watermark on it, like Alpha said.
Is it just me or the watermark position a little suspect. Shouldn't it be in one of the corners of the image? What is IGN doing watermarking Okami art anyways?!? Who do they think they are??!? What is the meaning of life???!?!eleven
Having worked on a couple of guides myself, I'm not surprised at all. Capcom more than likely sent out the same packet of artwork files to the guide publisher that their own box design people used/created. And the guide cover had probably been sent through to print long before the game went public and people found the watermark.
Their guide was printed long before anyone realized the mark was there. And it's not like the guide people are paid to examine the artwork assets they get, they're paid to slap it on the cover the way Capcom wants it done.
All in all, all the blame still goes back to whichever strange Capcom staffer decided it was best the use the IGN picture instead of whatever original assets they may have had lying around.
IGN Watermark = Subliminal Advertising.. I called it first! ;)
S'ok, Collette. There's loads of love still here for you. :)
See?! I can't even spell your name right!
I phail.
Dear Capcom,
Patch tool.
Love,
Cobra, MD, PhD, DDS, OB/GYN, OPP
I actually facepalmed.
My roommate pointed this out when we were at Gamestop picking this up. (No, I didn't get any preorders, but yes, I was asked repeatedly.) If you notice, the watermark on the guide is a little higher than the watermark on the game cover. I'm not certain why, I guess they just used different art. Very slightly different.
jgclark: They didn't use different art, two guys put together the same picture two different times with the same art assets. The mistake was made on the original art asset designs.
Capcom's art department sends out a big folder full of art to the Guide design team, and they use those pieces however they see fit. Generally speaking, the guide designers want the guide's cover to match the game's cover, but sometimes the game uses a collage of other pieces(like Okami did) and they have to reproduce it if that collage isn't included in the original assets folder.
The mistake was on the original background piece that Capcom mailed out in the art assets. That's the only explanation that works in this case.
"failsauce detected"
failsauce detected on the word failsauce
Don't there people check the internet? :-)
Wow, so much fail
How the hell does this keep happening?
How many people must be fired before this is fixed?