It's not just Electronic Arts getting in on the Wikipedia editing shenanigans, it seems. One of our top tipsters, Action Bastard, has informed us of a certain edit on Halo 3's Wikipedia page informing us, in biased glory, that the game will not look any better than its prequel Halo 2. While such childish trolling is hardly news on the Internet, the fact that Sony itself seems to be the purveyor of the immature mudslinging should be cause for a raised eyebrow and condescending snicker.
The IP address for the recent edit is 217.18.23.2, an IP that just so happens to belong to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in Liverpool, UK. Naughty naughty. Checking out the IP's history on Wikipedia, we see a few other instances where SCEE has shown its maturity and sensibility. Because they are funny, I have contained them after the jump. In the meantime, remember that the Internet has WikiScanner now, Sony, and any company that wants to indulge in this kind of infantile behaviour will be caught and made to look like a bunch of incompetent boobs.
Your edit to DJ Shadow
Please do not add unhelpful and unconstructive content to Wikipedia, as you did to DJ Shadow. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Ctbolt 12:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Your edit to Parr, Merseyside
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Parr, Merseyside, you will be blocked from editing. BlueValour 17:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to John Inverdale. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. —DerHexer (Talk) 16:54, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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8:42 AM on 09.04.2007
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and the gameplay... it looks just like halo 2
Oh wait! To do that I'd have to buy one first. lawl
Also, my mate bought his £450 PS3 last saturday....i picked up the controller and straight away felt satisfied to buy my xbox360...talk about cheap and nasty, no weight to it, no rumble and it was seeeee through!
gotta win some way. seem like microsoft buys up all the press these days, and sony hardly even gets covered in top stories.. oh well..
I've got the halo 1 and 2... and honestly when I saw the game play demo.. I felt really disappointed, I've expected a lots more from halo 3
Hahahaha.
Sue
Guy loosing job+car+house+dog+pstriple+rubber duckie+wife+socks
09/04/2007 08:54
I'm actually with sony on this one... I'm no fanboy, I play both on sony and ms systems, it's just that halo 3 graphics doesn't seem much of a next gen...
and the gameplay... it looks just like halo 2
I agree too but that still doesn't mean they have to do that bullshit in the wikipedia page. I haven't seen the ps3 wiki page but i'm sure people haven't written it looks like a goerge forman grill and that it doesn't have good games.
even though it sucks I still want the ps3 cause I don't have any console.
BETRAYAl.
This is a FAKE and that's that.
obviously they dont understand the halo crowd or hardcore gamers in general if they think only minor tweaks to graphics or gameplay is a bad thing.
On top of that, some of the levels of thi game are open. Corridor games can afford to use more resources on textures and polygons because they don't have to worry about the player flying around the level in an ariel vehicle. Halo 3 looks like it may achieve a lot graphically especially considering Halo 3 will have some large open levels and ariel combat
At the same time, Halo 3 remains true to the Halo art style. It's not photo-realistic. It's kinda cartoony and more colorful than your Gears or Ressistance. But I don't think its appropriate to confuse artistic style with grapical prowess - there is a difference.
There's a chance I could be wrong, and once I actually play Halo 3 it won't seem as impressive. But from the little bit I;ve seen so far its looking great. Can't comment on the gameplay since my only experience was the beta. But if it play a little more like CE than 2 then I can't really ask for more. Well except maybe a team mode that incorporates Phantoms and Pelicans and protecting bases - but matybe that's asking for too muck
This story is a fake though, so don't worry about it.
That comment is about as darn foolish as this whole story, which I'd like to remind everyone is fake! There's no history of any SCEE IP address in the Halo 3 article on Wiki.
As for using Pelicans and Phantoms and stuff, play the Halo RTS, Halo Wars!
The other edits from that IP are... interesting, too.
Thanks for that - right... getting to the bottom of this now.
Although that IP address is part of a set used by SCEE, it is also in use by Telewest, Blueyonder and a cable provider as a dynamic IP address. Just do a traceroute... this is not uncommon. I'm working for a UK client at present who has an IP address range that makes them look like the Oregon Institute in the US!
Whoever he/she is though, they're a bit of an idiot... There's a chance they work for Sony, but there's an equal chance this is a 1. set-up or 2. coincidence
- Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate
Oh shit!
thats all
this is far too immature