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Sony is a dirty Wikipedia troll, edits Halo 3 article, loves online vandalism photo

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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Axle's Avatar
Axle at 09/04/2007 08:41
pwned!
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 09/04/2007 08:44
Although it won't look any better than halo 2... xD .. love this one... I wonder when will ms make a little edit on killzone 2 :P
lwesquire's Avatar
lwesquire at 09/04/2007 08:48
Sounds more like a loose cannon than pre-meditated PR tomfoolery. Any way we can find out what the other edits were?
BigPopaGamer's Avatar
BigPopaGamer at 09/04/2007 08:49
Still getting Halo 3. Stop being jealous Sony, you have MGS...well never mind. But wait you still get Lair and Killzone! Now run along and play with your Final Fantasy figures and leave the big boy games to the big boys.
bhive01's Avatar
bhive01 at 09/04/2007 08:51
WARHAWK!
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 09/04/2007 08:51
This is waaaaay to immature for a decision to be made by an official at Sony. Some quality control tester out there decided to hate on the best selling game evar and didn't realize that it would get traced back to him.
Mabec's Avatar
Mabec at 09/04/2007 08:52
This is funny and this means WAR
Neonie's Avatar
Neonie at 09/04/2007 08:53
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 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
Winston Churchill's Avatar
Winston Churchill at 09/04/2007 08:55
What on Earth DO Sony think about John Inverdale?
OutrageousToob's Avatar
OutrageousToob at 09/04/2007 08:57
Man, this makes me want to sell my PS3...

Oh wait! To do that I'd have to buy one first. lawl
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 09/04/2007 08:58
I hope for him it's not his real name...
Cowzilla3's Avatar
Cowzilla3 at 09/04/2007 08:59
I think it's a bit telling that someone at Sony thinks the game needs to look better to be better. Clearly their graphics whoring ways are still strongly entrenched.
TorpedoTed's Avatar
TorpedoTed at 09/04/2007 09:00
Haha, this game will own software sales for a long time, whats the point of slagging it off when we havent seen the finished article?? Oh and how dumb are sony employee's??
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!
Snaileb 's Avatar
Snaileb at 09/04/2007 09:08
Fucking hilarious, good find Jim.
Joe Burling's Avatar
Joe Burling at 09/04/2007 09:08
foxhound, killzone 2 doesn't look any better than the original, either.
hexfix93's Avatar
hexfix93 at 09/04/2007 09:09
GO SONY!

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..
blehman's Avatar
blehman at 09/04/2007 09:15
Wow, way to get busted there sony.
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 09/04/2007 09:18
@ BuckF1tches if you think so.. ok..
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
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar
AngelsDontBurn at 09/04/2007 09:23
HAHAHAHAHA!
Lowtax's Avatar
Lowtax at 09/04/2007 09:34
Ahahaha that's funny, from what I can tell it does look really similar. Nothing else to say, it's true. Can't wait to play it though, I want to throw down on some phat drunken lans.
BlackDove's Avatar
BlackDove at 09/04/2007 09:36
That was...

Hahahaha.
DrXym's Avatar
DrXym at 09/04/2007 09:36
Sony gets the blame for some jerk's comments. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy was a QA tester or similar.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 09/04/2007 09:36
Silly Sony, don't they know you're only supposed to vandalize the wiki article on chickens?
DolphGB's Avatar
DolphGB at 09/04/2007 09:41
Hmmmmm.... Funny that this particular IP address doesn't actually show up ANYWHERE in the history of the Halo 3 page... I smell a FAKE RAT...
Axle's Avatar
Axle at 09/04/2007 09:50
@DolphGB. It won't though will it? Because it will have been omitted for being detrimental to the Wiki cause.
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 09/04/2007 09:52
@DolphGB, you are right, it doesn't.
Teta's Avatar
Teta at 09/04/2007 09:52
After reading this i predict:
Sue
Guy loosing job+car+house+dog+pstriple+rubber duckie+wife+socks
StrawberryFFuck's Avatar
StrawberryFFuck at 09/04/2007 10:00
foxhound009
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.
DolphGB's Avatar
DolphGB at 09/04/2007 10:04
@Axle - then how did the guy who 'found' this find it in the first place if it's been suppressed??

This is a FAKE and that's that.
Philonious's Avatar
Philonious at 09/04/2007 10:05
There is a difference between a company and it's employees.
iliketuna's Avatar
iliketuna at 09/04/2007 10:07
of course sony would get the blame if one of their employees was screwing around. who else would?

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.
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uptonogood at 09/04/2007 10:09
OH YES, I'M POSITIVE IT WAS SONY CORPORATE THAT INITIATED THIS HIT-JOB. OH MY GOD WHAT A SCANDAL. this was a really stupid article. i want my twenty seconds back. i'm sure individuals in a corporation could never hold opinions against other companies. ever.
D-Nez's Avatar
D-Nez at 09/04/2007 10:20
I don't know where people get that Halo 3 doesn't look much better than its predessesor. After playing the beta, i played a little bit of Halo 2 MP and to me the difference was significant. The textures in Halo 2 were ugly in comparison. Halo 3's campaign image quality appears to have more depth; images in the foreground pop while the background is more muted. There's more detail in objects and what I have seen of the lighting looks great.

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
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DolphGB at 09/04/2007 10:25
@D-Nez - I'm sure you're right. I would expect Halo 3 to be better than Halo 2.

This story is a fake though, so don't worry about it.
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 09/04/2007 10:34
I agree.. sony guy shouldn't write it.
DolphGB's Avatar
DolphGB at 09/04/2007 10:38
@BuckF1tches - ok... you got me. I tried so hard not to reply to your ridiculous comment that Killzone 2 doesn't look any better than Killzone.

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.
foxhound009's Avatar
foxhound009 at 09/04/2007 10:42
mr. Sterling.. where did you found the ip? if you don't mind telling...
Huangism's Avatar
Huangism at 09/04/2007 10:48
halo sucks anyway, who cares
Amethystine's Avatar
Amethystine at 09/04/2007 10:51
Thank you, D-Nez, for saying what I was going to say. Are you perhaps my friend Sco Nex in disguise?

As for using Pelicans and Phantoms and stuff, play the Halo RTS, Halo Wars!
arhra's Avatar
arhra at 09/04/2007 10:51
@DolphGB: The edit in question was to the Halo 3 subsection of the "Halo (series)" page, not the Halo 3 article itself.

The other edits from that IP are... interesting, too.
TONX's Avatar
TONX at 09/04/2007 11:04
DolphGB's Avatar
DolphGB at 09/04/2007 11:22
@arhra

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
muggyD's Avatar
muggyD at 09/04/2007 11:27
Are you kidding me? When are you going to mention how Microsoft got busted editing Wiki when it came to failure rates of the 360? Total fanboy hypocricy
Coonskin05's Avatar
Coonskin05 at 09/04/2007 11:28
Every time Jim posts an article containing the word "Sony" in it, the fanboys internal fanboysenses tingle and show up almost immediately. Good job Jim. :)
libregkd's Avatar
libregkd at 09/04/2007 11:41
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msFullArt.asp?an=14323

- Microsoft tried to cover up the XBOX 360 failure rate

Oh shit!
geronimo's Avatar
geronimo at 09/04/2007 11:48
Incompetent boobs. Hah! Nice on, Jim.
DGX Goggles's Avatar
DGX Goggles at 09/04/2007 12:14
$ony = EPIC FAIL. Nice find Jim.
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Jark212 at 09/04/2007 12:24
NAZIS!!!!!!
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kittridge at 09/04/2007 12:40
hahahahahahaha

thats all
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