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Ha ha, priceless. The marketing team for Dante's Inferno should be fired; between this and the fake protest, I think EA needs to rethink their approach.
Also, Booth Bros LOL(:
Also, Booth Bros LOL(:
Awesome way to make a point, PixelPoet! Also am I the only one who notices the double entendre for "Brothers in Arms"?
If I'm tipping $240 at Hooters she better at least go have a drink with me later.
Well played though PixelPoet, well played indeed.
Well played though PixelPoet, well played indeed.
So, which of the other deadly sins would you have used as the basis for a competition? Sloth? That'd would have been great eh, "Just... uhhh... sit there and do nothing to win a prize".
I suppose they could have switched it to anger and given the prizes to whoever overreacted the most.
I suppose they could have switched it to anger and given the prizes to whoever overreacted the most.
YAY FOR GOOD DECISIONS!
Seriously though, way to go PixelPoet. It's cool that somebody stood up to EA for their stupid PR antics.
Seriously though, way to go PixelPoet. It's cool that somebody stood up to EA for their stupid PR antics.
I don't get it
1- Join contest
2- Win a prize, treated equally
3- Complain about equality
4- Give back money
5- ???
6- Loss (Well, profit doesn't fit here)
Some people just love to feel victimized today...
1- Join contest
2- Win a prize, treated equally
3- Complain about equality
4- Give back money
5- ???
6- Loss (Well, profit doesn't fit here)
Some people just love to feel victimized today...
Bad EA! You made a contest that people felt was sexist and then gave out the prizes randomly to whoever submitted pictures! How dare you!
This entire thing makes me feel very happy.
Maybe it's just the picture, but this is the best thing to come out of all the marketing schemes for this game.
I mean, just look at that picture. Do you think that there's even a fraction of that levity in any of the other contestant's entries?
Speaking of, do we know what the other winners are?
Maybe it's just the picture, but this is the best thing to come out of all the marketing schemes for this game.
I mean, just look at that picture. Do you think that there's even a fraction of that levity in any of the other contestant's entries?
Speaking of, do we know what the other winners are?
How is a booth babe contest sexist or anti-gay, especially considering they allowed a gay person to win? So are we to infer that any company that uses attractive models is exploitative?
He tried to prove a point that the contest was misogynistic or exploitative, but was proven wrong when they selected him as the winner. I don't get it.
He tried to prove a point that the contest was misogynistic or exploitative, but was proven wrong when they selected him as the winner. I don't get it.
I have really mixed feelings about this whole thing. I thought contest was juvenile, but this response really rubs me the wrong way. It feels overzealous. I mean, I'm glad someone's calling EA on their insulting contest, but I wish it had been a way that I could really get behind.
I agree with Trev. Very overzealous.
I guess we have gotten to the point where something can't be obviously done in a tongue-in-cheek manner as a gag, or for fun? Of course not everyone is going to think it's a fun idea, and that's fun. But not everything has to be a huge, offensive ordeal that must be protested and eventually become the subject of righteous anger from every imaginable person.
How is the idea of a contest where you take a picture with a booth babe any worse than having booth babes in the first place? How is it any worse than posting pictures of said booth babes on a website (as this site and many, many others do)?
Don't start with the wording of the contest. Anyone who read the whole thing knows that it wasn't EA condoning people sexually harassing or inappropriately interacting with booth babes. It was just a way to tie it in with the over the top nature of the game.
Aren't there more important things to be up in arms about?
I guess we have gotten to the point where something can't be obviously done in a tongue-in-cheek manner as a gag, or for fun? Of course not everyone is going to think it's a fun idea, and that's fun. But not everything has to be a huge, offensive ordeal that must be protested and eventually become the subject of righteous anger from every imaginable person.
How is the idea of a contest where you take a picture with a booth babe any worse than having booth babes in the first place? How is it any worse than posting pictures of said booth babes on a website (as this site and many, many others do)?
Don't start with the wording of the contest. Anyone who read the whole thing knows that it wasn't EA condoning people sexually harassing or inappropriately interacting with booth babes. It was just a way to tie it in with the over the top nature of the game.
Aren't there more important things to be up in arms about?
@Akathaoneguy: Because EA said for them to commit an act of lust with a booth babe in said picture. Thats just vaguely defined enough that some idiots would take it to some retarded extreme and its not like the booth babes signed up for that sorta shit.
EA doesn't really need to spin anything, in my opinion. They've already included a submission with a Booth Bro instead of a booth babe (as the rules entailed specifically) among their winners. While the wording of the original contest my have been construed as sexist, EA has already shown a willingness to include the gay community by awarding PixelPoet a prize.
While I'm of course in support of the gay community, looking for things to get up in arms about doesn't do anyone any favors. There is nothing in the contest that promoted sexual harassment. Sexuality, yes, but not sexual harassment. Most of his suggestions of what to do with the money are entirely irrelevant.
While I'm of course in support of the gay community, looking for things to get up in arms about doesn't do anyone any favors. There is nothing in the contest that promoted sexual harassment. Sexuality, yes, but not sexual harassment. Most of his suggestions of what to do with the money are entirely irrelevant.
I agree with akathatoneguy. If you're going to get angry at a contest where you take pictures with booth babes than why not protest the booth babes themselves? Isn't that already exploiting women? I think the whole thing is being taken way too seriously.
@ Midgetsnowman-
Come on. The poster itself says "Take pictures with us or any booth babe." It even shows a guy just standing there next to a booth babe. It's not as if the guy is bending over the girl in the picture or pantomiming various sexual acts with her. Again, the "lust" angle is just to tie it in to the game. Poorly contrived? Sure, but not really as offensive as it's being made out to be.
I would argue that the idiots who will take it to the extreme are the same idiots that would be doing some idiotic shit no matter what.
Also, the booth babes DID sign up for it. Their job is to look hot, get ogled all day long, and sure, take pictures with drooling adolescents in order to drum up some interest in the product that the booth is featuring.
PixelPoet used this as a platform to vent about issues that were obviously bothering him anyway. At some point, someone would have been the target of this rant. He just used EA because apparently their juvenile, yet ultimately harmless promotion fit the bill enough for him to get up on his soapbox.
Come on. The poster itself says "Take pictures with us or any booth babe." It even shows a guy just standing there next to a booth babe. It's not as if the guy is bending over the girl in the picture or pantomiming various sexual acts with her. Again, the "lust" angle is just to tie it in to the game. Poorly contrived? Sure, but not really as offensive as it's being made out to be.
I would argue that the idiots who will take it to the extreme are the same idiots that would be doing some idiotic shit no matter what.
Also, the booth babes DID sign up for it. Their job is to look hot, get ogled all day long, and sure, take pictures with drooling adolescents in order to drum up some interest in the product that the booth is featuring.
PixelPoet used this as a platform to vent about issues that were obviously bothering him anyway. At some point, someone would have been the target of this rant. He just used EA because apparently their juvenile, yet ultimately harmless promotion fit the bill enough for him to get up on his soapbox.
@Squealing Mage: it is taken too seriously but the guy is commiting a sin to beign going against nature thats his choice and for a game like dantes inferno it makes me laugh even more.... but you also get white people saying resi 5 is racist against black people and to my knowleage I aint heard any black people protest agaisnt it so people are fighting/prosting agaist something tha does not concern them.....fools
...Huh? I didn't realize anybody actually took offense to that contest. I mean, the booth babes aren't being held against their will. They are there because looking pretty is their #1 (and sometimes only) skill, and they are getting paid to do it. If they thought their job was demeaning (and their job includes having pictures taken), then they wouldn't do it.
Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with the contest, and the fact that EA chose one of the GayGamer writers with a booth bro as a runner up just reinforces that there isn't anything sexist or anti-homosexual going on.
Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with the contest, and the fact that EA chose one of the GayGamer writers with a booth bro as a runner up just reinforces that there isn't anything sexist or anti-homosexual going on.
I can't believe this guy went out of his way to use his sexual orientation as a tool to gain some cheap publicity. How pathetic.
yup I have crap punctuation since I just let my mind speak XD and i'm entitled to my opinion/s also I did state it was his choice and I have nothing against the guy.
@Space Moose
I'm assuming you're being sarcastic because that's exactly how I'd describe the original contest - EA using its female booth babes to get cheap publicity among the male demographic.
I'm assuming you're being sarcastic because that's exactly how I'd describe the original contest - EA using its female booth babes to get cheap publicity among the male demographic.
Shit! I forgot that Homosexuality is the ultimate sin... I had so many pics in my leather gear...that prize could be mine!lol :D
@akathatoneguy "How is the idea of a contest where you take a picture with a booth babe any worse than having booth babes in the first place? How is it any worse than posting pictures of said booth babes on a website (as this site and many, many others do)?"
Very valid points. They ought to just get rid of the booth "participants" for good anyways. Let everyone know, that this is why we can't have nice things. Have a monotone drone up at your booth, mindlessly repeating all the new features of the game. Maybe even a programmed robot. Robotic engineers may cry exploitation though.
Everything is theatrics in gaming. Everything. This article is testament.
Very valid points. They ought to just get rid of the booth "participants" for good anyways. Let everyone know, that this is why we can't have nice things. Have a monotone drone up at your booth, mindlessly repeating all the new features of the game. Maybe even a programmed robot. Robotic engineers may cry exploitation though.
Everything is theatrics in gaming. Everything. This article is testament.
Eh, if he did get a runner-up prize or whatever, I don't see what the big deal is. Yeah, it was a bit sexist of EA to have the contest in the first place - but that's not really his issue to get worked up about. They're not really discriminating against gay men, it was just a lack of foresight but they show they have a good sense of things at least, so eh...whatever. He's being kind of self-righteous about it. Though if it does in any way make EA rethink their marketing strategy, good for them.
@jackburnt and @cbunn and @motorobo and @JiR INC (If you guys all classify yourself as straight, especially)-
Shut Up. No, seriously, I'm not gonna even be so humble as to ask you please. Just shut. the fuck. up.
I'd have something more intelligible to say in normal circumstances, but it'd really be lost on you. Not worth it. Just for the sake of any sanity, shut the fuck up.
@jackburnt and @cbunn and @motorobo and @JiR INC (If you guys all classify yourself as straight, especially)-
Shut Up. No, seriously, I'm not gonna even be so humble as to ask you please. Just shut. the fuck. up.
I'd have something more intelligible to say in normal circumstances, but it'd really be lost on you. Not worth it. Just for the sake of any sanity, shut the fuck up.
That guy is a self righteous prick, and his advices confirms it. Also why I never got to GayGamer. Don't know why everyone is bitching about the contest. There's nothing illegal with taking pictures with booth babes, now if a couple of guys started sexually harassing them, that's a totally different story. And how is that sexist to take a picture of booth babes? Do you guys REALLY want a booth bro bear or whatever in tight bikini?
Woah wait...He won for that. Shame @ EA for crappy judges. I see no lust there. PP could have at least shown some nipple.
The thing is the whole reason EA gave that gay fellow a prize is BECAUSE he is gay, so as not to appear homophobic. It's a marketing ploy within a marketing ploy so you think that EA isn't quite so horrible.
@waronmars
Agreed, I can only think it's to save face. Considering how poorly they're handling the advertising for this game, it comes off very tacky.
I was more interested in this game at first, but with how EA is treating it, I'm slowly losing interest.
I don't see a problem with the way this guy handled anything and it seems like some of the people didn't read the letter. This picture isn't from this contest, it's from last years PAX and he declined his picture being used by them.
He's making a stand, which I think should be done. The Video Game community is stereotyped by the ignorance of general society already, I think booth babes helps enforce that a bit. I'm not interested in Booth Babes, I'm interested in Video Games. We buy your games, 'you' should acknowledge the community as a whole, not like boob loving cave dwellers.
If you want to advertise your game, make it a good game, get it out there and stop doing tacky things like this.
Agreed, I can only think it's to save face. Considering how poorly they're handling the advertising for this game, it comes off very tacky.
I was more interested in this game at first, but with how EA is treating it, I'm slowly losing interest.
I don't see a problem with the way this guy handled anything and it seems like some of the people didn't read the letter. This picture isn't from this contest, it's from last years PAX and he declined his picture being used by them.
He's making a stand, which I think should be done. The Video Game community is stereotyped by the ignorance of general society already, I think booth babes helps enforce that a bit. I'm not interested in Booth Babes, I'm interested in Video Games. We buy your games, 'you' should acknowledge the community as a whole, not like boob loving cave dwellers.
If you want to advertise your game, make it a good game, get it out there and stop doing tacky things like this.
I thought the fake protest was a good idea. I love a good trolling. Maybe some Christians would find it offensive, but if they did then they are ultra sensitive and probably would have joined the fake protest if given the opportunity.
As for the contest: I take no offense to those who are misogynistic, as long as you are open and honest about it. Most misogynists aren't and they'll act like they love their girlfriend and then turn around and bang their sister. Fuck these hypocritical douchebags and fuck EA for acting like they are concerned about the "boys club" in gaming culture and then have this contest.
And what's with PixelPoet dissing frat boys. Clearly he hates Greeks. Cheating bastard used a pic from the wrong event rabble rabble rabble.
As for the contest: I take no offense to those who are misogynistic, as long as you are open and honest about it. Most misogynists aren't and they'll act like they love their girlfriend and then turn around and bang their sister. Fuck these hypocritical douchebags and fuck EA for acting like they are concerned about the "boys club" in gaming culture and then have this contest.
And what's with PixelPoet dissing frat boys. Clearly he hates Greeks. Cheating bastard used a pic from the wrong event rabble rabble rabble.
@Rigby
I've diagnosed your illness, and you have a case of asspain. I have prescribed some ointment for you.
I've diagnosed your illness, and you have a case of asspain. I have prescribed some ointment for you.
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