When Game Advertising Goes Wrong

[hu6800]

Hahahahah

Those soldiers are trained to kill americans..
you should be more worried about where the russians missle targeting systems are set to as default ,, then the altered pictures they are holding.
Nothing will ever hurt more than the truth...
that dead comrad in the picture they are holding could have been
the one that killed an american in war had he still been alive.
think about it.

[NvrMore]

^ and now we know the mentality that buys into this sort of crap ^

Unfortunately, a large number of advertising strategies come down to the principal that any reaction is a good reaction.

Had this been a doctored pic of Americans mourning loved ones or a comical take on people jumping from the buildings on 9/11 (as previously mentioned) there would have been utter outrage (rightfully), but sadly a large number of Americans seem to hold the limited mentality displayed above, namely "it's okay if it's not us and if it's not us it's entertaining".

Best thing you can do is show your distain for such advertising with your wallet.. namely don't buy the mag and don't buy the game.

[Kevin Listwan]

Well put NvrMore.

[AB Positive]

Well put NvrMore.

agreed, can't say more than that.

-AG

[rbudrick]

This just goes to show that EGM has always been, and always wll be a bunch of pompous, arrogant assholes who think their shit doesn't stink. Fucking jerks.

I don't care if those were the North Koreans or the Iraqis...that is in really fucking poor taste....

-Rob

[TheSmirk]

Is it Computer Gaming World (as stated in first post on Gun Site) or EGM as stated everywhere else, or both? And yes, its in poor taste, but they were probably figuring that no one would find the original (since you're only supposed to know and think about games! Right?) Or the artist found the image , didn't know or care about what it depicted and photoshoped it up.

[kainemaxwell]

Read about this yesterday on some other boards:
http://www.gunsnet.net/forums/showth...hreadid=156754

[punkoffgirl]

Oh, another great line is the part where they say they had no idea the original context of the picture. I guess that answers my question about having permission to use/alter the image.

[crashdummycow01]

i bet no Russians work for EGM

[rbudrick]

i bet no Russians work for EGM

Probably Sushi-X.

lol, j/k

-Rob