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Rumor: PSASBR leaks lead to recent SCEA PR firing [Up: Fabricated report. Not true.]
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It's just a catalyst though. Might be the cause, but not solely the reason.
Boss Man
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TimeEffect
Member
Says who? I'm still a bit confused by Afro's PM and what's happening
It was from a GameTrailer's video if I recall
I feel super bad for SB too because the game is really great, and character translations into PSBR are done beautifully. I worry even further if we will see a sequel. Surely it's not that bad, right?
The way I see it now is we will see a lot of DLC, but a lot of the biggest names are third party and I dont see why PR (or whoever) cant do business with the most requested characters. Are they that stubborn, or is Sony that bad at striking a deal? Is it that dependent on the quality of the game, and are third party put off by All Stars?
Jasper Avenue
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Oh man. This is delicious.
Chuck Norris
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I do feel for them. Raiden would have been a huge reveal if not for the leaks
Afro Gunsou
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Based on what I know, SCEJ's relationship with SCEA's is very similar to NoJ's with NoA. Whatever Japan says goes.
Starsunder
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Damn, that's some bullshit right there.
MisterHero
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what if paul gales rocksteady tmnt rumor was really about rocksteady making a game based on nickelodeons new tmnt series which debuted an hour ago
lol the integrity of game news was compromised on both ends
lol the integrity of game news was compromised on both ends
Sir Ilpalazzo
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No, for both UMvC3 and TvC, they left images or names of unreleased characters in the website's coding. They didn't leak anything through Twitter.
paperheart
Banned
The stuff about Superbot working on DLC currently pleases me.
1- That's what it seems like, but what are they going to do about the rights for those 3rd party characters?
2- It definitely should be. Paul did this too with the Metroid/Star Fox fiasco. That site should be bannable at least.
I think it's more the "get a third party to PR secretly and tell him to purposely tell lies to keep their public satisfied" than the leaks themselves.
-Pyromaniac-
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I don't get this at all the more I think about it. It makes like...no sense. It's either a) total bullshit or b) the biggest display of incompetence I've seen in a long time.
yeah this rumour doesn't paint them in a good light either. Makes them look like children.
djplaeskool
Member
Yeah.
He dun goof'd.
He dun goof'd.
Mink got old quick for you? You got bored of someone for leaking most of the cast in a direct way?
wow
I dont get why Sony/SB werent more "prepared" for this kind of thing I mean the PS3 has been hacked and anything PSN gets dumped online. You'd think they would remove traces from their Beta files which a person dumped and saw all the goldmine of info pretty quick as the beta went live.
That implies they already had a business relationship with him and wouldn't need to seek him out and pay him to spread false info.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
Pai Pai Master
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So did the employee(s) responsible for making sure the beta code didn't leak the remaining content get fired? Or just a PR team that is used as a scapegoat?
TimeEffect
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The leaks were in the beta, presumably because it'd be too much work to take them out. But the issue seems to be PR jumping the gun on the reveals without talking to PG/Koji Pro
Boss Man
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Kamiya always acts that way, it's just that PG probably didn't mind him saying it.
Despite 'OH DAT KAMIYA' on GAF, lots of stuff that guy says makes him look like a child.
Hell, Bayonetta herself makes him look like a child.
Yeah, it's shitty. But Sony are absolute idiots for not going into this game without securing the most important third party characters in the first place. This is one of those games that could be really good in terms of quality, but they're not giving it the kind of foundation it deserves so it won't matter. Cloud/Sephiroth, Snake and Crash; at least two of those three had to be in. They're not characters who should come in the "future" or be DLC. It's a chance to establish a new franchise possibly so you try to make the biggest splash possible. It doesn't matter about the beta leak at the end of the day, because revealing the roster as it is, even if it went according to plan, wouldn't have accomplished much. It's underwhelming.
Let's cut some crappy deals for some unnecessary third party characters and see it all go to shit due to how incompetent we are. Yeah, your plans got messed up. But you didn't have much of a plan in the first place if we're honest.
Let's cut some crappy deals for some unnecessary third party characters and see it all go to shit due to how incompetent we are. Yeah, your plans got messed up. But you didn't have much of a plan in the first place if we're honest.
Wouldn't surprise me if Jenifer Tate ends up as DLC because of this ordeal lol
Seriously though, hopefully the get a hint and add chars like Kat, Wander, [insert attractive third party character] etc
If the article is to be considered, firing the PR team certainly wasn't a scapegoat. And yeah, I imagine the people who missed that detail probably got punished somehow.
Sony just has to pay for them. They're the ones who need them now. Especially Crash.
About Paul... those who follow the PSASBR thread are aware that I don't like him. I knew he was full of it. So I'm kind of glad that he's getting this flak.
Inaba seemed kind of salty too though.
Boss Man
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You realize you reacted the same way you are now when the leak happened right?
I don't know for sure if this rumor is true, but it definitely sounds legit.
Hydrogen Bluebird
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Drencom already said it, but get your shit together Kaz!
I might have to change my avatar lol.
Just to summarize it and from what I understand:
- Sony fails to get proper hype trailers to both Dante and Raiden because they were revealed in the beta leaks
- SCEA and Superbot then work with Paul Gale so Gale can still create hype for the title by making false leaks
- SCEJ finds out that Platinum is bashing the game because Raiden didn't get a proper hype reveal (probably supposed to happen at TGS) so they arrange for PR firings in SCEA, mostly those working in PAS:BR and urged Superbot to do the thing below:
- Now superbot is working on more characters so that it could match the initially false leaks that Paul Gale released (and this is probably why the game was delayed)
chertipros
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Yeah so do I. While SCEA probably wanted a smash bros ripoff, the guys over at superbot seem like such nice guys who genuinely just wanted to create a good fighting game for the playstation fans. And the game seems like it has alot of effort and care behind it too.
TimeEffect
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Well, he'd have to be free since Omar said Crash would never be DLC (paid I assume)
Seems to me DLC is the best way to make money for both third party and SB. Charge X amount, split the profits. And it's this reason that I dont understand why we cant see all the characters that are simply a given: Snake, Crash, Spyro, Wander (Sony owned), etc.
Hot Coldman
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Sony: "We need Crash otherwise the internet people who will buy our game regardless will be mean to us"
*cut to yosp walking out of Activision HQ, facing the ground, as Kotick laughter is heard overhead*
Afro Gunsou
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I think it's important for me to note that this is the account relayed to be by someone currently laid-off.
It could be entirely false but based on my relationship with this individual on a personal basis, I see no reason as to why he would make any of this up.
It could be entirely false but based on my relationship with this individual on a personal basis, I see no reason as to why he would make any of this up.
Boss Man
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I would imagine that with the full the full weight of SCEJ saying that they have to they can probably get a lot more done. Not only with more strings being pulled, but with SCEJ essentially saying that you will spend what you have to spend. That's at least how I imagine it.
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