subrock said:hopefully this delay will allow time for sony to release a LBP bundle in NA
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fucking please
Come on freaking SCEA.
LBP bundle in the U.S.
Plzzzzzzzzzzz
subrock said:hopefully this delay will allow time for sony to release a LBP bundle in NA
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fucking please
Airkiru said:Is it really that hard to understand why this individual asked Sony to remove the song? He found it offensive, and many other people would have aswell. Is it hard to acknowledge peoples beliefs? It's quite pathetic that some of you are throwing a tantrum, over a game that is still getting released.
People are tired of the pandering to over sensitive religious nuts, ruining the fun for everyone.Airkiru said:Is it really that hard to understand why this individual asked Sony to remove the song? He found it offensive, and many other people would have aswell. Is it hard to acknowledge peoples beliefs? It's quite pathetic that some of you are throwing a tantrum, over a game that is still getting released.
Ofcourse not, unless it was brought to our attention. Someone else would have notice regardless, and the problem would have still remained.
NOT THE ISSUE! these arent fundamentalist ideas, this is the Qur'an, every muslims book. the issue is that the words cannot be played to music. the words themselves muslims are very comfortable with, I would imagine.sphinx said:" Little Big Planet support muslim, fundamentalist ideas taken from the Qur'an about death for people on earth "
Or a flying penis that shoots a school before flying into a building while singing phrases from the Qur'an.Rapping Granny said:LBP moderation off to a bad start.
It's a fucking song that has been released for 2 years now. I can't wait to see what the do when they will discover all the penis/911/school shootings levels. probably close all the servers down.
Loudninja said:Stop with the hurt sales bs please.
eznark said:This is an awesome reaction
Doc Evils said:Not to mention the manual has to reprinted since it credits songs used in the game.
Loudninja said:Stop with the hurt sales bs please.
There are several people who hardly are in LBP threads in here. Some are flat out trolling.Loudninja said:This is why they don't release ads until the game is out.
Nolan. said:The amount of effort just to do all that must be a big headache not to mention waste of resources.
AVclub said:This whole recall business is bullshit. With the number of games quoting the bible and in fact bastardizing religion for their own narrative purposes, two lines of lyrics should not be made into such a big deal just because they are from a religion book.
Things on this world only have a holy meaning if people give it to them. Video games are entertainment. This game in particular is light-hearted fun for the whole family. There's simply no reason to take offense from it.
Tieno said:People are tired of the pandering to over sensitive religious nuts, ruining the fun for everyone.
MiamiWesker said:WHAT THE FUCK!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!
I still dont know why? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING IN!!!
hamdammage said:I don't think Sony is doing this because they're worried about offending anyone. Little Big Planet is an E rated game in America, and probably the equivalent elsewhere. Those lyrics, whether they're from the Quaran or not, would probably disqualify it from being E rated, and move it to at least T. They're just trying to avoid a Hot Coffee like debacle.
subrock said:NOT THE ISSUE! these arent fundamentalist ideas, this is the Qur'an, every muslims book. the issue is that the words cannot be played to music. the words themselves muslims are very comfortable with, I would imagine.
AmMortal said:Part of me wishes, that Muslims were just as vigilant against Pornography and Drug abuse.
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SCEE has just confirmed to VG247 that shipped LittleBigPlanet units are to be recalled on a global level thanks to a licensed track in the game containing two expressions from the Quran.
To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule
While playing your latest game, "LittleBigPlanet" in the first level of the third world in the game (titled "Swinging Safari"), I have noticed something strange in the lyrics of the music track of the level. When I listened carefully, I was surprised to hear some very familiar Arabic words from the Quran. You can listen to part of the track here:
http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/p...lip22503c0.wav
The words are:
1- In the 18th second: "كل نفس ذائقة الموت" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').
2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "كل من عليها فان" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').
I asked many of my friends online and offline and they heard the exact same thing that I heard easily when I played that part of the track. Certain Arabic hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention.
We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online patch, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it.
We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like this happened in videogames. Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.
We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary controversy, and we thank you for making such an amazing game.
Regards,
On behalf of the gamers at True-Gaming.net
Saren is Bad said:You cant deny the sales will be different as a result of the delay, especially if it is to Nov 14 which is after a ton of good games come out.
CoG said:Myself and many other people are deeply offended by the sex and violence in GTA4. Please recall immediately. Thanks in advance.
MiamiWesker said:This cannot be happening. Well I better find a copy NOW. Miami gaf attack!!!
RubberJohnny said:Maybe it was just to troll Muslims.
the guy who wrote the song is muslim.RubberJohnny said:No-ones actually asked why lyrics like that were in happy-go-lucky LBP to begin with. It hardly fits with the mood and theme.
Maybe it was just to troll Muslims.
Psychotext said:There are a bunch of smart people on GAF... unfortunately none of them are here, but I'll ask anyway.
Assuming they shipped out 3m copies to stores around the world for this (might be high, might be low, I don't know). What sort of money would this cost them to fix? I guess you're looking at redoing every disc, and repacking it. Getting stock back from the stores, shipping the new stock out. Changing advertising etc.
Airkiru said:Is it really that hard to understand why this individual asked Sony to remove the song? He found it offensive, and many other people would have aswell. Is it hard to acknowledge peoples beliefs? It's quite pathetic that some of you are throwing a tantrum, over a game that is still getting released.
Ofcourse not, unless it was brought to our attention. Someone else would have notice regardless, and the problem would have still remained.
again, the words are not the issue, its the fact that they are put to musicbigdaddygamebot said:That's really ignorant, dude.
Did you actually SEE/HEAR what the lyrics say??
Firewire said:Looks like its a world wide recall on the game now.
http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/10/17/sony-littlebigplanet-to-be-recalled-on-global-level/
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subrock said:NOT THE ISSUE! these arent fundamentalist ideas, this is the Qur'an, every muslims book. the issue is that the words cannot be played to music. the words themselves muslims are very comfortable with, I would imagine.
Psychotext said:There are a bunch of smart people on GAF... unfortunately none of them are here, but I'll ask anyway.
Assuming they shipped out 3m copies to stores around the world for this (might be high, might be low, I don't know). What sort of money would this cost them to fix? I guess you're looking at redoing every disc, and repacking it. Getting stock back from the stores, shipping the new stock out. Changing advertising etc.
It's a great song (click the preview) and is only for 2 seconds on 2 different occasions in a barely audible foreign language. No one could've known.RubberJohnny said:No-ones actually asked why lyrics like that were in happy-go-lucky LBP to begin with. It hardly fits with the mood and theme.
Maybe it was just to troll Muslims.
cjelly said:Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I hope the rest of this thread isn't going to be like this...