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Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:08 pm
by Eraser
Gamers and developers alike have reacted in dismay at a now-offline Hitman: Absolution promotion which allowed players to identify and threaten Facebook friends for assassination.
Methods of identifying female friends included "her hairy legs", "her muffin top" and "her small tits".
Methods of identifying male friends included "his ginger hair", "his sh** hair" and "his tiny penis".
You could then choose a reason to kill your friend, such as the fact that they "smell bad" or were cheating on their partner.
Your friend then received a personalised video on their Facebook wall identifying them as a target. Signing up to watch the video presented recipients with a mixture of their own photos and Facebook details merged into a video of Hitman character Agent 47 shooting them.
These people wouldn't even recognize a bad idea if it was tattooed on their eyeballs. First the sexist nuns, now this
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012- ... -kill-them
edit:
there's a bit more info (including pictures)
here
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:14 pm
by DTS
That Hitman game was a bad idea. I don't know why you are surprised that bad ideas get executed when people keep paying for bad ideas.
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 6:35 pm
by seremtan
if it happens to you, just hide in a laundry basket
works for 47
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:00 pm
by GONNAFISTYA
So you're tagged in a post on your own wall and you can't even see the video in the post on your own wall until you register to view it?
Square Enix...the production company with the most bad ideas in the history of the universe.
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:13 am
by MKJ
Earlier today we launched an app based around Hitman: Absolution that allowed you to place virtual hits on your Facebook friends. Those hits would only be viewable by the recipient and could only be sent to people who were confirmed friends. We were wide of the mark with the app and following feedback from the community we decided the best thing to do was remove it completely and quickly. This we've now done. We're sorry for any offense caused by this."
what mongs
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:30 am
by Don Carlos
Brilliant - I don't see why this was pulled to be honest. Nothing wrong with sending a "hit" on a mate, especially one with small tits.
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:40 am
by Eraser
Don Carlos wrote:Brilliant - I don't see why this was pulled to be honest. Nothing wrong with sending a "hit" on a mate, especially one with small tits.
GTFO
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:48 am
by Don Carlos
No tits, no friendship. Everyone knows this. I'm hoping someone has the app so I can use it to ensure everyone I know with small tits is fully aware I want them dead.
PS
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:51 am
by Ryoki
You want the vast majority of asian women dead? That's awful donny, for shame.
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 4:04 pm
by obsidian
Re: Video game promotion at it's best
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 5:10 pm
by Deathshroud
