Violent video game maker forgiven

Richiev4 · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:20

One minute they don't like it and the next they say is increased the number of people that come to see the church.

make of it what you will

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7059429.stm

Rich

Bengaboy · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:25

I think things like these are pathetic, so what if sony used a church in their game?

Some people need to get a life really

panthro · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:33

Bengaboy said:
I think things like these are pathetic, so what if sony used a church in their game?

Some people need to get a life really

How would you feel if Vivid Video used your mums bedroom to make a porno without telling you? Same difference.

Fubsy · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:36

panthro said:
How would you feel if Vivid Video used your mums bedroom to make a porno without telling you? Same difference.

I would think that would be rather cool actually...

NokkonWud · 25 Oct 2007 at 21:41

Not really what I'd call 'violent'.
All they care about is getting numbers into the church. If this has helped, violent or not, they won't mind.

Darkwave · 25 Oct 2007 at 22:01

panthro said:
How would you feel if Vivid Video used your mums bedroom to make a porno without telling you? Same difference.

Firstly: Manchester Cathedral is a public building, his mother's bedroom is not.

Secondly: It's not as if they went into the church and filmed a gunfight without any sort of planning or permission, they simply recreated the church in digital artwork.

No harm done to the church whatsoever, and it's not as if Sony (as much as I hate them) went out of their way to disrespect the church or victims of gun crime in Manchester. It's completely irrelevent.

I think that the church over-reacted, and while it's pretty noble of them to apologise about it, it's kind of hypocritical that they only did it because the issue gained them publicity (and now even more with this article.)

NokkonWud said:
All they care about is getting numbers into the church. If this has helped, violent or not, they won't mind.

Exactly why they've made this public apology, simply to generate a new news article and more publicity for their cathedral. They're kind of shrewd at times, it's almost as if the church has become a corporation.

Bengaboy · 25 Oct 2007 at 22:02

panthro said:
How would you feel if Vivid Video used your mums bedroom to make a porno without telling you? Same difference.

It would be fine as long as me mum wernt in it

Bonjour · 25 Oct 2007 at 22:06

Can you imagine the uproar if it had been in Finsbury Park mosque..

Fatwas all round methinks.

NokkonWud · 25 Oct 2007 at 22:13

Ulfhedjinn said:
They're kind of shrewd at times, it's almost as if the church has become a corporation.

I'm not one to touch matters relating to religion much, mainly as I'm opinionated and not entirely clued up either, but as I've seen it, the Church has been a corporation for a long, long time.

wannabedamned · 25 Oct 2007 at 22:18

haha, awesome.

this is a little bit like when the Major of New York complaining about the GTA4 being in Liberty City. And giving the city a bad name.

People just want to get something with their name on published.