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"A good send-off"
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 11:52 pm
by Weasel
It was only a matter of time before someone had this idea.
Acclaims' bid to sale games.
"particularly interest poorer families".
Is it not enough the family has to deal with the death of a love one?? Now you have to bid your loved ones grave away to help pay for the grave?
I have now at this moment lost all faith in human kind!
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:05 am
by Rob-hin
Whoever thought of this has a sick mind.
This isn't advertisment anymore...
This can't be allowed by law can it?
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:07 am
by CM
That is just sick...
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:39 am
by Weasel
Originally posted by Rob-hin
Whoever thought of this has a sick mind.
This isn't advertisment anymore...
This can't be allowed by law can it?
Originally posted by CM
That is just sick...
I was thinking it might be a joke...but I have a bad feeling it is not.
The sad thing is...I don't believe there is a law in the US against this. There is only one local law about ads where I live..."Can't be over twenty feet off the ground"...and this is only in the city limits.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:39 am
by Tamerlane
Thats awfully disturbing. If this was a Satirewire article or one from another humour site. I could understand, but thats just plain wrong. Hopefully the public will stop it before it even begins.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:12 am
by CM
Well i wouldnt believe there would be a law on this. I mean come on how sick and argh can you get. It is annoying how the company is doing this. It is just wrong. You dont use dead bodies to advertise games. I say people sue the damn company and hit where it hurts ie money.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:31 am
by Mr Sleep
I think this is actually a PR stunt, i just found this reference to it on another site:
"The last time we heard about Acclaim's Adventures in Marketing, they were trying to put ads on tombstones. At least, they said they were, and that's virtually all it took to activate the scandal-friendly media." *shrug*
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:34 am
by CM
Its a sick PR stunt. But what would they get out of it?
Ok people might buy their game, but heck people aint gonna go out and get their games do to this tombstone advertising.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:36 am
by Rob-hin
Well, if its a stunt. Then they won't really go through with it.
Stunts are ment to get people talking about it, like we are doing now. Free publicity and all that.
Eather way, it's still sick and wrong...
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 3:00 am
by Georgi
I don't think it's ever going to actually happen. But they don't need it to, just the suggestion of it is enough of a stunt to get all the publicity they need...
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 4:38 am
by fable
Originally posted by Weasel
I was thinking it might be a joke...but I have a bad feeling it is not.
I find it impossible to believe this is anything other than either 1) a joke, or 2) a move by some PR idiot outside Acclaim to lose 'em some business. I know several of the PR folks at Acclaim, and they'd never sanction such rot.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 4:58 am
by Maharlika
Totally sick!
That's utter desecration! Don't they have any respect? Are they THAT despererate to advertise?
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:02 am
by Dottie
Its so easy being cynical here that I think Ill save it for a better day.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:17 am
by HighLordDave
If this is indeed true, I hate to sound like I'm defending these yokels, but there's no law (that I'm aware of) that says someone can't have or display bad taste.
I'm sure that it is not a crime or in voilation of any existing ordinances to advertise on a tombstone or gravesite because no one has ever done it before. Does that make it right? No, but that won't stop someone from trying.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:34 am
by Maharlika
Reminds me...
Originally posted by HighLordDave
If this is indeed true, I hate to sound like I'm defending these yokels, but there's no law (that I'm aware of) that says someone can't have or display bad taste.
I'm sure that it is not a crime or in voilation of any existing ordinances to advertise on a tombstone or gravesite because no one has ever done it before. Does that make it right? No, but that won't stop someone from trying.
...of the much celebrated but overly done case of Allen Iverson in Philly...
...with his shoe and game endorsements cashing in on the free publicity.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:48 am
by Aegis
Not much more to say than whats already been said. Even the notion of it is gut wrentching.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:10 am
by Obsidian
hmm, why is spray painting a tombstone defacement, and illegal, yet using it as an advertisement isn't? I'm confused.
At this moment, I agree with Sleep about this being a stunt. Notice how the drop shadow man 2 into the mix at leas 3 times, mentioning its "violent and gorey fights scenes" and a plot (I use the term loosely) synopsis. I'm surprised the article didn't rate the game while it was at it. One big stunt done in poor taste by a large company.
@fable, you just happen to know PR reps from Acclaim. Why am I not surprised.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:31 am
by HighLordDave
Originally posted by Obsidian
hmm, why is spray painting a tombstone defacement, and illegal, yet using it as an advertisement isn't? I'm confused.
Because that spray paint was put there by someone other than the owner of the tombstone, and presumably an advertisement would be placed on the monument at the request, or at least with the consent, of either the person being buried or their estate.
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2002 1:34 am
by Xandax
Originally posted by Weasel
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I have now at this moment lost all faith in human kind! [/b]
Hmm - what took you so long
Despicable article, shoot the ones responcible for this suggestion and advetise on thier gavestones