Media Molecule: And in other news…

MM: "We learnt yesterday that there is a lyric in one of the licensed tracks which some people may find offensive, and which slipped through the usual screening processes. Obviously MM and Sony together took this very seriously. LBP should be enjoyable by all. So within 12 hours of hearing about this issue involving a lyric (in Somalian, I believe!), we prepared an automatic day 0 patch and had a new disk image ready; however a decision was made within Sony that the right thing to do for quality and support of people with no on-line was to replace existing disks. They assure us that they are doing everything in their power to get things straightened out as fast as possible, and will announce dates soon."

[Time Lord]

over couple of words that 99.999999999999999999999999% of people that play that game wont even understand.

Sony take the crown for gaming biggest ever $%$k up

argggggggggggg am just so agry right now

Solid08 I hope your 3£%$ing happy now.

TIME TO HAVE PUBLIC BETA!

[Montrealien]

recall for one word uh? what about the 1000`s of offensive levels people will make for this game? lol

[Mr_Bun]

Sorry, but the "right thing" would be to inconvenience the least amount of people as possible, which is exactly the opposite of what they are doing now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kindi_boy]

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[SRU9600]

Sony would be very wise to rethink this.

The backlash that it will create will be insane!

[HighDefinition]

The game that should have gotten DELAYED is SOCOM.

[kurochi]

I'm thinking someone will make a level with LBP ASAP mocking this whole ordeal.... and I'm betting the Quran will be ripped-to-threads because of this. If you guys think this was bad, wait until this level comes out by some nut-job..... LOL

[Gish]

@1.7
i agree with you whole heartedly, but I guess you don't F*** with Islam. Youve seen rioting over a cartoon before. Over 100 people died because they were protesting the cartoon. If anything this just puts Islam in an even worse light. As if they didn't already need a huge PR campaign. This doesn't help.

[Irving]

I thought the crown for biggest fckup in gaming industry is already taken by a company with its 30% hardware failures.

[NegativeCreep427]

Yes we all know this one particular Somalian word will not even be capable of offending around 85% of LBP's audience, but regardless trying to maintain a 100% positive public feedback from the game is crucial for a new product like this, especially with Sony and MM's goals of reaching people of all consumer types with this game.

A new product like this needs to instill as much customer goodwill as it can (especially with Sony's expectations with how far this game will go this holiday season). All of this is just smart and necessary business PR.

[Electricear]

I think the difference between GTA with a (M)ature rating, and Little Big Planet with a (E)veryone rating would make it obvious why Sony did this. Just because many people here fall into the earlier rating category does mean they can ignore their content rating. Admittedly I'm not familiar with the Qur’an or what was said, but if it is significant enough for them to pull the game it was more than likely for good reason.

[MiloGarret]

"but regardless trying to maintain a 100% positive public feedback from the game is crucial for a new product like this"

So to appease the 1-2% (or even your enthusiastic 15%) affected by this they should crap on everyone else? Please explain to me how that creates a 100% positive feedback. Everything just seems weird, couldn't this just have been fixed by day-one patch? A recall and delay is overly dramatic.

Whatever, I don't care since I'm not getting the game, but I feel sorry for all those people who are, and they are quite many.

[jerethdagryphon]

they had a patch within hours

dont blame them this ones all solid08 and sonys fault

[Pennywise]

Everyone needs to spam that guy.

[Mr_Bun]

If something were to happen to solid08, there would be millions of suspects!

[joevfx]

they are a large corporation, large corporatiosn get used all the time. if this got out im sure soem whiney baby out there would ahve gotten offended and would have brought a PR storm against Sony. LBP is the last game they want bad PR about. Unfortunatly for us Sony did the right thing for there buissnes, dont blame them blame the whiney baby that complained.

[Panipal2005]

I think crybaby solid08 has had his PSN ID deleted. Serves him right.

I hope any PSN ID created on that particular PS3 / IP suffers the same fate.

[Downtown boogey]

They have to replace every single disc! That's gonna cost a little something. And how about the ppl who conducted the song/those lyrics? They're gonna be pwned.

[skinner6]

they denyed the patch jesus ch*ist

[Fishy Fingers]

Jesus wasn't the one with a problem ;)

[kazuma]

yes, they were, how do you say....smart? u only download patches if ur connected to the internet, if they had sent the game to retail as it is, it could have been a potential pr nightmare. this way everyone waits a week or two and then everybody's happy

[jlytle1234]

waiting a week or two will not make anyone happy. you also are at risk of losing sales and going up againts wow:lich king for sales. not smart. a patch is the way to go on this.

[kazuma]

no it's not. now that everyone knows that there's potentially offensive lyrics in the game, word will spread and everyone will try to find them if it's released as it is. a patch is just stupid. u can't force ppl to buy the game and then connect to the internet to play the game, this is not pc territory.
u see there's a problem. the moment that word got out that there's crazy lyrics in the game, sony was f*cked. ppl would go and buy the game and NOT connect the ps3 to the internet so they could play v1.0 of the game and hear those "offensive" lyrics. however, if no one knew about these lyrics, sony could have just made a day-0 patch and as soon as ppl connected to the internet they would download the patch, there really would be no problem, no one would be aware of this.
everyone is giving the ps3 a hard time, the last thing sony needs is lbp being synonymous with offensive stuff.

[jamesrocks3147]

MM made a patch for the game however sony refused the patch and said they needed to recall all the games back because those who dont have online the song cud not be patched and still playable so sony said recall all disc

[Fishy Fingers]

I cant wait until release. I'm so disappointed by the politically correct BS.

If they found a few lines of scripture offense let's see how they like a wash of user generated levels attacking their religion.

[DrakenSilverwing]

Agreed! theres goin to be soo many level ideas coming from this now that there would be no point for the patch in the first place.. sad but true!

[Darkseider]

If they thought a few words were offensive.. man have they got another thing coming. The sheer amount of user created levels that will be bashing Islam/Muslims will be ridiculous due to this. In order to appease .001% of their consumer base they pissed off the rest. Well now the pissed off people know who to take their anger out on. If they had just approved and released the Day 0 patch quietly all would have been fine. Now all I can say is.. let the madness begin!

[va_bank]

Everybody knows that it's OK to burn American flags and riot in the streets of Europe over a cartoon, but using a song that someone else wrote in a game is just going too far.

[Harry Flopper]

I'm going hunting for LBP later today,wish me luck

[Genaral Leo]

ad4mb , youhave been reported.

[DeZimatoR]

Offended by some lyrics that are transcripts from your 'bible'?

WTF?!

[weezy12]

they owe us a demo for this bull the patch is good enough it shows good intent to the 100 people that may have been offended but whatever

[r1000]

LOL... that's pretty ironic...

talk about whistle blowing...

on a thread about a game being pulled for something that someone might think is offensive.

[The gaming GOD]

With the recall instead of patching it.

But come on man, if they think LYRICS are offensive, just wait until you see all the stuff people will be making on that game.

I hate when games get altered because of POLITICAL crap like this

[joevfx]

Everyone go see Religolouse and screw your heads on straight.

[joevfx]

and dont disagree with me till you ACTUALLY see the movie, It will open your minds. Everyone is brainwashed.

[Adriana Lima]

that you're the one brainwashed?

[joevfx]

how am i brainwashed? Actually fine, im brainwashed by truth, Facts and REALITY. you proove me wrong and i'll apologize. Give me one fact that religion isnt made to create a mob so someone else has power and ill apologize. and im not tlakign about your grandma and grandpa going to sunday mass. im talking about religous extremists. the suicide bombers, the psycos protesting at dead american soldiers funerals. you proove to me they are not brainwashed by a fairytale and ill apologize.

[theKiller]

i will give u a reason about religions! God is a fact, God made everything, just look at ur self for a minutes and tell me if u can make something like ur self with just "mud and water" or with anything u like! look at the world, the nature, the balance, the universe, the animals the plants how to come to life from only water etc

and what this video maybe u will learn something u didnt before! its not a shame to born an atheist but to continue that way and u know that many people on the planet telling u otherwise and giving u facts and u ignore it then thats a shame, what i mean by shame is that u r missing a lot in life and after life!

http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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[theKiller]

well not everything have a consequences in life, saddam killed and tortured thousands and Bush killed and tortured millions what r they getting in return for their actions and decisions?? just losing their life is not enough!! 1 life cant be compared to millions!!!
so in the other life they will get the punishment for all those millions they killed!

and everything u do may or may not effect ur life but surely every single thing u do or think of will effect ur after life!!

[Covenant]

Page won't load...can anyone give me the gist of this? Is it just an offensive lyric, or is there more than that to potentially offend the Muslim community?

Just curious.

[Mr_Bun]

There are 2 lines... They translate into: All on Earth shall perish .... Everything thing on Earth shall perish....that is it.

[sandip787]

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').

[joevfx]

shoudltn that offend everyone but Muslims? thats what they believe anyway, that everyone thats not Muslim should die.

[sandip787]

tbh, its the only path sony could have taken. not doing so, while good for the short term (ie keeping us gamers happy) could have marred the games name. had it have been a shootemup or something similar, they probably could have gotten away with it. with the demographic including children, parents would have definitely been put off getting this game for their kids. i remember seeing a parent refuse to get resistance because of the whole church debacle. he didnt know anything about the game, anything about what the church was specifically complaining about, just that it had been in the news and received negative publicity.

[ad4mb]

my bad im sorry if i offended anyone thats not what i meant for

[riksweeney]

Don't worry about it, you're only saying what 3/4 of the world thinks anyway.

[joevfx]

Everyone go see that movie Religolouse. Religion ruins everything.

[ThatArtGuy]

Too bad Mahar is an idiot.

[joevfx]

Just cause you dont like Mahar doesnt mean everythign he says in that movie is not 100% accurate. Its brain washed " im gonan see a billion virgins in heaven, when i kill myself" type people that are destroying this planet. the " if you dotn follwo the bible your going to hell" type people. freakign brainwashed It amazing how stupid peopel are in this world. Wake up!!!!!!!!

[Lucreto]

One sentence for the Qur'an in Somalian. I don't know how they even found it. But compared to the thousands of Mohammed sackboys will now appear online and people making levels where it will plunge to its death.

There will be a lot of spite over this.

[Meus Renaissance]

Yeah and risk your PSN account being deleted.

[Lucreto]

I won't be making one but there will be many.

I am strongly against any kind of religious interference in general life. I don't mind people who are religious in their private life not the ones who blow people up.

Its like the doll where people think they hear words promoting Islam in the poor speaker that plays baby noises.

[Rims]

and spam him to kingdom come.

[Harry Flopper]

Hedwig is on it

[Meus Renaissance]

People are blowing this out of proportion. The game is being delayed because you know some would be screaming at the top of their lungs that they're hearing Islamic verses when they're not interested.

This has nothing to do with Muslims complaining about anything, ironically this is to stop non-Muslims complaining.

People are so trigger happy in talking sh!t about Muslims. Racists are being called out left and right here. But N4G is fully of immature fools anyway. Meh

[riksweeney]

Islam is not a race

[Meus Renaissance]

Pardon me then. "Religious hatred"