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IGN has responded to its blooper about its preview...
A MOOing Mistake
Hey Ivan,
Trying to keeping it short here.. I don't suppose you want to answer this in the mailbag, or you should have more than enough alternate mails to answer it there, but maybe you have a minute to tell me what was the real reason why you had a certain information about MOO3 in your preview, and then had to edit it out. Did no one tell you not to say what you did? Or that previewer screwed up?
I like PC.IGN, and presently it has a pretty bad rep at certain official MOO3 discussion places for doing what it did. No doubt people are oh so eager to jump to conclusions. So if you do decide to enlighten me, please also mention if I can directly tell people there what really happened, just spread rumors about the truth, or keep it to myself.
-- Gamble
This was a nice little surprise. Basically, the MOO3 preview contained some information that the team did NOT want released. Usually in those cases, the folks who hand out the playables will tell you what you can and can't write about, but for whatever reason, no one told us that this information was off limits. So we wrote what we wanted.
The next morning the creative director for MOO3 called me and asked us to cut three sentences from the preview. He and the team had been keeping the information in question a secret for nearly three years now so he was understandably upset to see it blown so close to release. Since we're not in the habit of ruining dreams and killing children, we were a bit upset as well.
We dig the series and respect the work that Quicksilver is doing, so we were completely happy to cut the spoiler info from the article. While there are some for whom the game is a bit spoiled now, the revelation wasn't anything along the lines of "Bruce Willis realizes that HE'S the one who's dead!" or "Hey, wait! My prom date has a penis!" It sucks that the surprise is ruined for some of the fans but we're not in the habit of screwing developers just to get page views. Since this was an accident, we're just going to put it all behind us and get on with our lives.
In much the same way as the sun never set on the British Empire, there's probably not a free minute on any given day in which someone isn't posting @#!&$ about us on a message board somewhere. If you want to set them straight, feel free. But don't lose too much sleep over it. Lord knows we certainly don't.
Thanks,
-- Steve Butts
they acknowledge they screwed up...
A MOOing Mistake
Hey Ivan,
Trying to keeping it short here.. I don't suppose you want to answer this in the mailbag, or you should have more than enough alternate mails to answer it there, but maybe you have a minute to tell me what was the real reason why you had a certain information about MOO3 in your preview, and then had to edit it out. Did no one tell you not to say what you did? Or that previewer screwed up?
I like PC.IGN, and presently it has a pretty bad rep at certain official MOO3 discussion places for doing what it did. No doubt people are oh so eager to jump to conclusions. So if you do decide to enlighten me, please also mention if I can directly tell people there what really happened, just spread rumors about the truth, or keep it to myself.
-- Gamble
This was a nice little surprise. Basically, the MOO3 preview contained some information that the team did NOT want released. Usually in those cases, the folks who hand out the playables will tell you what you can and can't write about, but for whatever reason, no one told us that this information was off limits. So we wrote what we wanted.
The next morning the creative director for MOO3 called me and asked us to cut three sentences from the preview. He and the team had been keeping the information in question a secret for nearly three years now so he was understandably upset to see it blown so close to release. Since we're not in the habit of ruining dreams and killing children, we were a bit upset as well.
We dig the series and respect the work that Quicksilver is doing, so we were completely happy to cut the spoiler info from the article. While there are some for whom the game is a bit spoiled now, the revelation wasn't anything along the lines of "Bruce Willis realizes that HE'S the one who's dead!" or "Hey, wait! My prom date has a penis!" It sucks that the surprise is ruined for some of the fans but we're not in the habit of screwing developers just to get page views. Since this was an accident, we're just going to put it all behind us and get on with our lives.
In much the same way as the sun never set on the British Empire, there's probably not a free minute on any given day in which someone isn't posting @#!&$ about us on a message board somewhere. If you want to set them straight, feel free. But don't lose too much sleep over it. Lord knows we certainly don't.
Thanks,
-- Steve Butts
they acknowledge they screwed up...
(Yes, I know the above posts were being sarcastic)
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