We'll Sue You If You Don't Takedown Your Opinion Of Our Game!
from the good-luck-with-that-strategy dept
Left Behind Games, makers of (somewhat controversial) religiously themed real-time strategy games based apparently isn't happy that its video games were reviewed negatively across the blogworld. So, they did what any video game company would do: they improved their game. Oh... no, they didn't. As pointed out by reader Grey, they simply pulled out the lawyers and threatened to sue a bunch of bloggers for posting "false and misleading" content about the games. Of course, opinions can't be either false or misleading, so they'll have quite a case on their hands. In the meantime, perhaps this was merely an attempt at a reverse "Streisand Effect" as the attempt to take down those negative reviews is simply getting a lot more attention on those negative reviews. Whether or not that leads to sales is another story...
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I doubt that...
As pointed out by reader Grey, they simply pulled out the lawyers and threatened to sue a bunch of bloggers for posting "false and misleading" content about the games.
The only way they can prove this is to prove that the reviewers knowingly lied about the contents of the games. If I were to review The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and gave it bad score because, "It doesn't adhere to the Zelda tradition of having a major battle between Link and Ganon near the end of the game.", then I could be held liable because I knowingly lied about the game. However such a lawsuit would not be necessary because my credibility as reviewer would be shot if I made such a false statement.
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If not then you will Live:)
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no religion talk
"Lead the Tribulation Force, including Rayford, Chloe, Buck and Bruce against Nicolae Carpathia – the AntiChrist
This game does not include references to any religions"
But the anti Christ aint a ref to Christ ??
looks like they wanted to get media attention with this.. bah .. looks lame sue me !
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I'm not a fan of the Left Behind genre, they took a far too literal stance on vaugue ancient prophecies for my tastes, but I had to try the attempt at a "Christian" game just to see if it would be as bad as I thought. It was. You can't deny that. But the sites I'm reading right now look like they read someone elses review, formed an opinion of their own and wrote about the game without playing it.
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If they really were Christians
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Faith-based advantage
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sue u sue me
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I can't just make stuff up, publish it, and expect to be completely immune to the consequences. E.g. "ACME cars are shoddy and worthless. Who knows they may blow up in your face!" That's an "opinion" but libelous.
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Left Behind Books....ya they suck too
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Love thy neighbor
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Buy our game, if not then you will be smited by the hand of the law. So give us what we want or more money so we can build a larger company to make more religious games for you to complain about!
Just like the church:
Buy into Christianity. If not, then you will then you will be smited by God. So give us mindless followers... I mean religious nuts... I mean Christ loving patrons... AND more money for God so he can help us help ourselves to build a larger foundation for molestors... I mean a larger church.
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I contacted LBG via their web page with some criticism... somehow I doubt they can defend their position.
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A Thought - Off Topic
Now, they very well could have been, but I think I understand now, that they were replying to a post that was removed as spam.
Since My post ended up the first post here, yet was the 22nd at the time.
Makes sense since a couple other poster's posts also were replying to the pointless now removed posts.
I see Kemosabi.
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religion...almost like a woman...but doesn't invo
religion was created by governments to have control over the population. this is actually a proven fact that you won't hear on FOX news considering they still block out the "GOD" in "god damn"...
what humans should realize is that you can't believe shiite that comes out of a human's mouth..unless they're dead..
humans are deceitful mofos that just love to do everything and anything for personal gain. in my opinion i think Bush should create a blackop to just rid the poor planet of human beings..well if i was a fascist nazi that's what i would do :)
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A stunning example.
Being but human beings, and generally believing as we all do, when we see something false or even disingenuous, we then literally miraculously and quite religiously believe we have then had bestowed upon our own fabled internal system of intellectual ballast and steerage some unassailable logical means and mechanisms by which we can know something constructed entirely of the cold, hard stuff of incontrovertable truth, or at least something well worth making a snide comment about by exercising our vocal cords or, as here, the far more likely and the far more privately anonymous fingers that press the key caps.
I mock no one here as I make my observation, for this is our humanity bellowing out and demonstrating amply for all the other howler monkeys exactly which tree all the baffoons are up. I told you not, that I was a fool?
And if all our intellectual efforts are merely variations on this same droning theme, which they do so seem to be on most every occasion these days as the world disintegrates before our eyes into the future, and then again into the future of the future, then, oh! then! OH! (said with a fainting swoon by the first-personed fool)
Are we all not merely the very automatons by which we do so ernestly mean to demonstrate we are not by our vicariously vocal key cap machinations?
It is very trendy in a Richard Dawkins sort of way to hack away at and, bash these silly religious baffoons. And, they are silly.
But honestly everyone would do well to look into the mirror of self deceit we know as self reflection. For we all babble the same language of an almost constantly babbling humanity on this planet, and none of our iterated belief systems or our scribed knowledge sets could ever be said to reach escape velocity from this, the reality of the terra firma of all our common superstitions.
Don Robertson, The American Philosopher
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Left Behind Games
I think they should be embarassed to use lawyers to try and shut up the public about reviews which are based solely on the writers opinion.
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Nothing better to do
Come on, are you going to really tell me that some sane judge will actually take this case? Hell I will buy this damn game, review it, and post on it with my honest opinion and if the game SUCKS, then I will post it. Since when did freedom of speech become second rate to some COMPANIES opinion? A company is not even alive yet we are the ones persecuted for saying a piece of round reflective plastic was not worth buying. And to DOC and all the other lawyer cronies defending their actions as if the company was right, you too are destorying civil liberties and you don't even know it. People first companies second
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Idiots
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Crazy
Christ taught that all people in the world have sinned, including Christians, and deserve the punishment of death. But that those who follow him receive a free gift of grace. It does not make them better than others, instead it makes them responsible to show that same grace and love to others. Christians are to live as aliens on the earth, in that they do not belong in the things of the world.
The crazy USA Christian right is an abomination. They believe they have to protect a Christian nation by showing hatred and intollerance to all who do not agree with them. They are the pharasees of today and God will punish them for their support of the war on terror and for tarnishing the name of Jesus.
Christians should show love to their enemies. So even if they do not agree with gays, other religions and people who have abortions, they should still show love and grace toward those people. Afterall, those people are not Christians and so Christians cannot expect them to follow the same rules. Christians should instead focus on fighting the powers that cause injustices(ie. the war in Iraq).
The whole idea of a rapture where Christians are swept away, leaving the whole rest of the world to suffer under the hands of the beast is unbiblical. The bible says that when Jesus comes everyone will be judged and it will be the end of the world. Leading up to that moment, Christians will be killed and persecuted for their faith. The idea that Jesus will save them from suffering is harmful to their attitude towards others. Jesus said that every Christian must be willing to peacefully follow him into death for their belief in him.
Go ahead and sue me for my comments, but remember the bible says Christains cannot sue other Christians.
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The Rapture
Of course it would also be a safer, more peaceful place if all the Christians were to follow the teachings of their Savior, but that is of course a ridiculous expectation. Christians are the LAST people anyone could expect to act like Christ.
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sued for an opinion? yah...
sued or fined for an opinion. It's easily
found to be immoral to penalize or criminalize
someone's thoughts, but that is the sad
world we are living in now! The question
really is ; What are You (You reading this)
doing to counter this psychotic trend in society?
Do you like the idea of some rich company or
person suing you over your private opinions?
Want to be free to speak about anything?
Remember what a "Free and Just Society" is about?!
Wake Up Everyone
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this convinces me the companies ideas totally suck rocks.
lets let themselves go bankrupt trying to sue people because their games suck so we dont have to suffer piss poor games, or hear about these whining wannabe's anymore.
I've never played one of their games and just seeing this is plenty incentive to never want to be confused as someone who is supportive to their efforts. at least they chose a proper name for themselves with Left Behind Games, to me they may as well be "flushed down the toilet games" now.
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prejudice
Unless there is some unwritten rule that if you are not a Christian it isn't hypocritical to slam and broad brush because there is no inherent ethical code.
When I was an student at SUNY Albany studying evolutionary psychology and ascribing to secular humanism I had the mind to consider a live and let live philosophy.
The left behind guys are mislead in their theology no doubt about it. The left behind books are quite off track on Biblical prophesy as well. I think they have swallowed the NeoCon koolaid.
I think it is wrong that they are suing people, and I find their game to be abominable - especially the violence that is portrayed in their game. The philosophy of the game is the same in much of main stream Christianity today - "Let's take what the world has and make it Christian". They have Grand Theft Auto so we should have our own version and make sure it has reference to God. It's the same philosophy that brought the world Stryper!!! What a joke!! And it's so incredibly obvious to the unsaved and yet many Christians are eating it up. It's a sad commentary and it indeed was discussed in the Bible in Revelation 3 regarding the church at Laodicea.
These guys are wrong and I'm glad that their efforts are yielding no success. I would like to think that God is not blessing them for their misguided efforts. In light of the scriptures - even if they were successful, one would conclude that it wasn't a result of God's blessing anyway. But I digress from my current digression.
To you skeptics I would hope you would not look at Christians like the left behind crowd and assume we're all like that. I would also hope you would dig a little more into what is going on in the world at large and compare it to what the Bible says is supposed to happen in the last days. Just to name a few items: A country called Israel exists and is troubling to the rest of the world. Russia and Iran are going to war against it. China and other eastern armies are going to war against it. A one world government will be instituted, with a one world currency, and a one world religion. This will be established by someone who comes forward and actually accomplished a peace treaty with Israel. Furthermore, this person will be acknowledged by all other world religions (The Buddha, Krishna, Mahdi, Messiah, etc). Although these items are somewhat touched upon in the LBH series, they take too many liberties with what transpires.
I do care about the people posting on this forum, and I acknowledge that we all have been given the inalienable rights to choose our fates, so I have no grudge to bear for those who do not share my beliefs. I only hope to have an open exchange of ideas and mutual respect for the right to voice them.
Also while I'm here, I might as well put a plug in for RonPaul2008.com - although I figure most here are up on his candidacy for president.
Peace.
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Christianity-The Death Cult
Christians are always suspect because they want the world to end, which they define as the moment when their favorite sky monster comes down to earth and takes them all to live on a cloud called "heaven". Christians should never be allowed to have the reins of power as they will inevitably come to a suicidal solution, consciously or not, and will choose to take us all with them into their little fantasy world.
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