Comments on: Sony confirm LBP delay due to references to the Qu’ran

By: Lloytron

Lloytron — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:53:29 +0000

Sony’s publishing guidelines stipulate that religious imagery that may cause offense will not be allowed, and this is why they took such drastic steps – not as a knee jerk reaction but to enforce their own rules.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:32:20 +0000

I am going to draw a cartoon to show my anger….

Oh wait! That a bad idea

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:47:22 +0000

Ahh.. Censorship. Is there anything worse?

I’m offended by many things. So I choose not to consume that particular media. Is it that hard for people?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:42:56 +0000

It sounds like no offence was intended, one can’t help but feel like this is an overreaction. A patch, as you suggested earlier, would have been an easier option. I’d imagine they’ll be binning millions of discs as a result of this, which would be quite a waste.

Perhaps they are just trying to avoid the bad press they received after the Church’s criticism of Manchester cathedral featuring in that extremely average launch game.

Still.. it’s not as bad as when SCEE stripped out every movie sequence from Twisted Metal Black because SANE complained it depicted mentally ill people in a bad light. I’m still trying to get over that disappointment.

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:40:17 +0000

I just don’t get why they’ve left it so late to check things like this. Plonkers.

Next we’ll hear that SackBoy is actually considered to be racist imagery, and LittleBigPlanet will be delayed six months.

Then the Athiests society will call for it to be banned because of its emphasis on Creationism.

Won’t somebody please think of the children!?