For almost 45 years, there is the computer and video game industry is now already. In that time it has produced countless scandals. We have compiled for you ten most controversial examples.
Note: This article originally appeared in 2020.
Table of Contents
- 1PETA Nintendo complains because of Mario raccoon costume
- 2Schäferstündchen in San Andreas: The Hot Coffee mod
- 323 days offline: The PSN hack
- 4Xbox 360: The red ring of death
- 5Activision fires his shooting stars West and Capella
- 6Peter Milieux does not solve a Curiosity-promise
- 7Hearthstone Grand master punished: Blizzard forfeited it with the community Set to the wrong horse: 8 8Starcraft fraud
- 9Ein Alien tears Atari into the abyss
- 10Kane & Lynch and German controversy
PETA alleges Nintendo because of Mario raccoon costume
The animal rights organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has been frequently applied to the gaming industry. A major outcry produced an action from the 2011: Using a flash browser game denounced PETA time that Nintendo's mascot Mario in Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS again in a raccoon costume go. The Nanook costume would suggest that it was okay to wear fur and take the death of animals is accepted. Totally bizarre: In Flash platformer the user controls a raccoon hunts bitterly of Mario. The cult plumber himself flying through the air, taking into account a blood-dripping raccoon outfit. In retrospect, PETA was incidentally known that you can not do with the action Mario bad, but just wanted to point to the brutal hunting methods. The protest Flash Game PETA is available online today. Just surfs out https://games.peta.org/mario-kills-tanooki/ over. Source: PETA
tryst in San Andreas: The Hot Coffee mod
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in 2004, the player can data half a dozen women in the role of protagonist Carl CJ Johnson. He adjusts itself particularly well to, invites him his sweetheart to his home for a coffee. In the regular version of the game a sexual dalliance between CJ and his girlfriend is indicated with an external camera view on the house as well as appropriate sound effects. However, you edited manually now a bit in the script file of the main game, the tryst suddenly became interactive sex mini-game.
Rock star tried first from the affair to talk by claiming hackers have manipulated the code of the PC version massive. However, when it became a user, and unlock the mini-game by fitting a save game file on PS2 and Xbox, Rock star was a scandal not stop: politicians, including Hillary Clinton, practiced harsh criticism, and even the US rating agency ESB had some things have fallen to scolding. The result: From the original Mature-rated (17+) was an Adults only classification (adults only). Sales in the United States was thus much more difficult. Australia took the game in the face of the scandal even completely from the market. The Hot Coffee mini-game was not a classic user-modification, but in advance of Rock star integrated. Resourceful users off the locked scene only once more. Source: Air motion Games / media agency plasma
23 days offline: The PSN hack
Whether it be the United Nations, the microblogging site Tumblr, or the German car rental Bookbinder: Before enterprising hackers no one is safe. But especially hard hit Sony nine years ago. No less than 77 million PlayStation Network customer data were stolen between 17 and 19 April 2011th 24.7 million of which were allocated to European account. 20 April 2011 Sony confirmed the theft-meltdown and switches the PSN the same day from — for 23 long days. The case did not only mean a massive loss of image for Sony, but was also very expensive for the company. In retrospect, Sony estimated the losses caused by the failure to 171 million US dollars. Affected were compensated with a free month PS Plus membership as well as two free games for PS3 and PSP. The good news today: Since the PSN 14 May 2011 went back online, Sony has increasingly improved the security of its service and to avert similar serious cases. Today, the security on PSN is much higher, partly thanks to mechanisms such as two-factor authentication. Source: Sony
Xbox 360: The red ring of death
With more than 85.5 million devices sold, the Xbox 360 is the most successful console from Microsoft's most successful console. The way there, however, was pretty rocky and paved with a particularly striking scandal. What is meant is a hardware defect caused by heat, which occurred especially at the first hardware generation of the Xbox 360. He led to three areas of the LED ring around the on / off button of the console relighted red and the device could no longer be used.
Reliable failure statistics are not available, but representatives of EX Games, GameStop and Best Buy spoke then that up to one third of all sold devices had to be repaired. Microsoft responded to the Red Ring of Death (ROD) by increasing the warranty of affected devices from the date of purchase to three years. On the other hand, the Reminder in June 2010 brought the technically revised Xbox 360 s on the market. It reduced the fault susceptibility to the devices many times over. Under Xbox-360 users then widespread: the Red Ring of Death. Source: Play3
Activision fires his shooting stars West and Capella
Even today, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) from the Feather of Infinity Ward as a milestone in the entire call-of-duty series. Main officers at that time were Vince Capella and Jason West — two industry veterans who also brought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in 2009. Part two may not be so innovative, but commercially even more successful. Already after two months, manufacturer Activision had generated sales worth a billion dollar. But then there was a scandal: only four months after playback, West and Capella were fired — from the company, which thanks to Modern Warfare 2 just entertainment history wrote.
What happened? If one gives a very detailed analysis of the US magazine Vanity Fair, both had already placed two high bonuses before the development of part and requires full creative control over the brand. ACTIVISION was true, but could enforce a clause that states that all claims would be void, the two should ever be fired. But then this case occurs, both parties sued each other in a million-heavy lawsuit. While this happened, West and Capella had already founded Respawn Entertainment and recorded work on titanium that was finally launched in 2014. Jason West and Vince Capella were not understood after the outward throw at Infinity Ward and founded their own studio. The extremely suitable name: Respawn Entertainment. Source: ResPawn Entertainment
Peter Milieux does not solve Curiosity promise
With classics such as Populous, Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper and Fable, the British developer Peter Milieux became world-famous. After his departure at Microsoft in 2012, the Creative Head founded his own Indie-Studio 22Cans and immediately started development work at Curiosity: What's Inside The Cube? The aim of the launch title was to expose the interior of a cube consisting of 69 billion cubes. Who is the first to succeed, that was promised a life-changing price. Almost seven months later, the 18-year-old Scott Bryan Henderson finally made it and Milieux had the cat from the sack.
It was promised that the winner receives a role as the highest deity in Milieux 'next, Kickstarter-funded game Gods. In addition, it was planned to involve the lucky winner at the revenue of the game. But the highly announced action Flopped Grandiose: instead of being promoted virtually to God and influence gameplay mechanisms, 22cans Henderson invited only to the studio and donated him a beer in the next best pub. Gods himself was not the hoped-for hit, which is why — so Milieux — Henderson could not pay any investments. In Gods a player was promised to become the most powerful deity of the game world. Meaningfully implemented the developers did not have the idea until today. Many fans then called for refunds. Source: 22cans
Hearthstone Grand Master Strayed: Blizzard Farriers with the community
Especially in Asia, Hearthstone is very popular, the digital collecting card game of Blizzard, a permanent burner and also in the E-Sport scene very popular. However, when NG flashing Waiting, a Hong Kong-based E-athlete, as part of an official tournament livestream freed Hong Kong, revolution of our era called, came to the ECLAT. The Californians blocked flashing due to violation of the tournament rules for a full year and frozen the prize money entitled to him. The two people from Taiwan, who had led the interview, would also be terminated without notice.
When the incident in October 2019 made the rounds, there was an outcry by the community. The accusation: Blizzard would pursue primarily economic interests in the Chinese market and for that come free speech underfoot. The scandal came to a head on as the prestigious Hearthstone commentator Brian Killer resigned in protest against Blizzard office and US Rep expressed vocal criticism. In November 2019, Blizzard then, however understandable showed and apologized at Blazon 2019 for his fans.
Set to the wrong horse: Star craft fraud
Ever heard of match fixing ? At its core, the term describes people a sports game of intentionally so that this one before collusive outcome. Especially in e-sports, unfortunately, the phenomenon occurs again and again. One of the most famous cases occurred in 2015 in the South Korean Star craft League: A dozen people were then involved in a match fixing scam and thus earned amounts from 4000 to 35,000 dollars. When the scandal broke, both professional players Choir Yoda Byeong-Heon as were also sentenced his coach park Gerrard Watusi to prison. In addition, there was a lifetime ban in all South Korean leagues by the local e-sports' association. Choir Yoda Byeong-Heon lands offense betting fraud in Star craft behind bars for his. Source: Blizzard
An alien Atari pulls into the abyss
The E. T. published in 1982 The Extra-Terrestrial was programmed by industry veteran Howard Scott Warsaw (Years' Revenge) in just six weeks for the Atari 2600 and is considered one of the biggest flops of gaming history. The reason: Publisher Atari was then firmly convinced of the success of the film license and introduced more than five million game cartridges ago. But the low playful quality spread quickly and led to Atari remained seated despite timely price reductions on no fewer than 3.5 million modules.
To clear the inventory, the company decided a little later, to bury the remainders in a landfill in the desert of New Mexico. That same year, Atari corrected the forecasted sales by 50 percent, which in turn had a massive slump in the share price of Atari parent company Warner result. In retrospect, the E.T.-Decibel applies to believe as one of the triggers for the great video game crash of 1983. In April 2014, the Xbox Entertainment Studios left the modules in a media-savvy campaign dig again. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial should benefit film Steven Spielberg about the magic of the same name. Unfortunately, visual and playful not work the back and front. Source: Atari
Kane & Lynch and German controversy
In November 2007, the Danish developer IO Interactive brought together with publisher Lidos Interactive the third-person shooter Kane & Lynch: Dead Men on the market. Jeff German, then editor of the US website Game spot, lost his job shortly after publication. The trigger? Publisher Lidos seemed not at all enthusiastic about the vote (6 of 10) -and moved to coincide with the launch advertising campaign running at GameS pot back. Shortly after German was fired. While GameS pot owners CNET denied a connection between the two events, but the completely applied Community did not accept this and called a boycott of the website to life. Simultaneously bombarding the game with negative reviews. For German the whole thing, after all, took a happy ending He then founded his own until today successful website Giant Bomb.
One Siemens author & Benedict Plass-Flessenkämper author & Maria Beyer-Fistrich Fire / Editorial Director 12.26.2021 at 09:00
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