EA sends reviewers $200 cheques

[Saracen 16]

Not one to back away from controversy, Electronic Arts today mailed out real checks payable to game reviewers for $200.

 

Each check, mailed in wooden boxes decorated with twin skeletons and the words Dante's Inferno, was affixed to a velvet pillow inside a box. Inside the top of the box is a welcome to the fourth circle of hell which reads:

 

In Dante's Inferno, Greed is a two-headed beast. Hoarding wealth feeds on beast and squandering it satiates the other. By cashing this check you succumb to avarice by harding filthy lucre, but by not cashing it, you waste it, and thereby surrender to prodigality. Make your choice and suffer the consequence for your sin. And scoff not, for consequences are imminent.

 

Not wanting to give in to temptation by cashing the check or using it to market Kotaku, or waste the money, we came up with a different solution. Balls in your court EA.

 

 

Link is here if anyone wants it. It's basically the same as the copy-pasta here... But you'll get a few extra comments, and a few extra pics of the box.

 

Discuss!

Edited September 10, 2009 by Saracen

[Nmenth 292]

Wonder how much that box cost...

 

I probably would have kept it along with the box as a suverneir. What good is an empty box?

 

I'm sure EA knew it would spark controversy, which is good free advertisement. See, you just spread it to CNCNZ, it's working.

[Doctor Destiny 42]

I'd give good reviews to EA games for money. You kiddin' me? That's just free cash.

[Malevolence 6]

EA has too much money to spare?

[Luk3us 63]

As I have said on numerous occasions, the EA marketing machine is not to be trifled with.

 

If only the rest of EA was as good as them.

 

 

As for the consequences, my understanding of such things, as you are not judged on individual choices, but the sum of your life. So cash the cheque and buy some bums some beer.

[Nmenth 292]

As for the consequences, my understanding of such things, as you are not judged on individual choices, but the sum of your life.

But then again... what would you know about it?

 

If you consciously and intentionally make a premeditated bad choice, would that not reflect on the sum of your life? You cannot justify any one bad choice by comparing it to the whole, for in so doing, you would prove your morality is based on appearances and corrupt the whole. Anyway, my perspective on it...

 

But the complicated ethics aside,

So cash the cheque and buy some bums some beer.

Why would you buy beer for bums of all things?

 

...hey what happened to the beer-drinking smily? I was going to use him... Guess this will have to do:

[Luk3us 63]

If you consciously and intentionally make a premeditated bad choice, would that not reflect on the sum of your life? You cannot justify any one bad choice by comparing it to the whole, for in so doing, you would prove your morality is based on appearances and corrupt the whole.

 

But if you genuinely tried making a amens, you don't think you can compare one against the rest?

 

But then again... what would you know about it?

 

Sorry I forgot you were an expert in all things.

 

 

 

And why buy beer for bums? Because all bums love beer! (Yes the beer smilie is gone... Odd...)

[Nmenth 292]

But if you genuinely tried making a amens, you don't think you can compare one against the rest?

Yes, but only in the past tense. You cannot plan to genuinely make amends. So you can't take the money saying you'll make up for it later as planning to do right after you do wrong is not genuine virtue at all.

 

Sorry I forgot you were an expert in all things.

Not all things... I merely do not speak on that which I do not know.

I kind of like philosophy.

[F15pilotX 4]

But if you do not speak on that which you do not know, how are you ever to learn that which you do not know? Unless you don't wish to know it in the first place?

[Nmenth 292]

But if you do not speak on that which you do not know, how are you ever to learn that which you do not know?

It's called research. There's actually no talking required.

 

But... that has nothing to do with $200 EA is giving away.

[Doctor Destiny 42]

Does anyone know how to claim this $200? XD