Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=451414&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Could be NSFW

[schild]

Just commented about this on NeoGAF.

It's a goat. It's already dead. It's not one of the "cute" animals. There are so many reasons this is a 'non-story.'

Slow news day.

[Samwise]

Well, it's not exactly like it died peacefully of natural causes, or it was some roadkill that they lucked upon, or something.  They bought it from a butcher who slaughtered it for that purpose.  So yeah, it died for the sole purpose of being a gruesome centerpiece.  They should have known that'd offend some people.

Still, the only difference between the goat at this party and a pig at a luau is that the goat didn't get cooked and eaten.   

[Kageru]

I think that's a reasonably important difference. Butchering a goat to provide food, and butchering it to provide a prop at a commercial launch are quite different in intent.

But as noted, the real question is what drugs their marketing department are doing.

[Miasma]

It's revolting that they killed a goat to be a god damn marketing prop.  Does Sony recruit their executives exclusively from schools for the mentally challenged?

[schild]

Why is it revolting? I don't get it. This goat was probably from a goat mill anyway.

Damn, are we really this sensitive?

[Big Gulp]

I think you're all overlooking the fact that tittie is clearly visible in that picture.

Sorry, but a slaughtered goat can't compete with nubile, painted boobs.

[squirrel]

I think you're all overlooking the fact that tittie is clearly visible in that picture.

Sorry, but a slaughtered goat can't compete with nubile, painted boobs.

Agreed. Slaughtered goat: -1. Painted tits: +4. So I'm ok with this event.

[Triforcer]

Everyone would have loved this if Blizzard did it! 

[schild]

Everyone would have loved this if Blizzard did it! 

Hell, if Nintendo had a fresh corpse at a Manhunt 2 event people would call them gods. They'd build fucking shrines.

[stray]

Sorry, but a slaughtered goat can't compete with nubile, painted boobs.

But nothing can compete with sandy vaginas.

[Kail]

At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal – procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines – from its stomach.
They also threw knives at targets and pulled live snakes from a pit with their bare hands.
Topless girls added to the louche atmosphere by dipping grapes into guests’ mouths, while a male model portraying Kratos, the game’s warrior hero, handed out garlands.

"It has come to our attention that at the God Of War II launch showcase, an element of the event was of an unsuitable nature.

What... what the shit?!  How... I mean, what the...

I mean, I'm not, y'know, offended or anything myself (I never liked goats anyway, smug bastards), but at what point exactly did this seem like a reasonable kind of idea?  And how the hell did they get from a bunch of budget meetings approving a promotional event, to naked chicks flouncing around while someone sacrifices a goat, or whatever?  I'm just having trouble making the mental connection between "SONY  = sombre guys with suits and briefcases full of money" and "Yeah, sure, I'd love to eat offal out of the stomach of a freshly slaughtered goat and then do a bit of snake-wrestling!"

[raydeen]

Well, this was a European event and as a rule, this plays better over there than here in Peoria. I wish we were less uptight about guts and titties but that's the way things go in this fucked up country. But I will say this stunt smacks of desperation. Sony is getting trounced in this particular console run (at least for now) and is begging for attention, even if it is negative. IMHO, Sony has driven the Playstation brand right into the ground much like Nintendo did when the N64 came around. It's a console that by and large, nobody cares about, or at the very least, cares the least about.

/em prepares for severe beatings.

[schild]

Which Peoria did you just speak of?

[Velorath]

Which Peoria did you just speak of?

I imagine it would be Illinois if he's just using it as a figure of speech rather then where he actually is.

[schild]

Which Peoria did you just speak of?

I imagine it would be Illinois if he's just using it as a figure of speech rather then where he actually is.

I figured it was a figure of speech. But there's also a Peoria, AZ. As such, it'd be neat if there were more people here.

[raydeen]

Yeah, figure of speech.

Edit: Heard it many years ago in a tape of an old radio show called 'Fibber McGee and Molly'. It's stuck with me and has been waiting desperately for years to be used.

[Velorath]

I figured it was a figure of speech. But there's also a Peoria, AZ. As such, it'd be neat if there were more people here.

It would be neat for you perhaps.  Not so neat for the people you'd like to see stuck in AZ with summer approaching.

[schild]

hahahahahohohoho that's funny summers in az.

better than florida.

[Velorath]

I agree that summer in Florida also sucks (when I was a kid my family went on vacation there one year).  Arizona is only marginally better though, if at all.  I won't even go to AZ to visit my own mother.  If she were to somehow end up on her deathbed before moving out of there, I'm afraid I'd just have to send her a card offering my condolences.

[stray]

Well, this was a European event and as a rule, this plays better over there than here in Peoria. I wish we were less uptight about guts and titties but that's the way things go in this fucked up country. But I will say this stunt smacks of desperation. Sony is getting trounced in this particular console run (at least for now) and is begging for attention, even if it is negative. IMHO, Sony has driven the Playstation brand right into the ground much like Nintendo did when the N64 came around. It's a console that by and large, nobody cares about, or at the very least, cares the least about.

/em prepares for severe beatings.

While I agree that they're getting pounced, this doesn't really have anything to do with this console run. It's a God of War II event. You know? That game that's topping charts on that old system that keeps outselling the others?

[Trippy]

Well, this was a European event and as a rule, this plays better over there than here in Peoria. I wish we were less uptight about guts and titties but that's the way things go in this fucked up country.

Except that the outrage expressed by people in the article are European. Also does the UK not have any food safety laws? Who in their right mind thought that eating food pulled out of a rotting corpse was a good idea?

[raydeen]

This is going a bit off topic, but here's an observation I've made (and I'm sure others have as well): Breasts are not as titillating if they're a different color than the expected flesh tone. Tricks our easily manipulated male brains into thinking clothes are actually there. I mean, I can see nipple, but the sex drive is convinced that the breast is clothed and thus not as accessible. Normally, I'd think I'd have to start working harder to get that shirt or blouse off, but part of me knows it's already off so I get confused and start wrestling with the reality of non-existent but visible clothing and the fully exposed but seemingly invisible breast

You women are evil.

[CassandraR]

I don't really see the problem with this. I mean they probably should of cooked up the goat and ate it but beyond that it just confuses me why people would have any reaction to this at all.

[Simond]

Except that the outrage expressed by people in the article are European. Also does the UK not have any food safety laws? Who in their right mind thought that eating food pulled out of a rotting corpse was a good idea?

Anyone who's not a vegan? 

[Tebonas]

I don't give a shit about goats, but you have to be pretty messed up to think taking a life for the sole purpose of a marketing gimmick is ok.

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

I don't give a shit about goats, but you have to be pretty messed up to think taking a life for the sole purpose of a marketing gimmick is ok.

Kind of like going into a warehouse store on a Saturday and being offered to try a new hotdog or sausage product?

[Paelos]

As we speak, probably 1000 goats were just slaughtered across the world. Who really cares if they get eaten or if they get put on a freaking stage? Dead is dead and it was slaughtered by humane standards. Now, if they had killed a live goat in front of an audience for a bloody gimmick, then you could actually get up in arms.

[Tebonas]

Yeah, because a almost decapitated corpse on display is EXACTLY the same thing as a sausage at the supermarket.

[trias_e]

Good show Sony.  You guys are hilarious.

Now, if they had killed a live goat in front of an audience for a bloody gimmick, then you could actually get up in arms.

That would have actually been more awesome.

[Nebu]

People need to come to grips with where their meat comes from.  The whole process is so sterile now that consumers just buy what's tasty while avoiding the reality of the process. It's much like those discount clothes and rugs made by 10 year old kids.  Perhaps the reality might spark a few people into making more informed choices... naw, what the hell am I thinking?  People like being dumb.  It eliminates the burden of responsibility. 

[Nebu]

I don't give a shit about goats, but you have to be pretty messed up to think taking a life for the sole purpose of a marketing gimmick is ok.

People kill all sorts of animals for stupid reasons (shooting guns is fun, the animal was eating my grass, etc.) and I find them all equally pointless.  Perhaps this marketing stunt would bring that to light, but I doubt it. 

[Hoax]

More pics of the topless grape dispensers.  Please?

Also a goat died OMG TEH HUMANITY, get a fucking grip its an ugly world out there.  The senseless (lol) killing of a goat doesn't even make the tiniest blip on my outrage radar.

[Baldrake]

You guys all need to view this (NSFW).

[Simond]

Yeah, because a almost decapitated corpse on display is EXACTLY the same thing as a sausage at the supermarket.

Have you ever actually been to a butcher's shop?
My local (decent, independant) butcher usually has at least a brace of pheasants and some rabbits up on hooks in his shop window.