But this is the absolute best part... "Seven complainants found the "depiction of violence in the ad offensive and disturbing". One viewer stated that it was reminiscent of recent videos released by hostage-takers in Iraq."
Good GOD people have nothing better to do and instead nitpick everything that is on TV...
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: Smash_Brother on March 28, 2007, 04:42:54 PM
"An additional four complainants believed that the ad glorified violence and the use of weapons, and could encourage children to emulate such actions."
Let it be said that I predicted the arrival of this kind of complaint the DAY Red Steel was announced.
The ASA threw the complaint out, though.
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: KDR_11k on March 28, 2007, 05:48:13 PM
It's threw! Man, I had to read that sentence at least three times until I figured out where you hid the verb.
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: Smash_Brother on March 28, 2007, 05:54:23 PM
Doh, sorry, I'll do that once in a while...
Fixed it.
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: Bill Aurion on March 28, 2007, 06:01:21 PM
Wait a second, I thought the Wii was kiddy...You can't bloody well be both!
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: ThePerm on March 28, 2007, 06:08:31 PM
its a t rated game, shut the hell up! some motherfuckers need to get in touch with reality
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: Dirk Temporo on March 29, 2007, 06:06:16 AM
hahaha oh wow
I can't even believe people sometimes...
Title: RE:This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: Donutt007 on March 29, 2007, 06:34:19 AM
I hate the Advertising Standards Authority even worse than the parents.
Do you realize they had 17 complaints?
17!!!
OK, let's put it in small numbers, say between all the times that the ad was shown maybe 2000 people saw it...that means 0.85% of all people were offended, less than one fricking percent!!!
I'm sure the number of people that saw the ad were much higher than that, but who knows. You know, you really can't please everyone, so I'd understand if they had higher than 10% of the viewers make a complaint ya might want to reconsider the ad. But that's like a 99.15% approval for the ad, right?
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: vudu on March 29, 2007, 07:27:56 AM
That's not exactly a solid argument. Statistically speaking, for every one person that complained there were probably 100 others who were offended yet didn't complain either because they didn't know how or were too lazy.
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: King of Twitch on March 29, 2007, 08:08:30 AM
Every one of the complaints were likely from Sony agents.
Title: RE: This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 29, 2007, 09:07:22 AM
Those commercials hardly shake off teh kiddie image.
Gotta add MORE VIOLENCE
Title: RE:This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: Viewtiful mario on March 29, 2007, 10:06:53 AM
Just wait until Manhunt 2 comes out, THEN we'll start getting complaints.
Title: RE:This just in...THE WII ADS PROMOTE VIOLENCE!
Post by: UERD on March 29, 2007, 02:35:46 PM
So, not only does the Wii allow young kids to look at dirty pornos on the Internets, it also supports TERRORISM.
