People that really make you wonder

#1 Not quite as bad as a marketing campaign Activision was trying for, with Soulman or whatever that one game is where you can travel between dead and living worlds with your slain sister's teddy bear.

The game was fun, but this was just sick.

Activision was trying to locate some gravestones to put advertisements for it's game. Yes, real gravestones... with real people underneath them... real corpses.

(no link, I can't seem to find it. saw it on a few news portals a few weeks back)

I don't know if they're still doing it, but they got a lot of flak (no surprise) but made it clear they were not joking with the advertising attempt.

Oh, and don't forget the "family" that were selling naming rights to their newborn son. They say they'll use "any name provided it is one word and isn't offensive, trademarked or copyrighted." At the time of this article, people were paying $7100 to name the kid.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/2002_07/04_baby_name_ebay_auction.htm

Of course, isn't making the child a product offensive on it's own?

#2 Hmmm... that is another goofy PR attempt for the new game of the Turok series. Looks like another Activision patented "sickeningly offensive" marketing campaigns.

Their previous "Let some loser camp out in front of a store for the new Turok game for three months" (despite there being no need too, since the game won't sell out when it's released) was just funny... this is just gross.

No publicity is bad publicity. Just come up with something that's so strange, but legal and you'll get on the world news.

Hey everyone, want to combat this idiocy? Here's how: Don't say "This advertising stunt is for Activision's new cutting edge immersive dynamic immersive dynamic game Turok!"

All the news organizations should say: "This is being done by some company making a crummy game that can't sell itself, and should be run over by a car... repeatedly." We don't need to know what game people are doing this for, or what company. Just mock their efforts, before it's too late.

Or maybe it already is?

I just sold the rights to name my children's children on ebay for a copy of of Super Mario Brothers 2.

When I found out the game has been out for a few years now, and usually sells at garage sales for only $2 I was pissed. Although, I think I'll get used to the fact that my grandkids will be named "U Suck" and "Supercalafragalisticespialidocious".

#3 Hehe, this just makes me smile (sometimes laugh as well).

It does make you wonder about people, although I don't really care if people want to change their name, which was given to them by others anyways.

However, that parent-selling-their-kid's-naming-rights is kinda sick. I don't mind if people whore themselves out, but whoring your own child is sad.

btw, Matt, from what I heard (and I have no links as well), is that Activision's "plans" of putting stuff on gravestones was just a stunt, they weren't actually going to do so. I may be wrong of course.

I remember a couple months ago about this newly merged tire company here in Canada doing the same thing. Basically you changed your last name to their name and you would get some stupid amount of money. Of course that money was to be divided among all people who changed their names...Anyways, it was just dumb.

EDIT --
Check that. It's Acclaim for the graveyard crap...and any other Turok related stunts. Unless they're owned by Activision.

I was looking for a peeny arcade comic which illustrated this crap properly, and I found an article on the graveyard shit. You were right Matt. I like this quote:

Quote:Acclaim Entertainment said yesterday that it would pay relatives of the recently bereaved in return for placing small billboards on headstones, and that the offer might "particularly interest poorer families".

pretty sick.

btw, here's the penny arcade comic.