View Full Version : SOE Sends Penny-Arcade 1,200 Krispy Kreme Donuts
Seemingly in response to their most recent comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic), SOE sent 1200 Krispy Kreme donuts to Gabe and Tycho. From the main page (http://www.penny-arcade.com):
With that said I have to admit that those sons of bitches have a sense of humor. Smedley sent me an email this morning that just said he’d sent me a package. I assumed it was a bomb but just a few minutes ago a man showed up and proclaimed that he “had our donuts”. That’s not something I expected to hear today. We followed him out to his truck where he showed us our 1,200 freshly baked Krispy Kreme donuts.
Newsworthy? Perhaps not. Hilarious? Yes.
Evil Avatar
03-01-2006, 06:25 PM
1200 Krispy Kreme donuts? That must have been one for each Star Wars Galaxies subscriber.
Cupelix
03-01-2006, 06:27 PM
Fuck, I'm having a morning wedding and we wanted to have Krispy Kremes there... I guess I need to get famous and insult SOE real quick...
zrikz
03-01-2006, 06:33 PM
lol my god 1200 donuts.. what would you do with all those? =/
Thenetcase
03-01-2006, 06:33 PM
If that's all it takes to get 1200 donuts, I'm going to write a comic really quick about how much I hate SOE and make some vauge comment about a lifetime one-free-pizza-a-day type thing from Papa Johns....
-TnC-
Lodin
03-01-2006, 06:39 PM
How much does it cost to get 1200 donuts delivered to someone? At least more than SOE has ever donated to Child's Play is my guess.
Malovech
03-01-2006, 06:39 PM
The best, however, is Gabe's description of how he would do the DC MMORPG. It would be amazing if a studio had the balls to do cell-shaded, Super-Friends style graphics. That is how they compete with WoW or CoH. Art direction dammit!
Pigeon
03-01-2006, 06:42 PM
lol my god 1200 donuts.. what would you do with all those? =/
Donut fight!
ProfPuppet
03-01-2006, 06:45 PM
Maybe they're trying to give PA diabetes?
Montgomery_Python
03-01-2006, 06:46 PM
They really were Johnny on the spot with that response.
Thta being said, SOE makes shitacular games.
Draft
03-01-2006, 06:46 PM
Donut fight!Hahahaha.
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Please say each one has human excrement filling.
bapenguin
03-01-2006, 07:02 PM
heh. pretty funny.
Sloth
03-01-2006, 07:18 PM
krispy kreme donuts are like the worst tasting donuts you can get.
Spigot
03-01-2006, 07:26 PM
That is pretty funny. And Krispy Kremes are delicious. Every once in a while. As long as you stick to the plain ones.
Reading Gabe's posts about having art direction a la Superfriends, does he not realize such a game exists?
It's called Freedom Force. Imagine Freedom Force Online *drool*
Of course, I've been playing FFvsTTR lately, given my recent foray back into the wonderful world of comics. I just thought that the parallels between what Gabe wants a DC MMO to be like and the character creation engine of the Freedom Force games are right in synch with each other.
gzsfrk
03-01-2006, 07:27 PM
The sad thing is, this is the most positive marketing move SOE has made in ages.
That having been said, I concur with everyone else who thought this was an awesomely funny response. :)
bone_matrix
03-01-2006, 07:28 PM
How much does it cost to get 1200 donuts delivered to someone? At least more than SOE has ever donated to Child's Play is my guess.
I like this statement, mostly because I'm guessing its true. Lets say a Krispy Kreme donut is $0.25, it cost them $300. Plust delivery, and tax, and I'm pretty sure they are more than a quarter, but you get the picture. That like 3 or 4 GBAs for some kids. Stupid SOE. But it is funny. :D
krispy kreme donuts are like the worst tasting donuts you can get.
Well, shit filled ones are. Regular ones are delicious.
Kelegacy
03-01-2006, 07:29 PM
Maybe they're trying to give PA diabetes?
I would have donated them to a homeless shelter or foodbank. What the hell would I do with 1200 fresh donuts? I'd keep a dozen or so for friends and myself (though donuts are the circulatory system's mortal enemy) and give the rest away to people that need them. Better than throwing out 50 pounds of stale fat and sugar covered dough 2 days later.
XenonCJ
03-01-2006, 07:33 PM
OK I give up, I'm not a regular reader of PA... Someone explain this to me, why donuts?
OK I give up, I'm not a regular reader of PA... Someone explain this to me, why donuts?
just read the current comic.
Mr.Green
03-01-2006, 07:43 PM
krispy kreme donuts are like the worst tasting donuts you can get.
Close enough.
Pigeon
03-01-2006, 07:46 PM
I used to work next door to a Krispy Kreme. It was soooo hard trying not to buy donuts every day. I could smell them every time I would step outside and I desired
netcraazzy
03-01-2006, 07:52 PM
That's some funny stuff! Must be nice to be able to blow that kind of money on a joke though, I guess SOE justified it as nontraditional marketing. On a side note, every time I see a picture of Tyco I can't help but feel sorry for the man. I mean he's in his late 20's or early 30's and appears to be completely bald. I guess you can't have everything in the world. He's got a wildly popular online comic and I've got hair. Hmmm...I wonder if he'd like to trade. :-)
thecrazyd
03-01-2006, 07:52 PM
krispy kreme donuts are like the worst tasting donuts you can get.
You have obviously had very limited experience with donuts.
If they are as cool as I hope, they will go and hand them out to the homeless....as they obviously cannot eat more than half of that on their own! =)
phantomhitman
03-01-2006, 08:00 PM
i understand the joke, but why 1200? I can imagine how the joke went:
1-here are your donuts!
2-what donuts?
3-from soe!
4-oh, those fuckers, they got us good!
5-great, we get free donuts, soe is stupid!
6-(hours later) what the fuck are we going to do with the 1178 donuts we cannot eat?!
7-omgwtfdonuts!111!
Kelegacy
03-01-2006, 08:04 PM
The donuts were laced with arsenic and man juice. I don't know which is worse, to be honest. I'm sure Magnanimous could answer that question, though.
Megalith
03-01-2006, 08:08 PM
Why does anyone even care what Penny-Arcade has to say.
Web comics. LoL.
The Continental
03-01-2006, 08:08 PM
Count me amongst the camp of "WTF, why 1200?", I guess they're just adhering to the SOE mantra of quantity over quality, i.e. Everquest's 285 expansions. A dozen Boston Cream donuts filled with chocolate custard instead of the standard vanilla would've been funnier.
jromero
03-01-2006, 08:09 PM
The guys from PA should've just turned around and paid the delivery guy to go deliver all 1200 doughnuts straight to a Dunkin' Doughnuts. With a note that said something about 'what great doughnuts should taste like' and have it signed as from SOE.
gzsfrk
03-01-2006, 08:16 PM
krispy kreme donuts are like the worst tasting donuts you can get.
I have to believe this was either a deliberate troll or written by someone who's never had Krispy Kremes. God's creation has not known a more perfect and delicious source of nourishment than hot-glazed Krispy Kremes. When the sign flashes "Hot Donuts Now", it's like glazed neon redemption.
Mmmm.... <laments the fact that the nearest KK is 35 mins. away>
Everlost_MI
03-01-2006, 08:17 PM
The donuts were laced with arsenic and man juice. I don't know which is worse, to be honest. I'm sure Magnanimous could answer that question, though.
Wow, I laughed myself silly reading that. That was damn funny Kelegacy.
Megalith
03-01-2006, 08:17 PM
What's the point of Krispy Kreme when there's only 2 locations on Earth.
Everlost_MI
03-01-2006, 08:17 PM
The guys from PA should've just turned around and paid the delivery guy to go deliver all 1200 doughnuts straight to a Dunkin' Doughnuts. With a note that said something about 'what great doughnuts should taste like' and have it signed as from SOE.
Err, I'd rather have a DD donut than KK. But that's just me, especially after Kelegacy's comment.
Goronmon
03-01-2006, 08:21 PM
What if Krispy Kreme teamed up with someone's asshole to put shit in donuts? Would you be cautiously optimistic?
Lines like that are why I will never get tired of reading PA.
Dirty Harry
03-01-2006, 08:22 PM
i understand the joke, but why 1200? I can imagine how the joke went:
1-here are your donuts!
2-what donuts?
3-from soe!
4-oh, those fuckers, they got us good!
5-great, we get free donuts, soe is stupid!
6-(hours later) what the fuck are we going to do with the 1178 donuts we cannot eat?!
7-omgwtfdonuts!111!
Hahaha, this is exactly what i was thinking,
QFT, this is an awesome prank, teach them suns of a bitches. Ive had pranks like this where you give something of so much that it pretty much makes it an curse instead of a gift.
Achilles
03-01-2006, 08:23 PM
Wow lots of people bashing SOE and saying that the donuts be given to the homeless.
This was a pretty good come-back on SOE’s part- good marketing, fast response, funny.
TheHulk
03-01-2006, 08:25 PM
Getting in car to go to 24 hour Krispy Kreme shop...
KSmitty
03-01-2006, 08:31 PM
1200 Krispy Kreme Donuts = Instant Diabetes
Fresh out the oven those things melt in your mouth and even though you know its terrible for you, you eat another and another and another.......
Great joke by SOE, seriously though I can't eat more than two of those doughnuts before my teeth start to hurt.
-K
This is hilarious. Just goes to show the kind of sway PA holds these days.
What's the point of Krispy Kreme when there's only 2 locations on Earth.
I tried in vain to understand what this means. There's more than 2 KK locations in my town alone, so that can't be it... I give up, what are you talking about?
KamaItachi
03-01-2006, 08:40 PM
Why does anyone even care what Penny-Arcade has to say.
What would you suggest we care about? You?
Web comics. LoL.
Cynical young man on the internet. Edgey.
Darkholmme
03-01-2006, 08:41 PM
I tried in vain to understand what this means. There's more than 2 KK locations in my town alone, so that can't be it... I give up, what are you talking about?
Maybe those are the only 2 KK's on earth?
MagicAlex
03-01-2006, 08:41 PM
Krispy Kreme are meant to be eaten warm, so the people who hate them probably only had them cold. That aside, they're probably the worst kind if you value your heart.
What's the point of Krispy Kreme when there's only 2 locations on Earth.
You must really miss Gamingforce. At least there your attempts at humor made you sound educated.
MosBen
03-01-2006, 08:56 PM
Hot off the conveyorbelt Krispy Kremes are what I imagine clouds taste like. Mmmmm, big fluffy, sugary clouds....
Crikey. 43 replies on my newspost. Is it pathetic to feel pride for ones newspost?
1200 Krispy Kreme donuts? That must have been one for each Star Wars Galaxies subscriber.
Oh snap! How often is the first post the best one?
gzsfrk
03-01-2006, 09:05 PM
Crikey. 43 replies on my newspost. Is it pathetic to feel pride for ones newspost?
Yes. Yes it is.
Welcome to the EvAv big leagues. :)
F3nyx
03-01-2006, 09:09 PM
Is it pathetic to feel pride for ones newspost?I can only aspire to such renown... you're living the dream :(
Mobkey
03-01-2006, 09:11 PM
Crikey. 43 replies on my newspost. Is it pathetic to feel pride for ones newspost?
GG, and now you have one referral.
Spigot
03-01-2006, 09:16 PM
I tried in vain to understand what this means. There's more than 2 KK locations in my town alone, so that can't be it... I give up, what are you talking about?
Don't worry, SMES. Megalith is just filling the void left behind by Player 1 and Red Cloak. This is a guy who seems to think that the Fantastic Four movie is the pinnacle of cinematic excellence.
Poor, poor, Krispy Kreme-less Megalith.
Speaking of man-juice, remind me never to eat a 'boston cream' donut that Kelegacy has had his mitts on. Custard, my arse.
Oh man... that is even worse than it sounded in my head... And no, those aren't instructions.
Banacek
03-01-2006, 09:39 PM
I think some of you are letting your dislike of SOE blind you to the fact that this was a pretty funny response. And good PR on their part.
Jaded Fool
03-01-2006, 09:43 PM
Okay, I'm so utterly confused it hurts.
I understand donuts, the comic explained that. But 1200? How is that a joke, or advertising? Sounds like a complete waste of time and money to me. Gabe talks about how people at SOE seem to jump ship like there's no tommorow. I know a large number of programmers / designers (not exactly game related) and most of them would work much harder and happier if their boss offered them 1200 free donuts.
I've never played an SOE game, but surely with the criticism they receive they could put their minds and dollars towards, you know, making a better game?
slimfatbaby
03-01-2006, 09:50 PM
I think it was a dick move because that's a ton of food to waste. I hope to god the guys at PA were able to give all the extras away to the needy. What a waste if not!
Mr_Snuffle
03-01-2006, 10:07 PM
Okay, I'm so utterly confused it hurts.
I understand donuts, the comic explained that. But 1200? How is that a joke, or advertising? Sounds like a complete waste of time and money to me. Gabe talks about how people at SOE seem to jump ship like there's no tommorow. I know a large number of programmers / designers (not exactly game related) and most of them would work much harder and happier if their boss offered them 1200 free donuts.
I've never played an SOE game, but surely with the criticism they receive they could put their minds and dollars towards, you know, making a better game?
Much like most geek humour, there isn't much to get, and often it doesn't really make much sense
But that's part of why it's funny :P
Spigot
03-01-2006, 10:13 PM
I agree with Sloth, actually. I love donuts, but Krispy Kremes are horrible. And this is not a joke or deliberate trolling.
TROOOOOOOOLLLLL!!!
:)
Anything other than the plain glazed are pretty bad. Those plain glazed donuts, fresh out of the frier... Those are a little slice of artery-clogging heaven.
Fernie417
03-01-2006, 10:24 PM
One Dozen x 100 = Lots of doughnuts. People looking into why it was 1200 are looking too hard.
Salamande
03-01-2006, 10:26 PM
Okay, I'm so utterly confused it hurts.
I understand donuts, the comic explained that. But 1200? How is that a joke, or advertising? Sounds like a complete waste of time and money to me. Gabe talks about how people at SOE seem to jump ship like there's no tommorow. I know a large number of programmers / designers (not exactly game related) and most of them would work much harder and happier if their boss offered them 1200 free donuts.
I've never played an SOE game, but surely with the criticism they receive they could put their minds and dollars towards, you know, making a better game?
Put simply, advertising.
You've got to realize just how demagogue-like PA has become. They're undoubtedly the biggest games based webcomic on the net in terms of readership. A lot of people listen to their rants, and, believe it or not, base their buying decisions on the stuff Gabe and Tycho like. Publishers realize this. Hell, Microsoft invites them over to the campus all the time for special events...of course, it helps that they all live in the same state, but still...
I'm sure the cost of 1200 Krispy Kreme donuts to a company like SOE is utterly negligible compared to the publicity this little stunt bought them. It doesn't even matter that much that it was attatched to a negative point. People will chuckle and think, "Heh, yeah, that was kinda cute." And now they're thinking about SoE. Done and done.
codswallop
03-01-2006, 10:36 PM
Mmmm.... <laments the fact that the nearest KK is 35 mins. away>
That's nothing. In Australia we have one state (New South Wales) which has fifteen stores. The other six states have zero.
There will be two in another state (Victoria) by the end of the year (and twenty in that original state).
I live in Victoria... it's over 1000km (600+ miles) to the nearest store until the first is finished, then it's about 15 minutes drive ;). Everytime I or someone I know travels to Sydney we always bring back a huge box to share with our friends. And that doesn't even count the people who travelled over 3000km (1800+ miles) from Perth to Sydney to attend the first store opening about 5 years ago!
Imelman
03-01-2006, 11:16 PM
I think someone just took that chick John Romero's place as Penny Arcade's joke goldmine.
UnderHero5
03-01-2006, 11:17 PM
I think it was a dick move because that's a ton of food to waste. I hope to god the guys at PA were able to give all the extras away to the needy. What a waste if not!
Yeah, and I'm sure every time you have leftovers from dinner you pack it up and give it to the needy, eh? Think about all the leftovers you have over the span of a year. What a waste!
Give me a break. They are doughnuts for one thing. Perrishable. You're not going to hand doughnuts out to the needy, come on.
I'd personally just have a big doughnut party. Every one's invited. Even the needy if they choose :p
Rifter
03-01-2006, 11:27 PM
From a bit more of an insider perspective... I have to say that SOE has the best PR people that I have ever worked with. I have not worked with many, but by far, SOE has the most approchable, and helpful. Of course, this comes from a fan-site perspective... which should have a different relationship than major news sites.
As an aside, one of the funniest stories I have, comes from a SOE PR person. IT seems that this person has a tendency to sleep walk. One night, they woke up, staring at themselves in the mirrored walls of the W hotel, with nothing but their skivvies. Of course... they had to call down stairs to be let back into their room! :-)
Maskatron
03-02-2006, 12:15 AM
I think Gabe and Tycho's follow up should be to take those 1200 cholesterol bombs and spell out "SOE SUCKS!" on a football field.
phantomhitman
03-02-2006, 04:44 AM
One Dozen x 100 = Lots of doughnuts. People looking into why it was 1200 are looking too hard.
there we go, thanks. I forgot about ordering them by the dozen.
I'd have to say Tim Horton's has the worst donuts that I've had around here. They make Dunkin Donuts taste like heaven.
jacktion
03-02-2006, 06:03 AM
So who is going to be the first one to eat one? Isn't there supposed to be feces in these donuts?
Tycho probably already ate half of them...
phantomhitman
03-02-2006, 06:25 AM
lo.....so mean :p
Lon Lon Rabbit
03-02-2006, 06:25 AM
Yeah, and I'm sure every time you have leftovers from dinner you pack it up and give it to the needy, eh? Think about all the leftovers you have over the span of a year. What a waste!
Give me a break. They are doughnuts for one thing. Perrishable. You're not going to hand doughnuts out to the needy, come on.
I'd personally just have a big doughnut party. Every one's invited. Even the needy if they choose :p
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there'd be consequences for giving 100 homeless men sugar crashes in one night.
Spigot
03-02-2006, 06:29 AM
I'd have to say Tim Horton's has the worst donuts that I've had around here. They make Dunkin Donuts taste like heaven.
HERETIC!
Timmies has the best donuts, at least from a variety standpoint. I love the KK glazed donuts but if I want anything that isn't a plain glazed donut, I hit the local Tim's. Granted, I also am addicted to Tim's chocolate danish, but that's another story for another time...
Kelegacy
03-02-2006, 06:32 AM
The guys from PA should've just turned around and paid the delivery guy to go deliver all 1200 doughnuts straight to a Dunkin' Doughnuts. With a note that said something about 'what great doughnuts should taste like' and have it signed as from SOE.
Really, though, how hard is it to make a donut? You take dough and fry it. Donuts shouldn't taste much different from one another overall. We don't have Krispy Kremes here in Maine, just D&D, but both pale in comparison to small bakeries. I don't know why anyone would buy donuts at a chain if REAL bakeries exist nearby.
Then again, I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to such delights when you could probably eat a full breakfast for the calorie cost of a donut or two. I've been known to be a sucker for crullers from time to time, though. Goddamn fat office sluts bringing in treats. Grrr.
Gel214th
03-02-2006, 06:44 AM
That's all a polite f*** you. ;-)
What are you really going to do with 1,200 donuts? Where are you going to keep them?
How are you going to dispose of them when they go bad?
If you want to donate them to a charity the same day, you gotta pay to transport them.
It's actually quite a bit of problems for the receiver of such a 'gift'.
Reminds me of the veiled chinese curse: "May you live in Interesting Times". Most people go,"Hey, why's that a curse...that ain't so bad"
;-)
AversionFX
03-02-2006, 06:59 AM
I have a genuine concern here, regarding all of the talk about "They should donate those doughnuts to the needy!"
My response too all of you is this:
Why the fuck would you give homeless/sheltered people the food that is the very scourge of the human circulatory system? Don't they have it bad enough as is to not have to eat such unhealthy "food"?
Gel214th
03-02-2006, 07:03 AM
Why the fuck would you give homeless/sheltered people the food that is the very scourge of the human circulatory system? Don't they have it bad enough as is to not have to eat such unhealthy "food"?
That's just inane and shortsighted.
You don't get a heartattack from eating a few donuts.
And since homeless/sheltered people aren't eating 15 donuts a week it really does no harm and instead becomes a welcomed treat.
Tim's are all stale and bland. Variety may be good, never really paid attention. Their coffee, compared to other comparable slop coffee, is decent.
Royal Fool
03-02-2006, 07:27 AM
I'd imagine it would have been enough for SOE to send 10 boxes and a note with them reading "Sure you wanna eat these?". Job done. But trust Smedley and co. to go overboard as usual.
As long as Sony send Gabe and Tycho stuff directly related to their latest comics, you can be sure that they will mention it on their site. It simply makes too much darned sense.
There is just way to much analyzing going on here for such a simple situation.
Now let's get back to analyzing who makes the best budget donuts.
Orosco
03-02-2006, 07:56 AM
Where was the funny part of that comic? I must have missed the last panel....
Magnanimous Gnome
03-02-2006, 08:03 AM
The donuts were laced with arsenic and man juice. I don't know which is worse, to be honest. I'm sure Magnanimous could answer that question, though.
I've conducted several vigorous and in-depth scientific studies and come to the conclusion that arsenic is definitely worse than man juice.
My findings will be published in the April 1st issue of JAMA.
mondain98
03-02-2006, 08:11 AM
One Dozen x 100 = Lots of doughnuts. People looking into why it was 1200 are looking too hard.
Considering a baker's dozen is 13 and not 12, the math isnt quite that simple.
Banacek
03-02-2006, 08:19 AM
Where was the funny part of that comic? I must have missed the last panel....
But you did remember to spend the time and energy to let us know it. Good on you..
Mortis
03-02-2006, 08:24 AM
That is beautiful heh.
Scull
03-02-2006, 08:24 AM
I think it was a dick move because that's a ton of food to waste. I hope to god the guys at PA were able to give all the extras away to the needy. What a waste if not!
I've been to the PA offices, and they are within walking distance of a homeless shelter and church. I'm hoping that the donuts made it down there to give someone a little cheer.
CrashCart
03-02-2006, 08:36 AM
One Dozen x 100 = Lots of doughnuts. People looking into why it was 1200 are looking too hard.
Agreed. I mean, you want to send someone a boatload of donuts as a joke. You call up Krispy Kreme. What do you order? Some large quantity of dozens of donuts. 100 dozen sounds like a lot for a couple of people to receive. Done and done.
Pumped'Up
03-02-2006, 08:56 AM
You have obviously had very limited experience with donuts.
so obviously you're saying....you're fat and a donut-snob.
Pigeon
03-02-2006, 09:13 AM
Considering a baker's dozen is 13 and not 12, the math isnt quite that simple.
KK doesn't bake, they fry. What's a fryer's dozen?
Magnanimous Gnome
03-02-2006, 10:53 AM
KK doesn't bake, they fry. What's a fryer's dozen?
42
*mumble post length mumble*
Dirty Harry
03-02-2006, 11:30 AM
Evilavatar just got some e-props from Mike(gabe), with the first post on this thread. Good job sir, another victory for philip.
Update from the site:
Just an update on the 1,200 donuts situation. We were able to give all the donuts away. We gave some to the other businesses here in our office building. We also sent a few hundred over to the Seattle Children’s hospital for the staff there. Then we let our PAX enforcers come by and dig in.
A few people have made the comment to me that it was nice of SOE to send us one donut for every subscriber they have. The other funny remark I heard was that this is the best product SOE has ever shipped. You guys are mean.
7ofswords
03-02-2006, 11:55 AM
Man, 1,200 donuts show up and all of a sudden everyones a saint.
smashism
03-02-2006, 11:59 AM
Hahaha best SOE product ever shipped. ahahaha
Lizard Dude
03-02-2006, 02:50 PM
This is the hungriest a thread has ever made me.
ElectricMonk
03-02-2006, 02:56 PM
i don't see why people are being so mean, i thought it was funny
besides they donated them anyway
Citizen Philip
03-02-2006, 03:15 PM
Right now you could buy an old computer and donate it to a community center, walking down the street you could give a homeless person more than .70c in loose change. You could donate your time to a worthy cause, or join the peace corp or..
stop being a prick.
It was a joke, it was funny. Your sitting at home/work pursing a gaming site in diverse safe, clean and nice 1st world countries musing on how to eat 1200 donuts while people in some 3rd world shithole JUST starved to death.
So go ahead and blame a corporation for being concerned about face, profit and no accountability. You can of course continue to bemoan your hard life and not do anything charitable yourself, or just enough to make you feel less guilty around a holiday.
serphyas
03-02-2006, 03:46 PM
You know, that's funny. SOE can afford to send a webcomic a thousand doughnuts, but can't seem to scrape enough together to provide proper support for their games, or competent Customer Service. Go figure.
Very funny move from Sony. Of course Gabe's response was even more hilarious :).
And now for a little Cliff Clavin:
It's a classic white elefant. You know how in the old days, maharadschas used to give a white elefant to a rival. Those rare specimen are holy, so they must not do any work. Instead, they have to be pampered like a king and that's frigging expensive. It's a beautiful strategy for refined warfare, well played by SOE indeed.
serphyas
03-02-2006, 05:45 PM
Very funny move from Sony. Of course Gabe's response was even more hilarious :).
And now for a little Cliff Clavin:
It's a classic white elefant. You know how in the old days, maharadschas used to give a white elefant to a rival. Those rare specimen are holy, so they must not do any work. Instead, they have to be pampered like a king and that's frigging expensive. It's a beautiful strategy for refined warfare, well played by SOE indeed.
Am I allowed to say "fuck you" on these forums?
Fuck you.
I'm sure that you wouldn't be so delighted if you were a paying customer of SOEs, and found out that the money you've been paying to SOE, like I have, is being used to buy Krispy Kremes for a random webcomic who related their company to "shit and doughnuts," when it could have been used towards better things like development funds. That's incompetence, and SOE has been trying to silence any negativity towards their company for YEARS. THe only reason SOE survives to this day is because Sony, like a rich daddy, has enough money to get their son out of any trouble they get themselves into, no matter how supremely stupid they may be.
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But now I am at ease. Even SOE haters have to see the unintentional humor in the previous post. Or maybe the jokes on me and it's sarcasm that gives fitbabits a run for his money?
serphyas
03-02-2006, 08:31 PM
For a moment I was scared.
But now I am at ease. Even SOE haters have to see the unintentional humor in the previous post. Or maybe the jokes on me and it's sarcasm that gives fitbabits a run for his money?
You are absolutely correct. I am still young, by your apparent standards. ...But, get this - I pay to play SOEs games. YOU HEARD CORRECTLY! I DO, in fact, pay SOE! With my own money! That I earned! Working! WHOA, settle down! Yes, I DO work! For American currency! I actually spend time OUT of my house, to contribute to the greater good of society!
Shocking? My "mommy" and "daddy" don't pay for my games. I don't "run up the credit card" purchasing things like SOE subscriptions. I pay for them. With my money! That I earned!
I've always thought of the futility of arguing over something that no one can control. I had hoped that there would be one safe haven on the internet where a community would be reasonable enough not to slap down the "Age" card on someone younger than them. I thought it might have been this place, that it COULD have been this place; I have been proven wrong. Congratulations, Taco. Should I leave, now that I have been verbally "owned,", or might I trouble you by lingering on the forums, in your presence, for a bit longer?
overdrivechao
03-02-2006, 10:02 PM
What's the point of Krispy Kreme when there's only 2 locations on Earth.
again, did you think before you posted?
Citizen Philip
03-02-2006, 10:04 PM
Sir your hole is very deep. Shall I lend you a rope.. perhaps a ladder is better, yes? You can hang yourself with a rope... (to post 98)
Serphyhoney, calm down. Anger is the path to the dark side. If you can't see the humor in SOE's action, I pity you. Sure they screwed you over, but hey, the joke's on you now anyway, why bother? :)
pay to play SOEs games. YOU HEARD CORRECTLY! I DO, in fact, pay SOE! With my own money! That I earned! Working! WHOA, settle down! Yes, I DO work! For American currency! I actually spend time OUT of my house, to contribute to the greater good of society!
I never said you didn't. Which leads me to my point(which you deserve a double helping of now).
I was referring to your intelligence and/or reasoning skills. It's not an age card thing, I've made mention of that maybe twice ever. Only when dealing with a special kind of retard that makes me worry for mankind. But I feel better after realizing you're just a youngin of average to below average itelligence and you'll likely grow out of it.
However, if it helps your ego to think I'm just blowing you off because of your age, go right ahead.
7ofswords
03-03-2006, 07:14 AM
I play and enjoy Everquest 2. I didn't like it when it launched, then I played WOW for 14 months, and tried it again. Now I really like it. I think I've graduated to it.
I also play Planetside.
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