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EA’s taken umbrage at the fact German anti-games woman Regina Pfeiffer – sister of the head of Lower Saxony’s Criminological Research Institute (KFN) and outspoken critic of violent videogames, Christian Pfeiffer – described it as “that pig of a company.”
Pfeiffer made the remark in relation to the fact she can’t sue EA as it isn’t German, speaking at the Computer Game and Violence conference in Munich.
“Should Mrs Regina Pfeiffer have actually lost her composure to the point of describing Electronic Arts as being a ‘a pig of a company’, then I can only recommend that she apologises in full – at least, [she should] if she wishes to be taken seriously again in the future,” EA Germany’s PR chief Martin Lorber told Golem.de.
What a to-do. Thanks, Gamer.tm.
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morriss said:
Shame no-one said pig-dog instead. I like pig-dog.
Blerk said:
I like pigs. Pigs are cool. You can turn them into bacon and sausages and pork chops and stuff.
Spiral said:
I remember my German teacher at school explaining to us how schweinhund was a proper insult in Germany. A “Your mothers a syphilis infested town bike and I piss on her grave” level insult. I gained a new appreciation for the subtleties of translation that day.
GordonR said:
“Pfeiffer made the remark in relation to the fact she can’t sue EA as it isn’t German”
She can sue them, surely? Just not in a German court. or is her problem that a US court is less likely to favour the cencorship-heavy, State-knows-best attitude she’s looking for?
El_MUERkO said:
maybe she’ll burn some of their games in public
mart said:
“I like pigs. Pigs are cool. You can turn them into bacon and sausages and pork chops and stuff.”
Don’t be ridiculous, Blerk. No such single animal exists - what is this, some kind of delicious fantasy world?
Blerk said:
I hear you can turn cows into tasty stuff too.
mart said:
Whatever mate.
dQuarters said:
It’s almost 2009. When is EA going to own up to the fact that it IS a pig of a company?
Michael O'Connor said:
E.A. as a corporate whorehouse is sooooooo 2007.
Gekidami said:
EA’s sheer greed aside, i dont see why a anti-violent videogames activist would call out EA, they dont exactly release the most gorey of stuff. Anyone know what she said exactly?
sickpuppysoftware said:
Mmmmmm pork scratchings
Alpha Male Stu said:
“they dont exactly release the most gorey of stuff”
Dead Space is pretty much the goriest game i’ve ever seen.
furianboy said:
“Dead Space is pretty much the goriest game i’ve ever seen.”
and not only is Dead Space a big deal because it’s pretty much EA’s first M-rated game, but it’s not even sold in Germany.
Michael O'Connor said:
The reason it’s probably not sold is Germany is *because* it’s an M-Rated game…