Arma 3: ‘arrested devs were on holiday’, studio issues statement

Oh snap… They are gonna be in a Greek prison for 20 years.

And they call Turks bloodthirsty. XD

Hell of a statement… way to throw your employees under the bus.. Knew BI was a bunch of scumbags but to send their employees out to get photos of the location their next game is based on and then deny it because they don’t wanna get in trouble??? Wow… just WOW..

@2

Why do you think they’re lying?

Whole thing seems a bit odd.

They totally hung those guys out to dry. Terrible statement from Bohemia.

Ah, they are ‘spotters’. Plane Spotters, train spotters, even bird spotters, seem to sometimes forget that they can’t take pictures wherever they want and not because of some draconian sense of anti-fun, but because it’s actually dangerous.

The number of times I’ve had to inform a train spotter, that trespassing onto running lines, so they can get that perfect shot, is not only illegal, but could result in their death, is boggling.

Average age of spotter mid 30′s to 40′s, so they should know better.

So where did the whole research thing come from?

I don’t think the statement is that bad. I imagine if they had publicly and officially acknowledged the guys were there on the company’s behalf, it would probably drag BI into it too.

This is actually bad for the two devs arrested, now they can’t be saved from prison.

Anyway, we still don’t know what photos have been found on those people cameras and if these events aren’t just the consequence of the previous debacle with the Mayor of Lemnos.

Dave your previous headline should have been “Go on holiday in Greece, Get arrested for doing so”

@5 Dude! Artists, and in this case photographers love what they’re doing and don’t always think or know if what they’re shotting should or not be shot. They tend to get carried away sometimes. I did it too, photography I mean and if I’d have to think “am I allowed to take this shot?” every time I took a picture I would have lost a lot of beautiful moments. That was 1. 2 “The number of times I’ve had to inform a train spotter, that trespassing onto running lines, so they can get that perfect shot, is not only illegal, but could result in their death, is boggling.” Why? Why do you care? And if you do why are you complaining? I don’t get it, do you like or do you hate helping people? Or are you frustrated that no one acknowledges you as a hero!?

@8 heh

Hope the guys are alright though. No one deserves this amount of crap.

@8 Maybe he cares because it’s his job to keep people safe and still complain of some people’s stupidity?

I dont think is a coincidence they have their vacations or holiday trip on the same island the game is based on, they do really think that statement would convince the Greece Government/military department, that they were on their own will?, in this particular case silence should have been appreciated, for both parts, their employees and the Greece departments IMHO.
p.s they dont follow their name, i mean they had nothing of bohemian, really

That is pretty damn cold from Bohemia.

“We sincerely hope that this is an unfortunate misunderstanding of their passion as artists and creators of virtual worlds.”

You “hope” they aren’t spies. That has to be very reassuring to everyone involved.

In other words they’re worried the Greek Government will come after them so instead they throw their employees under the bus and claim “oh we didn’t know they were doing that!”

Bullshit. This is low.

@9 Me too Dave. Me too.