[in the news] XXX ... in a Tom Clancy game?

KJAX · 5th Jan 2004, 05:19 PM

Quoted from CNN Money:

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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – When you're a small business and you overlook a detail, it often goes unnoticed. When you're a multimillion or multibillion dollar business, it opens up the opportunity for someone to make you look foolish.

Game developer/publisher Ubisoft and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft are both feeling the sting of that lesson these days as the failure to purchase a URL prominently displayed in one of the Xbox's flagship titles this holiday season has turned the game into an inadvertent advertisement for a Web site featuring hard core pornography.

"Rainbow Six 3" is the latest in UbiSoft's popular series. For the holiday season, the game was exclusive to the Xbox platform, but a PlayStation 2 version is due on store shelves soon. As you would expect from a title based on a best-selling Tom Clancy novel, it specializes in detail, accurately reflecting the design and effects of the latest military technology. In focusing so closely on the game elements, though, the company forgot to cover itself in the real world.

Gundato · 5th Jan 2004, 05:25 PM

Hmm, wonder if that is in the PC version too.

Bean316 · 5th Jan 2004, 05:42 PM

I like how that Tony Ashcraft acts like he was "obliged" to exploit this. What a cock. Figures that he was a Texan

Peavey · 5th Jan 2004, 05:55 PM

so... what game is this? or is this site named after the author? Just curious, it's only for educational purposes

KJAX · 5th Jan 2004, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Peavey

so... what game is this? or is this site named after the author? Just curious, it's only for educational purposes

Oops, I now have put the name of the game in quote from the article.

Bean316 · 5th Jan 2004, 06:23 PM

Rainbow Six 3...

Where does Raven Shield fit in there? I thought that was 3? Buh?

TheEndruu · 5th Jan 2004, 08:28 PM

For Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri (god damn that game's good), I tried to get it patched so it'd work with XP. I went to some link in the start menu deal, and it was a hard core porn site. Laughed so hard.

Dain75 · 5th Jan 2004, 08:45 PM

I thought they made the website and all that before they released the game. It would make sense to purchase the website when they decided to use that URL.
Their oops is our humor.

5th Jan 2004, 05:25 PM	#2
Gundato Wangosaurus Rex Join Date: Feb. 26th, 2002 Location: In a Nuclear Missile Silo Posts: 1,325	Hmm, wonder if that is in the PC version too. __________________ Against stupidity, the very gods themselves contend in vain. - Freidrich Schiller

5th Jan 2004, 05:42 PM	#3
Bean316 Woo child! Join Date: Oct. 24th, 2001 Location: AZ, USA! Posts: 3,619	I like how that Tony Ashcraft acts like he was "obliged" to exploit this. What a cock. Figures that he was a Texan __________________ Mod Squad!

5th Jan 2004, 06:23 PM	#6
Bean316 Woo child! Join Date: Oct. 24th, 2001 Location: AZ, USA! Posts: 3,619	Rainbow Six 3... Where does Raven Shield fit in there? I thought that was 3? Buh? __________________ Mod Squad!

5th Jan 2004, 08:45 PM	#8
Dain75 I am the lizard queen! Join Date: May. 15th, 2003 Location: Sask., Canada Posts: 297	I thought they made the website and all that before they released the game. It would make sense to purchase the website when they decided to use that URL. Their oops is our humor. __________________ * @Dain pokes everyone * @Dain molests everyone with a broomstick and a feather duster * Quits: @Tapey (Quit: WAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!) <@Dain> oops

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5th Jan 2004, 05:55 PM	#4
Peavey American Cheeseburger Join Date: Jul. 17th, 2001 Posts: 2,919	so... what game is this? or is this site named after the author? Just curious, it's only for educational purposes

5th Jan 2004, 08:28 PM	#7
TheEndruu Ol' Zimmy Join Date: Oct. 22nd, 2002 Location: Ugh Posts: 975	For Sid Meir's Alpha Centauri (god damn that game's good), I tried to get it patched so it'd work with XP. I went to some link in the start menu deal, and it was a hard core porn site. Laughed so hard.