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Penny Arcade PWNED -- SOE wins battle of wits

by James Ransom-Wiley on Mar 2nd 2006 12:30PM

SOE decided to take a new kind of action against Penny Arcade's latest dig on their reputation. Instead of going the email route, which would inevitably result in a Penny Arcade rebuttal, SOE decided to beat the witty comics at their own game. In light of Penny Arcade's harsh analysis, that is, comparing SOE's MMO partnership with Jim Lee to Krispy Kreme teaming up with someone's outbound orifice to pack excrement into donuts, SOE decided to send the gang a truckload of freshly baked goodness. 1,200 Krispy Kreme donuts in all.

"Well played SOE…well played indeed." -Gabe, Penny Arcade

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I hate SOE... Now where are my donuts?

wait, did they send 1200 donuts with shit on em?
or 1200 kripy kremes??
Krispy kremes R t3h b3sT!!

SO they have SHIT in them EWWWWWWWWW-joking

This was the highlight of my day yesterday. One of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

"LOLLL0RZ"

My god, that is 120 days of caloric intake...

Tasty tho

they spent about $1000us buying donuts for penny arcade, i'm glad i'm not a shareholder

Brian, somehow, I don't think you want these doughnuts.

5. they spent about $1000us buying donuts for penny arcade, i'm glad i'm not a shareholder

obviously you have no idea what a corporate expense account is for. expenditures like this affect the bottom line about as much a fly's flight path affects the gravitational pull of the moon.

So, is this what Everquest and Star Wars Galaxies players have been paying for?

$1000 is almost certainly worth it as marketing, the shareholders will be fine.

Ian

It's funny, you know, 'cause they could have donated that money to Childs Play instead. But they didn't. You know? 'Cause being a petty ass is funnier.

Oh wait.

DKH - I suggest you expand your search for corporate injustice a bit farther than the halls of SNE. I feel you may - JUST MAY - discover even more expenditures to shock the conscience.

yeah but this is only the stuff we KNOW of

Next comics should have their characters gaining weight. That could be funny...

Those fat americans... LOL

Well I take it for what it is and the battle of wits was won by S.O.Bs at S.O.E. Very well played. If I was there I couldn't have been able to stifle a chuckle.

Attention Sony! Without an extensive hands-on interactive demo of the PS3 at E3 the negative press will doom the product!

That should be good for a month's worth of groceries.

Penny-Arcade Donut party time!!!

If only I were on that coast!

Oh man, that's great. I almost burst out laughing while reading this during class.

Penny Arcade responses are the best:

"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."

Hahhahah, touche.

Hmmmmmm, If they were to put this kind of thought and imagination in actual games.....Nah that would never work! DONUTS FOR ALL! That is sony for you the money doesn't go into game development but Spite Developemnt! Now you people Know what S.O.E really stands for Spite.Online. Entertainment!

Hah, this is great - not sure what they're trying to prove, though...

Any publicity is good publicity, right?

Hahah,PWNED indeed. I don't want to sound like a negetive Ned,but where is the Joystiq reader's sense of humor? I mean,I don't want the comments to be flooded with a bunch of kids saying "LOL THOSE N00bS!" or anything,but it seems like everyone is a bunch of guys with their chests out saying "I'm an adult and we dont do things like that and mer mer mer"

Like with that "letter to Sony" article. I came in expecting to see tons of people saying "HOLY SHIT THATS FUNNY!" and "Hahaha what a dumbshit kid!" but instead I get people pointing out grammatical errors. It's kinda like the people you tell a joke to and instead of laughing they analyze it and ask questions about it "Well,why would there be a horse in a bar?".

For shame joystiq readers :(

"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."

You should put the remarks up as an update: "This is the best product SOE has ever shipped"

All I can say about this is "Who cares." SOE needs to laugh at themselves.

Well said OTAM.
I now rarely see the point in posting to many blogs and joystiq seems to be worse and worse each day. It is just full of posters with chips on their shoulder and just seem to feel the need to vent at some corporation or another.
For shame indeed.

BTW The last time I checked, a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts was $6.75...how does 100 dozen donuts equal $1000 dollars? Did I take the wrong math course?
$6.75 x 100 != $1000
$6.75 x 100 = $675

$675 for getting talekd about on multiple of gaming websites is a spec in a game advertising budget. (As is $1000 even).

Personally, I'd take a shipment of 100 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to be an act of war. Of course, I can't stand the things... I could name a dozen donut companies that are better.

Still, it was really funny.

Penny Arcade should mention Rolex Watches and high-class escorts in their next joke about SOE.

If getting 'PWNED' means getting over 1000 free doughnuts, then I guess I don't really understand the meaning of the term 'PWNED'.

It sounds to me like SOA got embarrassed and this is their desperate attempt to regain favor with a site that has a huge influence on the gaming community.

Wow some of you guys are cracking me up ... "SOE got embarressed and trying to regain favor with penny arcade"

It's this simple ... Penny Arcades comic was fuggin hilarious ... SOE Could have

A) Got into an email match as somebody said earlier ...

B) Let it go and not respond to it ...

or

C) Spend $600 to get back a little at PA and get a TON of free press (Prices based on .50 a donut) and look semi respectable in the process. The publicity they are getting from this is priceless.

SOE employees get free donuts every Friday morning.
Read for yourself: http://sonyonline.com/corp/employment/culture.jsp

DKH//No, that would come off as sucking up.

$2000 says the Penny Arcade staff ate the donuts...in one day. ^_^

Badtz, looks like you completely missed the point. Did you even read the comic strip?

PWNED? Hmm...while it was ...nice... of SOE to send the PA guys all those tasty delights...I don't think we can call PA pwned until SOE does something that invalidates the points PA has about their crappy attitude towards making games.

Now, if they ship DC Online, or whatever, and it blows away all other MMORPGs, and everyone loves it, and the staff of Blizzard all commit suicide in shame...THEN we can call PA PWNED.

And I'll bet you 1200 donuts that won't happen.

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