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Treyarch has apologised for comments calling Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway "a crappy war game".
The Call of Duty: World at War developer said it found the statement made by an Activision rep "offensive", and that it had "nothing but respect" for its World War II competitor Gearbox.
"Over the weekend, we learned that some disparaging comments were made by an Activision rep at a recent Call of Duty: World at War press event. We want to let everyone know that we found those remarks offensive, and they do not in any way represent the feelings of any developer at this studio or at Activision," said "JD", Treyarch community manager, on the Xbox forums (spotted by Kotaku).
"We hold all of our peers in the development community in the highest regard. We have nothing but respect for the guys and gals at Gearbox."
The offending comments were made to Eurogamer Germany by Noah Heller, senior producer on COD5. He concluded that Hell's Highway wasn't "in the same league" after watching a trailer for the game.
"They're not a game we even think about when we're playing, we think about the best shooters, we play [Call of Duty 4] Modern Warfare, we play Gears of War, we play Halo. That's the competition. We want to look at the games that do great storytelling," Heller told Eurogamer Germany.
"We don't want to look at someone who's just making a crappy war game."
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Comments: 1-37 of 37 in total
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frostcircus
01/07/08 @ 10:45
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I see words, but I don't see a head on a pike. I don't think you're sorry at all.
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keyboardmonkey
01/07/08 @ 10:49
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We hold all of our peers in the development community in the highest regard. We have nothing but respect for the guys and gals at Gearbox."
Mmm he said the game was crap not the people developing it. Why are games companies so scared of point out what they think is rubbish in other peoples games? |
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kangarootoo
01/07/08 @ 10:55
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Good on Treyarch for distancing themselves from some feckless idiot who happens to work for the same company.
First week in the job was it I wonder? Someone won't be speaking in public again for some time. @keyboardmonkey Its not really about constructive critism of competing products though is it? The guy in question was just being unprofessional. If he had been at home, posting on here, he could say what he liked. But at the time he was working, representing his employer. His words weren't contructive and tbh sounded like those of some internet poster, not someone apparently working in PR. |
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kangarootoo
01/07/08 @ 10:56
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@lambtron
I know plenty of very good producers. I think you will find that, "Tools. Invariably tools." is rather more accurate. |
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keyboardmonkey
01/07/08 @ 11:08
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@kangarootoo
In the IT industry (not games) I haven't had a sales rep turn up yet who hasn't mentioned what their software can do above and beyond the competitions. Many doing side by side comparisons. @Arbiter Yes i know, people in glass houses etc... |
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Shoot the poor bastard. Just for that and i was already so into buying the Hell's game, Im just going to download and burn the DOC5. No more money for assholes like them. I'll make sure i buy a copy of the other one tho :) Ofc they wont feel the difference. But Same way i don't pay for Sony crap while they think they can do what they want and get away with it same goes with everything else really. I have lost a job with that attitude but it worked out for the best and got fast promoted on the next one ( competitors ) when they found out so... I just LOVE reacting to everything. Hope BIA 2 does way better than COD5 just to shut that fuck up. Even if he was right it's really not his fucking job to open his mouth that much imo.
peace :) |
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BadBoyBonner
01/07/08 @ 11:55
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Is Doc-5 the western equivalent of Trauma Centre? Seems I missed the first 4 but look forward to Doc 5 - perhaps in the UK it will be called Dr. 5?
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kangarootoo
01/07/08 @ 12:40
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@keyboardmonkey
The devil is in the detail here. The guys that you meet with a) might use the word crappy, but probably not that often, b) are just meeting with you in private. Calling your competitor's product crappy on a public stage is really the bit I take issue with, not the comparison or critism of products in general. |
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Yeah - at the end of the day, if you're in the industry then you've got to have respect for other peoples' work. If you're a consumer then that's fair enough as you have the right to have and share an opinion given that you are paying for the product and - to a degree - peeps in the industry have that right too, but in our case you kind of keep them private as we're in the same boat so to speak.
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Ninja_Tino
01/07/08 @ 17:35
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Wow, TreyArch have failed to ever make a great game, even when shamelessly imitating the game before.
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peppergomez
01/07/08 @ 18:31
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tempest in a fucking teacup--who cares?
that said, both bia and the cod series are crappy war games. big budget production values, yes, but uninspired, paint by numbers railshooters too. pot calling the kettle black. |
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stallion185
02/07/08 @ 02:20
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The amount of tools who post when they haven't even read the article is amazing
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SpyroViper
02/07/08 @ 08:54
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Someones going to get fired. Maybe when the game ships, Noah Heller won't be in the Senior Producer section, lol!
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