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Church "forgives" Sony for Resistance blunder

Posted on October 24th, 2007 at 08:29 EDT

Church officials at Manchester Cathedral have gone on record to say that they have “forgiven” Sony for failing to ask permission over the depiction of the building in Insomniac’s PlayStation 3 title, Resistance: Fall of Man.

"I think some important lessons have been learnt. So we do forgive Sony for what they have done, even though they still believe they have done nothing wrong”, stated The Dean of Manchester Cathedral, Reverend Rogers Govender.

"In an industry that is breaking new frontiers, it is important that long held traditions of film and television are maintained. These traditions include having courtesy, respecting the dignity of your subject, and admitting when mistakes have been made.”

"In so many ways Sony have failed to live up to these standards by disrespecting people of faith and the victims of gun crime here in Manchester”, he added.

Despite this, Rogers noted that the Cathedral has received a spike in the number of visitors since the discrepancy earlier this year, particularly in those of a young age as well as tourists.

Source: CVG

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posted 8:37am EDT - October 24th, 2007
1

negative publicity seems to be good publicity :-D

posted 8:39am EDT - October 24th, 2007
2

WOW THANK YOU CHURCH !! (Sarcasm)

posted 8:41am EDT - October 24th, 2007
3

"we forgive them... they were still wrng but we forgive them... because we been loosing donations like crazy lately."

posted 8:41am EDT - October 24th, 2007
4
Sony hasn't done anything wrong. Sony didn't kill anyone and they didn't blow up the Manchester Cathedral. Maybe the church should actually focus on making their community better instead of spending resources on this circus. BTW, the church "forgiving" Sony is clearly just a way for them to make themselves look good and Sony look bad in the process. It is in no way genuine.
posted 8:57am EDT - October 24th, 2007
5

Let me go on record to say F**K the manchester cathedral

 

posted 9:15am EDT - October 24th, 2007
6

Hey Sony you can use my house without permision if you like for resistance 2, and depict it in any way you like, although its not as big or grand as manchester cathedral.

posted 9:21am EDT - October 24th, 2007
7

Tradition of film and TV? Of course the have to ask permission to physically be there. What they are asking is more akin to harrasing an artist because he painted a scene of england that has the church in it. It is there in real life, and that is what they were trying to convey.

posted 9:23am EDT - October 24th, 2007
8

These guys are some really sick b*stards....

 

"thanks for putting up with our S**t! Now we have more money HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

posted 9:27am EDT - October 24th, 2007
9

psn id: gingo... if they are getting more people going to their church why are they complaining lol Sony dont need permission to use a building in any of their games

posted 9:35am EDT - October 24th, 2007
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its just a building. jesus didnt build it lol. the fact you have to apologize for using a building in a game is wrong

posted 10:15am EDT - October 24th, 2007
11

I would like to say its just a building, God did not send his only begotten son to save a building. To many people today think man made structures are of "Holy" value. When they are not. They almost hold them as idols which is clearly stated against Gods word. So i think its stupid. Resistance is the best game i have and i love playing it.

posted 10:35am EDT - October 24th, 2007
12

@galaxyman14:  Church genuine?  That's a laugh.  This has been nothing but a genuine showing of church greed from the beginning.  Sony did nothing wrong.  Games use representations of earth's locales all the time.  They are nothing more than representations and you don't need permission to use a representation of a public area.  I seem to remember that they were willing to forgive Sony in the past in lieu of a "generous" donation to the church.  Guess they had to try to fund the molestation lawsuits.  They need to put this crap behind them and focus on their community at hand.

posted 10:56am EDT - October 24th, 2007
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"In so many ways Sony have failed to live up to these standards "In so many ways Sony have failed to live up to these standards"........Sony??? I thought they were blaming insomniac?

 

 

 

 

 

posted 10:58am EDT - October 24th, 2007
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So next time when we make game that based on Mars, we should ask the alien permission first before making it

posted 11:10am EDT - October 24th, 2007
15

LOL, So we thank you Sony, not because we really do, but because you helped us out after all. What a bunch of hipocrits

posted 11:39am EDT - October 24th, 2007
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Amen

posted 11:53am EDT - October 24th, 2007
17

Donations Accepted......

posted 11:59am EDT - October 24th, 2007
18

@ #1 not good for sony.

posted 12:02pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
19

wanna blow up my House For RFAM2 ? LOL . just don't do any thing to my PS3 [:-)

posted 12:08pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
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@SolsticeZero I will go as far as to say, "f**k religion." This only shows religions' and the people behind these religions' true colors.
posted 2:13pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
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You know what they say: "Forgiveness is divine... but money is better". But for the love of crap, don't assume that ALL religious people are as petty and corrupt as the heads of Manchester.

posted 2:21pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
22

I'm picturing myself what Sony would reply to the Church's "forgivness".

FU, YOU HIPOCRITS!!!

these people where to dumb to actually make some researchs on the game before Yackin.... Sony did not made the game, Insomniac did!!!

and they have nothin to apologise for either.

I agree with ya "Staticneuron", it's like suing an artist for painting a monumental statue while adding some cool things on  it! :D:D:D

posted 2:52pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
23

can you say "bribery" lol

posted 3:51pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
24

Pfft the Church should apologize to gamers like us lol.

posted 3:55pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
25

what a bunch of d1cks!  "we are sorry about getting angry over YOUR mistake" well its surprising in its self that a church would actually apologize for anything being the people who think they are always right

posted 4:04pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
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damn straight u forgive um. they didn't do anything. they continue to corrupt the church...

posted 4:30pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
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huh?sony never made the game it was INSOMATIC u crazy fools!and ur only in the church for like 10 minutes and your saving  the church from the chimera.and the game rocks!and the church :)

posted 5:06pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
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Give Sony a break

posted 5:23pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
29

It's churches like this that makes real ones look like ***es. Seriously, I go to church and I'm a Christian but Resistance was one kick *** game.

posted 6:28pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
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come on what was that, totally rediculous. totally like whats happening here in canada with muslim women voting covered up, BS!

posted 7:01pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
31

So will Resistance 2: Rise of Man be set in a devestated Vatican City?

posted 7:57pm EDT - October 24th, 2007
32

Ultimately what all this means is they arnt going to get jack out of sony, or even Insomniac. They've given up and while they can say they forgive them they've completely  missed that the point of forgivness is not to continue to talk about how they havent lived up to what you wanted them to do. To forgive is devine, to continue to be petty b!tches just shows how hypocritical they are.

posted 12:06am EDT - October 25th, 2007
33

lol "though they still believe that have done nothing wrong." - yes, and i tend to agree.

posted 3:50am EDT - October 25th, 2007
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Can't they just shut up already.They've given them selves a pretty bad reputation among gamers already.

posted 3:42pm EDT - October 26th, 2007
35

who cares its not likes it is attacking religon i thing they shouldn't care and another thing how do they even know these things do they play the games?

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