LitteBigPlanet-Shellshocked Delay News.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/...uran-incident/

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The big news of the day is that one of the biggest PlayStation 3 games of the year, “Little Big Planet,” has been delayed due to the late discovery that a song in the game includes lines from the Qur’an.

Sony has issued a statement, recalling the game and pushing back the U.S. release date in America to 10/27.

But what do the game’s creators have to say?

The developers at Media Molecule are “shellshocked and gutted,” saying they only learned about this one day ago and took swift action.

Media Molecule’s website is down right now due to overwhelming traffic, but here is the full statement that was published there by a member of the development studio, explaining their side of things:

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Well... I am not that upset because the UK release is the 24th Oct...

Atleast Fallout 3 is out on the 31st! =]

Why are having lines from the Qu'ran such a bad thing?

Pulp Fiction quotes the Bible.

LBP is awesome. (played beta at a friend's). Two reasons this news doesn't crush me:

1. no ps3
2. FABLE II

;o Aww man! Well the delay isn't that long so, no big deal I guess. I went to the site and saw this ad to the left

http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N3550.M...4.5;sz=160x600

;/ for some reason I cracked up laughing.

Haha


I wonder when it is coming out for the UK then... Unless it's the 27th for everyone.

Ouch good ol' uk will actually beat the US! Not that i have a PS3 to play it on. But on a more expensive every friday for a month a top title comes out (Fable 2,Fallout 3, GoW2, CoD5:WaW.) LBP looks pretty nice though hopefully microsoft will bring out there money again:)

Any particular reason why you're not on MSN Dedinho?

Think you're better than me?

Think you're bigger?

Think you're the Big I-Am now?

I'm going to take you downtown cupcake.

GameSpot gave the game a 9.0/10, however reliable GameSpot is after the Kane & Lynch scandal.

Shit, I need to learn Somalian so I can be properly offended.

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Originally Posted by Murxidon

Any particular reason why you're not on MSN Dedinho?

Think you're better than me?

Think you're bigger?

Think you're the Big I-Am now?

I'm going to take you downtown cupcake.

GameSpot gave the game a 9.0/10, however reliable GameSpot is after the Kane & Lynch scandal.

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Haha, I will come on now <3.. I haven't used the internet properly in a while.



People are saying it is delayed until the 14th November (My birthday) in the UK..

I hope not. I have a half term break coming up!

That's only like 6 days, it could be much worse.

The most petty form of censorship is self-censorship.

At least they now have some reason to get the games name into the news-cycle once again.

I am pretty curios of what kind of customers they try to woo with their "initiative".
I find all this personally unnecessary, sad and I would be ashamed to be a part of such a crowd, so it obviously can't be me.

Funny for that people who are awaiting the release and now a little disappointed;
You also just got insulted as a fundamentalist, that isn't able to deal with hearing a piece of a song from a foreign culture. Just because they know that is the way it is, they are going to make sure they fix it...

I'm going to become Muslim so I can walk all over people.

Some copies were sold before the release date, I wonder how those are going to work online now (I know it is just a song, but I have no idea if that matters or not).

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Originally Posted by Ronin

The most petty form of censorship is self-censorship.

At least they now have some reason to get the games name into the news-cycle once again.

I am pretty curios of what kind of customers they try to woo with their "initiative".
I find all this personally unnecessary, sad and I would be ashamed to be a part of such a crowd, so it obviously can't be me.

Funny for that people who are awaiting the release and now a little disappointed;
You also just got insulted as a fundamentalist, that isn't able to deal with hearing a piece of a song from a foreign culture. Just because they know that is the way it is, they are going to make sure they fix it...

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I don't think they are doing this to 'woo' customers, members of the Muslim community can get fairly outraged at things members of the Christian community wouldn't even care about (Remember that certain drawing?). This seems more like over-the-top ass covering as compared to woo'ing.

It isn't targeted towards people from other cultures hearing the song, it is targeted towards Muslims who could be offended that their song is taken out of context or some such thing.

The delay isn't that bad. Still in the same month.

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Originally Posted by Pok

Some copies were sold before the release date, I wonder how those are going to work online now (I know it is just a song, but I have no idea if that matters or not).



I don't think they are doing this to 'woo' customers, members of the Muslim community can get fairly outraged at things members of the Christian community wouldn't even care about (Remember that certain drawing?). This seems more like over-the-top ass covering as compared to woo'ing.

It isn't targeted towards people from other cultures hearing the song, it is targeted towards Muslims who could be offended that their song is taken out of context or some such thing.

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Guess what, I think it's both.

What I said went pretty much for both "sides" and were I was specific: Well I think that it's an economic decision rather than anything else.
Why?
Because everything else is just too far off, to be taken as a seriously relevant matter tbh.

The words are:

1- In the 18th second: “كل نفس ذائقة الموت” (”kollo nafsin tha’iqatol mawt”, literally: ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death’).

2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: “كل من عليها فان” (”kollo man alaiha fan”, literally: ‘All that is on earth will perish’).