EA Rickrolls Yahtzee

[Exocet]

Something is quite wrong in today's world:my respect for EA is actually growing.

What kind of twisted joke are the gods playing on us?

 

[CoziestPigeon]

This is fucking wonderful. I seriously hope someone recorded that shit.

 

[Abedeus]

You have to hand it to EA. Their marketing campaign for this game is absolutely genius.

And Yahtzee demolished that bloody box.

You mean like the fake protests or more controversy than actual game info?

 

[Adam]

That is really damn clever! Hats off to EA on that one. See that is how you do proper marketing, none of this booth babe sin bullshit.

 

[Sparrow]

Amazing. I would pay good money to see a video of it.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

*applause* Now that's a marketing stunt.

Sure beats leaving bits of dead bodies over Tokyo.

 

[Chancie]

Haha, that's great. xD A very clever idea.

 

[Mr. Grey]

That's it, I'm picking up this game. They won me over with their marketing alone. And I will pick up this game, even if I must sell my soul.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Well, nice to see that EA has a sense of humour,but a hammer Yatzhee? Come on! Just throw it out the nearest window and hope it smashes to a million peices upon impact.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Do we have video footage of Yahtzee smashing that box with a hammer?

But this is funny. Not quite laugh out loud funny, but very amusing to say the least.

Sadly, no. Here's the thing - our video crew just happened to be out at Red Storm when Yahtzee opened the box and weren't due back for at least an hour. And the music wouldn't shut off, so...we had no choice.

 

[EMO_of_LiGHT]

Now I wish I worked at the Escapist even more...

 

[RollForInitiative]

You have to hand it to EA. Their marketing campaign for this game is absolutely genius.

And Yahtzee demolished that bloody box.

It's the first time that marketing for Dante's Inferno hasn't been a completely misguided, farcical manifestation of raw stupidity.

 

[thrubeingcool13]

EA actually has a soul?

 

[Arcanz]

This is just amazing, EA just went from "meh" to "slightly better than meh". I still don't like EA that much, but this sure was an awesome idea.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

Do we have video footage of Yahtzee smashing that box with a hammer?

But this is funny. Not quite laugh out loud funny, but very amusing to say the least.

Sadly, no. Here's the thing - our video crew just happened to be out at Red Storm when Yahtzee opened the box and weren't due back for at least an hour. And the music wouldn't shut off, so...we had no choice.

Aw, dammit. The video would have been pure gold...

I'll just chalk it up to "wrong place, wrong time." Wrong place for the video crew to be, wrong time for Yahtzee to open the box.

 

[awsome117]

Oh how delicously funny this is.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Very funny joke. If only EA were as creative in their games as they are with their publicity stunts...

OH SNAP!

That was funny, i wish i could of seen it.

 

[John Funk]

You have to hand it to EA. Their marketing campaign for this game is absolutely genius.

And Yahtzee demolished that bloody box.

You mean like the fake protests or more controversy than actual game info?

You have to hand it to EA. Their marketing campaign for this game is absolutely genius.

And Yahtzee demolished that bloody box.

It's the first time that marketing for Dante's Inferno hasn't been a completely misguided, farcical manifestation of raw stupidity.

Oh, come on. It's at least *creative.* The Greed checks were funny, and you almost have to give them credit for trying with the Lust thing.

...almost.

 

[Gaderael]

That's bloody priceless. I love the note addressed to him about his anger sending him to hell.