Splinter Cell Stunt Goes Stupidly Wrong

[Void(null)]

I shudder to imagine how Ubisoft would do something like this to promote Assassin's Creed 3.

For that, Ubisofts marketing team has decided that they will send guys out in masks to brutalize the elderly and sell their medication on the black market.

You know all in the spirit of advertising!

 

[GodsAndFishes]

I'd have thought the better idea would be to use a flashlight and project objectives onto several buildings.

 

[Brad Shepard]

Oh Ubisoft, you never stop making me laugh.

 

[paketep]

Fuckin' morons! How stupid are these people?

Considering we're talking about Ubi, that's probably STUPIDEST OF THE WORLD.

 

[Mighty Lighty]

I`m confused how people would see someone point a gun of tthem and think of buying splinter cell

 

[8bitlove2a03]

Well hullo New Reason For Me To Lose Faith In Humanity. How are you today?

 

[PhiMed]

What would've happened if this had gone "right"? What other outcome could they have expected from this?

 

[Jared]

...They didnt see this as a bad idea...? Well, its certainly no surprise it ended like it did.

You go like that in public and people are gonna get irate...

 

[ark123]

<The whole thing was just a stunt to promote Ubisoft's new Splinter Cell: Conviction.

SHOCKING

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

What the fuck is wrong with people?

 

[RathWolf]

No on involved at any level realised: "wait a minute, this is a TERRIBLE idea"? No one?

Well, you know, one guy suggested it, and the rest went along....like sheep. HA HA, New Zealand.

 

[BrunDeign]

What's that saying?

There is no such thing as bad publicity?

 

[geldonyetich]

Jebus, the people running Ubisoft apparently have way more money than sense.

 

[esperandote]

At least the weren't advertising rapelay

 

[Soxafloppin]

This isnt even a joke!

They could have been creative with it.

 

[Quaxar]

Wow, that was a pointless and stupid idea... kudos to whoever actually thought of that wonderful stunt!

 

[Inuprince]

Wow... I don't know what happened to Ubisoft lately but in a few months we will be getting news of being arrested for making their stuntmen do Leaps of Faith from skyscrapers ... into trashcans full of diapers ...

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

That little act of stupid is now given the *facepalm*. I mean seriously if you didn't want people thinking you were serious then use a gun with an orange tip on the end.

Good point. Could you imagine if this had been done in a gun-happy place in the US?

This man would because human swiss cheese.

I remember a Darwin Award about a man who tried to rob a gun store (with a police car sitting right out side). He a single shot into the ceiling, demanded money, and got shot down by every person in the place.

Seems very similar no?