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lupin23rd said:
IGN probably posted some bullshit just to force Sony to make some sort of statement because they figured we'd go another E3 hearing nothing about it. Now at least they've said SOMETHING about it, and we can continue this song and dance.
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This scenario is very familiar...

-thinks back to before XV's reveal-
 
Let it go
 
Mashin Haters said:
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Tyrion is too good to be IGN.
 
Ishan said:
webm uploaded by demonite. the 5 beeps has been taken as 5 megatons or 5 beeps and one last beep as 5 good announcements and 1 major megaton. (was in the project beast thread)
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Yeah I was there for that, but what does that have to do with true colors?
 
They must have had SOMETHING to post that article, and to use the word "officially". Otherwise they'd just say it was rumored no?

They got duly bashed for the Naughty Dog stuff, but even that they never said it was official or anything.
 
BearPawB said:
I think arthur is right. It is a very weird situation. You don't have your editor in chief post something like that unless you are SURE.
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I want to agree, however I think this isnt the first time ign has said something was confirmed when it wasent yet
 
To me, at a functional level, I'm always skeptical about western press finding out information on Japanese-developed games.

I mean, how often do we find out detailed stuff about what goes on in Japan, as far as development goes?
 
Wow this thread, I think we just discovered warp speed.

I fucking hope Sony re-announces this effing game tommorow, just so we can stop it with the "where's TLG" "TLG will be there" posts everytime Sony has some kind of announcement/conference
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I mean, let's run down the possibilities here:

1) It's true and Sony doesn't want to say anything yet, so they issued a denial.

2) It's not true but IGN was lead to believe it through usually credible sources that were themselves given wrong or incomplete information.

3) It's not true and IGN took very weak sources and ran with them irresponsibly.

The third one is a really, really heavy accusation and basically torpedoes them as a news source. It's possible, but would have had to be done damn near drunkenly for an editor to post it.

The second one seems the most likely to me. I don't really buy the "Sony was trying to root out leakers" theory, but I can easily see people just getting it wrong. If this is the case and IGN didn't knowingly put up a false story, they might be trying to find out where in the chain the information breakdown happened before they acknowledge it as false.
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I would hate to see this post get drowned out, but the more...unhinged TLG fans seem to be out for blood right now.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I mean, let's run down the possibilities here:

1) It's true and Sony doesn't want to say anything yet, so they issued a denial.

2) It's not true but IGN was lead to believe it through usually credible sources that were themselves given wrong or incomplete information.

3) It's not true and IGN took very weak sources and ran with them irresponsibly.

The third one is a really, really heavy accusation and basically torpedoes them as a news source. It's possible, but would have had to be done damn near drunkenly for an editor to post it.

The second one seems the most likely to me. I don't really buy the "Sony was trying to root out leakers" theory, but I can easily see people just getting it wrong. If this is the case and IGN didn't knowingly put up a false story, they might be trying to find out where in the chain the information breakdown happened before they acknowledge it as false.
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It's 1. People still thinking the TLG will ever come out are in denial bigger than the river in Egypt.
 
EatChildren said:
There it is. That's the look. We've seen it for seven years on post after post. You all despise us. Cynics. Disbelievers. Mods with an anti-Sony bias. You've heard of rumours? The forum was obsessed with them. They loved to watch gamers and press burn, the way their hopes blackened, blistered, melted off their words. They burned developers they didn't like; they burned publishers that disobeyed them; they burned anyone that was against them. Before long, half PR community was against them. NeoGAF saw traitors everywhere, so they had their posters place caches of rumours all over the forum: beneath gaming discussion, the slums of off topic, under posts, titles, avatars, even beneath the Community OT itself. Finally, the day of reckoning came. IGN marched upon the forum after the cancellation at the Team Ico. But Scott Rohde arrived first with the whole Sony army at his back, promising that The Last Guardian still existed. We knew Sony better than that. They've never been one to bank on development hell. We told NeoGAF as much. We urged them to move on. But the forum didn't listen to us, didn't listen to the mods who tried to warn them. But they did listen to Yosp, that grey sunken cunt. "You can trust Sony," he said. "Team Ico has always been developing The Last Guardian." So, we opened discussion and Rohde sacked the forum. Once again qw came to the forum begging them to see reality. They told us to bring them IGN's head. Then they turned to each other, "Ban them all," they said. "Ban them on our forum, ban them in their URLs." Tell us, if your precious community commanded you to ban a popular source of gaming coverage and stand by while thousands of men women and children anticipated a title stuck in development hell, would you have done it? Would you have kept your oath then? First, we changed the thread title, and then when the posters turned to flee we added a stupid poll. "Ban them all!," they kept saying. "Ban them all!" I don't think they expected it to be at E3. They meant to wait for as long as necessary with the rest of us and watch The Last Guardian rise again, reborn as a PlayStation 4 title. We kept the thread open to make sure that didn't happen.
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Incredible.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I mean, let's run down the possibilities here:

1) It's true and Sony doesn't want to say anything yet, so they issued a denial.

2) It's not true but IGN was lead to believe it through usually credible sources that were themselves given wrong or incomplete information.

3) It's not true and IGN took very weak sources and ran with them irresponsibly.

The third one is a really, really heavy accusation and basically torpedoes them as a news source. It's possible, but would have had to be done damn near drunkenly for an editor to post it.

The second one seems the most likely to me. I don't really buy the "Sony was trying to root out leakers" theory, but I can easily see people just getting it wrong. If this is the case and IGN didn't knowingly put up a false story, they might be trying to find out where in the chain the information breakdown happened before they acknowledge it as false.
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How do you explain them altering the 'original' article from 'sources' to 'source'?
 
EatChildren said:
There it is. That's the look. We've seen it for seven years on post after post. You all despise us. Cynics. Disbelievers. Mods with an anti-Sony bias. You've heard of rumours? The forum was obsessed with them. They loved to watch gamers and press burn, the way their hopes blackened, blistered, melted off their words. They burned developers they didn't like; they burned publishers that disobeyed them; they burned anyone that was against them. Before long, half PR community was against them. NeoGAF saw traitors everywhere, so they had their posters place caches of rumours all over the forum: beneath gaming discussion, the slums of off topic, under posts, titles, avatars, even beneath the Community OT itself. Finally, the day of reckoning came. IGN marched upon the forum after the cancellation at the Team Ico. But Scott Rohde arrived first with the whole Sony army at his back, promising that The Last Guardian still existed. We knew Sony better than that. They've never been one to bank on development hell. We told NeoGAF as much. We urged them to move on. But the forum didn't listen to us, didn't listen to the mods who tried to warn them. But they did listen to Yosp, that grey sunken cunt. "You can trust Sony," he said. "Team Ico has always been developing The Last Guardian." So, we opened discussion and Rohde sacked the forum. Once again qw came to the forum begging them to see reality. They told us to bring them IGN's head. Then they turned to each other, "Ban them all," they said. "Ban them on our forum, ban them in their URLs." Tell us, if your precious community commanded you to ban a popular source of gaming coverage and stand by while thousands of men women and children anticipated a title stuck in development hell, would you have done it? Would you have kept your oath then? First, we changed the thread title, and then when the posters turned to flee we added a stupid poll. "Ban them all!," they kept saying. "Ban them all!" I don't think they expected it to be at E3. They meant to wait for as long as necessary with the rest of us and watch The Last Guardian rise again, reborn as a PlayStation 4 title. We kept the thread open to make sure that didn't happen.
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Jaime Lannister approves
 
IGN added "We will be updating this story with more information as it develops."

lol its not a developing story. You were wrong.
 
Is this the storm before the calm before shit hits the fan? Because that's what I feel like it is. Tomorrow / today will be the eye of the storm then crazy shit happens. I can dream.
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I mean, let's run down the possibilities here:

1) It's true and Sony doesn't want to say anything yet, so they issued a denial.

2) It's not true but IGN was lead to believe it through usually credible sources that were themselves given wrong or incomplete information.

3) It's not true and IGN took very weak sources and ran with them irresponsibly.

The third one is a really, really heavy accusation and basically torpedoes them as a news source. It's possible, but would have had to be done damn near drunkenly for an editor to post it.

The second one seems the most likely to me. I don't really buy the "Sony was trying to root out leakers" theory, but I can easily see people just getting it wrong. If this is the case and IGN didn't knowingly put up a false story, they might be trying to find out where in the chain the information breakdown happened before they acknowledge it as false.
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This definitely needs to be quoted since this is far better at trying to explain the mindset of whats going on in both camps.
 
john whiteguy84 said:
Probably won't be good anyway
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Loooool

OT - This thread is amazing shame I don't get to live here earlier.
That reply pwnage. IGN being IGN again trying to push rumours as official news.


EL CUCO said:
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Somebody has to kick this guy in the junk, already.
https://twitter.com/DMC_Ryan/status/475512561714995200
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Shit what a idiot. Thank god for gaf am not visiting IGN again for a long while. What a shitty site sometimes.

Officerrob said:
Pretty gross that all those people jumped on Ryan McCaffrey for a tweet made before Rhode's
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YH pretty gross a site trying to mislead people by pushing a rumor as official news and still trying to do so when it was denied officially. YH shame us.
 
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