she can't do that. she's not an adult.Dimitriov said:I am concerned by the possibility that this 14 year old girl just gave EA the legal rights to her own likeness.
she can't do that. she's not an adult.Dimitriov said:I am concerned by the possibility that this 14 year old girl just gave EA the legal rights to her own likeness.
Does this jockey game feature brawling by any chance? Because things could get ugly again if it did.thaluikhain said:Title says it all, really. A 14 year old girl who played EA's hockey game, found you could only play as males and wrote to them to complain about this got a reply asking if she'd like a female avatar to be made based on her:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/14-year-old-girl-becomes-female-face-of-nhl-video-game/
That's pretty cool.
And they deserve every bit of it.Supertegwyn said:That's really sweet.
Good on EA, they get too much slack these days.
Don't forget promising people free copies of Battlefield 1942 if they got BF3 and then, once they'd bought BF3, just not doing it.Gmans uncle said:GOOD THINGS EA HAS DONE IN RECENT MEMORY:
This
BAD THINGS EA HAS DONE IN RECENT MEMORY:
Online Passes
Always on DRM
the Dante's Inferno ad campaign
the Dead Space 2 ad campaign
backing down and pulling the Taliban team name from Medal of Honor
pulling all their games off Steam
Annual EA sports games
Origin
Origin Bans
Origin spyware
making Battlefield 3 Origin exclusive (I just really hate Origin, okay)
supporting SOPA
crappy customer service
Not batting a thousand guys...
Did you actually read the article? They asked if she would like to and she agreed. She and her father gave full permission for the avatar.Double A said:She should sue EA for using her likeness (or Michael Sera's) without permission. That'll teach them to correct their mistakes!
If only they would fix things more often...
Thats how you get publicity with MEN.theriddlen said:Well, we all know EA is more than happy to get positive publicity, especially among women. I bet the next Madden will have female avatars.
Not really, apart from the blatanly offensive claim that our completely unbiased websites and newspapers had some sort of incentive by EA itself to tell that story it's quite refreshing in the first place.Satsuki666 said:Whats even more badass about their PR department is that this news is already months old. In fact the game in question came out over two months ago. The fact that so many different websites and newspapers are talking about it now is just amazing.jonyboy13 said:Gotta give it toSatanEA, they got some badass PR department.
I wonder, did they make her sign a special EULA?
*looks at Battlelog*Supertegwyn said:That's really sweet.
Good on EA, they get too much slack these days.