PS1/2 LittleBigPlanet worldwide delay by one muslim guy.

[lookout]

this is what he wrote:

very urgent about little big planet

To: Sony Computer Entertainment & Media Molecule

While playing your latest game, "LittleBigPlanet" in the first level of the third world in the game (titled "Swinging Safari":smileywink:, I have noticed something strange in the lyrics of the music track of the level. When I listened carefully, I was surprised to hear some very familiar Arabic words from the Quran. You can listen to part of the track here:

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The words are:

1- In the 18th second: "?? ??? ????? ?????" ("kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: 'Every soul shall have the taste of death').

2- Almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "?? ?? ????? ???" ("kollo man alaiha fan", literally: 'All that is on earth will perish').


I asked many of my friends online and offline and they heard the exact same thing that I heard easily when I played that part of the track. Certain Arabic hardcore gaming forums are already discussing this, so we decided to take action by emailing you before this spreads to mainstream attention.

We Muslims consider the mixing of music and words from our Holy Quran deeply offending. We hope you would remove that track from the game immediately via an online patch, and make sure that all future shipments of the game disk do not contain it.

We would also like to mention that this isn't the first time something like this happened in videogames. Nintendo's 1998 hit "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" contained a musical track with islamic phrases, but it was removed in later shipments of the game after Nintendo was contacted by Muslim organizations. Last year, Capcom's "Zack & Wiki" and Activision's "Call of Duty 4" also contained objectionable material offensive to Muslims that was spotted before the release of the final games, and both companies thankfully removed the content.

We hope you act immediately to avoid any confusion and unnecessary controversy, and we thank you for making such an amazing game.

Regards,
yasser
psn id : solid08 picture: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...endid=394683497


solid08 was his PSN, but he actualyl suggested an Online patch, and he was trying to help Sony from getting into deeper trouble.






community.eu.playstation.com forum complained:

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playst...ding&page=1

 

[Jiggah]

He was offended by the use of the Quran? I would have been offended by the implications of mass murder.

 

[Doomsday Forte]

Oh man, so I should send my copy of Ocarina of Time to the past (pardon the game-related pun) because the Fire Temple had it too. D:

Though yeah, uh...*cough*, the whole thing about "every soul shall have the taste of death" is a bit much.

 

[ojsinnerz.]

Legendary Troll.

He fooled us all.

 

[lookout]

I have one question: how the hell did he get the copy of LittleBigPlanet?

 

[TheSpade]

To be fair, it wasn't an elementary case of one follower of the Muslim faith that caused all of this. It was the fears on the part of Sony of the lyrics instigating protests from the Muslim communities. Considering the last notable situation involving another form of entertainment, specifically the cartoon which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September of 2006 and have been reprinted by others, sparked worldwide violence, including deaths, Sony is taking the safe route at a personal fiscal and possible consumer faith loss onto themselves in order to remove any signs of impropriety on their parts. No, I don't agree that we should always tip-toe around a few zealous members of any community, including my own Christian ones who I come at odds with regularly, but understandably, this is a case of a company whom do not wish to provoke in the slightest degree a tragic history that may repeat itself.

 

[Jiggah]

I have one question: how the hell did he get the copy of LittleBigPlanet?

BETA tester probably.

 

[TheSpade]

According to the GameSpot story, several retailers had already acquired their shipments from Sony and sent them out to buyers.

 

[jesterscourt]

I can understand why Sony did it, they are a supported retailer in Middle Eastern companies, and they do a whole lot more than just sell videogames. Although, I would like to point out the other side of the coin, if there was a quote taken from the Torah, the New or Old Testament, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster manual, this wouldn't have occurred, yet Sony wants to avoid a debacle like the Mohammed cartoons and the Hitman 2 release.

 

[jumpman17]

I love when companies slap something in.

Guy 1: This sounds cool, let's put this song in the game.
Guy 2: Is that English? It doesn't sound like English.
Guy 1: I dunno. I think it might be Mexican.
Guy 2: But what's is it saying?
Guy 1: Probably singing about burritos or something.
Guy 2: Ah. Slap that puppy in there then.

 

[ZenZero]

he is an ass

 

[Upperleft]

I have one question: how the hell did he get the copy of LittleBigPlanet?
Most of the retailers in the Middle East sell their copies before the game's release date

anyway, i like how the people on are acting on GAF..
EDIT:
QUOTELittleBigPlanet worldwide delay by one muslim guy.

it's not like he asked Sony to delay the game, he just asked for a patch, you know..

 

[sdnoob]

it's not like he asked Sony to delay the game, he just asked for a patch, you know..

But they did delay it now, according to gamespot. It comes out one week later now, October 28.

 

[Hermessz]

This is bullshit.
Nothing was on purpose, and there wasn't any actuall intend of hurting muslim's feelings.
As a jew, and a believing jew, I don't really care if someone quotes the bible in a game, I actually would feel honor.

End of story, this is total bullshit.

 

[nloding]

While the fact that quotes from the Qu'ran are in there, I could care less. However, they could have picked some friendlier quotes. I know a man fluent in Arabic and he confirmed what it said -- so I agree that it should have been pulled from the game. I'm just annoyed it happened so close to the release date, and I didn't hear about it until I went to the store to buy it. It's just about the only game I'm looking forward to on PS3 right now. Me = Sad.

 

[Trulen]

If I'm not mistaken, that's a forbidden phrase from the [insert book name here because I can't spell it].

'S what I heard through the grapevine from an intelligent poster.

 

[cardyology]

two selected quotes from the Quran....

one is "Every soul shall have the taste of death"

and the other is "all that is on earth shall perish"


Not a very friendly bunch, are they?

/controversy.

 

[Eternal Myst]

This is bullshit.
Nothing was on purpose, and there wasn't any actuall intend of hurting muslim's feelings.
As a jew, and a believing jew, I don't really care if someone quotes the bible in a game, I actually would feel honor.

End of story, this is total bullshit.

OBJECTION!

Are you really Jewish?

For some reason I really doubt that.

Because if you are you shouldn't be reading the Bible, genius.

You should be reading the Tanakh!

Unless you have been reading the wrong book, and had no clue.

Also as a Muslim I would like to understand exactly why they put those two quotes from the Quran in the game.

 

[TheSpade]

The Old Testament of the Holy Bible of Christianity is the equivalent of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in the practice of Judaism. Now, let's not get into a religious argument in here. He says he is Jewish, so we must take him at his word. As for why those quotes from the Qu'ran were sampled or inserted into the song, I honestly have no clue. You'd have to address the song's writer, performer, producer, etc.

 

[Mucuna]

It's like those Buddha Bar musics. They must find this classy, cool or something like it. It's the genre os the music.

I really don't give a damn.