{"id":53452,"date":"2013-05-02T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53452"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:00:45","slug":"sega-sued-over-misleading-aliens-colonial-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/53452-sega-sued-over-misleading-aliens-colonial-marines","title":{"rendered":"Sega sued over misleading Aliens: Colonial Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Aliens: Colonial Marines fiasco<\/a> seems to have come and gone (and taught us all a good lesson), one gamer is so angry at Sega, that he has filed a lawsuit against the publisher.<\/p>\n

Damion Perrine has accused Sega of delivering a far inferior game to that shown during the marketing period, essentially accusing Sega of the “classic bait-and-switch”, false advertising, breach of warranties, fraud in the inducement, and negligent misrepresentation.<\/p>\n

The game itself looked incredibly promising during preview events and demonstrations, yet the retail release was a far cry from what was shown. The game features shoddy textures, simplistic AI and lacked all the dynamic lighting, atmospheric effects and general polish that the demo showcased.<\/p>\n

“Defendants never told anyone – consumers, industry critics, reviewers or reporters – that their ‘actual gameplay’ demonstration advertising campaign bore little resemblance to the retail product that would eventually be sold to a large community of unwitting purchasers,” the complaint states.<\/p>\n

Perrine feels that gamers were completely blind-sided, and were delivered something that was essentially nothing like the promised product.<\/p>\n

“As such, these ‘actual gameplay’ demonstrations – which were defendants’ primary (if not only) method of advertising ‘Aliens: Colonial Marines’ – served as public, pre-release guarantees: put your money down, and you’ll receive at least what you saw in the demos – which showcased the game’s graphics engine, level design, and artificial intelligence, among other specific qualities and features.”<\/p>\n

Do you think Perrine is in the right to sue Sega? Do you think publishers should take responsibility for misrepresentation of games?<\/p>\n

More Aliens articles<\/h3>\n

Sega admits to misleading Aliens: Colonial Marines demo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Alien games that don\u2019t suck<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The truth behind Aliens: Colonial Marines development<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aliens Colonial Marines \u2013 a nauseating nightmare?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy is pissed at Aliens: Colonial Marines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4113,2153,8807,8806,3238,1525,2450,21,2219],"class_list":["post-53452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aliens","tag-aliens-colonial-marines","tag-aliens-colonial-marines-game","tag-aliens-colonial-marines-review","tag-aliens-fps","tag-gearbox","tag-gearbox-software","tag-headline","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53455,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53452\/revisions\/53455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}