The controversy over Penny Arcade's Dickwolves shirts, and the strips that inspired their creation, has almost spiraled out of control. This week's First Person column lays out the history, explains the issues, and argues for some sanity at PAX East 2011.
onPause writes:
Are you headed to PAX East 2011 in Boston this March? We surly will be there. Today the guys responsible for organizing the event have given out a fair warning. The popular 3-Day Badges are selling out fast.
Arenanet announced that a brand new Guild Wars 2 demo will be available to play at PAX East this year in Boston and will not be the one used last year.
I doubt it, they have only announced just over half the classes and said that the Guardian "just made it into the game" and is still very early in development, meaning that the other 3 classes only exist on paper right now. They have also stated many times that they still have a long way to go before they are even finished creating the world. I'm guessing Q4 beta at the earliest, release at the beginning of 2012.
I heard they aren't planning on going to beta like they did for the first Guild Wars.
I mean it was so cool when they had preview events up to the release and stuff but that also took up people on their team to make basically a mini-version of the game and delayed the release.
It was needed though to hype up the game and get fans which this one obviously doesn't need so they can get away with no public beta.
The Keynote Speaker for PAX East 2011 was announced today, and SFX-360 has the first post about it!
Wow, she argues that playing more games online can help solve world hunger and the survival of planet earth.
BUT...after listening to the rest, she does have at least an thesis--we are better, more confident problem solvers in games than reality.
Interesting idea. Nonetheless, the gap between the controlled confines of a game and the chaotic mess of reality is worlds apart. I don't buy her argument.
If people want to wear the shirt, just let them. I'm pretty sure less 2% of the people going to PAX will know of this incident and people will wear the shirt regardless, because it looks good. The design of the shirt is well done and someone feeling offended of what they think it represents will not stop others. Why let others ruin your fun right? Someone will ALWAYS get offended for something.
Me wearing a Counter-Strike headshot shirt does not mean I am encouraging people to go headshot each other. If I like the shirt, deal with it.
lol