IGN Takes Left Behind Money
I’m going to write this very, very carefully. Left Behind is a game, based on the best-selling Christian-based series of books, that I have done my best to be fair to. I am not for Left Behind and I am not against it, I reserve judgment on the game until I actually play the final release.
All I am saying is that I was quite surprised to find a full page pop-up ad today for the Left Behind demo when I went to IGN. Given the nature of the series, it’s very surprising that they would take the money. The concern about Left Behind isn’t like the lunacy we see regarding Bully or Grand Theft Auto, this is a game that promotes a strong religious belief about what will happen to non-believers at the rapture, even a New York Times columnist had “reservations” writing about the series:
People have the right to believe in a racist God, or a God who throws millions of nonevangelicals into hell. I don’t think we should ban books that say that. But we should be embarrassed when our best-selling books gleefully celebrate religious intolerance and violence against infidels.
That’s not what America stands for, and I doubt that it’s what God stands for.
How do you feel about IGN taking money and promoting the ideals of Left Behind?
Alexander
Posted to Video Games on 2 September 2006
· Comments (5)
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I think it’s not right. Working in a bank, we have a bulletin board for people in the community to put up bulletins and flyers. As a rule, we do not allow anything that could be considered political or that favours one religion over the other.
For the sake of being professional, I think that what we did, is a good stance to take. By allowing something like that, you only serve to alienate your customer base.
Shame on IGN for showing that.
While I understand your point, there is a big difference between a community bulletin board and a paid commercial advertisement.
I know, but either way, it has a chance of alienating your user base. And that’s something that, as a site that is absolutely nothing without its users, should be avoided at all costs.
Well, let’s consider who we’re talking about here: IGN Entertainment, a unit of Fox Interactive Media, Inc.
Money talks, bullshit walks.