The nature of this article was to point out to our readers that our original report of a MGS4 demo was untrue. I advised ourselves and our readers to not get carried away with statements made by PSW in the future. I also stated that PSW should lessen their trust in their inside source, and perhaps listen more closely to Kojima Productions.

That was the motive of the article.

Whether their decision to print this was made months ago is still irrelevant, since there were even less signs of a demo then. Furthermore their editor made the decision to confirm that a demo was coming only last week. Thus, saying that PSW were wrong and made a mistake should not constitute to me being a “dick”.

Furthermore, arguing against Jack Thompson and his odd opinions, when he threatens to sue almost every gaming blog for speaking against him, does not make me the “dick”.

I’m sorry if the words in this article caused you any offense.

First I appreciate your taking the time to comment, and I can completely understand one not agreeing with the words/ opinions of another, however one thing that I am very proud of here at ripten is that I have developed a site that allows my writers to be themselves and speak in their own individual voice.

You can disagree with Patrick — that is more than acceptable — but when you make statements like “You’re probably like this in all aspects of your life and think you’re better than everyone else …” it unfortunately leads me to believe that you yourself embody these characteristics (especially since you just did to him what you accuse him of doing to others).

Have you ever heard of the term “psychological projection” or projection bias? The word is defined as “a defense mechanism in which one attributes to others one’s own unacceptable or unwanted thoughts or/and emotions. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses/desires without letting the ego recognize them.”

Please debate intelligently and don’t make blanket comments that ultimately make you look foolish.

Chad-

You can disagree all you want, but you were being a total dick. The whole point of this article is to point the finger at PSW and say “You were wrong”. If you don’t think that’s being a dick then maybe you are just much more of a dick than you realize. You’re probably like this in all aspects of your life and think you’re better than everyone else and that’s why you write dumb articles like this hating on PSW and Jack Thompson. Pick yourself up by putting others down.

Secondly, Magazines get to play preview builds all the time - without them they wouldn’t be able to preview a game. This is not a demo - and not all games that they preview have a demo release.

PSW claimed from their “inside sources” that there would be a PSN demo, when there never was going to be one. It’s all very well to say the “demo” we’re playing might come to the PSN - but to claim that it WILL and confirm this in a throw away comment is what is the problem here.

Furthermore, I disagree that I’m being a “dick” to PSW - I simply said that they “got it all wrong” and that they should “trust their inside sources less”. This isn’t the first time PSW have made false statements - Zoe 3 anyone?

He said it would be a “huge undertaking” to make a new demo, key word being “new”. What’s wrong with the old demo, and why couldn’t that have possibly been what PSW played and thought we could play too? A demo’s a demo, right? I just don’t think it’s right to be a dick to PSW just because some dude that works for Kojima said that there wouldn’t be a demo on the PSN, and PSW probably actually wrote that a few months ago and their info is outdated because of it. Like I said before, that’s part of the difference between the internet and a magazine - timeliness.

The people ripping on PSW are Kojima, where Ryan says they made it up. Not me.

Mr. Steen fails.