Qur’an in LittleBigPlanet poster feels “partially responsible” for delay, sends apologies
Be careful what you wish for. This may be what NSider is thinking as he sees his request for Sony and Media Molecule to address the usage of music in LittleBigPlanet containing texts from the Holy Qur’an being carried out. In fact, he got so much more than he bargained for. He merely asked for an online patch, good ol’ quick-on-their-toes Sony pulled out the entire stock of copies, thereby causing the week-long delay. Now he feels guilty, and so posts an apology.
NSider has posted an apology at the NeoGaf forums for “partially causing a one week delay of LittleBigPlanet.” As you may very well know (or in case you don’t know), the ruckus started when a post was made at the EU PlayStation boards yesterday saying that two lines from the Qur’an were used in the music.
The poster (with EU PS boards username solid_08) then said that they do find the use of texts from Qur’an in music – we’re assuming those outside of religious hymns – as “deeply offending”. Here’s the exact quote from his post:
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.
And now, NSider (if he is the same as solid_08) is issuing an apology as he feels responsible for Sony‘s pullout of all LBP discs. According to his new post:
I didn’t mean to do it but here goes:
I’m sorry for partially causing a one week delay of LittleBigPlanet. I’m sorry Sony has to go through all the trouble of pulling the game from stores and replacing them with patched versions. I definitely know what it feels like to have a game delayed.
The possibility that Sony would delay the game didn’t even cross my mind. I thought that they will do nothing about it for weeks then quietly release a patch much later. I’m sorry. 🙁
There, there. Delays do happen. As to the legitimacy of the reason behind Sony’s pullout, we can go on and on forever debating about it, and still, it wouldn’t matter — because it’s Sony’s call.
Anyway, it’s just a week-long delay. Am sure you can wait a bit more . You’ve waited longer, right (MGS4‘s three years in the making and one-time delay, remember)?
Related LittleBigPlanet Articles:
- LittleBigPlanet worldwide delay confirmed, Sony to rectify Qur’an references in soundtrack *Update*
- VeryBigSetback: LIttleBigPlanet delayed in Europe
- Dancing to the tunes of LittleBigPlanet: music lineup
Via NeoGaf
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