They finally listened to the players. I read this on another forums......

PS3 title, SOCOM: US Navy Seals Confrontation to be recalled due to Sony forum complaints."
gamefail.com
January 12th, 2009

By Abner Rice, gamefail.com

It's a funny thing, those message forums on the internet. What was once a video gaming industry where the producers, programmers and writers knew everything there was to know about making a video game, those days are now long gone. The folks on the internet forums know better than everyone that works in the industry and what makes a good game, and even more than you ever will. And the year of 2009 starts with those people with access to the internet to finally be heard, to finally get what they want.

For the first time in Sony's history, they will pull a game due to negative reception on the Official Sony forums. "SOCOM Confrontation" will be pulled from release and the servers shut down on January 16th for it to be re-released this summer in a "better" version suited to the constant forum complaints about the games's persistent lag, horrible controls and comparisons to "SOCOM 2".

"It wuz retarted and stupid and gay" wrote one 14 year old guy named on the forums as "I_Want_Moar_Lulz". He notes in one of his posts: "I was like, OMG wen I was lagging the whole time but I kept getting dead. Zipper should do this game cuz they rock!" In another posting by "NRAyouDigz", a poster commented "I noticed that the guys who did this didn't do SOCOM 2. Slant Six sux. So I have posted here and in 43 other threads the ways it should be like SOCOM 2 because it isn't from the same programmers. I went back to play this game not to enjoy it, but instead with a sheet of paper to meticulously write down every way this game isn't like SOCOM 2. Why? Because I have nothing better to do."

Sony takes comments like this seriously. Notes one executive (who refused to be named for following comments), "How DARE we make a game that people will take the time to negatively report on our forums! What have we done? According to our responses, we have made a horrible incomplete SOCOM game without Zipper, and we should be ashamed of ourselves! Well, it's time for a change."

The Official Playstation forum members will re-program, complete and distribute "SOCOM Confrontation" to their absolute satisfaction, with SCEA development director Seth Luisi working closely with such PS forum members as "Butterface4life", "Ohnoyoudidnt6969" and "PopPopGoesMyShotty". Sony promises the game to be less "gay", more complete and to have about 500 maps, so that they can add in all the requested things posted on the forums. Notes the exec at SCEA, "We can't go around making games that the PS forum members can't enjoy! We want to make a game where we don't have to come read threads with titles like "I liked it, but..." or "Incomplete!" or "My 12 year old brother could've programmed better than this!" You think we like to hear comments like this?"

Should the newly re-made game prove to be a success, this will be the start of something big, where people with internet access can finally become the armchair game makers they rightly deserve to be. "After all," notes the still unnamed SCEA exec, "The PS forum posters are the backbone of the gaming industry. They know what's perfect, what's not right about every game ever made. We can't sit back and let people enjoy games for what they are. We can't let programmers make the final decisions anymore. After all, these people with their keyboards know better than us, don't they?"

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--January 12th, 2009--