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Companies that repeatedly make small errors like Capcom

GameShowPresident

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I was just thinking that over the span of more than a decade Capcom:

-Advertised Resident Evil: Director's Cut as having the uncensored FMVs in the US, despite not being the case.

-Misprinted the discs for Strider 2 on PS1, where the disc containing Stider 1 was labeled Strider 2 and vice versa. This arguably carried over to the PSN release, where opening the game defaulted to Strider 1.

-Distributed Okami Wii with boxart containing an IGN watermark.

-Distributed Resident Evil: Revelations with "Revelaitons" on the spine.

What other companies have made similar errors?
 
ArjanN

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Not to be a dick, but literally every company in the world of any real size has made errors like that.
 

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THQ

- hosted an AMA on a website where child pornography and harassment runs rampant after being warned repeatedly and issued a half-assed apology afterwards with the people responsible seeing no consequences whatsoever


small stuff really
 

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They have had weird mistakes and strange decisions since the 8-Bit days, but it's not usually abusive or unethical or something moral, it's things like somehow letting the directors cut soundtrack through.
 
babyzelda

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Dardan Sandiego said:
THQ

- hosted an AMA on a website where child pornography and harassment runs rampant after being warned repeatedly and issued a half-assed apology afterwards with the people responsible seeing no consequences whatsoever


small stuff really
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To be fair, reddit did mostly invent the AMA. Or, 4chan has great articles? Wherever it was.
 
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shadowman16

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Sega had a hilarious track record with Yakuza release dates over here - 3 was right next to Final Fantasy XIII, 4 was right next to God of War 3, Yakuza 0? Resident Evil 7, Yakuza 6? God of War again!

Oh and speaking of Yakuza 6. Remember that time when Yakuza 6's demo included the entire game? Oops!
 
Pyro

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I think every company has small hiccups. Capcom isn't unique in this regard.
 
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Shadoken

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trevofour said:
Sega had a couple of small ones:
- Sega CD
- 32X
- Saturn
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I don't think those are "small" mistakes like a typo or something lol. Those are actual big console releases that caused huge financial and PR damage to the company.

shadowman16 said:
Oh and speaking of Yakuza 6. Remember that time when Yakuza 6's demo included the entire game? Oops!
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This is a good example.

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Guess this will be a big thread then! Can't wait to see more examples!
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The funny thing is RE3 just got leaked on PSN lmao.

Although that might be more on Sony than Capcom.
 
lowhighkang_LHK

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I think these types of small errors are fairly common.

Activision Blizzard on that other hand. Even Dems and Republicans combined forces against them. Hopefully the company learned it's lesson and won't repeat it's mistakes.
 
Weltall Zero

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Poltergust said:
Corporations are made of people.
People tend to make mistakes.

Did this really needed to be spelled out for you?
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The entire point of being aware that people make mistakes, is to have other people double-check their work to catch these mistakes. A company that keeps misspelling stuff (when other companies byt and large do not) seems to point to a failure at some level of quality control.

Obviously these things are unimportant in the grand scheme of things, and stuff like the THQ 8chan AMA or Blizzard's Hong Kong fiasco (the latter not really being an "error", but a very deliberate policy) are much worse as they have real world effects, but Capcom does not really need anyone defending their honor when their history of typos is pointed out.

It's also not very consistent to be pissed at a platitude like "corporations are not people", right after delivering "people make mistakes" yourself.
 
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