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- Weinstein: No. Pepsi: Yes. The Year in Apologies. From Harvey Weinstein to Pepsi to the National Park Service, 2017 has seen a lot of public apologies and non-apologies.
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The Year in Apologies. The 2017 movement to expose sexual abuse and harassment produced a number of high-profile, public apologies. These statements did not solve anything.
Dec 26, 2017. You might as well call 2017 the year of public apologies: Companies, leaders, celebrities, and athletes alike had to issue mea culpas for mistakes and missteps all year long. Some...
- Friday The 13th
- Forza Motorsport 7
- Need For Speed: Payback
- Destiny 2
- Fortnite
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
- Star Wars Battlefront II
Illfonic and Gun Media's Friday the 13th: The Gamesuffered numerous issues at launch: connectivity problems, long maintenance schedules, and database login failures. The issues got so bad that Gun Media eventually released free DLC as an apology for all the server problems, hoping to get back on the player base's good side. Unfortunately, Xbox One ...
The latest installment in Turn 10 Studios' Forza series, Forza Motorsport 7, idled earlier in 2017 when it released to early access users. But VIP members quickly found out that the service had changed between installments. VIPs no longer earned double XP, at least not after 25 races. People were justifiably outraged by the lack of communication on...
EA suffered a great amount of backlash due to Star Wars Battlefront II (more on that later), and Ghost Games presumably didn't want to be the next target, so they updated Need for Speed: Payback's predatory progression system (which relied heavily on microtransactions) the week following Battlefront II's brouhaha. A developer detailed all the new c...
Bungie faced some backlash following the release of Destiny 2 in 2017, the long-awaited sequel to 2014's Destiny. The developer landed in hot water by blocking previously available content behind new DLC. Destiny 2's Nightfall and Raid events contained a special difficulty mode called the Prestige, which required players to be a certain Power Level...
Epic Games' co-op sandbox title, Fortnite, entered Early Access in July 2017, with the developer and publisher planning a full-fledged free-to-play release sometime in 2018. The game became famous for its standalone Battle Royale modethat released in September 2017, but before that released, players spent hours building forts, and all their hard wo...
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, Monolith Productions' sequel to 2014's Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, was heralded by many, despite its blatant prolongation of Act 4, which encourages players to purchase microtransactions to obtain the game's true ending. But publisher Warner Bros. Interactive didn't face outrage until they decided to charge players ...
The most infamous apology of the year - and perhaps of the decade - came from EA just one week prior to DICE's Star Wars Battlefront II hitting store shelves. An EA Access user noted that it took him approximately 40 hours to earn enough credits to unlock Darth Vader. The same user later posted his findings on Reddit upon further research, which sp...
Dec 14, 2017 · The Year in Apologies ... 2017 might well be the year of the apology but as we discuss in my media training courses, saying sorry properly makes sense. Like. Like. Celebrate. Support. Love ...
Mar 31, 2020 · In December of 2017, The New York Times compiled a 4-min YouTube video called “The Year in Apologies” highlighting public figures apologizing for their personal or organizational transgressions (The New York Times, 2017).
Dec 12, 2017 · Weinstein: No. Pepsi: Yes. 2017 in Apologies. By David Botti • December 12, 2017 From Harvey Weinstein to Pepsi to the National Park Service, 2017 has seen a lot of public apologies and non ...
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