QuakeCon’s Photoshopping
August 24th, 2007
I can’t believe I missed this a couple of weeks ago… QuakeCon is a major computer gaming event held anually in Texas since 1996. This year’s event had over 7,000 attendees, and dished out $100,000 in prize money.
What do you think of this:
To promote the event, the organisers posted some pictures from the previous year on their website. One of them showed idle.ee, the Estonian team who won Enemy Territory competition, on stage holding their cheque.
This caused a buzz on some of the gaming community sites (eSReality, xfire) for the wrong reasons. It turns out that someone, probably the QuakeCon webmaster, didn’t think that the original photo projected the right image for Quakecon:
Eventually, the Photoshopped image was removed from the front page, and the original was put in its place, without any explanation from the Quakecon staff. Apparently, the guy who was removed is a German Enemy Territory player called Urtier. I think he has a right to be fairly pissed off.
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August 13th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I think the key to the whole fiasco is that Quakecon is run my a PR firm that uses Volunteer labor to keep event costs low. Infact the quakecon Volnteer staff have to have permission from this PR firm to simply post news. About half the “executive directors” listed on the Quakecon website are simply mouth pieces of this PR firm too so the people collecting pay checks to manage the event don’t have to have contact with the actual volunteers. The other half (director of entertainment for example) really do earn their comp’ed hotel rooms and free booze in the byoc area.
August 13th, 2008 at 17:22 pm
Hahaa
September 5th, 2008 at 8:43 am
LOL everytime i glance at this article its hilarious. Its so fucked up because quakecon was seriously trying to erase this fat guy