A rock singer refuses to promote Battlefront, calls it a piece of crap; would rather watch prequels

I take that's a "no dice"?

The full story is here:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/they-wanted-to-pay-me-to-promote-piece-of-sht-star/1100-6432521/

While I think Breaking Benjamin are a terrible band, kudos to him for displaying an enormous amount of integrity!

The integrity is strong with this one.

don't cut yourself on that edge

Never heard of them/him. I don't care for the game either, but I'm sure he got it for free, just like the drugs he users, and may change his mind when he comes down off his high lol.

How much did he get paid to say that, AMIRITE!

so you've never heard of this guy but you're assuming he's on drugs?

That's a bit over the top, the game is actually quite good, say what you want about $50 DLC the game itself is actually quite fun to play. There's no integrity when everybody in the gaming community is treating Star Wars as a punching bag. I actually love the game but completely agree with many people's assessment's of the game lacking content.

I also heard an interesting assessment of part of the issue being Disney themselves. They didn't want EA touching anything that dealt with the prequels, given how bad they were, as they didn't want it tainting the Star Wars brand prior to the release of Episode VII. Also, they refused to give EA/DICE access to information regarding the movie in fear that the developers couldn't be trusted since gaming developers leak shit all the time. So, they were confined making content that dealt strictly with the the original trilogy only. I'm sure they'd of still had a $50 season pass anyways but I don't think the devs here share the entirety of the blame. I bring that up because again we hear sure they should have had space battles; hopefully that's what the DLC is for. They were also probably trying to avoid criticism of pasting a Star Wars skin on Battlefield when they made it the way they did, also something I think loud mouth fans probably are responsible for.

He sounds like a cool guy.

How could you have never of heard of Breaking Benjamin...

Anyhow, I'm also calling bullshit because a company of this size probably as standard operating procedure probably has prospective third parties sign NDA's before they even hear a pitch.

@lamprey263: I think he was informally approached at some party where he was dressed up as some SW character or something .

The game does suck but so does his band.

Yea I don't see EA paying a random (crappy) singer of band that hasn't been relevant in a decade, promoting their game.

Claps.

I thought the lol would imply that I was joking, oh well maybe not. Next time I will use :P hopefully that one will work better :)

@nyadc: Never heard of them. But I get the feeling they did a WWE pay-per-view theme at some point...

I was also gonna post "Blow Me Away".

Good Job. Exemplary.

@nyadc: Sorry but i'm not into music, in fact the last time I bought a song of any kind would have been over 5yrs ago.

As for the song from Halo 2, well I stopped playing Halo after the first game, so I never heard that.

I have owned every Xbox console that's been released, but I'm just not into first person shooters.

Not only was he asked to promote a garbage game but he was also supposed to promote the worst version on the market, the 720p edition.

@silversix_: No wonder he snapped the disc in half!

:P makes you look pretty innocent, it works. If you want to play sub, you can even use the adorable :p

Who cares, they are a terrible band anyway. At least SWBF is actually awesome if you can get past the lack of content. I can't say the same for this crappy band.

Never heard of him before, but after seeing that video song above^, sounds like they're really terrible..

We all waited for more battlefront for a decade and now we have it and we smash it to bits...

Humanity doing what we do....

I actually like this band, and hate this game lol

Well, that there's your problem. You were playing it on Xbox One.

*Fueling the console war, ignoring the master race*

Breaking Benjamin is one of my favorite bands of all time! Nice to see them in gaming news TBH.

They're fucking amazing, check them out. I've been listening to them for about 7 years now.

Sounds like something you listen to when you're 14 years old, dye your hair black and pretend you're depressed.

@lostrib: Because rockstars do drugs, Mr. Caveman.

I'd rather play Star Wars Battlefront than listen to Breaking Benjamin.

@Salt_The_Fries: Integrity? There is nothing wrong with being paid to promote or sponsor shit.

In fact, let me go out on a limb abd say he has accepted deals like this in the past.

He is just riding the hate wagon and chose the option he though would resonate best with his "fanbase". What a dumbass

@Thunderdrone: I meant integrity not as "NOT PROMOTING AT ALL". I meant it as distancing himself from a shitty game.

Shitty band and apparently owns a shitty console. Let's use them as a compass for taste.

I am more of a passive fan of the band but I definitely gotta hop in and say they are pretty sweet. They get major props from me too for being GOOD live. Got free tickets to a show of theirs back in the day and they were SURPRISINGLY excellent live.

/golfclap

I get that it's cool to hate everything popular on the internet, but c'mon, Breaking Benjamin has some pretty good songs.

I just saw Breaking Benjamin in concert a few weeks back. It was like being back in high school.

Harsh reaction, but it is what it is. I'll hopefully check out Battlefront sometime when it's cheaper.

Anyone catch part of the "Battlefront - Challenge" on twitch? It was a lobotomizing event. Complete failure of marketing.

Jeff Gerstmann had some neat tweets about this stuff.

Bunch'a damn hipsters

So instead of getting paid to advertise the game, he's gone and done it for free.

He should of played on PS4 with the noticeable graphics difference and fidelity.

The dude just adverised it...and it worked considering the number of you giving it attention.

Battlefront is fun. Must be cool to be a hipster doofus.

From what I've heard in this thread, Breaking Benjamin is not a very good band, but it's still better than the rancid death metal that so many people on this website think is amazing.

True story, the original Star Wars movies were barely any better than the prequels.

Nostalgia clouds us all.

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