The winner of the Mark Jacobs Award for Corporate Community Achievement is...

by Seraphina Brennan Dec 29th 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Culture, MMO industry, Opinion, Humor

Yes, you didn't blink when you read the title. Of course, the award was made by Alex Litel of "Bell, Game, and Candle" at GameSetWatch and it's meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but it really shows how connected Jacobs is with all of the Warhammer Online hype.

Litel's article showcases the many press release quotes that just make you tilt your head in confusion and wonder why exactly someone wrote that for marketing purposes. Quotes such as Cliffy B calling the original Gears of War "...just a tease, an appetizer to Gears of War characters and new style of gameplay" just to ramp up marketing for Gears of War 2.

Litel inserted the Mark Jacobs award because he thought it would be unfair to include Mark Jacob's quotes in with the other quotes he gathered. With all of the passion Mark puts behind his marketing promises, including Jacobs's quotes would turn the article into a countdown of Mark Jacobs moments. So, the quotes were left out, but the spirit of Jacobs remained alive and well.

If you want to see all 50 quotes, and which quote got the coveted award, head on over to GameSetWatch and check out Litel's article. We certainly got a few chuckles out of it.

Tags: cliffy-b, cliffyb, countdown, ea-mythic, gamesetwatch, gears-of-war, mark-jacobs, marketing, mythic, mythic-entertainment, press-release, quotes, top-50, war, warhammer-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

No_RvR said on 2:07AM 12-30-2008

God damn it MJ, when are you going to stop bothering us with your crap. And when are you going to pay us back the money you scammed us on. WAR is the biggest pile of a game that was launched in 2008. Let me just say No RvR and last decades technology. SO when I see your face all I can think of is, go somewhere else and hype your tard of an game. Go!

Abriael said on 3:36AM 12-30-2008

Lol, what a bunch of hopeless, delirious crap.

Rollins said on 5:16AM 12-30-2008

lolwut?

xion said on 10:38AM 12-30-2008

lol you are the most pathetic "thing" I ever saw on this page :D

"And when are you going to pay us back the money you scammed us on."

where are you came from? Mars? Moon? Or from an another galaxy?

MightyIdle said on 11:10AM 12-30-2008

Oh, my. Having delusions of sanity this morning, are we?

Try growing up a little bit. Comments like this usually only show up after school lets out and the kiddies come home to surf the web before dinner.

Simons said on 5:52PM 1-03-2009

Ad-hominem attacks aside -

I highly recommend that you re-read the article you are commenting on. Mark Jacobs had nothing to do with this; a third party working for a blog having nothing to do with Mythic decided to put his name on an award they are giving out (not as the recipient but as the name of the award itself) because they had disqualified him from receiving it.

Your response is like writing an angry letter to Alfred Nobel, but then sending it to the Nobel Prize Committee instead. (Actually, although I still don't recommend it, that at least makes some small modicum of sense, as Alfred Nobel is too dead to send a letter to and did create the Nobel Prize. Whereas Mark Jacobs is quite alive and had nothing to do with this award's creation.)