EA gives gamer a paycheck for finding Tiger Woods glitch
Game publishers don't really get too excited when a glitch is found in their game as it exposes a problem. However, the gamer who found a glitch in the Tiger Woods 08 game has been paid by EA for the find who has since created a viral parody video!
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Video game publishers generally don't get excited when a customer publicizes a programming glitch in a software release because "it exposes a problem," said EA Sports president Peter Moore. But Bryan Levi got paid for it.
Levi, who goes by the handle Levinator25 on YouTube, recorded the video we wrote about Friday, showing a glitch in the Tiger Woods '08 game.
Since he posted the "Jesus shot" clip last year, it received only a few comments and about 50,000 views -- not very popular by YouTube standards. It wasn't even Levi's most watched video -- that honor goes to a clip of his friend chugging bottles of Ipecac.
But since the EA Sports parody video went viral, now with more than a million hits, it has sent a flurry of viewers to Levi's original video, leaving comments of congratulations and claims that he got "owned" by the game publisher's rebuttal.
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Latimes.com
08-31-2008, 08:45 AM
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