After apologising for what the Evo fighting tournament deemed a "little joke", the backlash towards the event's fake Metal Gear Solid character tease has continued. So much so that the original voice actor of Solid Snake, David Hayter, has chimed in with his own thoughts on the controversy.
As you can probably tell, he's not too happy about the whole thing. After taking things very seriously, Hayter reveals that Evo did not contact the man himself nor Konami in order to gain permission to make up the footage and use his voice. This whole thing feels like a huge misstep for the tournament as the gag continues to receive negative press.
While Solid Snake won't be joining the Tekken 7 roster in the future, you can check out who actually will be via this link. What do you think to this response? Don't lie to us in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Mr. Hayter is well within his rights to be ticked off at the use of, what is in essence, his/Konami's intellectual property, without permission. I'm a bit surprised that no one in EVO's organization thought "yeah, this is a bad idea, let's shelf this". They could well be sued to high heaven if Konami and Hayter ever decided to pursue litigation. Not cool, and I hope they learn from this.
A bit of an over the top response for a joke. Snake is pretty much dead at this point, Kojimas gone and Konamis making a few retro game compilations and all in on PES.
I understand intellectual copyright is extremely important but it was a joke.
The whole thing is turning into a joke.
Mr. Hayter ain’t joking around.
Hayter’s gonna hate 😏
Metal Gear is Pretty much Gone Anyway
This whole thing was blown out of proportion...Hayter obviously has a point but chill out a bit?
To me it’s one of those moments where you think “Who do you think you are? Like seriously? Stfu and get a grip of yourself!” I cannot stand people who are so far up their own a***, they always just end up coming across as a right k***head even if they are in the right.
Was a joke, was fair use, can't even pretend to care.
Yeah, somewhat over the top response from Hayter. Snake's iconic, like the Queen. If someone did an impression of the Queen you'd just be like "okay, thats something". Seems to me Hayter should get into the spirit of things. Or should we call him David Hater LMAO!!
Mountain, mole hill, whatever.
If they can do it everyone can do it as a joke. So yeah where do you draw the line. I agree with David on this one.
"You also failed to consult me, or Konami. Please do not use my voice to promote other games. Ever."
I see that the "I'm offended" culture is still going strong.
@MaccaMUFC my thoughts exactly.
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