Kotaku.com reported that Jon Gibson, the founder of I Am 8-Bit Productions, had his footage stolen at the SSFIV Fight Club in LA last night. We are prepared to offer a cash reward if that footage is returned to us. We don't care who stole it, we just want it back. We will NOT drag anyone through the mud; your identity will be kept secret. We can promise you that.
Just please, come forward. We can arrange for a drop point somewhere in Los Angeles.
Seriously, this footage meant the world to us. It was important to Daigo. It was important to Capcom.
We produce these kinds of events for the fans, and for the evidence of such a night to be ripped out from under us - well, it hurts.
It really hurts.
The equipment stolen is a MacBook Pro, two Kodak zi8 HD cameras, and lots of SD cards.
"We could care less about the equipment itself. It's the FOOTAGE THAT MATTERS," Gibson stated. "For the entire night, that Mac Book Pro, along with those SD cards, stored hours of footage from the event. It was really great stuff that is now gone because someone decided to take the shiny objects."
You can reach him at jon AT iam8bit DOT com if you have any information you can offer.
Thanks to Duckmouth for pointing this out.
Who DOES that? I can't believe people can live with themselves like that.
That's Gutter Trash makes me feel sick to my stomach that someone would have the nerve to do such a thing. If I was them and found out who did it I would take everything from them so they know how it feels. Nothing but low life thugs with no lives and no future. That's a disgrace.
Karma's a Biatch and whoever stole that stuff I hope they meet the real Cody in Prison so he can show them how to hide a crowbar in their ---.
sigh theres gonna be a HUGE chance of this guy not giving back the items man. I know you guys worked hard for this and capcom but this guy obviously doesnt wanna reveal himself at all so there is prob no chance of getting it back (hes probably scared you'll still bring him to the police or something). Word of advice, I suggest just asking that guy to email the footage or something cause I doubt this thief is gonna give it back
what a peace of dog poop this person is the whole event was free and a total blast i hope this idiot decides to do the right thing and return what is not his
Stuff like this (along with looting after the NBA finals last year) makes me ashamed to be an Angeleno. But, I guess it's obvious, even communities as tight as the Capcom crowd can be infiltrated by some lameness.
Be optimistic! If Reddit.com could help me to get back my stolen '72 BMW, then there is hope for this stuff.
Karma is a bitch. Remember that well thieving dipsh!t!
It's also a warning to the rest of you.
DON'T LEAVE YOUR THINGS UNATTENDED! I know how important the footage was, but that fight club was MASSIVE and you left those things out of sight?
Especially if you go to EVO! Don't leave your things lying around, something gets stolen every year!
Dictator: This is delicious
*has the laptop and looking through last night's footage*
Boxer: Guess you won't be needing those youtube videos anymore then, want me to get rid of them?
Dictator: now don't be hasty, not until I see those guys from IAM8BIT bitch about it first
*goes on event hubs and see this*
Dictator YESSSSSSSSSS YEEEEEEEESHHH!!*epic music*
Anyway that sucks hope they get it back
A lot of people like to make out that it's cool to be a criminal. I always hope that things like this will make them think, at least a little bit, about how scummy it is to the actual people getting hurt.
@#19/Ex_Ein:
I was talking about the people who think criminals are cool, not the criminals themselves. Learn to read before you jump in with random hostility.
Man that sucks. Someone out there probably had this planned all along. To be honest though, why was the equipment left alone in the first place? Yea, of course, you don't expect to have someone to steal it but anything with that level of importance should not have left alone. It's common sense. It's like leaving your vehicle unlock in a downtown parking lot. I can bet you Capcom Exec's will fire someone here.
This is a big blow to Capcom, and also to the fighting game community in general. Now there's gonna be hell to pay when they catch the culprit. Stealing is wrong no matter how you look at it. But for the scumbag/s who actually pulled this off leaves serious questions about the security and accountability of the staff and organizers of the event. C'mon now, why would you even leave something like that unattended when you know that it was something of great value. it was probably left in a recording room where someone forgot to lock the door or the attendant was not at his post when it was stolen. tsk tsk tsk... at least now there are hard lessons to be learned!
damn whoever did this man.(tsk) all the fans just wanted 2 come out and meet the pros like daigo and play some SSFIV before its out but NOOOOOOOOOOOO some idiot had to steal the sh**... a*****e...
stupid idiots why would you take something that is not yours. if you want something then work for. sorry umahara-san for the thieves.
I was there at the event and where it took place was... well, not the smartest place to have it. I know you'd think that since it wasnt in a club in downtown LA people probably thought it'd be safe from guttertrash like this, but putting it in a residential/ industrial neighborhood wasnt the most bright idea. Im not saying it was the ghetto but.... ((i dunno about you all that DID go, but didnt you think you put down the wrong address when you were driving there, saying " Nah this cant be it" Then notice the hundreds of people in line in the random warehouse located in the middle of a quiet family friendly neighborhood?)) Either way, i agree, no matter where they held it, nothing shouldve been stolen. And i cant imagine a fan who went couldve done this. The line started i heard at around 1 o'clock and those ppl in the front got in on time, but at 10 pm, 2 hours AFTER the doors were open, there were STILL hundreds of people outside. ((even though there was MORE than enough space inside for everyone!)) Thats why its hard for me to believe that fans would steal something like THAT after waiting outside in the cold,choosing NOT to go home. Maybe it was the people who own or are affiliated with the actual building. The bouncers were pretty adamant about not letting people in. I wouldnt be surprised if the owners or staff thought " oh its just a party with a bunch of nerds, they cant do anything even if we are caught" Its too bad we find this out after such a BEAUTIFUL finale:( It was such great fun! Good luck on retrieving the equipment, and if not that, than AT least the footage in some form or another. If it was a gamer, than that dumbass is stupid enough to post it online probably!
There were a lot of low life shady homies at the event last night. About as many as there were people who forgot to take baths that were there - and thats a lot.
The Bad:
The crowd was full of real stand up people:
- They tore all the posters off the wall.
- When pizza and drinks were passed out, they clawed them away from staff and stuffed them down their ghetto gullets.
- They smelled. Capcom's gift bag should have had soap in it.
- PS3 load time was noticeable.
- No alcohol (which was probably a good thing considering the crowd.).
The good:
- Cammy's outfit! Did you stand behind her? Are you kidding? If you were there, you know what i'm talking about.
- The event staff did a great job.
- First time I played the game. I loved it.
- The street fighter composite refrigerator pics there were really cool.
- Diago/Wong fight was cool.
- Free food and drinks man!
Thanks Capcom - you didn't have to do the party but I appreciate it!
"- Cammy's outfit!"
I'm not normally a cosplay enthusiast, but... damn.
well what the thieves did was wrong, but you got to also blame the people who owned the stuff. How do you leave all that stuff out and just walk away. Its like leaving $100 on the floor and coming back to get it. Another thing was that they should have noticed their stuff missing before everyone left and go to the doors and check people as they left.
@MarkHammil
Yeah that Cammy was ADORABLE and the Dhalism was bad ass ((Dudley was so silly and Ibuki was cute too!))
There was alcohol there. It was at the top where the caged off area was, next to the 'DJ', you had to go up a stairwell to the right of the green screen. I didnt bother going near the pizza, i was too excited to eat! I know SOME of the staff were complaining about the posters being taken down, but they wouldve just thrown them away anyways once everyone had gone. Might as well have something they find as garbage and keep it as a souvanier! You also forgot to mention Ono, Wong and Daigo taking pictures with us too, as part of the good side! :) ((daigo took pictures when they were shooing everyone out, midnight you know))
WTF!?
What kind of poor worthless soul would steal from Capcom!!?
@#35: Maybe they weren't expecting some random idiot to come steal their stuff...cause maybe they though that no one would be stupid enough to.
Idiots like that SHOULD be sho-....taught a lesson...>.>
@Ex-Ein#34 Are you f-cking retarded? A criminal is a criminal and no they are not cool because they don't follow rules. Thieves are loser retards with no lives and no education. If you have to steal just to think you're cool then you're retarded. This sh-t doesn't impress anyone. This is what is wrong with the world today people think it's cool to be dumb. If you want to go out there and pretend to be a wannabe gangster stealing sh-t then I'm sorry to say you deserve to die and to be ran over by a 18 wheeler. Karma will always find a way to get back to you remember that to all those Wangsters out there.
Could someone please post some pics of the cosplay Cammy in Fight Night? Reward will be offered. Seriously, the pictures meant the world to us.
Seriously, "I'm 8-bit" is a marketing company making big doughs working for Capcom, I bet they really don't care for the equipments. So if u know who's the theft, pls tell him to return the footage.
... I'm serious about the Cammy pictures too.
Wow , whoever stole this is dumb as f---.
The match was gonna go on youtube anyf---in way , why da hell steal a "VIDEO" of all the s--- there why not take a flat screen or ssf4 copy ? geez ... downright ugly people in dis world ...
Posted by ChiquitaLuchador on April 24, 2010 at 9:09 p.m. #36
your right. forgot. I had vip but forgot to get the wristband so I was out of luck for the drinks upstairs. Yeah Dhalsim was cool. Did you see the guile with the hair helmet. awesome because the guy wasn't quite the guile build.
Posted by whinerhubs_com on April 24, 2010 at 9:38 p.m. #41
i can get a dark iphone pic off Cammy's "assets" . .. i may be able to shop it a bit. let me ask my friend.
Really hope he gets this back.
And it's not like this ******* stole from some rich producer or something-that sounds like some prosumer stuff normal folk like us actually have to work for to get. Give it back damnit (I'll assume they've called the police already). >:-(
First the game gets leaked and now this. Man, We might as well kiss all of our chances for awesome DLC and patches good bye. I wouldn't blame capcom for giving up. :/ They can't win.
@HarkMammil
Oh yeah! that dude was super nice too!
Oh and too all you guys yappin about the Cammy, shes been to MANY cosplay events. Last year on ABC 7 ((the news channel)) I saw an interview they did at Anime Expo and that Cammy and Dhalsim were on TV! Just search Anime Expo 09 Cammy in google and you should find it! Also, someone on Youtube took a vid of her, mainly closing up on her bum. Not best quality, but its something!
It was quite the shady crowd there...I'd rather Capcom charge an admission for this type of thing. That way they have the info of who's attending. Anything that's free and open to the public, especially in such a conspicuous part of town, is asking for trouble.
Really sad to hear, and *&$^ whoever stole the footage. That's an attack on the entire community as far as I'm concerned...
Yeah the 2nd worst thing in all this is that people are going to see this as something being done by the sf community and affect future sf events negatively.
I'm with @56 in that I would be shocked to find out it was someone that was actively in the sf community. I'm not with his racist remark, even if factual though :\
I hope they get their footage back. Who would do such a thing like that? I swear it's always gotta be the stupid people who ruined it for everybody.
I was so excited to hear that the event was being held in Glendale - my hometown, but when I heard where it was, I was like WTF?! I was hyping it up for my gf all week (the last thing she wants to do on a Friday night is watch people play SF).
After driving around the neighborhood for 15 minutes trying to find the place, then trying to find parking, my gf was like, this is SO GHETTO - we aren't walking more than half a block in this neighborhood, which I totally agree on too. We ended up driving off and watching the stream (I was so disappointed).
Let's just say I'm not surprised about this. The event was planned so late in the game ("at a location TBD" - what's up with that?) and at a venue that has no experience with these things. Hell, I know people in Hollywood - we could have just had it a a major club, like Highlands or something (sure we'd get laughed @ by the cool people, but its hell of a lot safer).
But like others are saying, I don't know how familiar the guy was with LA, but he should have been keeping an eye on his stuff the whole time, given the neighborhood, people that were brought in, etc.
@Gutter_trash *clears throat*
people who are considered criminals:
The founding fathers of the united states(by British law)
Malcolm X
Huey Newton
Gandhi
I consider those people pretty damn cool
Thieves ,real thieves that steal priceless artifacts and aren't gangsters, are cool some who have Bachelor or PHd level Education.A criminal of the caliber listed above has reasons for being a criminal that I like to hear and think is cool. In the end you have no proof it was actually a gangster and not some one from the street fighter community no one does but I wouldn't be surprised it if it was cause it's a BIG possiblity.
@ Ex_Ein
Freedom fighters are a different kind of criminal they are fighting for the greater good nothing less and thats okay. Thief's of all kinds are low life pieces of s**t, i do not care what college degree they have or what they steal they are still stealing from people who worked for it. We give criminals way to much credit in the US for F*cks sake they are a idol figure to todays mainstream music, when the hell did that become acceptable. No criminal deserves props at all they deserve to get raped in jail where they belong
So the prized footage was that of the Daigo match? And people would actually go their way in commiting criminal liaisons to obtain it? What a bunch of lifeless, virginal nerds. Seriously, if you are going to steal it, go for something far more valuable.
Next time capcom try having some security, like people from UFC, and dress them up like the characters!
This is why we can't have nice things, Always group of individuals that want to ruin a very pleasant event with such intentions of making profit off of someone's misfortune but hey that's America for you. Capcom wants to show the community some love and this atrocity happens. that is the problem with Success such as Street Fighter nowadays since Mainstream is comprised of a portion of individuals who respect the game and its creators(community) which is also assimilated of the Hardcore individual and such people amass greatly but are easily outnumbered by the other portion which are the retards Aka "Gutter Trash"; term used loosely but at these times obey its strict context and such individuals who could committed such a crime are the lowest of the low in that Gutter; things like this make companies stop doing such events and become disconnected from the Community. I hope this just enlightens Capcom or 8bit to entail security to prevent this from happening again.
Thank you Capcom for the Event and SSFIV. Hope you get the Footage at least.
thats what happens when you let black people in a communal area
Man everyone needs to STFU up about blaming black people for this! You make us gamers in general seem like racist bitches!
@canabalistic999 but still doesn't mean they're not breaking the law even if they're doing it for a good cause. You forget that some thieves through out history have saved lives with some of the objects they steal, would you say they're low life's or will you absolve them? either make no exception or make exception. you said it yourself a criminal deserves to be raped that mean Huey Newton, Gandhi and others just as much as the person who took that footage cause they're still criminals either way.
@Anyone who's mentioning black people I want you to apologize if it's a white or asian man of a respectable background and good upbringing. Because being of half Nigerian decent I take heavy offense to that.
@Those targeting the music industry, get it right there's only two songs in the modern music industry that have to deal with the subject of thieves.
Thieves are those who take what they want, it's appealing and something everyone wishes they could do in one way or another weather it's taking Daigo's spot, taking someone's girl/boy(for the ladies and fellows who swing that way). On top of that, almost everyone here is doing in some capacity whether they know it or not. Think about that last really hard and think over anything in your life even if it seems normal in our culture and think if it might be considered a form of "legal theft".
You can claim you haven't taken a penny but if I asked you a few questions you'd realize you probably have taken so much more then that.
@74 i have to agree with you on that note! i love bit torrents so im a theif.
everyones at it! then againe we are just stealing from rich compaines and rich movie actors and musicians but this was dont to one man who has prob worked hard to buy the laptop etc.
#76
How can you say your NOT being racist when you CLEARLY ARE!!! The black people at the event were the smallest minority there so the only basis your going on is that there black and therefore more likely to steal! Not only do you believe stereotypes, you INSULT them and act as if the smell didnt come from the hundreds of other people that made up the event ((I.E. white people, latino, asian etc!))
Oh and when you use spell-check, make sure you select the right word....
This sucks. I was part of the footage that they shot and wanted to see if my interview would've made any blog posts.
The gaming community is a respectful one and it pains me to see that someone would betray that. I don't want these events to become so restrictive because they can't trust the people they are serving. I hope whoever did this just returns the footage. History was made that night and would be a shame if it wasn't shared with other people who couldn't make it.
If you just 'Say it like it is', than im sure you'll agree with me when i tell you, that no self-respecting MAN uses wannabe cute smiley faces to prove a point.
Your just one of those scared ass nerds who are intimdated by people who 'probably' made fun of you in high school. Get over it, cause your scared little smiley face would never say that stuff in person.
I just say it how i see it...
@ ChiquitaLuchador
You can't reason with idiots like DiasFlac0g. There's no use in arguing with fools, you can't change their minds. I recently read a post by someone that sums it up his type pretty well:
"Sadly, the message will only reach those who already have it. Those that don't will see it as another threat to "their way of thinking", and will likely attack it."
He's just trying to push people's buttons. Ignore him, and rest on the fact that the majority of the community doesn't reflect his attitude. The Street Fighter community is very ethnic and diverse, but unfortunately does contain some sub-humans like DiasFlac0g ... :/
>:/
this makes me very upset
theives are f.cking disgusting