EPTEyes officially opened.
Bravo on the research OP, bravo.
A short history of Activision Blizzard or how... - Page 25
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forgotten0ne
United States951 Posts
Eyes officially opened. Bravo on the research OP, bravo. | ||
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Azalie
New Zealand117 Posts
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showbiz
United States66 Posts
In the investment world, Bob Kotick (activision ceo) is considered a huge drag on the company by most analysts. Activision's stock hasn't gone anywhere and many people point to him as the reason. | ||
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EchOne
United States2906 Posts
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Xiphiasar
United States78 Posts
Maybe Blizzard will hear the nerd-raging and change their plans. Fingers crossed for chatrooms and cross-region play. | ||
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BlueStar
Bulgaria1171 Posts
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Aredhel0
United States1 Post
Robert Kotick is just plain evil. He has advanced beyond everyday evil, and transgressed into the realm of cartoonish super-villainry ala Mr. Burns in the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episode of the Simpsons. I mean we're talking Prison-Wardon-from-Shawshank-Redemption-Evil. We all know what happened to the individuals in these examples.... | ||
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blackodd
Sweden451 Posts
"Failboat" and "Set sail for fail" comes to mind when I think the whole situation | ||
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Mecha71
United States59 Posts
Soccermoms and casuals now make up the majority of gamers, they have the most power when it comes to a games conception. Activision is going to milk the ever living hell outta blizzard's track record for max profits and drive blizzard into the ground and just buy out the next gaming company that "appears" to care for gamers and has any originality. I hope you like facebook integration and wowlike policies for the rest of blizzards cash cow franchises, gonna be funny seeing micro transactions in Diablo and difficulty lowered to match brain dead monkeys who wanna get full armor sets in a couple weeks or less, cause we all know "excessive" hours playing games to get anywhere is unattractive to little timmy with mommy's credit card in pocket. | ||
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Cheesenium
Malaysia9 Posts
http://kotaku.com/5474949/bobby-kotick-warm-and-fuzzy-defends-notorious-no fun-statements http://kotaku.com/5475039/activision-chief-regrets-not-making-guitar-hero-with-harmonix Back then, when Guitar Hero first came out,it was published by Activision. Then, Kotick thinks that Harmonix is some failed developer,so he bought Red Octane instead. Forward to present day, what happen to Red Octane and Harmonix? Harmonix is still alive and kicking with their competitor, EA again, while Red Octane is dying. Same thing happen with CoD's veterans who are now in a publishing deal with EA under the banner of Respawn Entertainment. Activision didnt just killed Call of Duty,they killed Guitar Hero too. Now Starcraft 2 is the next on the chopping board. They are definitely gonna kill it in one way or another. Also, a nice read on how shallow Kotick is,with some quotes. "Maxis? "When Maxis was getting sold everyone was being sold on Sim City 2000 being this fantastic product that was incredibly late and wasn't coming out." Kotick went to visit some executives at the company. In another office, Will Wright was working on a game called Jefferson. Kotick didn't meet with Wright. No one could explain the game to him. What Kotick missed was the game that would become the Sims." "Blizzard? He should have bought them sooner. He had thought that a subscription version of World of Warcraft was "the silliest thing" he'd ever heard of." ""When we were buying Guitar Hero, or buying Red Octane, the makers of Guitar Hero, we knew about Harmonix," Kotick said. "We had always known them as sort of somewhat a failed developer of music games." Activision decided that their own studio, Neversoft, made good games, so they would make Guitar Hero from now on, not the Boston-based Harmonix. He said that had Activision met with Harmonix, things would have been very different." Source: http://kotaku.com/5474949/bobby-kotick-warm-and-fuzzy-defends-notorious-no fun-statements Lastly, Tim Schafer, creator of Psychonaunts and Brutal Legends said this on his Twitter. "Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces. It's just how the beast communicates." This is how Activision treating their developers,and we all know how they are treating us. Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=237548 Would be great to see that these are also in the thread. EA has it's notorious past, but EA's notorious glory is now over, replaced with Activision Blizzard's even more ridiculous greed. | ||
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RAZROK
Latvia49 Posts
On May 31 2010 02:53 UnderWorld_Dream wrote: I'm only saying that being so concerned by the cost of the game is somehow greedy. But it's my opinon you can disagree i'm totally fine with it. It's a matter of how much you love something and how much you are willing to pay for it. Some people would not pay 5$ for sc2 while i would pay 200$ and woulndt care. (of course i would find it expensive but i'd just drink less beer??) Sadly this world is ran by profits and whatever you could do, it won't change. WTF, just WTF. Dude... Im speechless. How is this greed, obviously u have no idea what greed is. Its like if Ferrari and some cheap, crappy but good looking chinese car would cost the same. Would you really spend your money on that peace of junk instead of ferrari? Starcraft 2 feels loose, not finished and just massed up to get fast money type game. All they do is talk, talk, talk, promote, talk, talk, hype people with all their events, talk and once again talk. They dont actually do anything. | ||
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cHaNg-sTa
United States1058 Posts
Playing SC2 with 2 other friends after all expansions are out - up to $540 For everything else, Activision is there to take your money. | ||
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
In all, I just hope, this won't affect Blizzard too much. I like the beta so far, but it doesn't have the same love that I have with SC1. I'm sure that will change over time with the full release. | ||
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zomgzergrush
United States923 Posts
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TastyQQQs
United States1 Post
Your money speaks much louder than any forum post. Withhold your cash until some big changes are made. | ||
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Prae
Belgium77 Posts
else they woulnd keep doing it, you can say we'll boycot it but theirs so many ppl that will still buy these silly features & bs just look at the state of console gaming these days the same will happen on the computer Blizz sold their soul to the devil & now it belongs to him & so does all our money, if we want to play some decent maps 9/10. Cus they will give the mapmakers a littlebit of money & who doesn't need money? i know i do.. so all the good maps will become "premium" & all the poor sobs can play the "sucky" maps without paying for them and in the end the people who refuse to pay get screwed cus we can't get the "full" game experiance as paying players do Activision you screwed blizzard up good | ||
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khaiyin
Australia2 Posts
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GuYuTe-
United States550 Posts
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gedassan
Lithuania83 Posts
With them now merging the accounts into one BattleNet account, all the risk is compounded. All a hacker needs to do is hack one account instead of several for each game... And their security is still crap. Concerning new maps for sale, I can live with what is out there allready. If I master all those maps, I will then think if I really need a new one. Frankly, there is a reason why Lost Temple was so often used in BW. I don't really need that many maps unless we are doing some random comp stomping with friends. | ||
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TheDrill
Russian Federation145 Posts
On May 31 2010 18:09 cHaNg-sTa wrote: Playing SC:BW with 2 other friends - $20 Playing SC2 with 2 other friends after all expansions are out - up to $540 For everything else, Activision is there to take your money. It gets even sillier when you already have a US account and your two friends are in Europe and Asia, with their own accounts in Europe and Asia... Just add $360 to that price. | ||
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