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Raptormosses
Profile Joined June 2010
United States15 Posts
July 04 2010 07:37 GMT
#761
This whole post is whiney bs.

User was temp banned for this post.
Maximum pressure
BJas
Profile Joined May 2010
3 Posts
July 07 2010 02:01 GMT
#762
What's wrong with Blizzard! ;Q
It never happened to me ---> http://forums.battle.net/banned.html?forumId=12009&sid=3000&topicId=25626050184&pageNo=2&

F%&#G $$$$$$$$$$$$
F%&#G ACTIVISION BLIZZARD <---- Specially Activision.

I'm so furious >:O

User was temp banned for this post.
EliteAzn
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States661 Posts
July 07 2010 02:07 GMT
#763
On July 07 2010 11:01 BJas wrote:
What's wrong with Blizzard! ;Q
It never happened to me ---> http://forums.battle.net/banned.html?forumId=12009&sid=3000&topicId=25626050184&pageNo=2&

F%&#G $$$$$$$$$$$$
F%&#G ACTIVISION BLIZZARD <---- Specially Activision.

I'm so furious >:O


I do not understand your link...nothing is there.
(╯`Д´)╯︵ ┻━┻ High Five! _o /\ o_
BJas
Profile Joined May 2010
3 Posts
July 07 2010 02:10 GMT
#764
It's an "Account Banned" page while I was trying to login the forums. It seems I'm the only one that can see it.

Anyway I will try again: http://forums.battle.net/banned.html?forumId=12009&sid=3000&topicId=25626050184&pageNo=2&
CynanMachae
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada1459 Posts
July 07 2010 06:27 GMT
#765
Wow great OP, I missed that post before.

Reading all of this really got me scared...
Jang Yoon Chul hwaiting!
endaskus
Profile Joined May 2010
United States5 Posts
July 07 2010 08:01 GMT
#766
I'm a bit confused about something in the last part... Tippl believes that spending as little money as possible on employee care will create great games? What possible motivation are these people going to have to make better and better games if they get treated like trash all the same?
a_flayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Netherlands2826 Posts
July 07 2010 09:05 GMT
#767
I can't stand the way Activision-Blizzard is evolving. I asked them to delete my Battle.net account and I'll just stick to playing EVE and watching Koreans play Starcraft (and Europeans if they can keep up with the Koreans :p).
When you came along so righteous with a new national hate, so convincing is the ardor of war and of men, it's harder to breathe than to believe you're a friend. The wars at home, the wars abroad, all soaked in blood and lies and fraud.
mind1337
Profile Joined April 2010
France107 Posts
July 07 2010 09:30 GMT
#768
On July 07 2010 15:27 CynanMachae wrote:
Wow great OP, I missed that post before.

Reading all of this really got me scared...


I missed that post too.
Reading all this makes me scared for the future of SC2, I guess the real-id thing isn't a joke.
If they keep following that path, I think I'll just stick to sc2 : WoL and boycott the expansions.
Kishkumen
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States650 Posts
July 07 2010 09:42 GMT
#769
Now I see what the problem is with all the latest privacy/integration issues with bnet. This Kotick guy clearly thinks he understands my generation more than he really does. It's like the people in the news about a year ago when everyone thought twitter was going to revolutionize the whole world. It didn't. People who didn't grow up with the internet just can't understand the younger generation. They think more is better, especially more social integration. What they don't seem to understand is that my generation isn't looking for social integration but for social optimization. We've already integrated enough. I don't need to have all of my social spheres connected. I just need the tools I use to connect with each of those spheres to work optimally. I don't need bnet to hook up with facebook. I need bnet to connect me with other people on bnet and have it do that well. I can do the integration part if and when I choose to.

But seriously, Kotick sounds like the Michael Eisner of the gaming industry. Totally out of touch with what the market really wants and just there to make a quick buck off of successful franchises.
Weird, last time I checked the UN said you need to have at least 200 APM and be rainbow league to be called human. —Liquid`TLO
Ivo
Profile Joined June 2010
United States2 Posts
July 07 2010 14:00 GMT
#770
On June 22 2010 05:20 Teddyman wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 21 2010 00:07 Ivo wrote:
There is a specific reason behind their decision to make it easier than ever for hackers to hack, botters to bot, and for the implementation of features that have eroded the once close-knit community down to a nub. You think all these gear ninjas and nasty, anti-social people are so prevalent just because of random happenstance? I dare say that they are anything but random, but that these decisions were made to keep the customer playing, and paying longer.

Did you register just to post the most unlikely conspiracy theory of all time? Never mind, the whole thread is like a Michael Moore documentary so it fits right in.

Unlikely my ass. This company, by definition, has done nothing but extract wealth from capital throughout their entire 30 year history. This is their culture and their motto. They produce nothing.

What I am suggesting is no more outlandish than a global manufacturer "exploiting" 3rd world labor conditions, a pornographer hosting illegal material in a non-extradition country, or an auto mechanic who feels entitled to create a bit of additional business for himself. In this case, it's not a question of legality, but of ethics. But far be it from me to expect a fanboy, or in this case perhaps a loyal employee, to understand the difference.
When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer,
Three
Profile Joined April 2010
Japan278 Posts
July 07 2010 15:29 GMT
#771
Another company to boycott -.-
InfiniteIce
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States794 Posts
July 07 2010 15:55 GMT
#772
This is actually the first time I had read this article, after hearing Kotick's name a few times.

The quotes from Kotick are crazy. He said that his job was to take the fun out of video games? And that they keep their employees focused on pessimism, skepticism, and on the economic turmoil around?

Holy crap, Batman.
i keep going back to my response to chill's fake PM and laughing, then immediately getting a feeling that i assume i'd get if i had an orgasm and the girl said "hahaha guess what i have a dick" -FakeSteve
MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
July 07 2010 16:27 GMT
#773
Bobby Kotick is back in the news, this time against XBL.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3180255&cmpid=0101

I can't stand that shit-eating grin.
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
a_flayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Netherlands2826 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-07 17:09:34
July 07 2010 17:08 GMT
#774
And now you can't use the editor without logging in.

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/2464/mapeditor.jpg
When you came along so righteous with a new national hate, so convincing is the ardor of war and of men, it's harder to breathe than to believe you're a friend. The wars at home, the wars abroad, all soaked in blood and lies and fraud.
ZidaneTribal
Profile Joined September 2007
United States2800 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-07 17:33:18
July 07 2010 17:32 GMT
#775
lol pay to play UMS maps? what the fuck?

watch someone plan a riot for the next blizzcon
fuck lag
HungShark
Profile Joined June 2010
United States134 Posts
July 07 2010 17:46 GMT
#776
I never liked Kotick from the start. He sealed the deal when he explained why he canned a bunch of franchises and games (specifically Ghostbusters and Brutal Legends):

With respect to the franchises that don’t have the potential to be exploited every year across every platform, with clear sequel potential that can meet our objectives of, over time, becoming $100 million-plus franchises, that’s a strategy that has worked very well for us


http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=20984

The OP was very well written and researched. It further proves how evil and destructive Kotick is to Blizzard and the overall gaming community. I think he's easily gaming's most hated man, yet he commands gaming's most powerful publishing company.

The only solace that can be had is if karma truly exists. Sooner or later things will crumble beneath him and his (literal) empire will shatter. I can only hope Blizzard can escape before it's too late.
Die again in good health!
OHtRUe
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States283 Posts
July 07 2010 19:28 GMT
#777
This guy is what is wrong with gaming now a days. Thank god for valve and any non corrupt developer. Blizzard and ESPECIALLY ACTIVISION can eat shit in my opinion because there ruining gaming. CoD and Guitar Hero are BUTCHED franchises because of how fucking money hungry these people are. Its disgusting
Ashlaren
Profile Joined July 2010
1 Post
July 08 2010 04:53 GMT
#778
I think this is the begining of a massive privacy scam. They are selling us now instead of the game. I am all against it. Both of my accounts will be cancled if they make this manditory ingame instead of optional. I can live iwth not posting on the forums. But I am concered that there are mods that bypass privacy settitings to steal your real id ( and by proxy your email) they need to fix this shortly or they will loose more then just customers.

to require us to effectivly sign/aprove the eula in order to close are accounts can't be legal as well. If necessary I'll customer server or billing to avoid that. OR just stop payment on the account as fraud.

For everyone in the states that feel there rights are being infringed on I suggest going to the Better Business Bureau on top of posting at major media sites. Also it would be interesting to hear from our Lawyers on some of this. their views and opinions would be interesting.


Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/
Rokman
Profile Joined May 2010
United States63 Posts
July 08 2010 06:16 GMT
#779
Most of the 20 years, that I have provided for growth at Activision, we were content to make products that are attractive to the 16-35 year old guy who has gotten no date for Saturday night.


What a DOUCHEBAG!
Someone should build a pylon near their brain!
Zironic
Profile Joined May 2007
Sweden341 Posts
July 08 2010 09:36 GMT
#780

But seriously, Kotick sounds like the Michael Eisner of the gaming industry. Totally out of touch with what the market really wants and just there to make a quick buck off of successful franchises.

I disagree, I think he knows what the market wants, however he's not in the business of making a quick buck, he's after completely raping your valet.

There's lots of game companies after a quick buck, they release their games buggy and unfinished and hope they can cash in before all the scathing reviews come in. However Kotick is the opposite. He output games with huge production values, but instead of selling his games for a mere $50 he wants hook you on the core game and then keep churning out "value added" services until you've paid $500.

It's a much more long term game then most game publishers play, classically just published the game and if you made more money selling it then you paid making it you were golden, now Activision are hoping to milk the same game for 10 years.

And as he said himself, it's working, while he and Activision have a horrendously bad reputation they still have people paying $500 for Guitar Hero.
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