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Augury
United States758 Posts
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BadWithNames
United States441 Posts
Activision Blizzard reminds me of a video game version of drug dealers. You want your maps I got your maps, 15 bucks...you wanna to change your name, I got that gimme like 10 dollas. "chat rooms?" man you don't want no chat rooms, I'll get you facebook. "I don't want facebook I want chat rooms" nah you don't man, you got UMS to play, did I tell you that I got UMS? 3 dollars each. "I don't want UMS man I want chat ro-...you know what nevermind what about community made 1v1 maps" I told you man I got your maps 15 bucks. "But they are community made, they should be free" Nah man we made that by giving you the tools to make it...we already had that idea and just hadn't used it yet...yeah that's it. "Do you offer any free services for the purchase of your game?" I told you man I got you facebook but other than that nah man nothings free if had my way I'd charge you to log on, charge you per match and add a monthly fee on that...damn that's a good idea. Of course that's a bit hyperbolic in some cases and Activision has mostly milked Call of Duty franchise but the future business model of this company is down right scary. Anything seems chargeable and I wouldn't be surprised if later on down the line the expansions come out introducing new units to multiplayer becoming mandatory to play on battle.net and those that want to play on all regions end up having to sixty bucks nine times. Man I can't wait to watch free re-streams of their pay to watch GOM streams. | ||
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coldmath
United States13 Posts
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
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kmdarkmaster
France188 Posts
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Oddysay
Canada597 Posts
realy show that blizzard are not blizzard anymore | ||
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guitarizt
United States1492 Posts
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starcraft911
Korea (South)1263 Posts
Obviously the investors love this guy because he will squeeze every penny out of the games he's overseeing, but wow it looks like he's going to squeeze the fun and the life out of them in the process. This really sickened me. | ||
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zizzefex
Canada34 Posts
On May 30 2010 07:33 HoroBoro wrote: Great idea. Everyone short Activision stock if SC2 comes out and they still refuse to listen. Profit for us, teach money grubbing slackers a lesson. WE HAVE THE MANPOWER!!! Lol. Noone with money would actually short Activision stock. Half their consumers are mom's and dad's buying for children so they don't know any better. The other half is fucking retards that you can kick in the balls time after time and they will still buy your product and scream 'BLIZZARD IS THE BEST COMPANY EVA!'. | ||
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
On May 30 2010 09:00 zizzefex wrote: Lol. Noone with money would actually short Activision stock. Half their consumers are mom's and dad's buying for children so they don't know any better. The other half is fucking retards that you can kick in the balls time after time and they will still buy your product and scream 'BLIZZARD IS THE BEST COMPANY EVA!'. What you can do is rate the game, which is free, easy, effective, legal and your right as a gamer. | ||
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mmp
United States2130 Posts
Big fish like Blizzard have already set a strong example and can continue to explore where their creativity takes them, but many of the smaller companies mentioned in the article (the ones laid off or closed) don't get anywhere near the satisfaction that their talents deserve. | ||
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Spiffeh
United States830 Posts
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ScytheMan01
United States114 Posts
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Shizuru~
Malaysia1676 Posts
however, the problem we're having now is the platform (Battlenet 2.0) this game will be played on is forced down our throats. i WANT to play SC2, but i don't want to be forced to play SC2 on this poorly designed platform, the community has made it clear enough of what reasonable improvement we want, and yet all of us are getting ignored. thats what the recent uproar is about... On May 30 2010 09:15 Spiffeh wrote: i don't get mad at people very often except for Bobby Kotick how about Uwe Boll? | ||
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KungKras
Sweden484 Posts
I really hope their disruption of the industry is successful. Because games companies as they work now needs to be destroyed. | ||
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Garrl
Scotland1971 Posts
On May 30 2010 09:19 KungKras wrote: It's official. If Blizzard has become corrupted by the insanity of the gaming industry, Nintendo will be the only games company left that actually does things right. I really hope their disruption of the industry is successful. Because games companies as they work now needs to be destroyed. What about Valve? | ||
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Reaper9
United States1724 Posts
It was dedication of small struggling companies trying to make a name for themselves that brought innovation to the playing field. The most typical example being Nintendo, which started as a card making company (among others) and wound up being one of the most well known (and liked/disliked, as fame does to any company) gaming companies to still exist. Voices do matter. If one person believes oh my opinion does not matter, why bother, then you have just contributed to the flow that a greedy company wants. By becoming one of those accepting ones, that in fact will harm the product even more if the company thinks they can get away with it. Of course if a game is good, and you cry about minor faults, that's a whole entirely different matter. Now we are speaking of a major experience, the Multiplayer experience! If they force us to buy down-loadable maps like CoD, or say Halo, then they will further restrict us when they feel they can tread the water more and more dangerously. (They HAVE been doing that, look at region restrictions, (so they can better control monetary profit) No Lan, (Trying to prevent pirating- fail) No chat rooms (So you have to use FACEFAIL, so they earn profits from the clicks on the site!)) NOW is the time to make our voices heard, it is not too late! | ||
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Meepman
Canada610 Posts
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Rising_Phoenix
United States370 Posts
VALVE!!! I COME TO YOU WITH OPEN ARMS!!! TAKE US INTO YOUR BOSOM!!! Valve is becoming the only large company where the point of a game is to really get your value instead of this ridiculous gimping stuff. | ||
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themole
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I agree that Blizzard broke my heart when I read that article - and nobody will trust them as before - but they really have labored for years to iron out problems. Would Queen, Mule and Chrono even exist had they not tried 2 other solutions to a problem they didn't even realize - or massively underestimate? Kotic is truly an evil man, and BNet 2 is seriously misguided, but those who are stoking the fire (I've seen that 'would you give SC2 a one star rating' poll about 20 times already..) seem just as bad. An emotional reaction is understandable, but shouting again and again and again the same thing..? | ||
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