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seanisgrand
United States1039 Posts
Really, even if miraculously you are somehow not to blame for all the terrible stories we hear about (unlikely) just the simple fact that you are involved in so much shadiness makes it easy for the casual slightly-informed observer to say "Activision is a bag of dicks." They don't even need to read the stories. You are pretty lucky you have the CoD bro crowd swaying from your sack like testicular cancer. | ||
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Cleomenes
United States138 Posts
On December 23 2010 00:27 seanisgrand wrote: You are pretty lucky you have the CoD bro crowd swaying from your sack like testicular cancer. Says someone from a fan site dedicated to one of Activision's biggest franchises. Face it, if the company continues to make worthwhile games, people will still buy them. That includes me. | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
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Weedk
United States507 Posts
I'm rooting for EA in this one. | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
I also remember how many of us were intrigued with Activision buying Blizzard stock. Now look at the pickle we find ourselves in. It's too bad no one wants to buyout Blizzard from Activision. Then again, I can see the cost being over a billion. :/ | ||
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Hieros
United States83 Posts
On December 22 2010 18:37 adrenaLinG wrote: you can leave a company whenever you want to, but you cant conspire to leave a company, take a bunch of workers with you, and hurt their business so that you can join a competitor Depending on the terms of the contract, yes, you can. It also depends on how strong whatever jurisdiction this is in favors the efficient breach hypothesis. But finding tortious interference for a breach of contract is not that common, to my knowledge, which is hardly the first and last word on the matter. Courts are, depending on the circumstances, perfectly willing to look into noncompete clauses and declare them voidable, especially if there has been a breach by one party. In other words, if Activision is in breach, then they will have more difficulty in enforcing whatever noncompete clauses that they had in the contract. But that reminds me, has anyone looked up the caption of this case? I want to look at the briefs myself. EDIT: For those with Westlaw access, the citation for the pleading is 2010 WL 1751475. | ||
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Krigwin
1130 Posts
On December 23 2010 02:02 StarStruck wrote: I remember the time most of us hated what EA stood for. I also remember how many of us were intrigued with Activision buying Blizzard stock. Now look at the pickle we find ourselves in. It's too bad no one wants to buyout Blizzard from Activision. Then again, I can see the cost being over a billion. :/ Pretty sure Kotick would rather sacrifice more kittens to the Great Xolotl than give up Blizzard. Blizzard and CoD are pretty much Activision's only two sources of income now that Kotick has successfully driven most other franchises straight into the ground. | ||
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Fenrax
United States5018 Posts
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LunarC
United States1186 Posts
Activision's ass is getting bigger cause of CoD, WoW, and SC. Don't think it's about to stop either. Kotick is a conniving bastard but he knows how to bait the right people and fuck the right people. It's probably not unlike running a criminal organization. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
A spokesman, Jeff Brown, in an email sent Tuesday night, said, "This is a PR play filled with pettiness and deliberate misdirection. Activision wants to hide the fact that they have no credible response to the claim of two artists who were fired and now just want to get paid for their work." Source | ||
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Gecko
United States519 Posts
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Basic
Canada288 Posts
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Joementum
787 Posts
On December 23 2010 06:48 Gecko wrote: MW2 sucked all the strategy and fun out of the series, I have yet to play Black Ops but i'm hoping all the cheesy crap in black ops will be amusing. Even if the LOLflamethrowers and RC bombs are fun it probably won't change how the dumb killstreak system and bad map design are dragging the series down. Activision wronged IW to begin with so the lawsuit is total BS, as if IW could derail the series any more than activision already had. There hasn't been a good Modern Warfare since Modern Warfare. There hasn't been a good CoD since CoD2. The CoD series has just gone down hill rather quickly over the years. All these gimmicks are just boring, stupid and repetitive. They make being good at the game easy. | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On December 23 2010 00:42 Cleomenes wrote: Says someone from a fan site dedicated to one of Activision's biggest franchises. Face it, if the company continues to make worthwhile games, people will still buy them. That includes me. its blizzards franchise and blizzards games why people are here. no one gives a shit about activision. i try to avoid activision games as best as i can. and since i couldnt care less about the crappy COD or X Hero games its not that hard outside of sc2. | ||
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drlame
Sweden574 Posts
On December 22 2010 12:46 Amnesia wrote: fucking die in a fire kotick you fucking faggot User was temp banned for this post. On December 22 2010 22:00 DorF wrote: GOGO EA , CHALLENGE EVERYTHING Probably the two best posts in this thread. On a serious note, as most people have said none of these companies are any good, but imo, Kotick deserves all the hate he can get. Rooting for EA on this one. | ||
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vek
Australia936 Posts
MoH costs $60 USD as it should because it is new. BC2 costs $30 USD which is reasonable. BC2: Vietnam costs $15 USD which is the same as a MW2 map pack. MW2 STILL costs $89.99 USD, same as Black Ops. Not like I buy or want to buy any of the above games because FPS is a dead genre to me. Only Activision game I've bought since the original CoD is SC2.. which I regret. Just annoys me to see what an awful company Activision is, it's like they have an internal company policy of milking everything dry and then whining about it. It's just a shame Black Ops sold so well  Anyone remember Tony Hawks Pro Skater? | ||
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ThemAcorns
Norway114 Posts
If EA was a religion I'd join. Bobby Kotick is fucking Sauron the fucking Destroyer. The Fellowship of Electronic Arts is the only thing that stands between him and the ultimate destruction of Middle Earth. I mean the fucking game industry. Sure, EA might be quite douchy and remake a lot of their games, but so does Activision. This is more about choosing the lesser of two evils. WHICH IN DIS CASE BRO, WOULD BE DEM BITCHES AT EA. SO SUCK MAH BUTTERKNIFE BOBBEH. +EA's got Bioware so that's like an auto-win. | ||
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MozzarellaL
United States822 Posts
On December 23 2010 02:07 Hieros wrote: But that reminds me, has anyone looked up the caption of this case? I want to look at the briefs myself. I don't think there's going to be any writing of briefs, at least not until discovery is over, unless they get into a pre-litigation argument over whether EA can be properly included as a cross-defendant. | ||
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
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SolidusR
United States217 Posts
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