Activision CEO Is A "Carpetbagger"

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I wish I got paid as much as that guy!

It would be hard to care about you all when I am on my 70foot yaught in Barbados...

Just make sure you don't disappear over the side with the pension money.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Lay off Blizzard though. Activision CEO had nothing to do with it, and your in fantasy land if you think Starcraft will bomb. It's physically impossible, too many people would buy it if it was just a Starcraft expansion pack.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

And to think, there was a moment when we thought that this would be the man that would save us from the evil EA.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Lay off Blizzard though. Activision CEO had nothing to do with it, and your in fantasy land if you think Starcraft will bomb. It's physically impossible, too many people would buy it if it was just a Starcraft expansion pack.

it won't sell as well as you'd think, how many gamers will want to pay $150 for a game they were originally going to pay $60 for? cause they won't be charging $20 per game, they'll be charging full game price, so what will happen? they won't sell much and the game will be pirated so much that it will make spore look like it never appeared on any torrent tracker

i'm sure some ppl will buy it but frankly i'll wait till all 3 come out and end up in the bargin bin cause if i'm paying $150 or more for 1 game i better be getting a LOT of cool swag with it or else it's not worth it

 

[meatloaf231]

That has to be one of he harshest attacks of character outside of politics I have seen in awhile. However, I actually find myself agreeing, seeing as Activision unjustly dropped Brutal Legend for seemingly no reason other then it couldn't make a good sequel.

This.

 

[AceDiamond]

Yeah I love how nobody blames the Blizzard half of Activision-Blizzard for splitting up Starcraft II. Give me a break.

i'm pretty sure they wouldn't be that dumb to do stuff like that, i'd almost be willing to bet that it tanks cause of this and everyone will wonder why.

If you can't adequately fight to have your game released properly, then you're either not convincing enough or (and this is the more likely scenario) you are in on it.

actually that's wrong, there are ppl who scream and cry about and no matter what the person in charge will hear nothing of it. prime example is the sept 11 attacks and bush, in this case he ignored EVERYTHING that was told to him including a report titled "bin laden determined to attack within america" by your logic those attacks happened cause ppl weren't telling him enough

Actually I'm of the opinion he let the attacks happen so he could do what he wanted to in the Middle East but that is completely different from this so I don't even know why you brought it up. Guess you didn't want to bring Godwin's Law into this whole thing (terror threats =/= business practices). Oh, and this is just a bit of advice for the future, take the time to spell "people" instead of this abbreviation stuff. It's 3 extra letters, not a big challenge.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Guess you didn't want to bring Godwin's Law into this whole thing (terror threats =/= business practices). Oh, and this is just a bit of advice for the future, take the time to spell "people" instead of this abbreviation stuff. It's 3 extra letters, not a big challenge.

umm Godwin's Law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_Law] is with NAZI's not terror, nice try tho but in future when you want to chastise ppl for the way they type, make sure you don't make your own mistakes as it's bad form

 

[eldermore]

I have worked with Activision and they make me sick, there like the MTV of games releasing
mediocre games for the masses while pretending to be gamers, there nothing but suits.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Ha, ha, ha! He must be having aneurysms over Prototype, they've been making that for about 3 years now. "DOES IT HAVE A SEQUEL YET?! HAVE WE MILKED THE AWESOME OUT OF IT?!"

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Activsion, you suck. You really do.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Harsh but true, they're becoming more EAish

 

[oktalist]

Reminds me of the the sponsor Noah Vanderhoff in Wayne's World.

 

[Capo Taco]

Well in the end it is a result of taking capitalism to an extreme. Passion does not matter, nothing matters aside from the amount of wealth produced...

Yeah... but in the end, isn't it up to us, the consumers, to decide what we spend our money on? If wave after wave of sequels and spin-offs with repetitive gameplay succeeds, it's because enough people buy into the concept.

But considering this, I think that a change is slowly but surely coming to the videogame world. It seems that people are starting to get sick off the "more of the same" type of games, and independent developers are beginning to get more attention for their innovative gameplay.

In Japan they have something called "knowledge management". One of the innovative things they are doing is that executives take a week or two to work at the lowest levels of the organisation to find out the details of the business they are in. Hospital managers changing diapers of old patients, Insurance CEO's picking up the phone to give basic help to clients.

Yes Kotick might up the price and cut costs and yes he might make more (or less) money and yes it's him that is held accountable: but I don't want starcraft to suck. I rather have them make a good game and pay good money for it than having them make a sub-good game and pay good money for it. I'll still buy it (yes all three), but a friend who's only marginally interested in starcraft might skip it for the lack of lan.

That's why criticism is leveled at Kotick for not picking up a controller and he could learn a lot from japanese business practices. In all likelyhood his actions will increase short term income for activision, hurt their long term income and hurt the long term value of blizzard and their franchises.

Kicking off a development team and then calling their new game a cheap knockoff: Oh jeez, really? That's what they're good at. They were working for you. Now they're competing with you. Man, this guy is not so good at making friends.


(Although admittedly I don't really know. I'd be curious to meet him personally or see an interview)