Perhaps if said executives' salaries took a hit instead of game prices going up, I might just believe in corporate honesty again...
Activision CEO Says He Would Raise Prices Even Higher
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The problem is, gamers on a whole will ***** about the price, all the while standing in line for Activision's next Guitar Hero or Prototype or Call of Duty or whatever. We will ***** and moan, but we don't have the balls to actually *not* buy their product. The only thing that will lower the prices is actually cutting his supply of people willing to support his practices.
Except people will always find a way to justify their boycott "I'll not buy any Activision game anymore...except for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. But no more! Unless they announce Call of Duty 5..." etc. etc. We're suckers with no spine, and Kotick is taking advantage of it because he can. The question is: What are YOU going to do about it?
Except people will always find a way to justify their boycott "I'll not buy any Activision game anymore...except for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. But no more! Unless they announce Call of Duty 5..." etc. etc. We're suckers with no spine, and Kotick is taking advantage of it because he can. The question is: What are YOU going to do about it?
Well, how else is he going to pay for the industrial sized machine for removing his foot from so far inside his mouth?
Sony later commended him for making a stupid business statement as he got out of his COD milking mobile.
OT: Jesus, Someone already called trachea, I call ribcage.
OT: Jesus, Someone already called trachea, I call ribcage.
And that is the problem. Unless 500,000 people refuse to buy the game, you won't either?ChromeAlchemist said:
If I may use a quote...
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now? -Zach De La Rocha
I'm going to do what has to be done. I'm not going to purchase games with the big fat Activision logo on them.Lord_Jaroh said:
Yes.FloodOne said:
It's like vegetarianism to prove a point. Why bother when everyone else is going to eat it regardless? I would like some proof that others are banding up to prove a point, and I'm too lazy to do it myself in response to your quote.
Until then, I'm probably going to buy it (though not at release because the c*nts denied PC owners NVGs and a Prestige edition, so this might be moot).
I say buy only from trusted people. I never bought the Call of Duty series and any of their other franchises. I only go with Ubisoft and the like.Lord_Jaroh said:
And if I can't even trust them, I IMPORT BABY!
They don't get the money, I get my game, everyone wins.
There probably came a point when Blizzard said they could release a single Starcraft 2, with less content, which would probably be received better but make less money. This demon* saw the content that could be released, and pushed Blizz to do the trilogy angle instead. Which would rack in more money, bleeding gamers for more than they probably should be bled. It's just a random thought.joystickjunki3 said:
Many times blurbs like this just come out, and quite a few times they come around to biting the blurber(ya, I made it up, but sounds good with this guy in mind) in the ass. I wouldn't be surprised if he has started to make the board of Activision and its shareholders nervous. True he is making them money now, but not everybody is blind to when the flow of money stops due to one stupid mistake that is repeated. Pissing off Sony with his jibe at consoles needing to be cheaper may just be the start of his downfall.
Sorry, joystickjunki3, but since I am betting SC2 is going to be good, you are going to pay out the bum for it, all three episodes of it, and this guy is gonna make his share.
*: as per
I'd do my own, but MSPaint wouldn't do justice to what I'd want to do. Think I'd rather just print that pic out and put it on my dartboard.HardRockSamurai said:An Activision CEO wishing he could raises prices higher? Are you fucking kidding me?
OK, is there anything ELSE Activision could do right now to make themselves appear EVEN MORE satanic? Even Kotick's picture looks as if it were taken at his summer home in the depths of hell!
[small]Say hello to the new face of evil folks![/small]
You ain't kidding...that face would keep me up at night. *shudders*The_root_of_all_evil said:Oooh, best so farGaderael said:
It's this kind of train of thought that is damaging human society as a whole. Vegetarians who abstain from meat to prove a point are doing just that. Proving a point. In the grand scheme of things, a videogame price is insignificant, but would you sit idly by while an actual injustice is taking place?ChromeAlchemist said:
Should the people of Iran have just rolled over instead of standing up to prove a point?
Again, a videogame price is nowhere near as important as what happened in Iran, but that "fuck all, I can't change anything" attitude is scary.
Good for you. This is the proper response, and the only one that will be taken seriously when Activision's shareholders review the books, albeit if enough people do it. For the record the last Activision game I bought was Guitar Hero 3, and that was the main reason why I stopped supporting them.FloodOne said:
I know that I will miss games I would otherwise have bought, but you know what? There are plenty of other good games to play, made by people that actually care for their audience (or at least have enough tact to not be complete assholes towards their customers). What will test me is Diablo III, but I really am not excited for this game as I would have been 5 years ago, had it come out not looking like the World of Warcraft team spat it out after Kotick's greedy fingers reached down their throats.