Perhaps if said executives' salaries took a hit instead of game prices going up, I might just believe in corporate honesty again...
The_root_of_all_evil said:I believe this would be best illustrated by illustration.
Gentlemen, we have a smiling photo to deface, don't you think?
Where's the wife with the scary smile and awful disregard for ... anything, heh.fix-the-spade said:The man is clearly Tony Blair's long lost brother.
Never mind the greedy backstabbing lieing bit, he's even got the same smile!
Oooh, best so farGaderael said:Ask and Ye Shall ReceiveThe_root_of_all_evil said:I believe this would be best illustrated by illustration.
Gentlemen, we have a smiling photo to deface, don't you think?
And that is the problem. Unless 500,000 people refuse to buy the game, you won't either?ChromeAlchemist said:This is a forum. Bitching, pissing and moaning is what we do here. I would need a boycott group 500 thousand strong before I even think of not buying this game, because as it stands it makes no difference whether I buy this or not, the game is still going to sell an unholy amount.
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: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?
Why thank you good sir.The_root_of_all_evil said:Oooh, best so farGaderael said:Ask and Ye Shall ReceiveThe_root_of_all_evil said:I believe this would be best illustrated by illustration.
Gentlemen, we have a smiling photo to deface, don't you think?
Yes.FloodOne said:And that is the problem. Unless 500,000 people refuse to buy the game, you won't either?ChromeAlchemist said:This is a forum. Bitching, pissing and moaning is what we do here. I would need a boycott group 500 thousand strong before I even think of not buying this game, because as it stands it makes no difference whether I buy this or not, the game is still going to sell an unholy amount.
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: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?
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:Dude's crazy. I can deal w/ that, as long as I don't have to pay out the ass for SC2.
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:Ask and Ye Shall ReceiveThe_root_of_all_evil said:I believe this would be best illustrated by illustration.
Gentlemen, we have a smiling photo to deface, don't you think?
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:Yes.FloodOne said:And that is the problem. Unless 500,000 people refuse to buy the game, you won't either?ChromeAlchemist said:This is a forum. Bitching, pissing and moaning is what we do here. I would need a boycott group 500 thousand strong before I even think of not buying this game, because as it stands it makes no difference whether I buy this or not, the game is still going to sell an unholy amount.
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.
I didn't change it; I just googled "Kotick" and found the picture.MaxTheReaper said:The smile was honestly creepier before you changed it.HardRockSamurai said:snip
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'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: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?