Activision Getting "Little to No Compensation" In Brutal Legend Deal

[Kellerb]

Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you... karma.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Summed up to a few words: It's all right to want to make money, but there are some things that you just don't do. EA did it with DRM, and Activision did this, among other cases like the whole Ghostbusters fiasco.

Well, if Activision is the new EA, they'll have a sudden surge in niceness levels in about a month or two that will get people to stop complaining about them... and another company will start getting hated on to compensate.

We should place bets on who it's gonna be next. I'll put my money on either THQ or Ubisoft.

I'm not saying that all of the unpleasant feelings toward Activision are undeserved, but it seems people just like jumping on the hate bandwagon these days: it's like hating on things is the new black.

I agree with you there, but be reminded that the internet is basically one big hate machine. It's where people can vent on anything and everything without regret. That said, it can turn normal people into complete wankers (no pun intended), as evidenced by Penny Arcade's G.I.F.T. theory.

 

[HippySecond]

Nah, that one didn't fly over my head. It landed several feet ahead and bounced to my feet, where I look down upon it with scorn.

#notmetal

 

[scotth266]

We should place bets on who it's gonna be next. I'll put my money on either THQ or Ubisoft.

I'm gonna go with Ubisoft, because I still haven't forgotten that horrible E3 press conference.


Ironically, not shortly after I posted, an I HATE ACTIVISION thread got started right up. So I guess we can both sit back, laugh, and say that we knew it was coming.

 

[Kiutu]

I don't like how Activision is becoming so out of control. EA wasn't even that bad looking back on it. Now EA is better than ever because they are now trying to make quality games. Activision needs to take a step back and chill the fuck down with all of this power hungry bull shit. Testing how far the "consumers" will go for your product is not a good strategy for making money, neither is saying it out in the open that you want to raise games to over 100$.

EA didnt make Brutal Legends. EA deserves little thanks for anything still, and probably only picked up Brutal Legends for the same reason Activision dropped it, money.

 

[iamthehorde]

now, that´s fine and all, but does anyone of you really think that activision may have damaged their name? how many people are as nerdy as we are and even knew about the case? how many people of those(informed about all that) will boycott activision products? at least we discuss about it. if you look at ign and comments about it, it seems like you could make a modern warfare fraternity, they are all like "mw2 brah!!! sick!!!" and seem to not care. seriously, activision gives a fuck about what people think of them as long as there are enough idiots buying every peripheral shit they cheaply produce and as long as wow keeps going this strong. i would love to see the whole thing crash one day when the right people have jumped the sinking ship. in the end, their boss doesn´t even care for video games at all, as we all know, the guy is eating money, literally, i bet.

 

[iamthehorde]

Summed up to a few words: It's all right to want to make money, but there are some things that you just don't do. EA did it with DRM, and Activision did this, among other cases like the whole Ghostbusters fiasco.

Well, if Activision is the new EA, they'll have a sudden surge in niceness levels in about a month or two that will get people to stop complaining about them... and another company will start getting hated on to compensate.

We should place bets on who it's gonna be next. I'll put my money on either THQ or Ubisoft.

I'm not saying that all of the unpleasant feelings toward Activision are undeserved, but it seems people just like jumping on the hate bandwagon these days: it's like hating on things is the new black.

I agree with you there, but be reminded that the internet is basically one big hate machine. It's where people can vent on anything and everything without regret. That said, it can turn normal people into complete wankers (no pun intended), as evidenced by Penny Arcade's G.I.F.T. theory.

it´s also that their ceo obviously hates the gamers as well. everything you hear from him comes down to "i need more money, i need more franchises, i need more sequels, creativity my ass!".

 

[ActualOvaltine]

Well that is good. Activision was hoping its mind control ray was going to work on the judge.

 

[theultimateend]

People seem to be giving Activision the hate that EA had been getting, but to be honest the hate is undeserved. Activision is a business, and they exist to sell product: the fact that their product is games is a bonus. They don't deserve to be treated like the spawn of Satan for attempting to make some extra money.

Granted, this whole Brutal Legend debacle should never have even started, but whatever. It's over now, the good guys won.

While I appreciate that other people have an opinion this particular one is bullshit. They DO deserve to be treated like shit for acting like shit.

There is no reason why a company can't act respectable and make billions at the same time. There is nothing that stops any of them.

It is too many people being far too naive and acting like its a necessity that allows and even inspires them to do this sort of crap. I make sure not to buy from anyone who acts like this and oddly enough it has left me with quite a bit of extra cash (which I promptly spent on books...look what corruption has done...it has supported literacy ).

Summed up to a few words: It's all right to want to make money, but there are some things that you just don't do. EA did it with DRM, and Activision did this, among other cases like the whole Ghostbusters fiasco.

Well, if Activision is the new EA, they'll have a sudden surge in niceness levels in about a month or two that will get people to stop complaining about them... and another company will start getting hated on to compensate.

I'm not saying that all of the unpleasant feelings toward Activision are undeserved, but it seems people just like jumping on the hate bandwagon these days: it's like hating on things is the new black.

EA was hated for years and years of shady tactics, poor products, and company crushing. What they did to Westwood alone has earned my eternal scorn.

So no. If they are the new EA they'll be assholes for half a decade THEN decide to maybe calm the hell down.

 

[dalek sec]

Not bad, it's a start. Let me know when that dick CEO get's hit by a bus or something.

 

[Sewblon]

If Activision had lost, they would have looked stupid, if they had won, they would have looked evil(er.) This was the only way they could have avoided a publicity debacle.