Activision Hate Not Based in Reality, Says Activision

[Spectre4802]

"Some gamers might believe that Activision is the evil empire, but Activision doesn't feel that way about itself at all."
Of course they don't, evil empires never think they're evil, hell, that's part of what MAKES them evil.

Yes, this was my first reaction.

OK, you're not evil, then. Just stupid.

Activision's great accomplishments of the last few years:

- Infinity Ward debacle, essentially killing off their superior COD developer.
- Brutal Legend debacle, cancelling a nearly-finished game, then suing when someone else decided to finish.
- The dilution of the once-proud hero franchise, with massive flops like the DJ Hero series and Band Hero.
- Brutal Legend debacle part 2, where they make a mediocre Guitar Hero that attempts to remake the general atmosphere of Brutal Legend.
- Announcing plans to charge for FMVs

Then the inclusive nature with which they embrace their core audience with lines such as:

- "Don't do female leads because they don't sell."
- "The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games."
- "? You know if it was left to me, I would raise the prices even further,?


Activision has frankly been living off sheer force of the Call of Duty series' momentum and everything Blizzard does. And the only reason Blizzard seems to progress is because Activision has almost no power over them.

...Aaaaand this was my second.

I imagine it was "just business", then, when you decided to give the middle finger to the two men who helped you make a shitton of money off Modern Warfare 2?

Frankly, no matter what Activision get's people to say about it, they're never going to have the image of some dark lord peering at the tiny peasents below from his spikey black fortress of doom.

I can't help but wonder what Activision would look like if Kotick wasn't there spewing his hate for their consumers?

 

[Ashcrexl]

remember when kotick said (paraphrased) "we want to take the fun out of making games. it's a business and should be treated like that."? yeah. nothing can convince me activision is not evil after that, and this entire article isnt even trying.

(note: not bashing the writer of the article, he did a good job.)

 

[hyperdrachen]

The gaming community speaks with two mouths. One mouth is the keyboard of the blogger/forum poster, the other is the wallet.

When it comes down to it, Activision (like everyone else in the gaming production business) listens to the latter. If you don't like their games, don't buy them. If they're losing money, they will change the things you don't like. If they're making money, they're not going to change anything.

Your statement is the mournful song of an abusive relationship. I'm trying as hard as I can to starve activision to death, but I am but one gamer. Kinda hard when they got thier hooks in blizzard...

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Do I really have to do this again? Do I have to state why I hate Activision and Kotick every couple of months because they don't see themselves as being evil. The sheer idiocy and PR nightmare that is Bobby Kotick is a big reason. There are just too many quotes to choose from. Everything to do with MW2 from the price hike which RETIALERS took. The removal of Dedicated Servers. Watching multple people complain about the unblanaced pile of shit that was the Multiplayer. The same could be said about Blops multiplayer side except that is more rushed without fixing bugs. All the game needed was an open beta to be more or less perfect on the multiplayer side. CoD 4 and all other before this had this and they only had marginally imba weapons. Blops is my last try in the series skipped MW2 if it doesn't shape up by the time the next one comes out I think I may give up on the series and Activision in general.

 

[JoshGod]

So because things are not as bad as they could be you don't deserve the hate? Does he not see the lack of logic. i mean you would have to be fucking twisted before you could not get worse.