Kotick Itching to Sell Cutscenes As Films

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Or they could just...you know..make a CG movie?

Granted that would take a ton of time and money, but they certainly have the writers and CG teams to do it. It would be better(and probably more profitable) than taking a bunch of unrelated cut-scenes from a game and trying to sell it as a movie.

This game-cutscene plan sounds like the CGI film B-movie equivalent.

I don't really follow "game" movies (specifically CGI/animated), but I'm going to assume they don't sell too hot, so I think game cinematics clipped together would be a complete failure.

 

[Mr. Spazza]

I honestly don't see what's so bad with this. It simply sounds like they are planning to make video game movies.

EDIT: I'm not exactly clear on what Kotick wants to do here. Does he want to make movies of brand NEW cutscenes? Or does he just want to take cutscenes out of games and sell those individually?

If they are making new material and making movies out of them, I don't see a problem with that.

If they are just repackaging old material, then I'm going with the crowd here.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Kotick is no different than, say, Glenn Beck. His job is to think up evermore ridiculous nonsense because this continually pushes the entire "conversation" further in his desired direction. When you advocate monetizing something so egregiously, people are more apt to forgive you your less insane ideas.

This is probably the biggest problem with the world today. No one is ever held accountable for anything he or she says, so there's no real disincentive to ward against running your mouth. If people like Beck and Kotick were simply punched in the back of the head, repeatedly, until they stopped, we wouldn't have these issues.

 

[Sylocat]

Seriously, Kotick is like a cartoon caricature of an evil businessman. He went to the same business school as the heads of the Umbrella Corporation. If he were a fictional character he'd be called a one-dimensional strawman. Unbefuckinglievable.

 

[sylekage]

This is one of the stupidest ideas I've heard come from someone in the video game industry. "we're gonna have them buy the 60 dollar game, but we can sell them the cutscenes for another thirty bucks. Hey if they like the game they'll buy it right?"
I've seen some cut scenes from games that would be awesome to have, and would need little to no back story from the actual game. One I can think of right now is the cut scene "Monsters" fro Halo Wars. It's great and I would pay, say, 99 cents to have it forever. But to pay 30 dollars for a dvd full of cut scenes, some of which may be 10-30 seconds log, doesn't seem like the greatest thing.

My opinion? This idea's gonna get thrown out, real fast. Really people? Do you think we're all that dumb?

 

[chinangel]

Bobby Kotick just failed at logic. Seriously failed. You can't tell a complete story this way, and no Bobby. No. People are NOT going to fork out an extra twenty dollars for the cinema's. You know what they ARE going to do though? Drop you like a bad habit.

You hear the sound of footsteps? It's your company's fans, leaving. hey are abandoning this sinking ship. You idiot.

 

[SimuLord]

Mr. Kotick, you are an evil genius. I bow to your superior marketing capabilities.

Mind you, I wouldn't actually buy a disc full of cutscenes at any price, but I can think of people who would, and why not separate them from their money?

 

[Vrach]

That seems lazy and an excuse for money grabbing. I could watch the cutscenes on Youtube if I wanted to. Also, the gaps where the gameplay was will be around.

Except when this shit gets pulled, YouTube will have to delete those videos because they'll be copyright infringement.

Spoiler: Screw you Kotick

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Wait...what? He wants to sell 30 second to 5 minute clips on a DVD...without the gameplay. Who would buy this? I mean, the man is obviously a very passionate business man, but this...this is just...exploitation? I don't know if anyone would buy this.

 

[I_am_acting]

ow, ow, oooow, kodick's greed is physically hurting me

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Wait...what? He wants to sell 30 second to 5 minute clips on a DVD...without the gameplay. Who would buy this? I mean, the man is obviously a very passionate business man, but this...this is just...exploitation? I don't know if anyone would buy this.

"Hey kids! Want to know how the story of your favorite games ends without all of that hacky slashy nonsense? Forget 'playing' and start watching!"


I can just imagine a game like Devil May Cry 4:

Scene #44: "Nero walks into a room and there are demons!"
Scene #45: RANDOMOMGWTFACTION!!! (somewhere COMPLETELY different)

The number of games have cutscenes interspersed enough to foil this idea borders on the absurd. These cutscene "films" would be nothing more than disjointed movie reel of plotholes unless they were to bother and fill in the gaps. That means more money spent on already expensive cutscenes that should be going towards the game.

If I'm getting the underlying gist of this concept, it's $30 for a slipshod telling of a game's story or buy the $60 upgraded version where you can actually play.

Activision could probably make a DVD (collection) of all the wacky crap Kotick spews and market it as "Jackass: CEO Edition." [sub]Now to have him jump a shark tank on rusty roller skates...[/sub]

 

[open trap]

Honestly, if i had the choice of killing the anti christ or removing kotic from the buisness world for ever, i might hesitate.

 

[XT inc]

Unfortunately these Ideas don't ever go both ways. They over course won't give you an edition of the game without cutscenes at a reduced price.

 

[Flying Pilgrim]

Kotick has officially pissed off everyone (who wasn't already pissed at him) on this site.

 

[the-kitchen-slayer]

I see this as a bad idea, and if they make it manditory to buy the cutscenes to play them in your game? Well, let's just say I wouldn't be touching anything from activision.

Sure, some people would buy them... But I don't understand why

 

[Weaver]

for PC games:
Step 1) Go to the data folder
Step 2) Find a folder named "movies"
Step 3) Watch them all.

 

[RobCoxxy]

If they made actual movies that weren't cutscenes, yes.
But knowing Kotick he'll remove cutscenes from games and sell them seperately.


I hope he doesn't read this. He'll use it.

 

[DeepComet5581]

Pretty much the Only company I'd pay to watch a movie from is Valve.

Now those guys know how to make a good movie:

This is why I want them to make a Half-Life movie. IT WILL BE EPIC.

 

[Dendio]

Currently we get to watch cutscenes for free via youtube. I personally dont think cutscenes alone are worth buying. Cutscenes outside of the game lack context and really pale in comparision to full motion picture video. The price should be around 5 dollars or so. 30 dollars is more than most dvds sell for these days.