Kotick Itching to Sell Cutscenes As Films

[The Human Torch]

Hmm, seeing as how I don't like playing RTS games (and thusly have no interest in playing Starcraft 2), I would like to see a movie made out of the cutscenes. If they took the cut-scenes, added a little something to connect them all together (since you are missing parts of the story by not playing) and make a real feature film out of it, then hell yeah, I would buy it. I love sci-fi movies and Blizzard cinematics are of surreal quality.

The price would of course depend on how much effort they put into it. HD-DTS sound and HD picture is something that I would like to see.

And stop acting like Bobby Kotick is always the greedy bastard, Blizzard is every bit as bad as he is.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

*punches Kotick in the face*

Stop trying to sell us shit we already own you monster.

 

[The_Echo]

Considering some games give you the ability to watch all the cutscenes from the game, I can already see the fatal flaw in this idea. How do they fill up the wholes that the cutscenes may not cover?

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Wow, the goodwill lasted less than a day. Not even 24 hours after learning Kotick was against in-game ads, we find out about this crap.

 

[silasbufu]

Ok who's good with a sniper rifle here?

 

[Buizel91]

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:

Or Blizzard, their Cinematic's are amazing.

 

[Dexiro]

Ah Kotick, i can't even take you seriously anymore. It's a good job i don't like any of the games you're beating to death.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Wow, the goodwill lasted less than a day. Not even 24 hours after learning Kotick was against in-game ads, we find out about this crap.

But he never was. He was for limiting them if we paid up front. That's all that press release actually says.

 

[brunothepig]

It's not like gamers would have to buy these scenes if they didn't want to, but rest assured, plenty would.

Well thank god for that. At first I was really disappointed, I thought Kotick had just pulled them out or something. That would be stupid. This... It seems like a pathetic grab for even more money, but if it isn't going to affect me if I decide to ignore the collections and just play Starcraft then he can do what he wants, and people can buy them. I don't care.

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:

Seconded.

 

[Narcogen]

Bungie had better be careful.

They've got some longstanding employees who like writing cinematic scripts, and one of the best score composers in the business.

Kotick may have singled out Starcraft, but it'd be hard to imagine him thinking of this concept and not connecting it to whatever Bungie's next IP is.

I hope Bungie gets power of approval over harebrained schemes like this.

 

[Autofaux]

Someone check Kotick. I think he's tweaked.

 

[Cronorod]

People seem to be drawing improper conclusions from this...
First of all, there is a decent amount of cutscenes it Starcraft 2 (to keep with the same example) but there isnt an entire movie.
What he probably means is not completely removing them from the game (In this case, Blizzard wouldnt let him. And yes, yes they can.), it's likely a movie built around the core of the existing cutscenes.

All in all, for me, it's basically like going to the cinema, except its online.
Plus, from where im from, it's cheaper (?20 for tickets for 2 people, obviously multiplied by the more people you have)

 

[Narcogen]

From TFA:

"For starters, our virtual characters don't have agents, they don't have managers, they don't have lawyers"

Actually, to the extent any of them have voices, they have all three of those, as well as, quite possibly, membership in SAG.

Kotick has to be thinking that every one of these ideas he spews out buoys Activision stock more than it hurts the company by alienating its consumers and employees.

I'm not convinced it's working.

 

[R0cklobster]

Personally I think Bobby Kotick is kidding himself. There is absolutely no reason why someone who doesn't own the game the cutscene is coming from would go and pay for it. Even then, you'd have to have a massive hard on for the game in question otherwise you'd probably just find another way of watching a cutscene again rather than spending the amount of money they're suggesting (I know it's just speculation but I wouldn't be willing to spend more than a handfull of dollars on something as trivial as a cutscene i've seen before)

 

[Wicky_42]

I thought when he started that he was going to make some additional cut-scene quality stuff in order to actually warrant this, but no. Dude, I can already just replay any cutscenes I've unlocked at will, and if you removed that functionality I'd watch them on youtube if I wanted. $20-30? Gotta be kidding.

 

[Ken Sapp]

Dear God, Metal Gear Solid 4 would be about ten minutes of gameplay!

^ Mortons4ck has said about everything I could on the subject.

So they are going to add actual gameplay to MGS4?

 

[Darzen]

it's an RTS theres not supossed to be Cinematics and cutscenes!Thats why i play RTS games!

 

[Niccolo]

Speaking about these cutscenes, Kotick said: "If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game, and we were to go to our audiences for whom we have their credit card information as well as a direct relationship and ask,"

Does that bit scare any of you? It's like he's saying "Yeah, we have their credit card information. Yeah, I can guarantee they'll buy a copy. They'll buy it so fast they'll even surprise themselves!"

 

[InsanityBaronOfAtrocity]

I love how this guy openly says he doesn't care about games and that it's all about the money and so in retaliation millions of people go out to buy SC2! Hah. I returned MW2 the moment I found out what a dick he was. It's only a little bit of revenue lost for them on the resale but it's something.

OT: What a moronic idea. Half of them are on youtube now anyway.