The sad thing about that statement is that Call of Duty 1 was a PC exclusive...Hopeless Bastard said:
Kotick: Only 30% of Activision's Profits Come from Consoles
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ciortas1 said:Mother fuckers...
Can anyone explain (please; the rage isn't aimed at you) to me why Blizzard even sold themselves to Activision in the first place? Surely they knew what kind of money they were making with WoW (huge, huge piles of cash) so what's up with all that crap about financial backing? All they're doing now is alienating people that were throwing them up to the top spot (hasn't Blizz grown like 10 times in a few years before the merger?) and crap just to please some asshole in a black suit. For fuck's sake, this does not make me anything but angry. Activision is basically only getting bigger because they bought Blizzard. <----- bunch of thoughts just spilled out in the few first seconds after reading the article
WHY BLIZZ, WHY DID YOU DO THIS?!
Edit: Upon the smallest bit of thinking, it becomes ironic. Blizz said in some article or whatever that they're doing this to have some financial backing (which, as was painfully obvious, was not needed because of WoW in the first place), they're the ones financially backing the other company involved in the merger.
You and I think alike. It's a god damn shame.Dorkmaster Flek said:Wow. No, literally. WoW.That basically means World of Warcraft accounts for 70% of their profits. It's a damn shame to see a company like Blizzard literally providing most of the profits for a company like Activision. My hatred of this man knows no bounds.
Now, who's up for forcing them to split? Let's get some pitchforks and flaming sticks people, time to burn the heretics and purge the unclean.
Bzzt, wrong.Sartan0 said:
Blizzard has been owned by Vivendi for YEARS. Vivendi bought a majority share in Activision, and merged its Vivendi Games division with Activision, calling the new holding corporation "Activision-Blizzard."
Blizzard is, ironically, a separate entity from ActiBlizz, but since its profits go up into the Vivendi Games coffers, they go into ActiBlizz's as well.
Vivendi is the parent company.
So, yes. He admitted that for all his bluster and for all the products of variable quality and all his idiotic statements and actions... Blizzard is the sole reason he has any power in the world. I swear, if they ever manage to lose Blizzard, Activision'll crash within four months. Mark my words.
While I know the private servers are hacks they are still there and do fill the role of technically being true dedicated servers. Yes the PC is completely peer to peer unless I missed the point of the boycott I signed up for after reading about it. The whole situation is completely disgraceful especially since console games can have dedicated servers and work brilliantly with them eg. Resistance. They do hide the peer to peer thing by instead of telling you your ping in a number they do it with colours from green to red well as far as I know from the Pip and Slack podcasts.pneuma08 said:
I don't understand why he can claim Blizzard's profits as his own? As far as I recall it was Vivendi/Blizzard who bought Activision, not the other way around. Surely his profits should be those of Activision, not those of his parent company?
Put it this way, if I was a small company in a large chain and I was making incredible losses but the rest of the company was doing well, it would be wrong of me to claim the whole chain's profits as my own, it doesn't show how well my company is performing.
..That or the other 70% of his profits come from his legal department after he sues everybody.
Put it this way, if I was a small company in a large chain and I was making incredible losses but the rest of the company was doing well, it would be wrong of me to claim the whole chain's profits as my own, it doesn't show how well my company is performing.
..That or the other 70% of his profits come from his legal department after he sues everybody.
exactly my thoughts if the biggest money maker in the gaming world activision who have pretty much said screw you to pc gamers are getting propped up by a pc exclusive developer excuse me i just need to laugh my ass offJandau said:
Pilkingtube said:
Activision Blizzard was formed by combining Activision, one of the world's leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, and Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business, which includes Blizzard Entertainment's® World of Warcraft®, the world's #1 subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker ATVI.
Thats why
Wow that sounded almost like Marketing at the start, until I looked at the press release, which it turns out you copy and pasted from, so it technically is marketing, and I conceed that yes, it is indeed one subsidiary company now. With an almost even split on the board of directors.jamesworkshop said:
I also find it mildly curious that this pretty much coincided with Microsoft's statement that they want to get back into PC gaming. It seems that major players have started to figure out that the grass isn't THAT green in the console market...crobulator said:
It's mostly (if not all) WoW.Jandau said:
So yeah. PC gaming is dying unless you're into WoW.
Kind of sad to think about really.
Apparently it falls under NPD's definition of "consoles", which spawned Mr. Kotick's remarks in the first place. I can only assume they're using the same definition.tkioz said:
Edit: "Handhelds" is short for "handheld video game consoles" where "video game consoles" or simply "consoles" refers to devices primarily designed for playing video games, as opposed to other devices built for another primary purpose (such as the iPhone, which is primarily a smart phone) or no specific purpose (such as a personal computer).