Are you boycotting activision
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*wonders once more why Publishers get the blame and not the Developers*
I'll look at the Activison, but I won't boycot them as
1) they are a business and they are always out to make money
2) they are a publisher. They don't make the games as far as I'm aware
Why should I punish the Publisher and not the Developers who make the games? Yes Activision are evil as they charge the £10 map packs for the CoD series but apart from that I blame the Developers of a game if a game fails
*see Zero Puntuation where it seems Square is in the firing range and not the dev feelplus*
I'll look at the Activison, but I won't boycot them as
1) they are a business and they are always out to make money
2) they are a publisher. They don't make the games as far as I'm aware
Why should I punish the Publisher and not the Developers who make the games? Yes Activision are evil as they charge the £10 map packs for the CoD series but apart from that I blame the Developers of a game if a game fails
*see Zero Puntuation where it seems Square is in the firing range and not the dev feelplus*
I'll boycott Activision when they stop making games I enjoy, thankyou very much.
I like Call Of Duty.
I like Call Of Duty.
As publishers they own the rights to the game. WIth those rights they can just decide tomorrow to fire an entire dev team for no reason other than, they don't think it will make *enough* profit. Activision has done this a lot. The point there is the brand and the title is entirely up to them. Activision has the ability to make sure the next CoD uses water pistols instead of real guns. The new ghostbusters game was looking awesome and getting good (p)reviews but they axed it because they didn't see any potential to exploit sequels. Guitar Hero is another great example. Whether you personally liked it or hated it, alot of people enjoy the title and are interested but oversaturation (their fault) of the market actually caused less sales. It would have been smarter for them to come out with an online song purchase system or even to just release less sequels and spin offs. But they just axed the title because they were pouting that Rock Band did better this last time around.Ryuu814 said:
Well, it depends sometimes. For the most part that is a healthy outlook on it but sometimes the publisher will screw over the dev team. I won't buy another Civilization game upon release as long as 2k has it because of this. If the game sucks, it is the developers. But often bugs and half-assery is really the publisher pushing the game out before it is finished to get the revenue to go on a quarterly report.
As for Activision, they don't have much that interest me atm. Have your cake and eat it too I guess if they do, buy used and save yourself a whole 5 dollars. lol.
I never brought guitar hero and MW2 was horrible so im not likely to buy the next GH or CoD game
No. Should I be? They don't really make games I like. I'm not boycotting them, I'm just not buying their games. If they made a game I'd liked, I'd buy without a second thought.
I am. I've been a good boy, too, I didn't buy Blood Stone. Someone really needs to take the James Bond licence out of Activision's hands.
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And this sums up why gamers have no power over the games industry... we're only driven by one thing, and that's what we want to play. Organising a gamer boycott of a popular title would be like trying to get water to run up hill.niktzv said:
Bottom line, gamers are arse-hats who can't see long term consequences past the length of their nose, they are also entitled dicks (just to be clear, I include myself in this summation).
P.S. sorry if your ass-hattery isn't quoted above but I got tired of quoting, the above is just from two pages of this thread
I don't see how boycotting existing titles would do much. They'd save money from being able to run less servers surely.Continuity said:
I also fail to see how being driven by what we want to play is a bad motivator. I thought the problem was that there are so many people who are driven by publicity and the herd mentality of "I'm getting the new CoD cause everyone else is."
I didn't want Black Ops so I didn't buy it. I was motivated by what I wanted not what a crowd said. Perhaps if people were motivated by what they wanted instead of what they're told they want Activision would have to make better decisions.
I'm a rather wary of them lately...though not yet aggravated..much. Regarding B. Kotick..I'm not particularly well versed in his own brand of douchebaggery, but the mention of his name does strangely cause the skin to crawl.../: I'm mostly just worried about what they might do to Bungie...
Activision's kindof become what I used to think more of EA until the success of Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space & such...
On that note...I am admittedly nervous about ME3...It feels like there's a lot that could go wrong there.
Activision's kindof become what I used to think more of EA until the success of Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space & such...
On that note...I am admittedly nervous about ME3...It feels like there's a lot that could go wrong there.
In everything save for Blizzard titles (Fucking Diablo III, can't boycott them completely on that merit alone), yes.
EA has my money currently, until further notice (Dragon Age 2, Crysis 2, SWTOR, Mass Effect, etc). Though I don't like some of their marketing fiasco's, I do enjoy the games that come from their subsidiaries.
EA has my money currently, until further notice (Dragon Age 2, Crysis 2, SWTOR, Mass Effect, etc). Though I don't like some of their marketing fiasco's, I do enjoy the games that come from their subsidiaries.