Are you boycotting activision

[Continuity]

I don't see how boycotting existing titles would do much. They'd save money from being able to run less servers surely.

A proper boycott would put Activision out of business inside 2 years, and send a very clear warning message to the games industry as a whole. Who wants to go with a publisher who is under boycott and 90% of your games wont sell?

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."

Thats the same thing, my point is we shouldn't just be driven by what we want to play, for whatever reason we want to play it, we should also look at the ethics and practices of the companies involved... otherwise we're just giving them free licence to arse rape us with a big fat knife.

 

[Strife17O7]

If It isn't Gran Turismo, fly super-awesome aircraft, or drive really fast, I don't care who makes it. Anyone heard the latest on Ace Combat 7?

Ace Combat.....Baffling to me how an arcade flier such as that could possibly regurgitate itself as many as 7 times... If it's not realism, it's an insult to the aircraft and any who have ever flown them.

But that's my opinion and rather OT...on-topic however, I feel that it's a somewhat ignorant statement. Not entirely, mind you....if Ace Combat happens to be sh*t you are really into...by all means, pay the rich corporation more money for their excrement. Your funds, not mine.

 

[Calcium]

I don't see how boycotting existing titles would do much. They'd save money from being able to run less servers surely.

A proper boycott would put Activision out of business inside 2 years, and send a very clear warning message to the games industry as a whole. Who wants to go with a publisher who is under boycott and 90% of your games wont sell?

You want to bring Activion down? ... Seriously? Naturally this would cripple the developers owned/funded by Activision. I assume that the reason to boycott them is because of their treatment to developers, so I really can't agree.

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."

Thats the same thing, my point is we shouldn't just be driven by what we want to play, for whatever reason we want to play it, we should also look at the ethics and practices of the companies involved... otherwise we're just giving them free licence to arse rape us with a big fat knife.

It's not the same thing. Picking up a game because you admire it's quality and picking up a game because it's popular are too different things. A developer that knows their game will sell by word-of-mouth can release the same game over and over again. A developer that doesn't have this to rely on needs to take extra care in releasing a game that appeals. Activision is a publicity engine for taking games and giving them selling power through the popular side. If people were less fickle and bought games on quality alone, then Activision would have to work with it's developers to encourage quality in order to sell.

Activision's ethics are business ethics used by many in the industry. They're not "evil" or of the standard employed by more morally questionable companies like Nestle.

 

[Continuity]

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look, I think you're maybe misinterpreting the nature of my post. I'm not advocating a boycott but just explaining why it would never work (gamers are ass-hats), I personally do not boycott specific publishers or developers (though I may avoid buying specific games).

My main point is, I guess, that as much as we may lament bullshit in the industry there is nothing we can do about it because we have no power.

 

[CoL0sS]

Hmmmm now that you mention it, I guess I do. It has less to do with them being considered "evil" and more with the fact their last few games games sucked.

 

[Specula]

Besides Modern Warfare 2, the last Activision game I purchased was... Mechwarrior 2 I believe, if any of you can remember back that far.

I suppose I semi-boycott them by virtue of being uninterested in their products. Blizzard now falls under the same roof and while I used to be an avid fan of Blizzard games, I can't help but feel they have completely sold out and pissed on all their fans Metallica style. So yeah, I am now uninterested completely in what Activision-Blizzard has to offer.

 

[Papadam]

I hate Activision because they lack any creativity and only pump out sequels..

They even ruined BLizzard, one of the best devs in gaming. Now they are just doing remakes of their own classics with shiny cartoony graphics (SC2 and D3)

When was the last time Blizzard did something creative?

 

[googleback]

Not really, I just haven't been interested in any of their games lately. I might as well then haha

 

[Akihiko]

I suppose I am somewhat boycotting their games. But I have to admit, I don't like their games to begin with, so it isn't hard for me to just not buy any. True crime might have been the only exception, but they decided to throw away that one.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I may have been accidentally boycotting them by not buying their games but its not something I've done conciously. Lemme just check (googles activision recent games releases)...Last Activision games I bought were Prototype and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Thats not to say I don't want to...I've been eying the new Transformers game for a while now...

 

[The Funslinger]

can someone explain to me why Activision are seen as evil? I'm considerably uninformed,

Bobby Kotick [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kotick#Controversy], mostly.

I read the controversy part, and christ. I can't help but compare him to the people at Valve (I'm not a valve fanboy, but admit it, they love their work, and it shows.) They're interviewed about aspects of their games, and they offer genuine insights into the characters, like Chell and the various Half Life characters. I recently read something about Adrian Shepherd, from one of the early half life games, and there was a quote from an interview about whether he'd reappear, and the person being interviewed made genuine remarks on his character, and why the fans locked in with him. Speaking of that, they have genuine gamers test everything and LISTEN to their feedback. =_= Kotick.

OT: Got CoDs 4 and 5. Didn't buy MW2 because it was awful. Played the Black Ops Campaign at my friend's, and loved it. I like the bots idea, and I'd probably get it if it weren't for the fact that I have much higher priorities, gaming-wise.

 

[Quesa]

With the exception of Blizzard games, yes.

 

[Cazza]

I'm not boycotting Activision. I'm just not buying their crap games. If they make a game I think I will like I will get it. I doubt I will be buying an Activision game anytime soon though.

 

[SlapHappyJesus]

Eh. Not really. If nothing else I like the Treyarch guys, as well as Raven Software. Not to mention that's where Bungie ended up. I don't like the publisher, but I have to support the developers. The best way to hurt Activision without directly hurting the developers employed by them is to support whatever Respawn (most of the team that encompassed Infinity Ward) is developing.

 

[Murmillos]

Other then COD:MW & COD:MW2.. there hasn't been a game from Activision I've been interested in for the last decade.

The only games that I fondly remember that I look back to have been from from Activision is Interstate '76 and MechWarrior 2 series - and thats going back yeeearrrrs.

And its not like I'm actively boycotting them, but hell, they ain't really making anything I'm interested in.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I had been boycotting them for a few months...then I decided that if I boycott Activision, I boycott the developers under them. And I like Raven, Treyarch, and those guys who made Transformers that I forget the name of.

 

[cormacd12]

I'm boycotting Call of Duty. Activision is staking their enitre worth on that one franchise so I'm waiting for them to burn out.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Make COD MW3 with infinity ward and make it not suck, then I will love them again.

 

[Chibz]

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.
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

And you also summed up why I don't get behind boycotts much anymore. Everyone's all gung-ho about the boycott, but when something they should be boycotting comes out they dash out to buy it. Effectively leaving me... Standing alone.

Spoiler

 

[migo]

Boycotted Activision AND Blizzard for being associated with them. I still play Diablo II, but Starcraft 2, Diablo III are off limits, and World of Warcraft would be if the monthly subscription didn't already turn me off.

Even old school Activision titles that are on Impulse/Gamersgate/Good old Games I won't buy, even if I'd really like to, like Caesar IV.

Straight up anything with Activision or Blizzard anywhere in the product description, I won't pay for, unless it's a compilation disc with a non-Activision game I want.