pretentiousname01 said:
MisterShine said:
You're mad because he's a capitalist?
Oh I didn't buy that trash. In fact, I haven't had my copy since I lent it to my brother in December.
Exploiting people with low quality products, for above standard pricing makes you a capitalist, and well an evil prick.
Exploiting? Did the info on the DLC anywhere say that the pack was anything other than it was? Did the ads lie at all about its contents? No. Everybody knew, or who spent 2 seconds finding out, knew that it was 4 or 5 maps or whatever, and they chose to pay the asking price for it. There's nothing wrong with that, he is charging what the market will bear, and for MW2, it will bear a lot. The entire world is pretty much founded on this ideal.
Axolotl said:
Now here's a direct quote from the man himself
"The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games."
This isn't taken out of context or anything.
He wants to take the fun out of making a video game? Again, I don't see a problem here. Most jobs aren't fun, and jobs that ARE fun tend to be unprofessional, and unprofessional jobs lead to shitty products. Unless there's some data available that shows the more fun the workers have in making video games, the higher the quality/sales of the game are? In which case Bob and I will shut it.
Axolotl said:
he said, "don't have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million dollar franchises. ... I think, generally, our strategy has been to focus... on the products that have those attributes and characteristics, the products that we know [that] if we release them today, we'll be working on them 10 years from now."That's his buisness stragtegy, to milk or as he says "exploit" a few select franchises for decades.
This mans stated goals are to kill fun and exploit things. Do see why I think he's evil?
Again we return to the capitalism argument. He wants to make money, he wants to make products that consumers want to.. er, consume. If his theory that producing more and more sequals of the same IP's will make more money turns out to be false, I'm certain he'll change the strategy of the business to suit the market, i.e., to make more creative and different games. However, time and time again gamers at large have shown this not to be the case.
Remember the good ol' days when EA was the Big Bad of gaming, constantly turning out sequals and treating their workers like shit? Then they started taking more chances with new titles and ideas, and started being nice? Yeah, they started losing a shit ton of money after doing that, and only now are starting to pull themselves out of it. Like it or not, the gaming industry is just that, an
industry, who offer products and services to the market. He thinks that the above tactics will work, and as long as he doesn't abuse any laws or employees, I don't think any of us have the right to pretend he's Darth Sidious or something.
Also I'd just like to state for the record, if you had told me yesterday I'd be putting effort into
defending Bobby Kotick, I would've laughed you out of the room. Just sayin'.
