So you meet Bobby Kotick in an alley...
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I'd punch him in the dick, then head off to the nearest gas station and get me a French Vanilla Cappuchino, then it's off to Dunkin Donuts to celebrate by getting a dozen chocolate donuts with sprinkles on them.
Tell him that if he keeps stripping content out of games and trying to sell it separately, I'll just stop buying Activision-Blizzard titles altogether. The Starcraft movie would be great. The Starcraft II Cinematics, stripped out out of the core game and only available as a separate purchase, would be the end of our consumer-developer relationship.
But, I have no problem if he sells cinematics as movies, so long as said cinematics are actually included in the game they're stripped from. Add in all kinds of extra "Making of" content or even new footage to fill in the holes the game would normally fill and I might even look into buying one.
In short: I don't mind if you find something new and different to sell me, I do mind if you're just making excuses to make me pay more for the same content. If he tries to keep pulling crazy stunts, I'll just start buying exclusively from his competitors.
But, I have no problem if he sells cinematics as movies, so long as said cinematics are actually included in the game they're stripped from. Add in all kinds of extra "Making of" content or even new footage to fill in the holes the game would normally fill and I might even look into buying one.
In short: I don't mind if you find something new and different to sell me, I do mind if you're just making excuses to make me pay more for the same content. If he tries to keep pulling crazy stunts, I'll just start buying exclusively from his competitors.
Violence is wrong in this situation - especially if you use to attack an entrepreneur whose business model you disagree with.
I probably wouldn't say anything to him at all. I'm not a business man, so we have very little in common. I would say that he should be a bit more tactful in his interviews and in how he speaks to his employees.
Aside from that, though, what could I say to him? "I think you're games are too expensive"? He'd just say "then don't buy them". Not much I could say back to him at that point, because he would know that I'm just one guy, and millions don't think his games are too expensive.
I probably wouldn't say anything to him at all. I'm not a business man, so we have very little in common. I would say that he should be a bit more tactful in his interviews and in how he speaks to his employees.
Aside from that, though, what could I say to him? "I think you're games are too expensive"? He'd just say "then don't buy them". Not much I could say back to him at that point, because he would know that I'm just one guy, and millions don't think his games are too expensive.
Companies come to Activision of their own free will, so that they can publish games. The price set is decided by the publisher and the creators of said games. THEY made the game, with THEIR own money. Unless you're an investor, you don't have a right to tell them what games they make, how they make them and at what price they are sold.
I fail to see why so many gamers feel that they have some moral right to DEMAND a developer/publisher sell a game at a certain price. You have no moral or legal right to DEMAND a lower price - you didn't make the game. How would YOU feel if YOU made a product with YOUR money and on YOUR TIME, and consumers then decided that they had the right to harass you and DEMAND what price YOUR game is sold at? You wouldn't be very happy.
I don't like expensive games anymore than the next person. But if I think a game is too expensive, I do not yell loudly and pointlessly that the price should be lower on the internet, as if I had some grand moral right to demand that Activision lower the price of Black Ops. I simply don't buy the game, if I think it's too expensive.
It's a free market: if a game is too expensive, then don't buy it, and instead, buy games that are less expensive.
I fail to see why so many gamers feel that they have some moral right to DEMAND a developer/publisher sell a game at a certain price. You have no moral or legal right to DEMAND a lower price - you didn't make the game. How would YOU feel if YOU made a product with YOUR money and on YOUR TIME, and consumers then decided that they had the right to harass you and DEMAND what price YOUR game is sold at? You wouldn't be very happy.
I don't like expensive games anymore than the next person. But if I think a game is too expensive, I do not yell loudly and pointlessly that the price should be lower on the internet, as if I had some grand moral right to demand that Activision lower the price of Black Ops. I simply don't buy the game, if I think it's too expensive.
It's a free market: if a game is too expensive, then don't buy it, and instead, buy games that are less expensive.
I'd say he's got a gutsy idea and that the 'movies' he would develop from these games would need added work on them, putting them in more context. I like what they did with the DVD that came with Starcraft II but it still lacks more of a context, especially since these games have certain points that are contingint on you making a choice. However if they filled in the battle sequences with the Galaxy Editor Machinima tool, and had some of the breifings and dialouge exchanges from the bits between missions. I'd at least be intreagued.
Although, think about it, they have a fully realised video making engine there, and loads of audio files backed up and archived. If they made a film of Starcraft in Starcraft II's engine, I'd probably pick that up.
Is is so the wrong thread for these thoughts.
...I'd tell him it'd probably cost more than you were expecting, because the scenes need a full woven narrative and context for them to work outside of the interactive experience.
Although, think about it, they have a fully realised video making engine there, and loads of audio files backed up and archived. If they made a film of Starcraft in Starcraft II's engine, I'd probably pick that up.
Is is so the wrong thread for these thoughts.
...I'd tell him it'd probably cost more than you were expecting, because the scenes need a full woven narrative and context for them to work outside of the interactive experience.
Oh no, my gripe with Kotick isn't "prices". I get that the market is rough. No, no, no... my problem with Kotick is saying that games should be MORE expensive, that he wants to take the fun out of making games, that Activision's motto should be fear, pessimism and skepticism, that he pretty much wants to kill any non-sequelized game whose license they own, and... you know what, I could go on all night. Let's just say that the man is the worst thing to happen to gaming, as an industry, since E.T. nearly buried it.Korolev said:
Don't forget to get a sample of his blood on a slide to keep as a trophy!Dr. wonderful said:
I would probably pull out a 100 dollar bill and give him a papercut in the jugular so he bleeds out. Then, steal his wallet. Mmm, someone mentioned bagels earlier, but I'm hungry for delicious irony.
Ask for his business approach and then create a rival publishing company that will completely destroy him and stealing his bank accounts thus making him a crazy hobo living behind a 7-11.
Edit: Or shoot him with my gun that fires shurikens and lightning.
Edit: Or shoot him with my gun that fires shurikens and lightning.
Take a copy of MW2 and shove it up his ass (as a representation for him wanting to raise the prices on MW2, and hypothetically speaking, F*** me up the ass)
Probably shake his hand and thank him for all the lulz. He's not really any different from other CEOs other than his love for talking. He's just saying what other CEOs think, and nothing he's done in any way affects how much I enjoy my hobby or the games I spend time with.
That said...
That said...
I lol'd.The Bucket said:
