Activision and Blizzard merge to become . . .
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Oooooooooooooooooooooooo Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Hmmmmmmmmm...
I have a problem with large games companies, because more money should translate into more quality games, which are on the whole just better, because you can devote more man hours to every aspect of their development, and generally have everything done better.
But this very rarely happens. They don't have an interest in doing that because their goal ultimately becomes making themselves larger, or richer. Something which sadly is done by producing the same generic crap we've all seen before because that's what sells the most.
Hmmmmmmmmm...
I have a problem with large games companies, because more money should translate into more quality games, which are on the whole just better, because you can devote more man hours to every aspect of their development, and generally have everything done better.
But this very rarely happens. They don't have an interest in doing that because their goal ultimately becomes making themselves larger, or richer. Something which sadly is done by producing the same generic crap we've all seen before because that's what sells the most.
I see nothing good coming out of this either, in fact I fully expect their (Blizzard's) future games to suffer because of this decision.
I heard that Blizzard actually maintains a 52% majority of "Activision-Blizzard". Blizzard having majority ownership should prove to be better than Activision being the majority shareholder.
well that's not bad news if it's true, but it's not enough to make me change my mind about this. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how Starcraft 2 and the inevitable Diablo III turn out to see if I'm right or wrong.
I just checked the majority of games I have are from this new company.
Well I don't have wow but I do like the -crafts
And activison makes fun fps games cod4 swat etc
EDIT: Activision CEO maintains control and majority shareholding.
Well I don't have wow but I do like the -crafts
And activison makes fun fps games cod4 swat etc
EDIT: Activision CEO maintains control and majority shareholding.
Activision is a publisher that has aquired different game studios. They currently own Infinity Ward (CoD), Neversoft (GUN, Tony Hawks games), Raven and so on...
I'm sure activision pulled an EA/Ubisoft on Troika with Bloodlines. Wanting to be the first game released to use the Source engine licence.
I'm sure activision pulled an EA/Ubisoft on Troika with Bloodlines. Wanting to be the first game released to use the Source engine licence.
Game production has become very expensive so it's only natural the smaller developers are bought by or team up with the big fishes. Rather Activision than EA I say, leaves more room for competition.
The only small producer that i can think of that is still independent since the early 90s is Novalogic. And they haven't put out anything new for 2 years now.
The game insustry is just that, an industry.
The only small producer that i can think of that is still independent since the early 90s is Novalogic. And they haven't put out anything new for 2 years now.
The game insustry is just that, an industry.
Dunno how long you play PC games but they had some major hits back in the day...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision
the only games I dont recognize here are those from the early 80s, if those are what you mean then good for you, but I dont think they should count
Pitfall! was a huge success back in the days, I don't think you can grasp how popular it was if you where never in to the early computer games scene back then.
Also that list isn't complete since I don't see titles like Adventures of Rad Gravity and other games that where successful.
Also games like Quake 2 and Quake 3 are successful games so I wouldn't say Activision has always sucked. It is just as much a false statements as saying EA has always sucked (which isn't true either).