QUOTE(Zephro @ Nov 14 2009, 10:55 PM)
Activision is the new EA.
EA is not as bad now, they went away with shitty DRM after the Spore fiasco, and even encouraged the dev of new IPs and game concepts, even though they weren't smash hits, like Mirror's Edge and Dead Space.
It's only a matter of time before Activision's jewish (no offense to actual jews) cash-grubbing policies hit them in the ass.
ADDON: I actually find guessing Kotick's next decision to squeeze more money out of the CoD franchise until it is a dying husk to be entertaining. Perk/Weapon DLC? Monthly subscription fees ala MMOs? Tee hee.
sigh looks liek i need to quote Wikipedia again :<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzardlet me quote encase your lazy to read.
1."Type Public (NASDAQ: ATVI)
Founded 2008
Headquarters Santa Monica, California, USA[1]
Key people Jean-Bernard Levy, Chairman
Robert Kotick, President and CEO[2]
Michael Morhaime, President and CEO of Blizzard Entertainment
Industry Computer and video games
Products Activision:
Crash Bandicoot series
Guitar Hero series
Call of Duty series
Tony Hawk franchise
Spider-Man series
Spyro the Dragon series
Blizzard Entertainment:
Warcraft series
StarCraft series
Diablo series
Revenue ▲ $5 billion (2008)[3]
Employees 7,000 (2009)
Parent Vivendi
Subsidiaries Activision
Blizzard"
2."Results of the merger
Shortly after the conclusion of the merger, Thomas Tippl, CFO, alluded to future layoffs, stating that the company "will exterminate some of our overlap through redundancy – but we will treat people fairly and respectfully in that process."[14] Also, games such as Brütal Legend, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, World in Conflict: Soviet Assault, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Zombie Wranglers, Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust and Wet were all dropped from the publisher to be picked up by other companies. Some of these games were dropped because they didn'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"
3."2007
December 2: Vivendi announced that their subdivision Vivendi Games would be merging Activision to form Activision Blizzard. Vivendi will be the major shareholder in this merger holding a 52% to 48% (pending results of the tender offer) stake of the newly formed company"
its not the jews man its the french and worst the ceo of vivendi is not a jew :<