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Posted November 14, 2009
My guess is Eidos. But time will tell...
Posted November 14, 2009
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nawid: Oh god, please be Activision Blizzard. The complete first Starcraft for $10, mmmm. Diablo 2 complete for the same. No One Lives Forever games.

I'd love that, especially getting to play StarCraft & D2.
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klaymen: GOG's pricing policy will never meet Kottick's "standards".

Kotick's "standards" are such utter bull puckey, it's a wonder the shareholders have kept that idiot there THIS long.
BJ
Post edited November 14, 2009 by BJWanlund
Posted November 14, 2009
Left field guess: they finally got Bohemia Interactive (or whoever was causing the "licensing issue") to agree to let GOG put Operation Flashpoint back up.
Post edited November 14, 2009 by Luned
Posted November 14, 2009
As people have mentioned I very much doubt it will be Lucas Arts or Blizzard as they are pretty much going the Valve/Steam route with the revamping of Battle.net.
Posted November 14, 2009
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Delixe: It might not be one of the obvious choices like the ones mentioned. Remember a few weeks ago someone was asking us what Capcom games we would be interested in.

Oh yes, Capcom is a definite possibility. I did a lot of investigating. :)
Sega would be great. I completely forgot Crazy Taxi is on PC. That'd rule!
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BJWanlund: Kotick's "standards" are such utter bull puckey, it's a wonder the shareholders have kept that idiot there THIS long.
BJ

He seems to be making them rich off their arses.
Post edited November 14, 2009 by chautemoc
Posted November 14, 2009
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BJWanlund: Kotick's "standards" are such utter bull puckey, it's a wonder the shareholders have kept that idiot there THIS long.
BJ
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chautemoc: He seems to be making them rich off their arses.

As long as the money keeps rolling in the Shareholders love him. Only if Activisions sales drop and drop badly will they oust him. Look at EA, they had a terrible christmas last year and are laying off staff and NOW they are starting to change their attitude to their customers (Dragon Age DLC excepted. DLC ads ingame is unforgivable).
Posted November 14, 2009
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chautemoc: He seems to be making them rich off their arses.
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Delixe: As long as the money keeps rolling in the Shareholders love him. Only if Activisions sales drop and drop badly will they oust him. Look at EA, they had a terrible christmas last year and are laying off staff and NOW they are starting to change their attitude to their customers (Dragon Age DLC excepted. DLC ads ingame is unforgivable).

I'm guessing with the Hero games slumping (from what I hear), there might be changes coming quicker than we think.
BJ
Posted November 14, 2009
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chautemoc: He seems to be making them rich off their arses.
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Delixe: As long as the money keeps rolling in the Shareholders love him. Only if Activisions sales drop and drop badly will they oust him. Look at EA, they had a terrible christmas last year and are laying off staff and NOW they are starting to change their attitude to their customers (Dragon Age DLC excepted. DLC ads ingame is unforgivable).

This will come, eventually. Kotick's business practices are incredibly shortsighted and they'll probably backfire very soon. I mean, look at his speeches and all that he mentioned are like...they can't possibly generate enough profits to sustain them more than a few years.
Posted November 14, 2009
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Delixe: As long as the money keeps rolling in the Shareholders love him. Only if Activisions sales drop and drop badly will they oust him. Look at EA, they had a terrible christmas last year and are laying off staff and NOW they are starting to change their attitude to their customers (Dragon Age DLC excepted. DLC ads ingame is unforgivable).

They're also cutting all the good games from their lineup and switching resources to shitty web games.
Ads? Explain.
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POLE7645: This will come, eventually. Kotick's business practices are incredibly shortsighted and they'll probably backfire very soon. I mean, look at his speeches and all that he mentioned are like...they can't possibly generate enough profits to sustain them more than a few years.

MW2, Starcraft II and Diablo III and WoW sales will be plenty plenty plenty...I'm seriously fearing for the Activision of 2012 and beyond.
Post edited November 14, 2009 by chautemoc
Posted November 15, 2009
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chautemoc: He seems to be making them rich off their arses.
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Delixe: As long as the money keeps rolling in the Shareholders love him. Only if Activisions sales drop and drop badly will they oust him. Look at EA, they had a terrible christmas last year and are laying off staff and NOW they are starting to change their attitude to their customers (Dragon Age DLC excepted. DLC ads ingame is unforgivable).

Actually EA has been great for a while now (a couple of years I guess).
The problem with Activision is they don't see the long-term. Pumping out Hero games so quick is saturating the market and is going to bite them in the ass. In comparison EA does only one release a year of Rock Band.
Another example is them suing Double Fine and EA after letting go of Brutal Legend. They're unlikely to win and either way Double Fine's talent will never work for them again. Really stupid.
Another example is the gimmicky new Tony Hawk. Instead of going back to basics (American S8land on the DS was amazing because of it), they just added gimmicky peripherals and tried to ape Skate.
Posted November 15, 2009
edit :P
Post edited November 15, 2009 by chautemoc
Posted November 15, 2009
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BJWanlund: I'm guessing with the Hero games slumping (from what I hear), there might be changes coming quicker than we think.
BJ

Modern Warfare 2 is selling enormous numbers of copies. Also, don't forget that it's Activision-BLIZZARD, and with Starcraft 2, another WoW expansion and Diablo 3 on the horizon from Blizz, the cash is not about to stop rolling in anytime soon.
Posted November 15, 2009
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POLE7645: This will come, eventually. Kotick's business practices are incredibly shortsighted and they'll probably backfire very soon. I mean, look at his speeches and all that he mentioned are like...they can't possibly generate enough profits to sustain them more than a few years.
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chautemoc: MW2, Starcraft II and Diablo III and WoW sales will be plenty plenty plenty...I'm seriously fearing for the Activision of 2012 and beyond.

I think you should not count SC2, D3 and WoW into this, because Blizz is pretty much cash independent (= can earn tons of money on its own, to avoid misinterpretations). Blizzard's success is not that fucktard's (Kottick's) credit.
Post edited November 15, 2009 by klaymen
Posted November 15, 2009
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chautemoc: MW2, Starcraft II and Diablo III and WoW sales will be plenty plenty plenty...I'm seriously fearing for the Activision of 2012 and beyond.
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klaymen: I think you should not count SC2, D3 and WoW into this, because Blizz is pretty much cash independent (= can earn tons of money on its own, to avoid misinterpretations). Blizzard's success is not that fucktard's (Kottick's) credit.

Trouble is, though, that Blizzard's earnings ultimately helps Kotick's cause.
Posted November 15, 2009
LucasArts will be wonderfull!
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