ktchong: Well, the two eight-hundred pound gorillas in the fight.
Activision vs EA. Or, Blizzard and BioWare.
Activision and EA have certainly presented themselves -- very publicly in the media and courts -- as the [I]archenemies[/I] in the video game industry. Their CEOs openly trading jabs and insults at each other. They hijack talents from each other and then sue each other for doing the same thing. They are piling up lawsuits and counter-suits against each other. They have been making games that deliberately targeting each other's territories, (i.e., Modern Warfare vs Battlefield, World of WarCraft vs Star Wars: The Old Republic.)
Yeah, I know, Activision and EA are both [I]evil[/I] and [I]despised[/I]. However, my general impression is Activision's Bobby Kotick is likely the [I]single most[/I] despised (or vilified) personality in the video game industry. Whenever he opened his mouth, it must have created a freaking nightmare for Activision PR. One the other hand, John Riccitiello seems to have regained a certain degree of respect for EA from gamers even though we still have not forgiven EA for having single-highhandedly destructed a slew of legendary and pioneer studios back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, Activision seems to have taken over EA as being the most hated video game company, because of the high-profiled "star" developers and studios they have very publicly "screwed over". In gamers' mind, often their rivalry comes down to Blizzard vs BioWare because, really, while nobody likes Activision or EA, people still respect Blizzard and/or BioWare.
So. Just for fun: If you have to pick one, which one do you prefer? Whose side are you on? Why?
... I choose the indie devs.
