GameGripe provides a few handy hints and tips on how Activision can improve their public image.
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I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
They cud just sit back and wait, EGAY is quickly becoming the new crapovision, at the rate they are going activision will look like saints.
"How Activision can improve their image"
Well, they don't have to since the small minority of people who have a bad opinion of Activision only exist on the Internet and don't even come close to affecting the revenue they get from COD games.
What incentive would Activision have to "change their image" when the group of gamers complaining are so insignificant compared to the millions of people who are happy to buy rehashed COD games every year?
In case people haven't realized, COD games have been selling MORE and MORE every year. Its pretty obvious that the people on the Internet who call Activision "evil" affect virtually nothing that Activision gains or loses from game sales.
IF activision take 2 years to make a Cod game instead if releasing one every year then it would be better and there image would be Good again
Firing Douche-bag Bobby would be a good start. ;)
"How Activision can improve their image?"
Answer: Stop making Call of Duty, and killing studios so that every studio under it is working on CoD