VGW's Brian Shea: Activision is, without a doubt, one of the most profitable and well-known publishers in the video game industry. An employee who was laid-off in the infamous Activision casualties sometime in the past year agreed to speak with us, candidly, about the publisher and his time there, under the agreement that his identity be kept confidential.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."
In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.
To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7
Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD
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@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
Happy thanksgiving to all the N4G members
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Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite
Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.
But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.
The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:
Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.
They didn't.
Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.
Today, nearly 400 video game workers within Blizzard’s Platform & Technology department have voted strongly in favor of union representation with the Communications Workers of America (CWA), either by signing a union authorization card or indicating that they wanted union representation via an online portal.
When you're owned by the biggest corporate c**t to have ever existed then you better be in a union.
The truth is this happens all the time. My first job out of college was being a lead tester at a gaming company. They were always laying off artists and such once their part in the project was done. They liked me and kept me on running the company store until the next project needed testing. I was abruptly laid off a few weeks later but told I would be returning for the next testing in a couple of weeks. A few weeks later the company merged with someone else and they decided to move all testing to their facility. That lasted a year and the company then went in house again before working with a more established publisher later.
I also worked at another company where I loved going in each day and they treated us very well. Honestly one of the best places and group of people I have ever worked at. Well they got purchased by a big company who in time wanted all testing and such in house. I opted not to move to CA for the higher cost of living and so on for the small raise I was promised, and a few years later they changed up again. It is a very vagabond existence sadly as many good people are crunched in a numbers game. Many execs are under huge pressure to ship X number of units in a quarter regardless of quality. I saw games not even 60% done that the team working on would not sign off on that were pushed out the door. The only real security is to own your rights or company and even then you risk being swallowed up due to the need for funding. Look at Infinity Ward, good track record of top sellers and Activision cleaned house there.
Great read.
*“[Call of Duty] will at some point fade out as any other franchise,” he said. “You can’t put out so many games every 6 months looking all the same and charge $60 for them without getting to a point where the consumer feels like he already has enough of that type of game to fill its needs.
Only people who don't play any other type's of game would buy the same game every year sadly which is true i know some people who just play cod year in year which is kinda sad if you ask me there are better game's out there that deserve you're money not a game that has not changed anything other than a new title and a few color upgrade's that's what cod has been doing.
Edit:Does anyone know when they lawsuit is set to be against activision?
good read and i agree completely with this dude...it is only a matter of time before call of duty falls and i think this year will get the ball rolling on that once all the AAA games hit and you see new engines then look at call of duty and see call of duty 4 once again reskined and named....it really dose suck that they dont think about long term effects of just firing people, they do have families, bills, and most likely student loans to pay (if they havent covered those already) and with this economy even with they money they get its still not enough for them....this world is coming to a cold halt and its gonna be sad when that happens
Don’t take this the wrong way because I’m NOT even remotely defending Activision for the EVIL empire we all know it all is but the same can be said of about 99% of all the business today.
I’m in the telecommunications industry (not to be confused with telemarketing) and the same things this guy is saying, I could almost say verbatim.
Business today are in it for the cheap product, lack of consumer interest and the quick buck, that’s it.
If you think any differently you’re just fooling yourself.
This is what corporations do...This isn't just the video game industry doing these tactics.
Corporations will do whatever they want to survive, regardless of those who got them to where they are today.
And of course they'll say "its just business..." but its really greed.