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Activision CEO taunts EA, talks up "Skylanders"

Activision Blizzard Chief Executive Bobby Kotick told Reuters that stores may face a shortage of its new children's game this holiday season and tried to cast doubt on a rival's upcoming game that analysts say could eat into Activision's user base.

T9005288d ago (Edited 5288d ago )

Lol Activisions 2nd biggest title COD is for childeren :P Plenty of kids are going to be playing that game.

NYC_Gamer5288d ago

i really doubt star wars will bring in much profit based on it's cost.....plus they have to pay license fees.

Venjense5288d ago

I think EAs main priority is to destabilize WoW hold on the MMO market and if all it needs are 500 000 consistent subscribers it will probably at least break even.

Sure Lucas get a (big) cut of the profits but EA still profits nonetheless financially and marketshare wise.

Squatch835288d ago

Skylanders could only be an Activision game.

Having to buy extra toys to beat the game fully, smells of rip off, smells like Activision.

lorianguy5288d ago

Activision, rip-off and daylight robbery all go together like bread, jam and butter.

WhiteLightning5288d ago

...and yet reviewers have given the game good reviews, how can you give a game where you need to buy new gimmicks to unlock more content in the game a good score is beyond me.

I mean your supposed to review the game "Spyros SKYLANDERS adventure" and yet it never played like a Spyro game so how did it still get a good score.

Honestly I hope ND buy Spyro off them along with Crash. I'd rather have ND hang onto the rights then a company who are going to treat the franchise like crap, ND are the only developer who can make a Spyro game like the old days.

WhiteLightning5288d ago

Yeah I know....but Insomniac said they don't want nothing to do with Spyro anymore, it's been stated many times (keep up) so I mentioned the second best choice....NaughtyDog

STONEY45288d ago (Edited 5288d ago )

World of Warcraft was way before Acti-Blizzard, so I have no idea where Kotick's attitude about how "hard" it is to pull off a successful MMO without the "tech" is coming from. He talks like he was there during development.

SKUD5288d ago

Agree. IMO, WOW (Blizzard) saved Activision financially with the merger.

enfestid5288d ago

Yup, exactly. Hell, they took the Blizzard name instead of Sierra/Vivendi because Blizzard was pretty much the only successful company or subsidiary of that massive merger (Activision just had name-recognition).

Then they got rid of all their under-performing licenses and have relied on World of Warcraft and Call of Duty since then (as well as Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero before they massacred those franchises, too).

STONEY45288d ago (Edited 5288d ago )

I remember how pissed I was when Activision shut down the master servers for a bunch of games after that merge. Like Tribes and AvP2. ESPECIALLY AvP2, it had about 20 or so full 16 player servers at any given time, even at the hours where players dropped in most games.

Pretty good for a 2001 game that no one really talks about, some modern games die completely within months. It was my favorite multiplayer game for a really long time. Sure, a community server patch was made within a month, but the server list was now a pain to use and a lot of the people were gone. That was my starting point for disliking Activision.

-Gespenst-5288d ago

Grrr get your hands off my Spyro you evil greedy bastard.

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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch

EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

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peppeaccardo73d ago

When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!

badz14972d ago

cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla

HyperMoused72d ago

TTK for BF employees needs adjusting

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EA makes layoffs at Skate developer Full Circle

The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.

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Profchaos84d ago

The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result

isarai_lee84d ago

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

badboyz0984d ago (Edited 84d ago )

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US Lawmakers Urge Review Of EA Sale

The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers

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Trilithon118d ago

lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6

lodossrage118d ago (Edited 118d ago )

Wait,

The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.

NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.

thorstein118d ago

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.

TheColbertinator118d ago

Different elections. Different scum. Same results.

rlow1118d ago

i know its a long shot, but i hope this gets shot down.

ZwVw118d ago

EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.