While Electronic Arts was named the worst company in America by gamers recently, the other giant in gaming, Activision Blizzard, has been hit with something potentially worse – another lawsuit. On March 30, Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Activision’s World of Warcraft and Call of Duty video games have been identified in the complaint as infringing on Worlds’ patents.
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.
Also, the exterior decor limit will be increased.
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
Replies(1)
@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
🥳 🍗 🦃
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.
Seriously patents should totally not be part of the picture when it comes to game design.
Do you see people patenting different methods of camera work in cinematography. No because it's utterly ridiculous and would ruin the art of film.
Sadly gaming was birthed into a capitalist world and is getting raped by corporations that are trying to turn it into a money printing machine rather than letting it mature as a great wonderful form of art.
Thankfully they can steal the spotlight away from the beautiful things but they will still grow around the edges. This same thing has happened on and off with movies, they go through big corporately sponsored movie booms then collapse and the independent developers all lead the way until they sell out to the corporations again a few generations down the road.
Seriously, if Worlds Inc, wins this, I presume they will go after every major game publishers who have a game with some online multiplayer component; which is why I hope Activision wins this one.
will be interesting to see how this goes in court. i bet its tossed out. unless activision stole code from worlds inc, which i doubt. activision solved this "issue" themselves in their own way, as every other person designing games for online play now does.
"how do we get many players online in the same space?"
"how bout we limit the number of characters rendered?"
"brilliant! i will file a patent"
there was a similar lawsuit a while ago claiming infringement on "virtual worlds". i cannot find the outcome to that suit so i am guessing it went no where. google "Balthaser Online virtual world patent lawsuit" if you care to read further.
seems to me another case of lawyers going for the big money with bullshit cases.