Well now I will have to buy Rock Band from now on, and not to mention tons of Microsoft points.

I think I'll be keeping my new signature for a while...

Why dont blizzard leave ? I mean I assume they are gamers themselves, I would hate to be the company keeping the blight that is activision alive. Acivision destroys creativity, with WoW gone, all they have is CoD, it may not die for a bit, but atleast it gives them less money.


They ruined crash ? I hadnt heared about him in ages, Activiosn you greedy [censored]s.

Why cant they be more like Bungie, they made a few halo games, but they quit, they didnt want to milk it any further (now M$ is getting a new studio to do it).

I've never played a True Crime game, and I didn't particularly like Guitar Hero. But the fact that Activision is cutting franchises off like this seemingly to support CoD is disgusting. As far as I'm concerned, Kotick is the Anti-Christ, and it would have done the gaming industry a favor if he and his company had died off a long time ago.

When people finally start to realize how utterly terrible CoD is (especially now, as every game is just a rehash of the last) they're going to be in serious trouble. WoW will keep them on life support for a while, but they'll go downhill from there and hopefully into a timely, painful death.

/rant

Disclaimer: Just because I make the Call of Duty discussion threads, doesn't mean I participate in them. :whistling:

(No, really, you can go through the last few and see for yourself).

Good riddance Guitar Hero.

True Crime? Never played. So I can't comment. But it seems horrible with what their doing from the previous posts.

I'm tired of COD just being the same game with a few added goodies and then thats it. They need to slow it down with all these sequels and just take their time.

Or they could just stop and leave it to the developers that know what they're doing to make multiplayer FPS.

I was really looking forward to True Crime. As for Guitar Hero I say good riddance. They really should have stopped after GH3.

Activison really makes me sick. They buy up companies and create franchises only for money. They seem to have no actual love for making video games.

You were just going after those forum achievements for threads with maxed posts eh? :thumbsup:

Can't say I will be loosing any sleep over this.

Just capitalism.

1: Cease production of less profitable games.
2: Instead of them have the studios develop games that have guaranteed great sales.
3: Profit!

This evil man - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick

I can't say I'm terribly sad about this. I've never played True Crime and I don't really like Guitar Hero.

Eh, it's a business decision. True Crime wasn't guaranteed to be a hit and Guitar Hero has too much competition in the form of Rock Band. Frankly, I'm surprised Guitar Hero didn't die sooner. They'll keep Call of Duty as their focus because it makes them money, and it isn't very likely to stop anytime soon.

Never played True Crime and never cared for Guitar Hero, but I do wonder if Activision has properly thought their cunning plan all the way through. Yes, CoD is making billions of dollars now. But eventually the cash cow's going to run dry, because that is what Activision does--milks the cow until the udders turn funny colors and fall off. Then they move onto the next shambling zombie of a franchise.

But with GH and True Crime gone, and Tony Hawk likely headed the same way (if it isn't there already), what exactly have they got lined up after CoD? Granted, there's always Blizzard, but something tells me Blizzard's rolling in enough dough from WoW alone to walk away if they wanted. They have no other mega-franchises. And Kotick's business model has always been to ruthlessly grind the creativity out of everything Activision so much as glances at. So...what are the odds that they're going to be able to successfully come up with another blockbuster franchise? I'm wagering slim to none.

They're running out of companies to gobble up, too, so good luck "acquiring" a new cash cow that way.

...Basically I'm hoping that one day I get to break out the proverbial lawn chairs and popcorn and giggle as Activision burns. But I'm not petty. (Also: does anybody remember the days when EA were the bad guys? Man.)

Well that svcks.

More COD ftw! :rolleyes:

Seriously such a dumb idea. I can't wait till the COD franchise comes crashing down on top of Activision's head. It's just sad that Blizzard is part of this mess too..... really is just depressing. I wish Blizz would see the light and gtfo of Activision's clutches.

And no one can be blamed but the masses of drooling gamers who mindlessly absorb anything COD related..... :cold:

The Bubble is gonna burst soon....

I'm pretty sure beating it with a stick falls somewhere in there, too.

Two series a gave up on a long time ago. Eh, can't say that I'm too bummed. The True Crime reboot wasn't looking too shabby though, wouldn't have mind seeing that one hit shelves.

There going to do the same thing when it comes to Call of Duty, svck it dry, then move on, Blizzard and there games will meet a similar fate im guessing.

Unfortunate, True Crime: Hong Kong looked rather nice to me from what I've been reading and so on. I never played any of the previous TC games or even GTA, but this looked nice. Who doesn't want to drive around like a maniac in Hong Kong?

Damn, I missed a whole lot of fun comments.

I can't say for True Crime as I never played it, but it was about time Guitar Hero died.
I love the game, but it's a party game. It'll sell a lot on its first year then the sales will die.

If it allows more teams to work on COD games that will generate more sales, good move for them. It's the videogame industry afterall. Money comes first. Quality of the said games next.

Who knows maybe it will get picked up by another company kinda like when Activision chopped Brutal Legends even though that game was mediocre anyway.

They also did it with Spyro, so those are 2 games of my childhood destroyed.



They shouldn't have made the 1st one in the 1st place. That crap made way too much musical wannabees as if there weren't enough of them already.


Also Blizzard does have it's wow and starcraft, and people forget that there's also Diablo in there So they are more than well in case they take off.

What's with all the hate of Guitar Hero? It was a fun game allowing you to rock out to songs using instruments you might not be able to afford/not actually want to take (or don't have) the time to learn. There's about 1000 more songs I want to play using their setup, but am gonna have to rely on RB to come out with at least some of them now. I would gladly pay $60 here and there to play 100 + songs from bands I like (and some I don't, cause that always happens)..so they could have kept going on forever using the same old setup changing nothing, so kind of like DLC's.