Activision runs police state at Infitity ward
 

Now this just pisses me off.

Anyone surprised? Anyone at all? No? Didn't think so.

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So...what its saying is...Activision sucks?

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:nodding:

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Piss poor management at Activision. Sadly it's a story all too familiar in business these days.

Those talented guys are better off at other software houses, but I hope they get their money.

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Nazivision's evil actions aren't surprising. What is surprising is that people still buy their games like it's crack cocaine. It's mainly the console crowd because they're never told things like this (plus fanboyism, but I blame ignorance over fanboyism).

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I'll buy any game, so long as it's worth my money. Don't give a rat's arse who made it particularly...

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Exactly, no ones going to start a revolution because they told their online forum buddies not to buy Modern Warfare 2.

If a game is good, you buy the game so the developers keep on developing. If the developers can't stand working for a publisher, they resign, AKA they'll handle their own problems and you people handle your own.

Anyways, what my point is that I've been wanting to say for a long time is, if you like a game, then buy it. No need to burden the developers even more with a loss in profit adding to stress from publishers.

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Well said.

I couldn't agree more. :nodding:

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It's hard to support a publisher when they treat their developers like dogs, though.

From what Kotick has said in the past, I wonder if developers are afraid to resign.

I'm sorry, but I'll never support a publisher that runs a developer sweat shop no matter how good the games the developers make.

Remember:

Unless the other publishers treat their developers like this behind closed doors, I know of no other publisher that runs their developers like this.

This is the exact reason I'll never buy an Activision game ever again until Kotick is gone (and maybe Tippl as well). The only exception is used games from Activision, because they don't see a cent from those games (but, sadly, so do the developers).

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We're not talking about supporting some oppressive dictatorial regime in Africa here. At the end of the day, Activision is a corporation. Their employees have comfy chairs, desks, and a water cooler. They aren't being worked to death in a gulag. Even if their current staff choose not to resign, as they are free to do, companies these days (especially in such a competitive market as high-budget game development/publishing) must compete for their staff - and after all this press, I don't think many people will be particularly keen to work for Activision in the future. It'll bite them in the arse far more than some little 'gamer boycott' ever will.

In the meantime, if they put out a game worth playing, I'll play it. My hobby is just that, a hobby. I couldn't care less who made the product, so long as the product is fit for purpose.

Unsurprisingly though, I can't recall the last time I bought a game made by Activision. Modern Warfare is probably the last one.



By all means, though, boycott companies which are doing actually reprehensible things, like clothes from companies which operate actual sweatshops. If you can claim that everything you own is free from being stained with blood like that, I'd be extremely impressed.

Summary: gaming is a hobby, not a political soapbox, and there are bigger fish to fry than Activision's ruffling of feathers.