Question: How "tight" are Blizzard and Activision? Are they a single company now, as in "Activision Blizzard says 'make shitty knockoffs' and the Blizzard team has to"? Seems IW got screwed and the whole thing smells like massive layoffs by 2011 to me, but I'd really hate to see Blizzard pulled into this kind of bullshit.…
So much wrongness. Blizzard is 100% owned by ATVI, just like IW. ATVI owns them and all their IP and all of their souls. Blizzard has been owned by various companies for a very long time - throughout all of their big hits. http://www.mobygames.com/company/blizzard-entertainment-inc/history ATVI has chosen to leave Blizzard…
I've actually been wondering this myself. Would it be possible for Blizzard to get away from the shitstorm that is activision? But then again. I guess they don't really suffer from the bad PR that activision gets.... they are Blizzard after all. :)
I'd assume that the contract signed between Activision and Vevendi states that Activision cant fuck with Blizzard more or less. Besides, Vivendi owns the majority of Activision Blizzard, hence control hasnt shifted much even after the merger in terms of Vivendis studios.
Well in that case they are fucked as D3 sure as fuck wont be out this year. so 2011 will be D3 and CoD spin ware/shovel wear. By the end of 2011, over 80% of all its revenue will be from blizzard. 2012 we will see a cue removing him from power and replacing him with a Blizzard guy.
I am pretty sure that IW developed CoD games sell alot more then Treyarch games so it cant ALL be about the CoD brand? Saying that "people have no clue about who the developer is" is exactly the point. They dont know but they SHOULD. The only example of this done right is Blizzard imo (maybe some of the famous japanese…
So they make a SHIT TON of money for them, a few months later they come down and sack the head of the company... Why did blizzard join with them again?