Yeah, that's the problem... They're doing it backwards on purpose, Activision wants the recognition on them and not the developers. :poly127: As Jacque said, nobody goes to see a Paramount movie because it's omg a PARAMOUNT movie. They go for certain directors, actors, hell even fight choreographers. The key players that…
The publisher will do what they think is good for them. Unfortunately, publisher's have proven -- PROVEN -- to be notoriously awful judges of that. If you wrote down a list of publishers who have done well for more than a few years and publishers who have died or gone into massive debt, one of those lists would be…
Royalties = payments due to you as a revenue from sales. these exist outside of your standard bonus contracts and such. saying they aren't entitled to them because they no longer work at that studio is idiotic, it's like... if Metallica moved away from their record label, and were told they'd recieve none of the royalties…
I dont get this attitude at all. Yes, Activision are being a huge bag of dicks here, but these two exiting execs are not "little guys", they're executives. They get paid big bucks to make money off the hard work of everyone below them. If they were shopping around a brand they didn't own then they're not heroes. If they…
If its all about money then their not even using their brains to make as much money as they can. Usually if give creative people some (relatively) free reigns, then those ideas can turn into a lot of money. Sometimes they dont, sometimes it isnt the right time, or the idea is a little to left field but, most of the time,…
I agree, It's not their studio, you think they would have learned that the first time. "Screw you EA we're not making any more MoH games". I suspect it went something like this: Kotick: So hows MW3 coming? IW: Yea about that we made you a lot of money and want to make something new. Kotick: (like a junkie looking for…
It's about following talent: I used to buy any comic drawn by Todd McFarlane I used to buy any comic written by Alan Moore I used to buy every album released by Metallica I used to watch every movie with Al Pacino in it. Common theme was, talent is what sold me on their products. I will buy every Blizzard game. I will buy…
It sucks... I mean, they screwed up with the IWNet thing and I won't lie, a part of me hates them for that... But Activision are seriously doing everything they can to be the biggest dick wads on the scene. It used to be EA at fault for everything but over the years, they really have improved a lot and I can honestly say I…