Nicely said. I bet practically every successful(both monetary and quality) artistic endevaour, be it game, film, book, music, didn't start off with "how much money can we make off this b!tch?!!?" More likely the person or group responsible for the creative output poured what they loved into it. While places like Activision…
I'm with Doc Rob, word on the street was they were working on a new FPS MMO, could see some creative conflicts taking place. A big publisher wouldn't exactly be happy about too many shifts to one of their biggest cash cows, FPS/MMO's are notorious for failure.
If that's true, then it's insane. Do Activision have Don King levels of treachery? In regards to your first paragraph, I do think it's a shame that many dev studios seem to take the somewhat short sighted option of a buyout. The money and security is obviously appealing, but in most cases they almost certainly lose a huge…
I love how Bobby gets up and gives a big speech about how we've made mistakes in the past and we shouldn't have taken Guitar Hero from Harmonix and we love developers and want them to be creative and passionate and oh look we're tearing apart our top studio. Gee, I didn't see that coming!
Utterly false. ATVI owns them and all of their IP 100% The two studio heads' contracts were up this year, and their personal renegotiation might have been what sparked this - threats like "give us more money, more creative control, or we walk and take our people and our tech with us." Taking people or tech could be…
Thanks for the info. That's completely insane. If this is all true, that Activision basically don't plan on paying them royalties, and that's what all this is about - then for one it's sick. I mean fuck, AV might have put up the money, but the sheer work and creativity all came from IW, it's their product. What amazes me…
Wow, I read Activision's plans for the CoD franchise released today... pretty disgusting. They literaly have no respect for games what so ever as creative and intellectual properties. Bobby Kotick's take on the game industry is so completely screwed it's unbelievable. Even though their short term growth might be good,…
The obvious thing is that the people at IW along with the 2 founders are that they make too much damn money off of their games, plain and simple. I’m sure that when contracts were being written no one could fathom the success of the IP. Now that it has made as much money as a movie like Avatar Kotick’s eyes realized that…
Its just the equivalent a directors name on a movie box, people know that IW made MW2. George Lucas, and Steven Speilberg can sell new movies just from their name and past work and reputation, even though alot of what they make now is trash. I agree Jaque its one of the differences that seems to be with other medias.…