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Spawn Kill: Activision walks away from PC Gaming Alliance

JDiPierro of Spawn Kill write:

"Leading game producer Activision, one of the founding members of the PC Gaming Alliance, has cut up their membership card with the industry advocacy group. Several people have noticed that the company's logo was removed from the PCGA's website recently. After being contacted for more information the PCGA had this to say:"

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FerretWithASpork5491d ago

Do you think it's possible that this is partly because of the economy or is this just some sort of decision on the part of Activision that we don't fully understand yet?

7thNightvolley5491d ago

its not coz of the enconomy, On recently looking at a few articles e.g http://www.gamasutra.com/ph...

well and maybe coupled with the bad economy piracy on the PC platform is mega huge and now that the economy is bad many ppl would be reducing the way they spend money to buy high end pcs and also would rather buy a pirated copy of a game to play rather than spend the money to purchase it all this are negetives and just like how CRYTEK has gone console mind u they said they would never go consoles and in reality CEO said this http://www.shacknews.com/on...

now we hear cryengine3 its only obvious more and more companies are abandoning PC gaming. and activision is just makign it even more clearer.

What i personally believe from hearing that blizzard was in talks with microsoft of the new xbox so MMO can work on it such a WOW its clear the gaming industry well most of em are all shifting to the console platform so once the ps4s xobx720s do come out and can handle all blizzards big MMOs requiresments and the graphic megaton of crytek trust it will really raelly hurt PC gaming and its all squarely blamed on piracy. and the economy in a way.

GamerPS3605491d ago (Edited 5491d ago )

this sucks, I just built myself a super computer :(

GamerPS3605491d ago

this sucks, I just built myself a super computer :(

TheAntiFanboy5491d ago

Because Bobby Kotick doesn't believe he can "exploit" the PC. Duh?

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TheIneffableBob5491d ago

The yearly membership fee is like $50,000 or something. Doesn't sound like it'd be too big a price to pay for a huge corporation like Activision.

starcraft2fan5491d ago

Also, Activision is rolling in money at the moment, so they cant cite 'financial constraints'. They (technically)own WoW, for Gods sake.

Revvin5491d ago

Its not down to money, they still have a strong reason to be developing for the PC format - World of Warcraft and I would think that future versions of CoD would come out on the PC format but maybe this is the start of a slow movement towards consoles where their product is far less likely to be pirated and hacked to pieces.

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai8h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken7h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye6h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken4h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno2h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop1h ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger2h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer1h ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

badz1491h ago

LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?

Profchaos27m ago(Edited 25m ago)

The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.

A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC

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Why Monopolies In Gaming Must Not Be Allowed

As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.

thorstein6h ago

Shouldn't be allowed in any field.

Inverno3h ago

And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.

jwillj2k41h ago

Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.

MrCrimson1h ago

tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.

Zenzuu2h ago

Monopolies shouldn't be allowed regardless. Not just for gaming.

MrCrimson1h ago

They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra30301h ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.

Sciurus_vulgaris32m ago

The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .