Earlier this week video games publisher Activision announced that two of its projects, Guitar Hero and True Crime:Hong Kong, are cancelled. Both were high profile projects and especially in the case of Guitar Hero, a multi-million dollar franchise. The cancellation of these projects among a slew of recent actions has once again put Activision in the spotlight as a publisher that is willing to sacrifice the vision, talent, and growth of its developers for the sake of it's own economic growth as a publisher. Are their actions worth it?
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While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.
Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!
Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o
Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!
We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!
It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!
According to a developer working on the title, Activision is working on a narrative-based open-world game based on a new engine through its new studio.
It was recently revealed in an exclusive episode of the 'Grit' podcast that EA once passed up acquiring Blizzard, Activision, and Call of Duty.
Only a big company that has interest in gaming like Microsoft or Tencent could have acquired Activision. Extremely low interest rates at that time certainly helped.
Not exactly sure that a merger with EA would’ve benefited any of their franchises or gamers. I imagine it would’ve been like the activision blizzard one were each publisher retains their own identity. So Activison-Blizzard-EA. But who knows.
If it was owned by EA, COD could’ve disappeared a looong time ago. They have no clue how to manage franchises.
It's a shame EA didn't buy them then, COD should die, it's past its prime and has been since black ops 2, I started playing it when cod 4 mw first came out and it has been downhill since.
Crapivision lmao, funny how they operate like no one knows what they are doing. People have beefs with EA, and with good reason, but Activision takes it to a new level of greed and IP abuse. I would hate to work there. May the lord have mercy on Bungie haha.
Yea, it's a crazy conflict, I just felt that the developers deserve better, they're the middle man gettin shafted and it's not cool...
well,lets not forget this is the gaming industry and companies have to answer to share holders...now think about it does it make sense for Activision,to keep hold of franchises that are failing/might not bring in real profit.most of us are only looking at things from the hobby stand point and ignoring the business aspect which is kind of fair since we have no stock invested.
Activision is successful I give them that, but alot of there business decisions I feel should have the gamers interest involved as well. Bobby needs to formally address his audience instead of hiding out so much