During DICE 2012 in Las Vegas last week, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg gave a speech about the importance of letting the creative minds lead a video game company's business decisions, and not the other way around.
The legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, with Microsoft countering one of the FTC's latest moves and the Judge delaying a relevant ruling.
Look, to be honest the FTC should just stop.
MS has A/B and nothing has really changed yet...if you are worried about 5-10 years from now...just drop it cause the future is unpredictable.
Take this week's news, that 4 Xbox exclusive are going Multiplatform.
The FTC and the lawyers behind the "Gamers' lawsuit" against Microsoft over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard are denouncing the recent layoffs within the respective legal battles.
The legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the Activision Blizzard acquisition continues. The house of Xbox just scored a major point but the FTC is firing back.
Yeah man I think Microsoft here getting to probe is kinda wrong unless you only have accessed to necessary information not complete access imo.
Obviously they aren't giving them the password to Sony's computers and telling them "help yourself."
Maybe Microsoft should also talk and get help from their "congressional influencers" at The Capital. They had plenty to say on the matter before the acquisition. They are mighty quiet after the purchase went through. Almost as if they had a stake in the matter.
Could you perhaps explain how this is related? I'm honestly curious since you seem to bring it up rather often.
You should be careful upsetting Sony too much Microsoft.
You might need them to sell your subpar games soon.
This isn't a major victory. They're essentially being allowed to call witnesses in regards to agreements they reached with Sony and Ubisoft which was initially blocked because Microsoft didn't make the request through the proper channels. This case is dead, there is no way the ftc will be allowed to unwind this acquisition.
they probably know case is death but want some proof to sue them for a few millions regarding other stuff, the ftc loves to sue everyone, be sure that as soon as all this end they will just go sue MS and end in a settlement.
I bet Activision is glad they merged with Blizzard when they did. Most of the stuff Activision pumps out is pretty terrible. Their one saving grace is Call of Duty.
Really? Please tell me what innovative thing Activision has done lately? Guitar Hero has been shelved for lack of innovation. COD would be shelved by now if not for its rabid fan base.
Saying Activision doesn't innovate is a completely lie.
The correct term would be to say they don't innovate enough with all those billions they get from COD.
Now we're getting into semantics. What they mean by "innovate" and what we mean may be very different things.
Played MW3 a couple of days ago. Was dumbfounded by how shitty it looks. It looked as bad as Counterstrike 1.6.
The fact is that the gameplay hasn't changed, and neither have the graphics. So you're not getting anything new with Modern Warfare 3.
And no, it is not a fallacy to claim that Activision doesn't innovate. A fallacy is a break in logical reasoning. Saying that Activision doesn't innovate is merely a claim.