RedOctane closed by Activision?

@Scisor50 I hope they don't just make them cuz-we-have-to, and develop them well. No idea for sure though

@Tezerel You think maybe they will ruin the games or make them better?

finally something good comes from people speaking with their wallets.. i feel bad for the employees however im glad activision wont be inundating the market with 25 different CODs this year.

Honestly, I thought RedOctane was the only good thing about Guitar Hero since Harmonix left. The peripherals were better than Rock Band imo. I hope that now-ex employees get picked up by Harmonix to get the band back together. That would be awesome.

@Scisor50 Ive read that they plan to get rid of the brand name of GH after these last two games too. just cutting there losses, and they prolly have to release these last ones

"this year we get medal of honor and battlefield..call of duty will be forgotten" Because there's been a hit MoH title since Allied Assault amirite?

Nah... Guitar Hero will keep on existing. It's just that they won't be directed by the same guys.

Sooo...No more guitar hero?

call of duty is next, this year we get medal of honor and battlefield..call of duty will be forgotten, then dissapear from activision

Infinity Ward is as likely to get shut down and some cheaper dev used for the COD series.... thats how big biz works ....

Bye bye RedOctane

Ding Dong the witch is dead! Which ole witch The wicked witch! Ding Dong the wicked witch is deeeeaaad

For people saying COD is next on chopping block is wrongggggggg!!!!! COD makes a lot of money for activision. If they canceld COD activision would lose a lot of money. Mw2 made a billion in just under 4 months. It would be crazyyyyyyyyyy if they canceld it. Plus there would be a lot of riots loool. People will go crazyyyyyyy. They would start killlllllllling people!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ sumedh7 I agree that the fanbase for CoD and Guitar Hero are vastly different. That will make a difference in the longevity of the series, as GH has a larger casual following that tends to lose interest more quickly. That's not a slight against casuals; they're players who are just looking for the next great thing and it makes devs work a bit harder sometimes. On the other hand, I don't know if any franchise, even CoD, could sustain an SKU bombardment like rhythm games had last year. So it was definitely part fad, part over-saturation.

never jumped on that band wagon... GET IT?!??! no but really. Sucks that those guys lost their jobs, but they have some impressive stuff to put on their resumes. Its not like they made some stink bombs then got canned. They only got canned because of the Activision business side of things

Conisdering the history of the games it made: mega ouch! And even without that history, I hope these developers find great jobs!

WaW is a great game for those of you talking smack. Their games tend to be less buggy in the CoD franchise. Their menus are better as well. Kills are way more satisfying in WaW than in MW2 imo.

@ Rickardthe3rd i dont think COD i gonna go like GH rite now cuz it is still bringing in record numbers and profits for the company they just need to cut the baggage known as Treyarch, not add any more baggage, and keep the gold standard of IW

activision does this enough they're not going to have enough titles to turn profits on, they'll shrink, startup companies will start popping up with the laid off developers they'll get big, then activision will buy them to boost profits, run them into the ground, and the cycle continues

Lets all go back to Beatmania! Much better game.

good, thats one less crap developer in the industry

Not that big of a shock, considering Guitar Hero and Rock Band are not what they used to be a few years ago. I like the series, but when they changed the rock band drum style to include the cymbals, they screwed over the rest of us who don't have enough money to purchase another set of plastic drums and continue to play later Guitar Hero/ Rockband games. I believe that if they cut down on all of these stupid SKUs, and make the new drums more available then they would bring in a bigger profit.

Really!? Activision releases 25 SKUs for a franchise in a year and they're surprised that sales dropped 35%. I think they're surprised that people are still buying what are essentially DLC packs sold at a retail price. Please, release some new IPs already! I've even gotten sick of MW2 and I love CoD! It's like playing a great game for 2 years straight (CoD4, WaW, MW2).

Activision is a piece of crap that is going to drag down Blizzard. They guys at Blizzard need to distance themselves from Activision ASAP.

Activision: now matter how successful you are, you will get fired.

@Sparkypants: Yep; I think CoD is next up to the chopping block as they've already got an abundance of titles in the franchise planned. I'd put my money on Activision shifting SKU's over to the CoD franchise. As a company, Activision is going to do everything they can to post big numbers again in 2010, because they're a very numbers driven company (obviously). What's happening with EA is a crystal-ball foretelling of where Kotickvision is going, and it's sad because that means this is going to happen again, soon.

Activision=Franchise killers. They bought out Red Octane and drove it them to the ground, nice work! They killed Tony Hawk and now Guitar Hero, I wounder whats next...Call of Duty?

More job losses in the gaming industry... sad. Best of luck to those who lost a job and their families.

Oh darn.

Jesus. People are JUST NOW learning how ridiculously boring guitar games are getting? They should have stopped at Guitar Hero 2 and just made people pay for the songs that came out on the last 6 games.

I hate stupid music games anyway. They SEVERELY flooded the market with that genre. Definitely not sad to see them go.

red octane's best days of making peripherals died the minute dance dance revolution's popularity declined. they made some decent stuff.

Screw you activision....not like you care what we think, we just won't buy your crummy rehash games kottick! You fools are greedy!!!!!!!!!!!!! You make a bazillion dollars with modern rehash 2 and then you pull this crap.

Ahahaha. Good riddance.

I won't call Bobby Kotick an ass with a pedosmile because last time I did, Gamespot decided to send me a warning (they don't like people picking on rich influential boys I suppose) ... But that guy represents everything wrong with corporations and greedy, slimy CEOs nowadays. It's all about the money, isn't it? Favorite quotes (his interviews are all around if you need the sources): "We don't care if a game is fun, we care about how good it sells...", "Employees should live in a world of fear, it makes them more productive to know that each day might be their last at work..." Go to hell I say...

And to that DumpyWasteman guy, get the **** away from me your pic looks gross, your writing is gross. Your weird too wtf get outta here

@Ozzie234 Your hella weird

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This was a fad.

guitar hero isnt played enough anymore because everygame is like the last and online is shocking

Only a greedy company could pull something like this off; making the gamers tired of an amazing innovative game in less than 4 years!

guitar hero is running out of classic rock song anyways

What goes around comes around. I hope they learned their lesson alienating guitar hero fans with so many games.

Activision is too big and is trying to grow too fast. Sooner or later you're gonna LOSE money by pumping out more games than anyone wants to buy

makes me miss EA being the biggest a**hats in the buisness. Those were the good old days.

Im still pissed I bought GH5 because I thought Van Halen would be kick azz...regretting that today!

Kodick is learning that his business decisions sucked and the employees have to pay for it. Seriously, right now activision is like a disease to the gaming industry that needs to be taken care of.

RedOctane made Guitar Hero cool... :(

Guitar Hero after III & Metallica = The Heaven's Gate of Rhythm Based Games. I always enjoyed Rock Band better anyways cause it wasn't always tortured with emo type bands like GH, they didn't murder singers & songwriters like they Actiscum did with Johnny Cash & Kurt Cobain by having the two examples sing other songs instead of their own & they always add some special downloadable content when they want to. I'm still looking forward to The Who: Rock Band if they plan on making it.

Maybe Activision should re-organise their developers (especially Neversoft) into making more original games rather than sequels to the same tired old FPS and rhythm releases. These layoffs aren't sorting them any favours.