[QUOTE="anime_gamer007"]That is one wrong decision Valve (granted a pretty big one) made versus the tons of blatant BS Activision loves to pull (annually releasing games, overpricing DLC, not paying royalties to IW employees, talks of charging for previously free features). I don't wanna get in an argument of business ethics but let's just say as a gamer, I feel insulted by Activision's actions and attitude towards the industry.[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"]Activio Activision has a lot of great studios, and a lot of crappy ones... But Valve does crappy stuff too.. The whole Half-Life 2 piracy fiasco was a total cop-out from Valve after they were exposed that Half-Life 2 wasn't even closed to finished weeks away from their announced release date.MethodManFTW
I do think Black Ops will turn out to be a good game, definitely better than MW2 but with the way I feel towards Activision and the FPS multiplayer genre at the moment, it's not a game I'm laying my $60 down for (of course, my budget has a factor in this too :P).
Yeah Activision definitely does some shady stuff. But that shady stuff has let them gain the capitol to work with Bungie, TreyArch, Blizzard, Bizzarre Creations, etc... No way in hell would I just shut myself off to those developers because of who publishers their games.I wanted to comment on your constant deflections/defence of Activision regarding supporting MW2 after release. The guy who made this point is bang on. The product falls under the responsibility of Activision. Though technically your points are "accurate" - You argue semantics to the point of ridiculous.
By Activision owning the IP - they are responsible, whether that means staying on top of the specific developers to maintain said product, fix glitches, etc.
This is a "cake and eat it too" situation.
I'm personally finished with the constant flood of Call of Duty games. Fix the problems in the existing one(s) before skipping on to the next one. It's as sad as the EA sports series pushing titles out annually, when all that has changed could have been updated in a small patch & roster update. Seriously. You don't buy the same car every year. Why not? they have small design changes and "improvements" from year to year? Granted, the monetary scale is different in these examples, but the point is 100% the same.
Just sayin'
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