Oh absolutely. Certainly since A-B bought themselves out from Vivendi.
Key question: what is Bobby Kotick's vision?
As CEO for a long time (CEO of Activision in 1983; then of A-B after Vivendi purchased Activision and created A-B) - he is the one who has guided A-B to great things in the past.
And in the present he is the one being paid $30M a year by the shareholders to guide the company. He also owns about 20% of the company. (Through direct purchases and stock options voted through by fellow share holders.)
Hence what is his vision for the company.
Edit: To add Kotick's has pursued a "narrow and deep" strategy. In other words if it has worked before make sequels. And this particular bit of news is part of the "deep" bit. Deep meaning maximise revenue.
I don't know about you, but if I owned 20% of a company's stock maximizing shareholder value the easiest way possible would be my top priority, making good new games, not so much.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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I for one have been enjoying the more critical articles that have been being published on here as of recently.
....they are not more critical, they are just dumb but you don't care because that is what you want to hear. And that is fine.
The site shifted their focus, gave up any standards, attempts at balanced, "quality" writing and went yellow yournalism route. And that is also fine.
However, then you get those ridiculous, absurd moments when you read those site rants of lack of quality in games and buggy launches while lacking any quality themselves, having their own site riddled with bugs and failing to update their site(twice?)....
And that is still fine...just funny...
You hang around here laughing and disrespecting everyone that doesn’t share your views. Never willing or able to see the other side of an argument.
Never talks about any games he’s enjoyed past present or future.
So just what makes the Great @Gdemami such a expert in the world of video games.
Why don’t you share some of your credentials, some of the games you’ve been involved in developing over the course of your illustrious career.
Show us that your not just a paid for Troll out of Eastern Europe..
I for one have been enjoying the more critical articles that have been being published on here as of recently.
....they are not more critical, they are just dumb but you don't care because that is what you want to hear. And that is fine.
The site shifted their focus, gave up any standards, attempts at balanced, "quality" writing and went yellow yournalism route. And that is also fine.
However, then you get those ridiculous, absurd moments when you read those site rants of lack of quality in games and buggy launches while lacking any quality themselves, having their own site riddled with bugs and failing to update their site(twice?)....
And that is still fine...just funny...
You hang around here laughing and disrespecting everyone that doesn’t share your views. Never willing or able to see the other side of an argument.
Never talks about any games he’s enjoyed past present or future.
So just what makes the Great @Gdemami such a expert in the world of video games.
Why don’t you share some of your credentials, some of the games you’ve been involved in developing over the course of your illustrious career.
Show us that your not just a paid for Troll out of Eastern Europe..
I was thinking Bobby Kotick's own personal Mr. Smithers, but that works too.
Oh absolutely. Certainly since A-B bought themselves out from Vivendi.
Key question: what is Bobby Kotick's vision?
As CEO for a long time (CEO of Activision in 1983; then of A-B after Vivendi purchased Activision and created A-B) - he is the one who has guided A-B to great things in the past.
And in the present he is the one being paid $30M a year by the shareholders to guide the company. He also owns about 20% of the company. (Through direct purchases and stock options voted through by fellow share holders.)
Hence what is his vision for the company.
Edit: To add Kotick's has pursued a "narrow and deep" strategy. In other words if it has worked before make sequels. And this particular bit of news is part of the "deep" bit. Deep meaning maximise revenue.
I don't know about you, but if I owned 20% of a company's stock maximizing shareholder value the easiest way possible would be my top priority, making good new games, not so much.
I think if I was worth c. $7B I'm not sure I would be bothered!
I for one have been enjoying the more critical articles that have been being published on here as of recently.
....they are not more critical, they are just dumb but you don't care because that is what you want to hear. And that is fine.
The site shifted their focus, gave up any standards, attempts at balanced, "quality" writing and went yellow yournalism route. And that is also fine.
However, then you get those ridiculous, absurd moments when you read those site rants of lack of quality in games and buggy launches while lacking any quality themselves, having their own site riddled with bugs and failing to update their site(twice?)....
And that is still fine...just funny...
You hang around here laughing and disrespecting everyone that doesn’t share your views. Never willing or able to see the other side of an argument.
Never talks about any games he’s enjoyed past present or future.
So just what makes the Great @Gdemami such a expert in the world of video games.
Why don’t you share some of your credentials, some of the games you’ve been involved in developing over the course of your illustrious career.
Show us that your not just a paid for Troll out of Eastern Europe..
The dude just needs to shiil out... oh wait, he already did.
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...considering your perception of conviction is based on confirmation bias rather than reason and evidence, your comment has no legs to stand on.
Same goes for your constructive feedback and respect, or it's lack of, comment - there is nothing constructive nor respectful about "help make it something you want it to be".
I already said that the direction of low quality content is fine....
I have provided my constructive feedback by saying that the site in the past has pandered to game developers, and that I am glad they are starting to have more critical articles that actually put sub par game developers in a critical light.
I have provided my constructive feedback by saying that the site in the past has pandered to game developers, and that I am glad they are starting to have more critical articles that actually put sub par game developers in a critical light.
...and that is why I am not the fool here.
What’s one of your favourite single player video games that you played to completion?
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Never talks about any games he’s enjoyed past present or future.
So just what makes the Great @Gdemami such a expert in the world of video games.
Why don’t you share some of your credentials, some of the games you’ve been involved in developing over the course of your illustrious career.
Show us that your not just a paid for Troll out of Eastern Europe..
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Same goes for your constructive feedback and respect, or it's lack of, comment - there is nothing constructive nor respectful about "help make it something you want it to be".
I already said that the direction of low quality content is fine....
"Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee