How can I fuck Activision without groping its massive breasts?

or we can steal Modern Warfare 3 instead of pay for it.  I personally Hate Activision w/ a passion, but I love Infinity ward so Im game for anything that is anti-activision.

" or we can steal Modern Warfare 3 instead of pay for it.  I personally Hate Activision w/ a passion, but I love Infinity ward so Im game for anything that is anti-activision. "

Why do we want to screw Activision over?
 
Also the fact 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from World of Warcraft astounds me.

MW2 sucks, World of Warcraft sucks, Guitar Hero sucks and Starcraft 2 doesn't look all too great in the context of 2010. Bobby Kotick can go fuck himself with his chode. Oh, wait...

It's not terribly surprising that 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from WoW, considering it's been over 5 years since they released anything non-WoW.

Only reason I buy Activision products are because of Infinity Ward and Blizzard... but with the recent stuff going on at IW that might change :O. But Blizzard still has a calling to me :S.

Yeah, or I could just play video games, because honestly, I hardly give a shit.

" Only reason I buy Activision products are because of Infinity Ward and Blizzard... but with the recent stuff going on at IW that might change :O. But Blizzard still has a calling to me :S. "

"Also the fact 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from World of Warcraft astounds me. "

" Yeah, or I could just play video games, because honestly, I hardly give a shit. "

" @Leptok: My mind is blown, I guess we agree to disagree? "

You want to stop buying Activision games then go for it, I don't anyway. You will not be missed, their titles sell millions.

Short lived success.

" @MAN_FLANNEL said:

" Yeah, or I could just play video games, because honestly, I hardly give a shit. "

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If people  stopped buying GH and COD games i'd be happy. I don't want the Activisio business practice to catch on. 
Blizzard is alright of course ;)

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

Whatever, dudes. Tony Hawk's Ride is 2009's Game of the Year.

No thanks. I would rather keep playing games I am interested in.

I have never got this fascination of gamers with small time game developers, yeah it is cool when like 5 guys make a game and it is alright but the best games come from big time studios and you know what those studios need, publishers. 
 
Seriously people need to stop being so anti-corporation, i know video games have taught us that they will take over the world but i don't think they ever reference activision doing so, they publish video games they don't make guns or anything. 
 
Buy the game if it is good, don't if it is shit. Answered

98%, fucken christ, Diablo III is never coming out.
 
I don't give a fuck about CoD or WoW but I might buy another Guitar Hero game at some point.  The only publisher I would hesitate buying from is EA multiplayer games because they always close servers.

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

I'm not really sure why this comes as a shock to anyone. Those are perhaps the three biggest videogame franchises right now so of course they're going to constitute a large portion of Activision's revenue. It doesn't mean they don't have other successful game franchises, but you can't really compare anything to World of Warcraft or call of Duty. I'm pretty sure you put those two franchises in any other developers library and they're going to account for most of the profits. 
 
I was actually kind of surprised that WoW only accounts for 98% of Blizzard's revenues. When you think of how much Blizzard is raking in every year that's a lot of Starcraft or Warcraft anthologies still being sold.

I would like to see how EA's profit are broken up. From a surface analysis, the biggest thing they have going is Madden and then a host of games that sell around 1-2 million copies (BioWare and other EA Sports titles being the standouts). Also, they have SWTOR in the making - that could be really big for them. I'm not an analyst but doesn't it look like EA has a more sustainable business model ?
 
Also, going forward...if you take out Blizzard, what really does Activision have ? The Call of Duty IP might lose it's value after another Treyarch title and they already ran the Hero series into the ground last year. They would be in big trouble if Blizzard decided to part ways with them.

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

" MW2 sucks, World of Warcraft sucks, Guitar Hero sucks and Starcraft 2 doesn't look all too great in the context of 2010. Bobby Kotick can go fuck himself with his chode. Oh, wait... "

" @Hamz said:

"Also the fact 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from World of Warcraft astounds me. "

Once you actually think about it, it makes sense. $15 a month from over 10 million people soon mounts up. And even though their customer support & server maintenance costs are going to be substantial, I'm sure it they still make a decent profit from it too. "

" @roofy said:

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

 They are just doing so many things that a reprehensible that I can't stand it. There are ways to be successful without screwing everyone over. I get that they are a business. What I am saying is that if they want to go down the "Fuck it, lets be as evil as possible route," then  we have a right to go "Well screw you too, I'll take my business elsewhere." "

" Why do we want to screw Activision over?  Also the fact 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from World of Warcraft astounds me. "

" @RsistncE said:

" MW2 sucks, World of Warcraft sucks, Guitar Hero sucks and Starcraft 2 doesn't look all too great in the context of 2010. Bobby Kotick can go fuck himself with his chode. Oh, wait... "

Now tell us how you really feel. "

" @roofy said:

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

 They are just doing so many things that a reprehensible that I can't stand it. There are ways to be successful without screwing everyone over. I get that they are a business. What I am saying is that if they want to go down the "Fuck it, lets be as evil as possible route," then  we have a right to go "Well screw you too, I'll take my business elsewhere." "

" @roofy said:

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

Speak for yourself. Raising the price of games, taking power from the players, and supposedly making Battle.net paid is hardly not harming the consumer. Besides other dickish moves like terminating fan projects like the sequel made by fans of  King's Quest 8 cancelled.  I don't care about Activision's products, and i feel happy that i don't endorse this kind of behaviour. "

Just show me a hole, and we'll do business.

" Yeah, or I could just play video games, because honestly, I hardly give a shit. "

" @Leptok said:

" @roofy said:

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

 They are just doing so many things that a reprehensible that I can't stand it. There are ways to be successful without screwing everyone over. I get that they are a business. What I am saying is that if they want to go down the "Fuck it, lets be as evil as possible route," then  we have a right to go "Well screw you too, I'll take my business elsewhere." "

just because you cant stand their practices doesnt mean we have to fuck them over.
who are they screwing over? not the consumer because if that was the case then the consumer would go elsewhere. They dont have a monopoly, its simple economics.
 

@Jeust

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" @roofy said:

" @Leptok said:

" @Hamz:  They are being too ruthless. If your business practice is making your company a gigantic dick, then you can go fuck yourself.   As for blizzard yeah it's kind of frightening actually. "

you have some of the worst logic ever.  In business, ruthlessness is a favorable trait.  and its not causing you any harm as a consumer, so its fair practice "

Speak for yourself. Raising the price of games, taking power from the players, and supposedly making Battle.net paid is hardly not harming the consumer. Besides other dickish moves like terminating fan projects like the sequel made by fans of  King's Quest 8 cancelled.  I don't care about Activision's products, and i feel happy that i don't endorse this kind of behaviour. "

This is business for them, their not in it to make friends. If the consumer didnt feel that the tradeoff for battle.net and IWnet was worth it, then they wouldnt buy it. They didnt force anyone to buy it, you have free will.  Terminating fan projects is something every company does. You dont see people complaining about Nintendo throwing C&D orders around. The fact is that they own Intellectual Property and they need to make sure that they are not harmed in any way, out of their control.   People really seem to lose sight that this is a business now, not just fun and games "

What and miss out on Guitar Hero Ratt?

" @Hamz said:

" Why do we want to screw Activision over?  Also the fact 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from World of Warcraft astounds me. "

It's fucking insane innit, To be so dependent on one franchise, I can see how, and I can see why it happened, but for them to let it happen.  Once something, (Probably not for a long time though) takes everyone's minds off of WOW then they will be totally fucked.  (98% fucking christ...) "

I'll only stop buying Activision games when they stop being good. What a company does behind the scenes is interesting but it doesn't affect my purchasing decisions.

" Also the fact 98% of Blizzard's revenue comes from World of Warcraft astounds me. "

" I'll only stop buying Activision games when they stop being good. What a company does behind the scenes is interesting but it doesn't affect my purchasing decisions. "

Activision may be doing some not so liked things, but people need to realize that it's a business. They are there to make money, not friends.