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Personally, I'm still pissed off about this whole thing, and just thinking about it makes me even more angry that Activision would be such a fucking dick of a company, especially Bobby Kotick.
Though on the less temperamental side, the article brought up a good point that Activison dropped other games like Ghostbusters in the same circumstances, who have been released, and where Activison haas not sued the game's developer.

God, I hope Double Fine wins this thing.

+1 vote for Double Fine... court works that way now, right?

I can't believe they wanted to make Brutal Legend a guitar hero game. Fuck them.

No I am not "fucking three years old". I'm 25. And what do you mean "what do they have to show off?" For a start they have Guitar Hero and they have Call of Duty. Sony know that if those two IP's alone leave their platform they are gonna be screwed over. At least as far as the west is concerned.

If Activision actually pull out their support and stop making games for Sony then maybe I'll think otherwise. But from what I can see, that Bobby Kotick dude is a big floppy donkey dick who likes to show off.

Oh and you don't have to take eveything so literally, when I say they've been in the industry longer than anyone, I mean they've been in it long enough. They were the platform leaders for a good decade, they know exactly what they're doing.

Is it not ironic that by default we are rooting for what I guess is the other Evil empire of Sequels, EA?
That said, Activision is being a bunch of bitches.  Also this reminds me of EA and the UFC, who were bitches to them but are now coming out with their own MMA game, all these big companies are just full of money grubbing asswipes.  Oh well.

" Is it not ironic that by default we are rooting for what I guess is the other Evil empire of Sequels, EA?That said, Activision is being a bunch of bitches.  Also this reminds me of EA and the UFC, who were bitches to them but are now coming out with their own MMA game, all these big companies are just full of money grubbing asswipes.  Oh well. "

" @Karmum: Because they're not trying to get Sony to drop the price on the system for the sake of the consumer, they're doing it so there's a larger install base to whom they can sell Activision games. This whole business thing ain't rocket science.Also, if you live in the EU, blame your supranational government for the price of anything that comes from outside the EU.Actually, you can also blame them for the price of anything that comes from within the EU as well for that matter.... "

Activision's becoming worse than EA was a couple years ago.

" Is it not ironic that by default we are rooting for what I guess is the other Evil empire of Sequels, EA?

I think that's a little bit silly on Double Fine's behalf, unless EA put them up to it because I don't think Activision had much of a case in the first place and I would hate to see Activision's fancy lawyers bring around a delay for Brutal Legend, I preordered it and everything.

I hope EA supports Double Fine in Crushing Activisions foolish lawsuit

" @Lucidforest: First of all, Sony haven't been in this industry longer than everyone. They certainly haven't been in the video game business longer than Activision. "

Activision. Don't you just love them!?

You can't stop the rock baby!

Couldn't give a shit about Brutal Legend but hate Activision so much right now I hope they lose badly.

" @Karmum: The diminished purchasing power of the British Pound Sterling is expressly not Activision's fault They are charging a higher numerical amount than they did in the past in that currency because the pound is worth numerically less than what it was worth in the past. And Kotick was employing his rhetorical skills (limited as they appear to be) when threatening to pull support. He was just highlighting that PS3 needs a bigger install base if publishers are going to recoup the costs of producing games for it.Also, I have never and will never defend this lawsuit of Brutal Legend. It's a separate matter as far as I'm concerned. "

Hopefully the judge has enough sense to see that Activision dropped this game when they saw that it wasn't going to make them the many millions of dollars they were expecting, then actually took the time to look at what Tim Schaefer was up to, and by the time that they realized that the game was getting a great response, they had already lost the publishing rights of the game to EA was a double smack in the face.

Millions of dollars lost + realizing you are losing those millions to your direct competitor + being an asshole (Activision) = Lawsuit

I don't know how much of a parallel there is, but this makes me think of the whole lawsuit mess over the Watchmen movie. Fox sues WB near the completion of the movie, after seemingly having given up their rights/interest. Everybody dogpiles on Fox for being pricks. posturing and paperwork go flying, and in the end it turns out that there was one guy who didn't do his job that let all of this happen.

On the outside, I don't think there's any question that this makes Activision look like whatever insulting term you want to stick them with. But I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think they had a legal leg to stand on. Yes, they're suing Double-Fine instead of EA, and it looks like them bullying around a small company. WHich Could be part of it. But, it could also be that they don't want to spend the money suing EA only to have the decision come down to a judge finding that EA is blameless, and had every reason to think that the publishing rights were theirs.

Just saying that unless or until a signed document shows up that says Activision gave up all rights/interest in the game, they've got a case for at least being involved in the profits of the game.