Activision must have broken some mirrors or crossed a black cat because their bad luck is getting worse. It seems that everybody is against Activision these days, even bands like No Doubt.
There is No Doubt that Activision is bringing all of this hurt onto themselves. It's only when you think you're on the top of the world that you come crashing back down to reality.
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A look into the sad trajectory of indie games from high successful releases to complete irrelevancy in just a few weeks or months.
That's the thing with gaming there's always new experiences to have why spend months or years playing a single game when there's a new experience right around the corner.
Indie or AAA if your building your game expecting long term player counts you'll probably be disappointed as gamers often enjoy something for a few weeks and move on only to return if it's truely a classic.
Out of all the generations I've experienced there's games from 30 plus years ago I still dust off and play like super Mario bros, earthbound, vice city and san Andreas being games I treasure and revisit every few years but I'm not going back to play a game designed to keep me engaged for months on end because it's also designed to milk my wallet in most cases.
Build a great game that people love make it playable offline and ask does it matter if the concurrent player count is under 100 a year post launch more often that not it doesn't
The price of entry is too high to take chances like I used to. Was looking at V Rising and that ranges from $50-$130 CAD. That’s a lot for an indie imo. By the time it goes on sale, the player count might be dwindling. But that’s the trade-off, I guess.
Yesssssss, they will lose a lot of money in lawsuits, this is great.
... I hate Activision as much as the next gamer, but come on: read a contract before you sign it! Get informed as to what's going on in these games before you sell your soul for a quick buck!
Don't come crying about it afterwards like little babies!
Sad and pathetic lawsuit by No Doubt.
looks like activision will lose all the money they earned through MW2!
While I think this lawsuit is absurd, I think that Activision is getting it's due karma. Activision has been fairly "evil" throughout the past decade, and what they did with Infinity Ward continues the trend into this decade...
Activision really needs to take a hard look at itself and rethink it's angle on things. The world, and especially gamers, are getting sick of the evil in the industry.
Activision, Ubisoft, and EA just to name a few. Notice they are the biggest in the industry. They obviously didn't get there by being nice guys...but you don't need to be evil to succeed. Look at Valve. Everyone has the utmost respect of them as both a publisher and developer. Valve will continue to grow as these other evil companies start to see their decline.
Ubisoft dug it's grave with the whole DRM, Activision is playing the game in the most dirty of ways, and EA is just a bunch of crooks.
seems like Activision has been pissing people off nonstop.