A short history of Activision Blizzard or how B.Net 2.0 came to be

[lucidrians]

A short history of Activision Blizzard or how...

A very, very good read on Activision, you guys thought EA were bad? By the end of reading this you'll hate Bobby Kotick.

[Brummy]

Why do people get so pissed when companies want to make money..

[lucidrians]

Originally Posted by Brummy

Why do people get so pissed when companies want to make money..

I'm mostly pissed that people buy into their crap.

[Robbi]

Originally Posted by HardCandy

I'm mostly pissed that people buy into their crap.

It's called business, and its the same evrywhere.

[Draakon]

Originally Posted by [R-COM]Robbi

It's called business, and its the same evrywhere.

And its called quanity over quality, which i hate very much. I am nowdays very picky about the new games.

[Snazz]

The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

[Raic]

Nothing new in the business, big guys want to make more money by screwing everyone below. Everyone has done it from Nintendo to Microsoft.

[hiberNative]

but i'll buy anything i'll enjoy. don't really care if someone greedy is getting the money. i'll enjoy the product. consumerism foreverrrr!!

[BloodBane611]

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That's good shit right there. In short - you don't own anything you make, to the full extent of the law. What this really means it they will simply do whatever they like with your user made content, unless you litigate the crap out of them (which most people cannot afford to do).