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Rapping Granny said:PGR4 IS THE BEST RACING GAME OF THIS GENERATION
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Rapping Granny said:PGR4 IS THE BEST RACING GAME OF THIS GENERATION
This. He killed Tony Hawk, killed Guitar Hero, is about to do so with CoD if this nonsense continues, he fires or runs off great talent all the time. He's riding fairly high right now but eventually all of these things ARE going to catch up with him. I really don't think he's any good at all as a CEO. He has the ability to generate some big profits but he is demonstrating a real lack of any kind of long-term sustainability.Trojita said:That analogy would only make sense if the things he was cutting off were cancerous cells that were self inflected. Kotick runs every IP into the ground.
Being the publisher, it is his problem.
ThisOli said:Dude... I hope this is not true... Geometry Wars is such an awesome game.
Oh shit, I forgot about that, this is getting depressing :lol .Nirolak said:THQ essentially shut down Rainbow and has the remaining staff working on downloadable titles, so I'm not sure if they're interested in racing anymore.
Same here, they just never had the adequate backing from Microsoft, and even less from Activision.skyfinch said:Bought Xbox 1 because of PGR1. Bought Xbox 360 because of PGR3. Very sad. They're a talented group of people who suffered from the lack of marketing for their games.
Yeah, because that worked out great for Pandemic.Rapping Granny said:Good luck to the dead space idiots that jumped ship from EA.
Aaron said:Yeah, because that worked out great for Pandemic.
Kuran said:I hope the same ones saying 'screw you Activision' are somehow not part of the millions that bought Call of Duty whatever on launch day.
B-Rad Lascelle said:This is simply the inevitable fate of anyone who does business with Kotick.
Utter financial ruin.
Hey You said:I thought there were plans for a Blur Franchise?
One bad game is all it takes. Free Radical very nearly bit it due to Haze. Didn't the developer of Lair buy the farm after that flop?Metalmurphy said:Dead Space is actually decent, unlike the turd that is Mercs 2
Hopefully MS takes them up and makes them do what every single Bizarre fan wanted them to do, PGR5.Dr. Kitty Muffins said:It is a shame that they couldn't sell the company to Microsoft. I believe MS wanted them back in the day but got outbid.
Hopefully, MS adds some of them to its Forza team.
This is what happens when shareholders run your company. It's a very rare company that can balance the insanity of HIGHER PROFITS EACH QUARTER OR DIE with quality products.Crisis said:This. He killed Tony Hawk, killed Guitar Hero, is about to do so with CoD if this nonsense continues, he fires or runs off great talent all the time. He's riding fairly high right now but eventually all of these things ARE going to catch up with him. I really don't think he's any good at all as a CEO. He has the ability to generate some big profits but he is demonstrating a real lack of any kind of long-term sustainability.
Aaron said:One bad game is all it takes. Free Radical very nearly bit it due to Haze. Didn't the developer of Lair buy the farm after that flop?
Aaron said:One bad game is all it takes. Free Radical very nearly bit it due to Haze. Didn't the developer of Lair buy the farm after that flop?
Kintaro said:Regarding Blur, Activision did have a ton of marketing for that game by the way. Much more than the other racing games hitting at that time. I saw the commercial many times during prime time TV, it played damn near non-stop in Gamestops and had a print campaign as well. So, those saying it was sent to die with no marketing are wrong.
I think it's most telling that many people's best memories of the studio are their old games. The Club was not good and Blur lacked staying power. Mario Kart for adults? Really? Would have been a good idea...if adults still didn't think Mario Kart was better and still played it. Why didn't they stick with a PGR-like idea?
enzo_gt said:Hopefully MS takes them up and makes them do what every single Bizarre fan wanted them to do, PGR5.
If MS is shopping for a studio to do PGR5, how can it fucking go wrong with Bizarre of all places?
Activision.Kintaro said:Regarding Blur, Activision did have a ton of marketing for that game by the way. Much more than the other racing games hitting at that time. I saw the commercial many times during prime time TV, it played damn near non-stop in Gamestops and had a print campaign as well. So, those saying it was sent to die with no marketing are wrong.
I think it's most telling that many people's best memories of the studio are their old games. The Club was not good and Blur lacked staying power. Mario Kart for adults? Really? Would have been a good idea...if adults still didn't think Mario Kart was better and still played it. Why didn't they stick with a PGR-like idea?
I want to quote your avatar but I can't find the link through my tears.KennyLinder said:It's worse than that. One bad SELLING game is all it takes SEGA Racing Studio being a classic example.
SmokyDave said:That fucking sucks. There go my dreams of MSR2.
I want to quote your avatar but I can't find the link through my tears.
enzo_gt said:Activision.
impirius said:Seems like you're only as good as your last game lately. Ugh.