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However if they did manage to stop Brutal LEgend from being published they'd be a lot of unhappy campers out there.
Tim Shaffers a legend and one of the best and most respected devs in the industry its like trying to stop speilburg bringing out his next film.
Considering its being published by EA i don't think activision will get anywhere though. Activision, give up. You cannot kill The Metal. The Metal will live on. Hey if Activision are successful I will never buy one of their games again. If fact, im starting right now. Bring on Brutal Legends, looks genius, **** you Activision
ps I love Metal Them's a fightin' words!...And I like it! Give 'em hell boys!
I've pre-ordered "MW2" and will buy it (short of some horrid DRM, etc.) but if Activision does succeed in sinking "Brutal Legends" it'll make me reconsider purchasing any number of future titles published by them. I'm sick and tired of large corporations acting petulant and bullying others. 'No one can destroy the metal. The metal will strike you down with a vicious force'
Here's the bit activision can sing 'we're the vanquished foes of the metal' There's a lot of people posting the exact same sentiment over this.
I just don't really understand why Activision are so pubicly choosing to appear as the 'bad guys' - they've literally slotted into EA's old position (since they seem to have seen the light). It's very odd PR and a bizarre turn of events (no pun intended).
Still, I'm inclined to agree - I'm no COD fan, but I do like GH....if they keep acting like this, I doubt I'll buy another in principle.
Bring on Brutal Legend though - anything with Lemmy in it is worth a look.
:) yay, la resistance lives on! speak with your wallets people I'll be keeping my money that's for sure. I wasn't going to buy MW2 day one due to Activision keeping the price high to "test" whether it will sell at that price. Probably why they chose to re-instate the CoD name after polls suggested MW2 was slipping under gamers radar. Can we not just get the sheer awesomeness of jack black onto them? I love Modern Warfare but my money is now going on a first day purchase for Brutal Legend,lets make it the success it deserves to be. Go for it double fine,take every penney activision has Acti dropped a major clanger here when they let the publishing rights go on it and now they have realised that, they want back in is what I think. I think they thought that this would not be popular, but its getting a lot of coverage and rightly so. It looked great when it was first announced and something completely different to what is out now.
Tim Schaffer is a legend, and this could even be the multiplatform game of the year at this rate. Talk about sour grapes. Activision need to be careful that they don’t steal the unpopular crown from EA, but its clearly the road they are heading down. Mostly due to charging for Map packs for 360 and PS3 and releasing free on the PS3. Maybe they should take a leaf out of EA’s gameplan with free DLC to keep people playing and stop trading in. So during the Merger with Blizzard, Im sure there was a conversation like this,
So what games are in production?
Errr, Ghostbusters
That’s so 80’s, cut it, no one wants to play ghostbusters, what else
Errrr, some heavy metal game that looks like an Iron maiden poster come to life
F*8k no, what is this, some sort of 80’s throw back company, cut it. Heavy metal, no way, its not mainstream enough, see if we can change it to Pop idol Legend. I will not be happy if Activision win, the dirty, milking b**tards! Tim Schaffer and Jack Black should combine Power Rangers style and kick Activisons ass! Hell yeah Twelfth Crusader, Personally i'm sick of Activisions arrogant being these days.
How dare they do that, They thought Brutal Legend would be a s*t title, But they were proved wrong, Now there pussying behind Court trying to get the game that they sold the rights to; back.
Now they realize that it will damage their buissness?
Someone really needs to slap Activision in the face, That Kotick guy seems that he can do anything he likes. :@ Right.
Firstly...Activision wouldn't be harmed...jesus....how much moeny have they raked in already and continue to rake in.
Idiots work at Activison...dropping Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend....two good games.
Secondly...They have this developed...and then say no to it...so the concept goes to EA..
What did Activision really expect?
It's ok for them, this developer probably speant alot of money and time on the game and then got a big fat "no" from Activision. Seems to me like Activision is becoming to publishers what Sony is to consoles in terms of grandstanding and arrogance. That's not good news, IMO. It just seems awfully careless to me.
When these companies act like this - showing complete disregard for their customers, fans and the companies they work alongside - it paints a very bad picture of them....one that they'll find very hard to shed.
Why they do it so blantantly is beyond me. Activision should try to remember who it is that buys their games and have put them in this position....charging the fans an inflated price for MW2 (because they know you won't be able to resist) is a real poke in the eye, I think.
:) Oh ccrap I wish I had realised Prototype was an Activision game before I typed that. Damn you Activision, Damn you to hell!! Indeed runadumb-which is why I refused to buy it new as I DID with inFAMOUS. AND as I will be doing with MW2(and 'til they change the record I won't buy ANYTHING new from A/B.
Seeing as only P'type and MW2 interest me in the slightest from Acti this year I guess I'm in a position to do this(i.e as a real guitarist I always had a bit of hatred in me for the GH games even before they became the biggest rip off and pointlessly rereleased games in the world)but I do wish that we gamers would stand together, across all platforms on this one.
Acti do things like this to BL and DF, rip off the US over the cost of DJHero THEN double it for the EU and UK(?!!), moan at Sony about PS3 price and threaten to withdraw support from A platform they MAKE MONEY FROM(muaning it's a hollow, childish tantrum/threat)and finally, just to look the biggest hypocrites/greedy sods in gaming they stick an extra tenner on the price of MW2!!
I know IW make a good COD/MW BUT really is it worth more than a MGS4 or a Gears or a HALO3 or an Uncharted/Bioshock? Not in my eyes and when the COD massive put up with the con and buy MW2 at the extra price without even knowing, largely, what Activision are doing OR what they'll be like when theybget away with this.
As I say we SHOULD do something, thuis is a recession and games are already dear and activision DON'T need the extra cash. TW$TS! Very few things are truly "needed" in the video/PC games industry, IMO. I have played video/PC games for ca. 20 years now and it's one of my biggest hobbies which has granted me near countless moments of excitement, joy, frustration and long sleep-deprived nights and days. That said, I don't "need" gaming. Activision may not "need" the additional money, although that is debatable depending on what sort of budgets they are juggling along with future plans.
My point is not to defend the price hike, which I'm not pleased with yet I by-passed it with a pre-order discount price for the PC version (which is cheaper than the console version regardless), but instead to point out that such matters are somewhat subjective in situations such as these. Besides, if we follow this scenario to it's ultimate conclusion, there will come a time where publishers will either have to keep their prices steady or lower them if they push the margins too high. The market doesn't have infinite resources after all, so as the saying goes "sooner or later something's gotta give". If the consuming public gives then it could mean a catastrophic economic collapse (similar to what we are seeing now,) whereby people scale back hard and frivolous entertainment will not be ranked as high on the priority list by many consumers as it once was. It should be about finding that golden spot in between selling at a price that's lower than what X amount of consumers would be willing to spend vs. pricing it above that golden spot and risk agitating the consumers to the point where there's a backlash. Everybody should buy MW2 used, so they don't have to give there money to an ass face company like Activision. Everyone's assuming Acti are going to stop BL from being released, but even if they win I sincerely doubt they'd ever want to do that.
What they'll do, if they win, is make damn sure it does get released and that they are "entitled" to a big chunk of the profits, despite not being anything to do with the game any more.
I guess what people have been saying about Acti being the new EA is true...
To those about to boycott Activision, I salute you. | 
