jarrod said:
theRepublic said:
@Zarx and BenVTrigger
So Activision should just let all the talent go to rival publishers and open up brand new studios with new people elsewhere? I don't know anything about the type of talent Activision has in the UK, but closing good studios just because of tax breaks sounds silly.
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They're largely localization staff, PR, management, etc. The only real talent is the ~200 man team at at Bizarre, who they're already planning on closing or selling anyway, plus the guys at FreeStyle (and DJ Hero isn't exactly flying off the shelves)
Thinking about the lost tax reductions, this could actually impact quite a few big pubs generally. Among the big boys, those who have UK studios...
Activision Blizzard
- Bizarre Creations
- FreeStyle Games
Electronic Arts
- Criterion Games
- EA Bright Light
- Playfish
UbiSoft Entertainment
Take-Two Interactive
- Rockstar Leeds
- Rockstar Lincoln
- Rockstar London
- Rockstar North
Sony Computer Entertainment
- SCE London Studio
- SCE Cambridge Studio
- SCE Studio Liverpool / Evolution Studio
- bigBig Studios
- Guerilla Games
- Media Molecule
THQ
- THQ Digital Warrington (aka: Juice Games)
Square Enix
Microsoft Game Studios
SEGA
- The Creative Assembly
- Sports Interactive
Warner Bros. Interactive
- Rocksteady Studios
- TT Games (aka: Traveler's Tales)
Disney Interactive
... the big pubs who don't have UK studios are Nintendo, Valve Software, Bethesda Softworks, Konami, Capcom, Namco Bandai, Level 5 and Atari.
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Guerilla games are in sweden (or something).
Unless the studio was never good, they won't move. And besides, alot of those studios existed before the tax breaks were even implemented to start with. Activision are making something huge which doesn't need to be. Especially considering the $1 billion from call of duty every year.
