| S.T.A.G.E. said: First order of business before you claim the vouche for the decent nature of Activision. How many AAA IP's has Activision put out opposed to EA? Activision is a train, they burn out a promising franchise to suck the money out of your wallet. They care not for the quality. This is what separates Blizzard from Activision. Blizzard has a development mentality and Activision just has a corporate suit mentality. EA as evil as they are, they are smart. They have gobbled up some of the industry's top free agents and are now putting them through the mill, but luckily not a yearly mill like Activision. |
I don't see how number of franchises is really relevent to the conversation, Activision is about quality (in terms of market appeal) over quantity that doesn't make them "evil" it's just good business. Maximising the market potential of a franchise isn't "evil" either again it's just good business, strike while the iron is hot as they say. EA have more annualised franchises than Activision same with Ubisoft, you can't use that to single out Activison. All businesses are out to get your money if they weren't they wouldn't be in business. Activison are the best in the business at delivering what the market wants when they want it, it's smart business. Activision even ignoring the Blizzard half of the company is far more profitable than EA, so I don't really see how you can call EA smart. And EA are closing down their partners program because it was a failure Titanfall will be the last game they launch through that. Activision on the other hand picked up Bungie of ten years. EA is well known for aquring studios strip mining them and then discarding them.
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