shikamaru317 said:
Me and Microsoft are about to throw hands if they keep this shit up. "They're not needed for CoD, let's layoff our best 3D platformer studio when we own not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 3D platformer IP's, Banjo, Conker, Spyro, and Crash. Fuck those 3D platformers gamers, we know you want more CoD and only CoD from Activision!" |
Honestly, it's feeling more and more like we were mislead about this acquisition. Both Phil Spencer and Bobby Kotick did interviews suggesting that Microsoft would revive Activision series which had been left by the wayside in favor of chasing CoD money:
https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-boss-keen-to-revive-dormant-activision-franchises
Meanwhile Phil at one point suggested that CoD may no longer be yearly after the acquisition, and 2 anonymous sources familiar with executive level discussions between Microsoft and ABK speaking to Bloomberg reported the same, and yet we've now heard we are getting a CoD game yearly these next 4 years, even though CoD 2025 currently has no lead developer 22 months out from release and is looking like it will be a MW3 tier rush job as a result. They laid off so many Activision devs that it will basically be impossible for Activision to develop anything but CoD while sticking with yearly CoD games + Warzone updates.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 07 February 2024
