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Ryuu96 on 07 February 2024
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shikamaru317 said:
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 lied to 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

https://venturebeat.com/games/bobby-kotick-interview-why-activision-blizzard-did-the-deal-with-microsoft/

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 and is looking like it will be a MW3 tier rush job as a result.

Another odd thing, Parris had an interview scheduled with Mike about the future of Blizzard (after acquisition) but then he was let go from Blizzard, despite Blizzard scheduling one after the acquisition closed. Really just feels like the bean counters of Microsoft have shoved themselves in. It's a bit crazy that ABK went from 10k employees to 17k in 2 years but still, some of these layoffs feel completely against sense.

I don't actually think COD would have ever been made not yearly though, it simply brings in far, far, too much money, but I figured they'd do things to improve the schedule, not lay off COD development teams. Also there wasn't meant to be a COD in 2023 but Activision changed their mind for whatever reason, I guess they were terrified of their stock price absolutely plummeting if they didn't release one but the fact that COD is planned for up to 2028 with a COD in each year shows that they were never really serious about taking COD off a yearly rotation.

It appears like they'll have to make a 4th core COD studio if they want every studio on a 4 year rotation, probably High Moon, otherwise 1 studio will be screwed over with double the workload, maybe they can get away with making COD 2025 DLC to COD 2024, a meaty expansion priced appropriately, they could also simply do proper remasters of Modern Warfare 2/3, Black Ops II/III after seeing how huge they were when the servers were fixed.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 07 February 2024