Bobby Kotick insults every independant developer other than Bungie

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Cross-X on 20 September 2010

Wow wonder what Valve, Insomniac and Epic Games think of this...

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patapon on 20 September 2010

(This image was stolen from kotaku... so fucking what?! Don't go pulling my integrity into question because I never admitted to having any.)

!!!Patapwn to the official thread!!!

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raptors11 on 20 September 2010

hahaha that's hilarious. Activision acts like they're god because they have the Call of Duty series. They already fucked up guitar hero by having several releases per year and oversaturating the market with music games and they're well on their way to fucking up Call of Duty with yearly releases and screwing over Infinity Ward.

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indodude on 20 September 2010

Bobby Kotick is a hero. Down with gaming, it is only for wasted fools and the naive.

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O-D-C on 21 September 2010

indodude said:

Bobby Kotick is a hero. Down with gaming, it is only for wasted fools and the naive.

ya!

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Alby_da_Wolf on 21 September 2010

LOL, after Greenberg kept quite polite (particularly for his usual standard) retaliating the last mild dig from Sony, Kotick looks in comparison even more a douche.

He's great, he's so over-the-top they should make a game based on him... It could be a 1st or 3rd person abuser... They could call it Douche Douchem 3D!

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ChichiriMuyo on 21 September 2010

A stupid remark by a stupid man - if he doesn't miraculously learn the error of his ways it's not going to take all that long for Activision to become irrelevant. Yeah, maybe ActiBliz has 5-10 years left in them, but long before that the majority of their consumers will refuse to play ball because this is a company (under Kotick's lead) that admits they'd rather exploit their customers than serve them.

Anyone who buys a game from them today is equivalent to someone who would buy fast food from a chain that says: "we're trying to poison and kill you with our food because the only thing we want is your money and if you're dead then we can serve the other suckers faster and get them to pay us more for it. And we leach off your tax money on top of that, dumbass."

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MrT-Tar on 21 September 2010

Wow, I thought the guy could get any more ignorant

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arcane_chaos on 21 September 2010

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LMAO!!!

*and love the dante sig*

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scottie on 21 September 2010

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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=265559

Bobby Kotick has dismissed the likes of Valve, Epic, Ninja Theory, Level-5, Insomniac, Foundation 9, Gearbox, Sucker Punch, Rebellion and Terminal Reality - by calling Bungie the "last remaining high quality independent developer" in the world. Yep. Wow.

Activision, of course, has embarked on an exclusive ten-year publishing deal with Bungie for its new 'action universe' - widely assumed to be an MMO.

"Bungie are a very unusual company," Kotick told investors last week. "They're probably the last remaining high quality independent developer. It's very hard to [pauses]... that has sort of has institutional skills and capabilities. And they're a realcompany.

"When they started the process of looking for a new partner, they'd been in business with Microsoft. They had a vision for a product they wanted to create that needed certain skills and capabilities - that Microsoft had some of.

"But as they started to go and look at the obvious candidates, they realised that no company other than Activision had the skills that they needed to be successful for the vision of that product. These are things that you never would have envisioned five years ago.

"Blizzard had 2,500 people in customer service and support just for World Of Warcraft. How you train them, how you manage them, how you organise them... how you use CRM tools in delighting and satisfying the expectations of your audiences.. it's something no other company [Bungie] talked to [could offer]."

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How the fuck does this guy even have permission to speak? How can he say something that stupid?!

Ok, I can translate that for you

CEO of company presents his company's products in a positive light and his competitors and their products in a poor light.

How is this newsworthy, shocking, or anything?

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