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priteshmodi on 20 November 2010
Silver-Tiger said:
priteshmodi said:

Well no matter where they end up I think it'll be an improvement over Activision for Bizarre. As I said when news first broke yesterday about this whole situation I wish everyone at Bizarre the best of luck and really believe they deserve better than how Activision has treated them.


Did you just really confused Bizarre Creations with BLIZZARD?

Bizarre Creations is the developer of Project Gotham Racing and Blur.

Blizzard Entertainment is the maker of Warcraft and Starcraft.

No  I did not. Activision bought Bizarre in 2007. Since then there games haven't been supported too well by the publisher in terms of advertising and release schedule timings. Blur was a good game but when released on the same day as 2 other racers (one similar and one a console exclusive) it was bound to not be profitable. Bloodstone received little to no media attention. Most people on gaming sites didn't even know it was launching when it did. First time I heard of it was about a month and a half ago and I regular gaming forums. I had no idea it launched when it did. 

And now that Bizarre's last few titles haven't been all that great from a business standpoint they're facing the possibility of being scrapped. I feel bad because I really loved the PGR series. It was my favourite console racing series and I know Bizarre is capable of more than they've shown since being bought by Activision. 

But thanks for the condescending tone as if I don't know what I'm talking about. It's really appreciated.



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jarrod on 20 November 2010

Hope it happens.  MGS should've bought them in the first place.

Plus, now that Turn 10's decided to not do PGR5 (instead they're focusing on Forza 4/Kinect), MGS needs someone for it anyway.



Legend11 on 20 November 2010

It sounds bad but they could just wait until Activision closes the studio and grab 20-30 of their employees like they did when Pandemic closed.  They are a fantastic developer but they simply have no real IP that would be worthwhile for Microsoft.



Jadedx on 20 November 2010
Legend11 said:

It sounds bad but they could just wait until Activision closes the studio and grab 20-30 of their employees like they did when Pandemic closed.  They are a fantastic developer but they simply have no real IP that would be worthwhile for Microsoft.


LInk? Please!!



Shorty11857 on 20 November 2010
Jadedx said:
Legend11 said:

It sounds bad but they could just wait until Activision closes the studio and grab 20-30 of their employees like they did when Pandemic closed.  They are a fantastic developer but they simply have no real IP that would be worthwhile for Microsoft.


LInk? Please!!


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=119817&page=1

It was mentioned here when they were talking about hiring more people



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hudsoniscool on 20 November 2010
Legend11 said:

It sounds bad but they could just wait until Activision closes the studio and grab 20-30 of their employees like they did when Pandemic closed.  They are a fantastic developer but they simply have no real IP that would be worthwhile for Microsoft.



ya apperantly 343 got a bunch of guys from pandemic.



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Silver-Tiger on 20 November 2010
priteshmodi said:
Silver-Tiger said:
priteshmodi said:

Well no matter where they end up I think it'll be an improvement over Activision for Bizarre. As I said when news first broke yesterday about this whole situation I wish everyone at Bizarre the best of luck and really believe they deserve better than how Activision has treated them.


Did you just really confused Bizarre Creations with BLIZZARD?

Bizarre Creations is the developer of Project Gotham Racing and Blur.

Blizzard Entertainment is the maker of Warcraft and Starcraft.

No  I did not. Activision bought Bizarre in 2007. Since then there games haven't been supported too well by the publisher in terms of advertising and release schedule timings. Blur was a good game but when released on the same day as 2 other racers (one similar and one a console exclusive) it was bound to not be profitable. Bloodstone received little to no media attention. Most people on gaming sites didn't even know it was launching when it did. First time I heard of it was about a month and a half ago and I regular gaming forums. I had no idea it launched when it did. 

And now that Bizarre's last few titles haven't been all that great from a business standpoint they're facing the possibility of being scrapped. I feel bad because I really loved the PGR series. It was my favourite console racing series and I know Bizarre is capable of more than they've shown since being bought by Activision. 

But thanks for the condescending tone as if I don't know what I'm talking about. It's really appreciated.

Yeah, I didn't know that part about Bizarre being bought by Activision, but I really assumed from your comment your mixed them up.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend ya.



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priteshmodi on 21 November 2010
Silver-Tiger said:

Yeah, I didn't know that part about Bizarre being bought by Activision, but I really assumed from your comment your mixed them up.

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend ya.


Sorry if I came off a bit snappy. I was just having a bizarre day. (pun intended :P)



Darc Requiem on 21 November 2010

Bizarre was at their best when they worked with MS, so I think it would be best for them and for gamers if MS picked them up.



dislike on 28 November 2010

I love bizarre, one of the most underrated developers ever. Their games have the unique feeling of arcade games, that rarely do developers manage to replicate. I own all of their games released this gen, except for Blood Stone; can't wait for it to drop like a rock. Geometry Wars, The Club, Blur= great games.