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Originally Posted by InfiniteStates
LOL I love how some people (this is a general comment, not directed at you Desode) delude themselves into thinking publishers care about customers. Their marketing is devised to make us think they do, but they really don't. In fact the Activision CEO recently came out and actually said screw gamers, screw innovation, churn out sequels in a shareholder meeting. Publishers are in it for the money.
Developers on the other hand, while also in it for the money, do tend to care more about their product, but they unfortunately are overruled by the publishers. This may be why people prefer PC gaming over console at times - because the developers can support their product without publisher intervention once it is out in the wild and so can add features and fixes as requested by the communities.
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I hear you 100% , I 'm talking about the insanity of screwing your consumer and in turn screwing your company out of Years of money. Yeah Activision is making a killing , but if you can use tech that you already have made for the game engine (servers) why would you take that out and lose 15% in sales that you could of had ?
That to me is Crazy ! I know there is no feeling/emoution from a publisher for a consumer, but why throw away money and why throw away future consumers that now Hate you as a publisher, when there was no need for it at all ? That is insane to me.
@ InfiniteState, I hear what your saying and I agree with you, it does seem that people take it personally when a publisher bends their consumers over.
People should understand that they are there to make money and thats all they care about.
There are a lot of us out here that don't take it personal like that. We look at how Dumb they are buisness wise for doing what they are doing. In a 8 year period EA did this and their stock fell 27% till they started showing respect for their consumers again. Repeat customers mean more money. EA has atleast to a small degree learned that it is ,good money making buisness, to support your consumer base. It appears that Activision is going to learn this the hard way in the future. They are a public company and when they lose even 8% of their return consumer base then their share holders will throw a fit just like EA dealt with. I know I have 25,000 shares in EA.
My little Gamestop here has only sold 7 copies of MW2 (pc ver). They had 169 Pc copies preorderd and 162 were canceled. Now I'm out in the sticks in a small little town in Ohio. If that happened here,,, Well it wasn't the only place it happened.
Desode