Not quite the same as inside developer, but I've had dealings with Activision from the retail purchaser side (when I worked for a well known highstreet retailer's head office). This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Out of all the Publishers we had to deal with Activision were the worst.
Infinity Ward Bosses thrown out by security
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Blimey, if even half of what they say in those documents is true, or exagerated, that's pretty horrific! There is one bit that's a little suspect though. Around the time they didn't want to continue with Activision, but agreed to do MW2 anyway.. That looks suspiciously like "No, we won't do it. This arrangement isn't working and you're running Infinity Ward into the ground." "We'll pay you one billion dollars" "Done."
The whole thing smacks of the usual greed. I doubt anyone is truely innocent. Bar the Infinity Ward employees who should be receiving some sort of bankers bonus, the money likely filling up the champagne glasses at the Activision shareholders meeting instead!
The whole thing smacks of the usual greed. I doubt anyone is truely innocent. Bar the Infinity Ward employees who should be receiving some sort of bankers bonus, the money likely filling up the champagne glasses at the Activision shareholders meeting instead!
They'll still carry on raping and pillaging other titles though
I'm no expert in the developer/publisher relationship.. What is it the publisher does exactly? With things like Steam could the developer not just go straight to consumer and skip the publisher stage all together? I presume the publisher controls and funds all marketing campaigns etc?
publishers basically do the same job as record labels.
they advertise and distribute and also provide a large amount of the funding required by the devs, but take a huge slice of the profits from them and usually a large percent of the IP rights.
Its more like the Publisher takes all the profits and the Developer gets a marginal ancilary bonus. Its probably a fixed set amount which is incredibly piffling compared to the 3billion plus they made(not even equal to 1percent of it).
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Looks like things just got worse.
http://www.thelostgamer.com/2010/03/05/activision-court-battle-means-no-dlc-for-mw2/
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You were going to buy it?
Nope but they might have had one single person that might have bought it, and that single person might be slightly annoyed
Its a way of addressing a 3rd party.
