Activision Vs Ex IW Heads Court Documents.

Ruski wrote:Pandemic......R.I.P.

This and Westwood is why EA should burn in hell.

Death no more wrote:

CivBase wrote:They are evil. Activision is just a slightly smaller version of EA.

Hey what did EA ever do? (Stupid question but I want to know why you guys say they are evil..)

It's simple, really. EA is a publishing company (as is Activision). EA makes deals with developers to produce their games on a large scale in exchange for a cut of the profits. Unfortunately, EA has gotten into a bad habit of buying out successful game developing companies. They then fire all of the company's employees and replace them with zero-talent EA zombies. One that's done, they ride out the success of the ex-developer's name and franchises, make a huge profite despite the horrible games they produce from that point on. Perhaps most the notorious example would be Westwood and the Command and Conquer series.

I hadn't really known about all this. I guess all large companies do this shit, and I guess it all get's balanced out with new companies making a name for themselves (Bungie -> Halo)

I am looking forward to Crysis 2 though.

I find this all beautifully ironic. IW was an offshoot of the Medal of Honour team that was sick of the controlling hand of EA, and then created their own company to have more creative freedom.

Several years later, They're being forced out again by the controlling hand of Activison.

They have learnt well grasshopper

Technically, Bungie is restricted to work with Microsoft, so it wouldn't be a very good example. Valve would be a much better example, as they sell most of their stuff through Steam without CDs.