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knifee
12-02-2007, 03:46 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7123582.stm

Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's most profitable games business" in a deal worth $18.8bn (£9.15bn).
Thefremen
12-02-2007, 11:14 PM
In before Warcraft Hero.
kurisu7885
12-02-2007, 11:23 PM
Cue massive bitchfest(not necessarily on this site) in 3...2...
Thefremen
12-02-2007, 11:27 PM
OMG IGN posted screens of the new game from Activision/Blizzard!
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/thefremen/blizzhero.jpg

Looks like they're just gonna crudely cut and paste stuff together.

Also, in before battle.net becomes a pay service.
kurisu7885
12-03-2007, 12:05 AM
Oddly the prospect of a night elf or orc guitarist in a future GH game seems, appealing to me.
Thefremen
12-03-2007, 02:18 AM
Oddly the prospect of a night elf or orc guitarist in a future GH game seems, appealing to me.

Oh lawd I just remembered those retarded in-game ads in BF2142. Lets pray that we don't see that in WoW or SC2...
kurisu7885
12-03-2007, 09:55 AM
Oh lawd I just remembered those retarded in-game ads in BF2142. Lets pray that we don't see that in WoW or SC2...

Oh jeez, neither would make sense, since things like Pepsi or Nike, well, I don't wanna see Nike brand greeves in Azeroth.
ZippyDSMlee
12-03-2007, 05:50 PM
Well lets see....WOW is a luke warm MMO thats milked to death to the point of shuffling better IP's like SC and Daiblo and WC into the vault, WC3 was mediocre at best and so BLizzard is well...is so so....Activision is a typical pub dev slave master with a few good games and mostly bad ones.


Really.....things can't get "worse" unless they become like EA....
Xlorep DarkHelm
12-04-2007, 02:39 PM
Well lets see....WOW is a luke warm MMO thats milked to death to the point of shuffling better IP's like SC and Daiblo and WC into the vault,

It did no such thing. Blizzard never put things out with "speed". And... what would you call SC2? Starcraft: Ghost was shelved, but not completely destroyed, there's always the chance it will get developed/completed. The other Blizzard IP's definitely haven't been destroyed.

WC3 was mediocre at best
WC3 had a good single-player set up. I never really cared for the multiplayer as much.

and so BLizzard is well...is so so....
If by "so-so" you mean "makes typically polished products, but takes longer to release them than other companies that push an arbitrary and artificial deadline", sure.

Activision is a typical pub dev slave master with a few good games and mostly bad ones.

Ok.... I've never directly disliked Activision, but it's been a while since I really cared about anything they made.

Really.....things can't get "worse" unless they become like EA....

lol, ok. true. But they can get better. Of course, I wonder.... did the company name get put forward in a poll, where the choices were to pick one:
"Activision Blizzard"
"Screw You Sierra"
Twin-Skies
12-05-2007, 08:25 AM
On a more positive note, I hear Activision's got CoD5, among several other IPs in the pipeline...
Thefremen
12-13-2007, 04:07 AM
http://kotaku.com/gaming/playstation-3/activision-blocks-rock-band-patch-kills-ghiii-guitar-support-333236.php

Oh man Activision, you showed your true colors didn't you? In all honesty I would do exactly the same thing, then backwards engineer the Rock Band guitar and when those are on store shelves allow the patch to go through.