Activision Currently Under Investigation for Fraud, Following Bungie Split - Sensationalist Headlines

https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/01/12/activision-under-investigation-for-fraud-bungie-slit/ According to a recent report from Market Watch, a new investigation has kicked off concerning suspected unlawful business practices and other types of fraud within their daily operations. The report was set up simply as an alert to shareholders and is an official disclosure on behalf of the investors of Activision Blizzard. We haven't seen a major publisher go under in a while... and what exactly does Activision have these days other than CoD and Blizzard? Hopefully, if something does happen to Activision, the CoD developer studios and Blizzard aren't too screwed over by it all.

This and their stock falling has made 2019 amazing so far.

High Moon was absolved into Activision since D2 working on the DLC from what I remember. Hope they're safe too, they made some great games themselves.

So here it goes, the collapse of Activision has arrive.

EA, Gearbox and now Activision are in less than stellar situations wow, and we're still in January

I wouldn't jump on it yet, it could just be some minor fine for all we know.

I doubt Activision would go under from any fraud. This is because fraud cases usually end up on a few fall guys resigning, going to jail, fines or a slap on the wrist while the company goes on same as usual.

Activision's gonna double down on mobile games, just you watch. They'll turn everything they have into cheap P2W bullshit. After all, their new partners, NetEase, are the masters of making mobile bootlegs.

I doubt this will be the end of Activison If it is, I hope 3arc or IW end up with the COD IP. 3arc ideally, I mean IW did just re-hire people from Respawn and are prob working on Modern Warfare 4...

Also it should be noted that this is a private investigation initiated by a few investors salty over the Bungie news, not a government investigation. And Activision has a lot of salty investors investigating and/or suing Kotick at any given time. Particularly of note after that one time he bought back the company from Vivendi. That pissed off a few people on Wall St.

Not really on the same tier

This justbin: YongYea enterprises emerges to dominate the world. But seriously now, they can't catch a break. Hope it keeps that way.

Can't wait for THQ Nordic to buy all of their IPs.

What's new with EA?

I'm actually curious what a game publisher can actually do that constitutes fraud. Like there's not a whole lot of regulations on the game publishing side of things, the business side sure, but then you'd think that would have been noticed sooner. or they could just be cooking their books.

EA stock has dropped a bit in the last few months, BF5 didn't do as well as they had hoped and battlefront 2 was a dumpster fire. All they've been doing recently is their sports games and loot boxes have been being heavily scrutinized lately. EA's next big ventures are anthem which looks shite and star wars rise to power which is a mobile strategy game blah blah blah, I'm falling asleep just reading the description.

EA is still getting shit on for being EA. Activision has lost one big developer while struggling and trying to put the screws on another (Blizzard). Bethesda is finally being called out for making bugfests of games for more than a decade. We may be seeing the end of Gearbox unless they just knock everything out of the park with Borderlands 3. Valve/Steam is potentially getting some actual competition in the future, which may prompt them to actually improve the service for all parties. 2019 is really an exciting year for gaming so far.

This turned around beautifully thankfully, but I think that's just because for DICE employees it was a passion project, lot of them came back to it after not being forced into BFV

I would really like Blizzard to become it's own company again. You can clearly tell that Actvision has a lot of influence over them even though they are supposed to be on equal footing and basically still working as separate companies.

I'm hoping video games retain the complex character of design that some have achieved. In the best of games every blade of grass and mountain in the distance was delicately crafted. Well, not every blade of grass, but that's not the point. The point is that what makes a game great is not its revenue but rather its quality. Design has to mesh with experience and story to produce what amounts to a unique art-form that builds upon and utilizes all the art-forms that preceded it. Visuals, audio, narrative, interaction, and minor details are what makes a good game. The companies that are doing poorly are doing so largely because they have lost site of this principle. It is not even the fault of your average developer, but rather the fault of the constraints and environment that they are subjected to. Sure, profit is important to sustain a business, but sacrificing the end for the means doesn't seem like a great idea either.

As much as those define it, I wouldn't say it's a deal breaker. Ultimately, mechanics are what make a good game. If the gameplay feels right and not jank, if a character feels fair to fight against. Overwatch and Destiny are perfect examples of great audio and visuals, but mediocre gameplay.

Battlefront 2 still sold millions of copies probably close to 10 million by now so saying it was a failure is false. I don't get why people think that just cause it is a bad game it was a failure to EA.

Between the last few years and the current shenanigans with Randy, Borderlands 3 almost needs to cure cancer in order to make the impact needed to save Borderlands.

The fact that it's almost a thing to celebrate when Activision encounter problems is quite a sad state of affairs, celebrating a company doing badly sounds like a bad thing, but when it comes to companies like Activision and EA, it's hard to care for them since they almost deserve it really. This being said, fuck Activision, the cunts deserve it.