An Open Letter From A Former Bungie VP to Bobby Kotick
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Ex-Bungie VP calls out Kotick on his stupid comment on Bungie being the last remaining high-quality independent dev.
[quote] Mr. Kotick:
You were quoted saying that Bungie is the last remaining high quality independent developer. As a former executive vice president of Bungie, I need to tell you: If this is true, you're screwed.
Activision and every other big publisher have grown by acquiring independent developers. The industry needs a constant supply of new independent developers to buy because they're the ones creating innovative games that become franchises.
Gears of War. Portal. Borderlands. None of these games re-hashes the same old formulas. They innovate. And, they're made by independent developers, of course.
So, we challenge you.
You've called Activision the industry's online leader. If you think the newest Call of Duty online experience is that innovative, let players buy just the online part of Call of Duty Black Ops and charge them a fair price.
In fact, we'll make you a deal. Let consumers buy just the online part of Call of Duty, and we'll give you a starring role in our new online game, Breach. Trust me, starring in your own videogame would give you huge street cred. We've even mocked up a screenshot to show you how cool you'd look in Breach.
As an independent developer, Atomic can't spend its way to big sales, like Activision can. We have to innovate. So, if you're confident Activision can innovate without independent developers, this is your opportunity to prove it.
Sincerely,
Peter Tamte
President
Atomic Games
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[url]http://kotaku.com/5645940/an-open-letter-from-a-former-bungie-vp-to-bobby-kotick[/url]
Finally someone did something to the hitler of gaming.
He won't even acknowledge it. "Herp derp I'm too mature for childish games, this is serious business."
Kotick: "No."
Boy that gave me a good laugh.
He actually makes a very strong point. Nice one.
I admire him for doing that, but what he's saying doesn't really make sense. He's not challenging them to innovate, he's just challenging him to rip-off consumers even more.
Kotick doesn't have the courage to take up such a challenge.
[QUOTE=stepat201;25009734]I admire him for doing that, but what he's saying doesn't really make sense. He's not challenging them to innovate, he's just challenging him to rip-off consumers even more.[/QUOTE]
Which will lose Activision customers (minus dumb children), which will prove that Kotick's ideas are wrong and he doesn't belong in industry.
"and we'll give you a starring role in our new online game, Breach"
:cawg:
Finally someone says something to Kotick.
Bobby Kotick is an idiot and will turn it down.
Kotick knows nothing about games, just how to make money.
[QUOTE=stepat201;25009734]I admire him for doing that, but what he's saying doesn't really make sense. He's not challenging them to innovate, he's just challenging him to rip-off consumers even more.[/QUOTE]
Charching customers a fair price is quite innovative for Activision :v:
Good read, made my day.
I cannot wait to see how he responds to this.
[QUOTE=rosthouse;25010119]Charching customers a fair price is quite innovative for Activision :v:[/QUOTE]
Zing
Gears of War isn't really innovative.
This was a game made in 2003:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0Q57J9EH4[/media]
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;25011449]Gears of War isn't really innovative.
This was a game made in 2003:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh0Q57J9EH4[/media][/QUOTE]
Ah Killswitch. When I showed this to friends when Gears of War came out they claimed it copied GoW.
Needless to say we didn't remain friends for very long
heck id buy only the multiplayer part
thats all i played in world at war
I would really love to see his response to this.
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