IP exploitation is your fault

[James]

IP exploitation is your fault

Chris Kemp rants about the future of gaming…

[Tank]

no not anymore, last time that happened i was so severly let down it was bad.

[to0kenZA]

Also not anymore and I'm glad to COD FLOPS will be the last CoD game I ever buy. Boycotting MW3? Who cares. Not buying MW3? Hell no. I will not touch that game.

I agree with the writer's general point of view in regards to what gaming can become if people don't stop buying into the whole hype thing, but hopefully most gamers will stop supporting developers that make shit game, even if it's not their fault- it's their responsibility do do something about their situation.

I don't know, I think this is a simplistic - and excessively idealistic - point of view. After all, for many people working in game development, it's just a job. Conversely, I've no doubt many people working in game publishing are probably quite passionate about it.

I totally disagree with that. I think for most of them it's not just a job. Please watch the video on this website and then tell me this guy is not passionate about making games.

[Lycanthrope]

"Do you buy games just because of the name?"

Quite simply, no.

Gothic was a prime example - I loved the series right up until Arcania but no amount of label-marketing would ever have convinced me to buy that shoddy excuse of a game. But then, I'm a connoisseur and not someone who takes whatever rubbish is proffered

A label will naturally pique my interest but that doesn't necessarily mean it will win me over.

Fallout 3 is another prime example of label-marketing--it had little-to-nothing to do with the original games, no mention of past events, of the NCR; the Brotherhood of Steel didn't hold a single philosophy original to the first games. It sold because it was Oblivion with guns; not because it was a formidable RPG.

[Azimuth]

I totally disagree with that. I think for most of them it's not just a job. Please watch the video on this website and then tell me this guy is not passionate about making games.

I said "for many", not "for all". And I said it because it's true. I was talking to a guy at a party the other day who worked in sound design for Rockstar for a couple of years. He's passionate about sound design, he doesn't play video games.

[shadowfox]

Nope ... Modern Warfare was the last ... and I bought that only a few months after its initial release. With regards to MW2 - when I said I was boycotting and not buying the game, I actually MEANT that. And based on the comments flying around the web, I was going to be joined by hundreds if not thousands of fellow gamers. We were going to make our voices heard.

And much to my dismay, MW2 released - and most of the gamers who swore not to buy slobbered their way to the nearest store to paw their copy off the shelf. Willpower ... awesome stuff. When you have any. And because of that, we now have Black Ops, which those same gamers are now crying themselves to sleep about. They need to deal with it - they're the ones giving twerps like Kotick the power. If Activision started losing money, he wouldn't be staying in his position for very long.

Of course, my boycott of Activision products is mostly a protest based around the presence of Kotick. But my decision stands, until the day he leaves for good, Activision won't see a cent of my hard-earned dosh.

Now if you will excuse me, I'm off to search for more GW2 hype

[Isengard]

I wont be buying another Call of Duty game, that's for sure. Black Ops was the last, the series has become stale and is stagnating.

[Duke Dude]

I will admit that I do sometimes fall victim to the hype machine (Last game was Blops) but those days are over! I won't say that I'll never buy another CoD ever again, from now on the only CoD game I'll buy will be from Infinity Ward. That is until we have to start paying to play it online!

[Sou1Co11ector]

The last time I was really Hyped was back in 2002 when Duke Nukem For(N)ever had a release date for June of that year...

Then my whole life got shattered...

[shadowfox]

I will admit that I do sometimes fall victim to the hype machine (Last game was Blops) but those days are over! I won't say that I'll never buy another CoD ever again, from now on the only CoD game I'll buy will be from Infinity Ward. That is until we have to start paying to play it online!

Infinity Ward is a mere shell of what it used to be - with a large bunch of their developers and designers having left, either for other companies, or to join the original leads at Respawn.

I have to question Activision's decision to go ahead with MW3 - if they lose the pending courtcase and the IP goes back to the original owners, Activision are going to be paying millions.