Bobby Kotick wants to sell you in-game movies

[Dark Drakan]

Bobby Kotick wants to sell you in-game movies

The idiot CEO of Activision strikes again...

Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has revealed that he's keen on packaging in-game cut-scenes into a single linear narrative - and selling it to fans as a separate $30 movie.The idea first popped into Kotick's head when he saw the quality of cut-scenes in Blizzard's StarCraft II.

Kotick isn't the first to stumble upon the idea of editing together cut-scenes for a full movie.

Rockstar released a feature length collection of Red Dead Redemption's in-game movies earlier this year - and released it on terrestrial TV.

Only Rockstar didn't charge $30 for the pleasure...

If we were to take that hour, or hour an a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?

My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever.

Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. It might be in a partnership with somebody or alone, but there will be a time where we'll capitalize on the relationship we have with our audience; deliver them something that is really extraordinary and let them consume it directly through us instead of theatrical distribution.

If we were to deliver a film digitally this way, I'd say an extremely high percentage would then go to the theatre and watch it again.

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[Gikoku]

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Only you, Kotick. Only you..

 

[Zjuggernaut]

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He's such an asshole.

 

[Firis]

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Dumbass... Blizzard's cutscenes are amazing, but why spend $30 on an hour of cutscenes when you can spend $10 on two hours of a full movie?

 

[Dark Drakan]

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If we wanted to watch a movie we would watch a movie, we dont play games to just watch the cutscenes thats just part of a game. I mean we have paid for the game why not play it AND watch the cutscenes IN the actual game. Rather than separating the 2 from each other?

 

[Gikoku]

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If we wanted to watch a movie we would watch a movie, we dont play games to just watch the cutscenes thats just part of a game. I mean we have paid for the game why not play it AND watch the cutscenes IN the actual game. Rather than separating the 2 from each other?

Exactly, there are already games that allow gamers to watch all the cut-scenes in whichever order they wish without some extra fee, such as Saints Row 2 for example.

That's where Kotick fails, he tries to make a profit from every little thing. All he cares about is money, money, money, he never cares about the quality of a product for the consumer. As long as money has been earned then it's a job well done, I'd hate to know what the work environment is like over at Activision.

 

[Dark Drakan]

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Exactly, there are already games that allow gamers to watch all the cut-scenes in whichever order they wish without some extra fee, such as Saints Row 2 for example.

That's where Kotick fails, he tries to make a profit from every little thing. All he cares about is money, money, money, he never cares about the quality of a product for the consumer. As long as money has been earned then it's a job well done, I'd hate to know what the work environment is like over at Activision.

Yeah and shame Bungie have now been swallowed into this void too. Here is another Kotick gem he came out with yesterday...

Bobby Kotick insults every indie developer on the planet... except Bungie

 

[Firis]

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I think I am going to be sick, so sick that I might boycott Activision, even if that means destroying Bungie's profit.

 

[Zjuggernaut]

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Bobby Kotick insults every indie developer on the planet... except Bungie

So he's basically said "Any company that we don't suck the life and talent out of is a fail".

This sums it up.

Someone... somewhere, please sellotape a grenade to this man's face

i don't know how anybody can suggest such a thing, quite frankly it's disgusting.
taping a grenade to his face.
what kind of world do we live in.
MANY grenades, that's the right way to do it.
A grenade, i ask you.

 

[Dark Drakan]

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So he's basically said "Any company that we don't suck the life and talent out of is a fail".

This sums it up.

Pretty much and i read those 2 comments and agreed. :lol:

Heres ANOTHER dig hes had at Sony, Microsoft and EA:

Kotick: Sony, MS, EA will 'struggle' to challenge us in future

 

[Zjuggernaut]

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Pretty much and i read those 2 comments and agreed. :lol:

Heres ANOTHER dig hes had at Sony, Microsoft and EA:

Kotick: Sony, MS, EA will 'struggle' to challenge us in future

Urgh. I'm still trying to understand why he hasn't been fired or anything. Activision end companies, Infinity Ward for one and you can see Bungie being next. EA have moved away from their money grabbing ways and focused on impressing gamers with high quality games instead of feeding us sh*t. I'm not seeing anything wrong with Sony and MS... MS publish some great games. Gears of War and Fable are two decent examples.

He should just go die.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

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i'm actually pretty surprised that bungie would enter a 10 year contract with the likes of him. no doubt he saw their profit margin and popped a boner... but bungie, like most 3rd party developers, are a studio of gamers. they know what they're getting in to, and that's the most depressing part.

kotick no doubt is one of the CEO's who thinks that the companies success is based on his intuitive mind (with the imagination of a piece of gravel) and not the teams who actually put forth mountains of effort to make the game as good as possible. i say it's only a matter of time before he makes a giant plan, realizes he doesn't understand the industry at all, and comes to both a gross realization along with bankruptcy.

 

[Steve]

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[Firis]

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^Let's face it though, when Bungie reaches step 7, Kotick will be the first launched into the sun by the slingshot.