Sure Bob, keep making your excuses for spewing out near identical Guitar Heroes every couple of months.

My friend has almost the exact same name as him, just with an s in last name. So when ever I hear something like this I think "Why the hell is he being a prick, I should go slap him" Then I remember he doesn't own a gaming company.

This is a really twisted statement.
I'll just say it's all about balance, and Activision is very unbalanced.

Can't wait for MW3, once again running on the aspiring Call of Duty 2 engine

I find his statement terrifyingly true. The vocal minority, AKA anyone who posts on this site, wants the new stuff, but everyone else speaks with their wallets and buys sequel after sequel. Hence, we get sequel after sequel.

Then again, as long as it's a sequel to your favorite franchise, most of the vocal minority will be drooling over it as well. Look at Nintendo fans, we say we want new and innovation, yet latch onto the first shred of Zelda art we can and leave new franchises like Okami out in the cold.

I hope Kotick realized that if given the means and opportunity, the majority of us would run him over with a car.

How about you stop cranking shit out on an annual basis and worked on developing good games with more than a year's time ?

Too bad activision suck. Even though they make money off of things like MW most people just end up going back to CoD 2 or 4 but activision obviously don't care that they're spewing out crappy sequels because they're making money off of them.

I think of it as things like the cigarette company that does whatever they want, because they've got their customers "hooked." Many activision fans are "hooked" through past games, or the game's names (like how people play halo games just because of the name, regardless of whether it's good or not), to peer pressure "You don't play this game?? LOOSER!!!! EPIC FAIL TO YOU!"

I wish gamers would start standing up and showing the dev companies that think they can get away with anything they way, that their success depends on THEM (the customers) and not the company itself. (Of course, this could backfire in the future, since most gamers are emotional and often prone to irrational decisions without thinking of the consequences.)

Can we please stop listening to what this guy says?

I said it before: this guy is a pure business guy, through-and-through. He is not a gamer. He's probably never even played more than a few pinball games before he started working at Activision.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, per say. But you can expect him to make more dumb statements in the future.

You know what though? He might actually be RIGHT to some extent. If you judge games solely by sales, most of the action is in long running franchises.

Mirrors Edge and Dead Space both sold well but in the 'every game must sell 5 billion copies' mindset of big-business games they did not do as well was hoped. Franchises are far more reliable sellers than new games.

Activision is nearing EA levels of suck.

I actually quite like EA they brought out some awesome new and original games last year.