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The Activision Way: Make Bucketloads, Fire Employees

February 11, 2011 in News comments 6

Despite raking in 4.45 billion dollars last quarter, $418 million of which was pure profit, the company is planning to let nearly 500 employees go, most of them related to the music game genre. They are dissolving 7 Studios, a developer they only purchased last April.

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  • 0
    Shattered Feb 11, 11
    All they do is consume, rehash, kill, perform necromancy and repeat. Literally their business plan right there, you heard it here first.
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    Play ISDF Feb 12, 11
    Activision, give us Modern Warfare 3 already and then go die before you kill something else please.
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      longview01 Feb 12, 11
      Yeah because MW2 was sooooooo good and wasn't overpriced at all for a very short campaign and a broken online....
      • 1
        FinalFantasyFanaticc Feb 12, 11
        Especially because the DLC maps were also very fairly priced too.
      • 0
        Drogo Baggins Feb 12, 11
        At least you can actually play MW2.

        People who constantly noobtubed were my only issue with MW2, and I only had problems with them once out of every 5-10 games, and if they were too annoying, I could just leave when the game's over. Problem solved.

        In BO, I have problems with getting disconnected once or twice every 3-5 games, causing me to lose, even if my team was dominating. You can barely even play the game, at least when it comes to the PS3. It also often completely freezes the console causing you to lose all kills/XP you earned throughout a match. It's quite annoying when you're 14 minutes into a game of HQ, and you're shutting the other team out 225 to nothing and you have 50+ kills.

        Personally, I'd much rather deal with the former issue, but to each his own.

        I'm not calling you out or anything, by the way. I'm just comparing problems between the games.

        Also, as a side note, I think it sucks that people have to base which COD game they like based on what problems they'd rather put up with. It's why I don't even play COD anymore.
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    Zero and X Feb 13, 11
    I get a chill down my spine whenever I see an activision/EA game I want to buy, because if there's any companies I DO NOT want to give my money to, it's them, for reasons such as these.

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