Bobby Kotick insults every indie developer on the planet... ex

[Feels Good Man]

Activision boss Bobby Kotick has dismissed the likes of Valve, Epic, Ninja Theory, Level-5, Insomniac, Foundation 9, Gearbox, Sucker Punch, Rebellion and Terminal Reality - by calling Bungie the "last remaining high quality independent developer" in the world. Yep. Wow.

Activision, of course, has embarked on an exclusive ten-year publishing deal with Bungie for its new 'action universe' - widely assumed to be an MMO.


"Bungie are a very unusual company," Kotick told the America Merrill Lynch Media, Comms and Entertainment conference.

"They're probably the last remaining high quality independent developer. It's very hard to [pauses]... that has sort of has institutional skills and capabilities. And they're a real company.

"When they started the process of looking for a new partner, they'd been in business with Microsoft. They had a vision for a product they wanted to create that needed certain skills and capabilities - that Microsoft had some of.

"But as they started to go and look at the obvious candidates, they realised that no company other than Activision had the skills that they needed to be successful for the vision of that product. These are things that you never would have envisioned five years ago.

"Blizzard had 2,500 people in customer service and support just for World Of Warcraft. How you train them, how you manage them, how you organise them... how you use CRM tools in delighting and satisfying the expectations of your audiences.. it's something no other company [Bungie] talked to [could offer]."

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=265559

You hear that Valve? You guys suck. No one plays FPS's on PC's anymore and only do that on consoles.

/sarcasm

 

[Bladexdsl]

what a load of fuck! so i guess konami, EA and blizzard don't count and even errrrrm ubi?

and here's another source: http://www.vg247.com/2010/09/20/bungie-pro...er-says-kotick/

 

[ChuckBartowski]

God this guy is such a prick.

 

[Wombo Combo]

He is the troll of the game industry.

 

[sstomouth]

This guy is a troll. Bungie is probably the worst of the mentioned publishers.

 

[Terminator02]

This guy is a troll. Bungie is probably the worst of the mentioned publishers.

Bungie is a developer... and they don't suck...
Anyways, yeah...... smart statements like this happen all the time it seems

 

[Scott-105]

This guy is a troll. Bungie is probably the worst of the mentioned publishers.

Bungie is a developer... and they don't suck...
Anyways, yeah...... smart statements like this happen all the time it seems

I know right?

 

[Outrager]

what a load of fuck! so i guess konami, EA and blizzard don't count and even errrrrm ubi?

and here's another source: http://www.vg247.com/2010/09/20/bungie-pro...er-says-kotick/

Blizzard is part of Activision.
Konami and EA are NOT independent developers.

 

[Terminator02]

what a load of fuck! so i guess konami, EA and blizzard don't count and even errrrrm ubi?

and here's another source: http://www.vg247.com/2010/09/20/bungie-pro...er-says-kotick/

Blizzard is part of Activision.
Konami and EA are NOT independent developers.

hell, not even ubisoft is an independent developer

 

[Skyline969]

Wow, this guy's trolling. Obviously he's never played Minecraft, hm? If Mojang Specifications isn't an amazing indie developer, I don't know who is.

 

[Fudge]

Fuck him. All of those developers are excellent.

 

[injected11]

In the past, I avoided buying Activision products because I was dissatisfied with the quality. These days, I don't buy Activision games because of the endless stream of feces that flows from Kotick's mouth.

 

[Deleted-247497]

ugh...why did bungie have to partner with these douchebags...

 

[Bladexdsl]

what a load of fuck! so i guess konami, EA and blizzard don't count and even errrrrm ubi?

and here's another source: http://www.vg247.com/2010/09/20/bungie-pro...er-says-kotick/

Konami and EA are NOT independent developers.

um...yes they are do you even know what independent means? it means alone, by themselves and not part/owned by any other company

 

[dinofan01]

ugh...why did bungie have to partner with these douchebags...

 

[Canonbeat234]

This topic is obvious, he's a Halo fan. He just insulted developers who make more money than Activision itself.

 

[gamefreak94]

I actually never heard of bungie until halo. What other games did they make?

 

[monkat]

I actually never heard of bungie until halo. What other games did they make?

Game series
Marathon Trilogy (Marathon · 2: Durandal · Infinity) · Myth series (II) · Halo series (Halo · 2 · 3 · ODST · Reach)
Individual games
Gnop! · Operation: Desert Storm · Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete · Pathways into Darkness · Abuse · Oni
People
Jason Jones · Alex Seropian · Martin O'Donnell · Joseph Staten · Luke Smith

 

[8BitWalugi]

Valve, Epic, Ninja Theory, Level-5, Insomniac, Foundation 9, Gearbox, Sucker Punch, Rebellion and Terminal Reality

Stopped reading there. What an asshole!

EDIT: Wow, we have a censored function? Had no idea!

EDIT2: Changed to something slightly less offensive?

 

[LINK289]

Wait... Didn't Gearbox help port Halo CE to the PC?