Activision Is Just The Worst

They say you don't know what you have until its gone. Or, in the case of Activision and EA, they don't know what they have when they buy up rights to intellectual properties. And then they continue not knowing what they have as they run those intellectual properties into the ground with no regard for anything besides how much money they can squeeze out of the very thing they are killing.  

The most recent example of this was with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. Activision is losing the rights to the Tony Hawk IP towards the end of the year. Word around the block is that the company, in a move that surprises me in no way, shape, or form, decided to shovel out one last title to make a few extra dollars off of the Tony Hawk name. This last title is a hot mess. It received almost no press. It is broken to the point of being unplayable. The day one patch was larger than the files on the disk itself. You can't make this stuff up.

Do you realize what this means? Activision has no trouble spitting on beloved IP's and their supporters if it means making one last small profit off of them. This is disgusting behavior, and it has to stop.

This is right on the heels of the announcement that Black Ops 3 will not have a campaign on last gen systems. As a get out of jail free card, they're offering a slap in the face to all of the last-gen buyers in the form of a $10 discount. What's funny about it, is that Activision knows they won't really lose any money, since they pilfer the majority of their COD cash by charging for everything under the sun relating to multiplayer. I'm sure they'll find something new to charge for this year, on top of the Season Pass, Loadout Slots, and heap of cosmetic DLC.

Yes, I did play the Black Ops 3 beta. I was impressed with how well the game ran, and how smooth the combat felt. But it was still just COD. The tacked on gimmicks of this year's entry appeared immediately visible to me as slightly re-worked Titanfall mechanics. I can't wait to see what Activision decides to charge for new "specialists," because you know they will. It is a very bad thing that their greed is becoming predictable. It means that the greed is becoming the norm, and that is bad for all of us.