Comments on: Ubisoft Bigs Up Massive

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:37:05 +0000

‘But Kotick also has plans for “three, maybe four exciting new intellectual properties”, including one contribution laid down by himself at the company restrooms. He hopes that this fresh, steaming license can be repeatedly sold to customers on an annual basis.’

By: Larington

Larington — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:08:51 +0000

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/sierra-games-cut-for-not-exhibiting-potential-to-be-exploited-says-kotick

What I mean is, stuff like this can set alarm bells ringing in my mind.

By: Rain

Rain — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:39:10 +0000

Ah Tom Clancy’s World in Conflict.

By: N-Al

N-Al — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:25:29 +0000

Just recently had the chance to play the WiC demo, was pretty impressed. Definitely a title I’ll be picking up at some point.

Hope Massive doesn’t get ‘compromised’ in any way by this move.

By: Zarniwoop

Zarniwoop — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:08:40 +0000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The proper name for merger between Activision and Blizzard is BLIZZIVISION.

By: Jocho

Jocho — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:29:21 +0000

Larington, ActivitionBlizzard has pretty much nothing to do with Blizzard, the name pretty much got picked for it’s popularity. The “Blizzard” part is actually old Vivendi, or Sierrra.

On topic, I like these news: Better Ubisoft and more Massive then no Ubisoft and perhaps no Massive (which would be a shame).

By: Larington

Larington — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:08:13 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks that since the merger activision-blizzard have completely lost part of the heart and soul of what made blizzard such a well liked publisher?

What actiblizz’s leadership is saying and doing at the moment seems to me to be several levels less inspiring than EAs behaviour, which is a turn up for the books.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:59:10 +0000

I’m hoping for a real Ground Control 3. Without resource points, re-drops, or any of the other sissy stuff they put in there after GC1.

Amen! Sadly I think they’ve decided enough was enough with the GC series, which did not sell particularly well.

By: Skurmedel

Skurmedel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:58:15 +0000

Viva la Suede!

By: Viperion

Viperion — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:56:58 +0000

I’m hoping for a real Ground Control 3. Without resource points, re-drops, or any of the other sissy stuff they put in there after GC1. GC1 is my #2 game of all time (right after Total Annihilation), and I would be truly excited for a real GC3. Also, the GC1 campaign was one of the best done campaigns I have ever played in a RTT/S game, and WiC disappointed me, so I need a good one to get the taste out.

By: Real Horrorshow

Real Horrorshow — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:03:04 +0000

World in Conflict was a near-perfect masterpiece IMO. Glad to see Massive Ent. won’t get flushed down the shitter. I just hope they don’t get stuck making Endwar sequels like others have said, or an extremely dumbed-down World in Conflict 2.

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:29:58 +0000

I wanted to enjoy WiC, but at the time I got it I wasn’t really able to play multiplayer with it. I ended up swapping it for Company of Heroes, which has a really awesome singleplayer campaign. Not to say that WiC’s singleplayer is bad, it’s also quite good, but the game is primarily multiplayer and the campaign just didn’t hold my attention the way that CoH’s campaign did.

Anyway, hope Massive get opportunities to make more good games in future. Despite not playing it much, it really is a genuine shame that World in Conflict didn’t sell more.