Middle of October 2009 the share price was nearly $13, now at 11.87 so shares have fallen nearly 10%. And thats on the back of the biggest game sales in a 5 day period for the launch of COD MW2 of $550mil USD.

Investor commentators are using websites like Metacritic to guage how well a game will sell in the end, and how many of games each company has on there. So if Activision have several bad games then it’s share price goes down, if they have several good then it goes up.

With so many PC buyers raging about the game this could be surpressing the share price even though they have made $550mil in sales in first 5 days.

Keep the pressure on, at least Activision have the money to fund proper PC development of COD MW2 and provide some dedicated servers.

Good luck all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROMVIHGpLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhVvlQ3-lHA

I think we should call this thing codmodwoff2

mainly because it sounds ridiculous, which fits nicely with the recent pissing on of PC gamers

IW forum 10 Nov 09:

“I cannot connect to IWnet WTF??”

IW_dev: IWNet is not balanced today for your connection you cannot kill people today. You need less killing more DJ Hero so your life is balanced again. Buy DJ hero from our publisher it’s good.

“MW2 crashes to desktop”

IW_dev: Your PC is not balanced to run MW2 you need to buy a PC from our partners.

“I feel sick walking around in MW2 WTF is up with the FOV?”

IW_dev: You are feeling sick because you are not balanced, sit in a dark room. Then when you are feeling better buy DJ hero before you continue with MW2.

“My 19th friend cannot connect”

IW_dev: You have too many friends to have a balanced life this is not good for you. Your other friends should buy DJ hero until there is a slot free.

You get the idea now. ;)

Noise like this forced the backdown on Mass Effects DRM. They are an excellent place for vox populi.

I know that Amazon are not impartial and that such review will inevitably harm their sales. I do hope that they have been removed because we are pre-release and so are going to be unbalanced at this stage.

Lets hope that once released any new reviews are allowed to remain.

but probably he is unhappy about the result.

Half Life 2?

John Carmack waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There
were consoles in the base. He didn’t see them, but had expected them now for years.

His warnings to PC Gamers were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late
for now, anyway.

John was a programmer for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the
spaceships and he said to dad “I want to program the games daddy.”
Dad said “No! You will BE KILL BY CONSOLES”

There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in
the convention floor of the E3 he knew there were consoles.
“This is PC Gamers” the radio crackered. “You must fight the consoles!”
So John gotted his compiler and wrote up the Rage engine.
“HE GOING TO KILL US” said the consoles.

“I will shoot at him” said the 360 and he fired the RROD missiles. John
compiled at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were
trapped and not able to compete.

“No! I must kill the consoles” he shouted

The radio said “No, John. You are the consoles”
And then John was ditching dedicated servers.

If MW2 sells well it’s RIP PC gaming you just need a 360.

GOOD NEWS not long to wait for a chance to play a good game this year.

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/

Coming December, we will invite players to participate in a PC open beta. Then, early next year, all players worldwide will get to experience this premier shooter when we releases a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer DEMO on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

If MW2 sells well it’s RIP PC gaming you just need a 360.

GOOD NEWS not long to wait for a chance to play a good game this year.

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/

Coming December, we will invite players to participate in a PC open beta. Then, early next year, all players worldwide will get to experience this premier shooter when we releases a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer DEMO on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.