I mean it's pretty silly to say they sold 1 billion dollars worth of product to retailers. . . When the true value of a game comes with the customer. GTA V made 1 billion off of the fans who loved the game. . . This spamming a figure to the press is just petty. If you break a sales record then good on you but it's sad when you manipulate the media to make is seem like there has been a record broken.

Edit on Top of the GTA V had no PC Sales. So there's that to figure too.

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I just want to laugh at them when the results are in and they failed miserably.

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+1

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Oh how i hope this will be reality

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Why would you hope failure upon a group of human beings? There are individuals who develop the game but have nothing to do with marketing it. I personally think Call of Duty is rather lame, but apparently a few million people enjoy it immensely. That's the way things go. If CoD fails, it doesn't mean games you and I like more will flourish. It just means a bunch of people might be out of a job.

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I know they are individuals but i see everyone over there as 1 company and for that i hope they will fail.
Their games aren't the masterpieces they get titled and they certainly don't deserve all the attention they are getting.
The word 'overhyped' couldn't be more fitting with this series, and i don't like that. That single reason is enough for me.
Maybe that'll teach them a lesson that you can't keep making successful games only based on the name it carries but rather have to deliver some good quality as well.
I haven't played all the recent CoD's but i played enough to say; it all turned into a hot steaming pile of crap which is fun for a couple hours

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as much as i wouldnt like people getting fired, that is the only way activision would see that people dont like receiving the exact same game over and over again, if you keep on buying, they will think that its still ok and still doit.

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This right here.

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I disagree with just about everything you said. First of all, their actions are not impacting just themselves, they are in one shape or form impacting others too, whom might even deserve or need the spotlight more for the matter. Also, you're very wrong if you think their success or failure doesn't impact our favorite or future favorite games, that idea is just purely ignorant how business works. Their success means other companies failure, that or the companies adapt and copy what they think makes CoD successful, which we unfortunately get a lot of not because our favorite game devs are a bunch of unoriginal idiots but because they're manipulated by a power much greater than they are. I'm just saying, I get what you're saying but you greatly are missing an important perspective on all of this and why it is wrong of them. I could rant with a huge(r) wall of text, but I see no need.

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After seeing how much of a unoptimized mess Cod:Ghosts is, I do hope they will be out of a job. Infinity Ward needs to put out of their misery.

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Well, maybe it's about fucking time for them to get honest job. They serve the evil with their lazy development, setting bad trends and supporting shady business model and no, their mortgage isn't a justifiable reason to do any of this.

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If only they were the only ones to manipulate the media.

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Who cares? Both Grand Theft Auto V and Call od Duty first day incomes are based on company estimates, not the actual revenues as it's clearly impossible to summarize the sales from the various markets in less than 24 hours. Final figures will be probably revealed in the annual reports so for now sales might have been overestimated for both companies, not just the Activision in particular.

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Precisely.
I agree with you.
OP is rather biased towards GTA V

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not really I PLove Call Of Duty and Don't play GTA V. . . But I don't like false representation. I played way more Black OPS 2 then GTA IV and was really pissed Rock-star dislikes Pc gamers. . . No bias at all I stated I don't care but. What is so hard about releasing sales rather then boasting about a useless fact? Sure you sent out stockpiles of your product to retailers and yes the retailer paid it but trying to manipulate the stock market putting out cleverly worded Press statements? That isn't cool.

Edit if they did make 1 billion in sales then hey. . . but the exact words are sold a billion to retailers. . . Not to customers.

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Aaaaand nobody cares.

Do these numbers affect you in any way? Do you get a share of their revenues or something? No? Okay! Then just relax and play the games you like to play! If GTA V did not sell 1 billion dollars would that make you look at it differently? No. If you like to play a game, then play it! Don't let the amount of revenue it raked it for a company you have no part in tell you otherwise!

So tired of all these threads sprouting out of people's asses just because they want to jump on the COD hate train.

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I care about :-/ I don't like public lie and especially about games

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Yes, but why care about it?! If it makes you sad, angry, whatever, then just look at something else! You don't like COD? You don't like their franchise? They lie? Then do not give them your money and play something else! :)

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What about lying about how much ram you use ?

I've also that Activision sent a C&D to take down an FOV fixer. Because they want players to experience nausea while playing.

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How many ghosts are in the game? Is Casper in there?

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Closed 11 years ago by schalart.