I’ve often said game publishers don’t just want some of the money, they want ALL of the money. We may have to amend that, because I’m starting to think not even all of the money is enough anymore.
This bit of news is perfectly timed during a period where I’m talking about the broken economic system that might make “AAA” growth unsustainable. Because shareholders expect more money every year, even huge blockbuster successes can make shares drop. We’ve just seen this with Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Giant success leading to a drop in shares, because it just wasn’t successful enough.
While shares go up and down, this backs up a lot of my recent assertions regarding the “AAA” industry making more money than is healthy.
Source article: https://appuals.com/activision-stock-falls-despite-500-million-from-call-of-duty-black-ops-4/
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4 words:
“It is never enough.”
Enough is never enough for them!
**Smiling**
*The crash is coming…*
Well… GTA V $1 billion set the bar when its enough
It’s only a matter of time before the AAA industry crashes due to these unsustainable and unrealistically high expectations.
Capitalism is a dirty business.
*Poor investors, I feel so sorry for them* 🙁
I grab my popcorn, lay back and watch how the triple AAA is burning themself to the ground with an unsustainable business-model
It’s only been two weeks. It’ll make massive amounts by Christmas. Plus, they should be thankful they made even that much, because Black Ops 4 is a substantially mediocre game – it doesn’t have a single player campaign, which is the only reason some people still buy Call of Duty, and its multiplayer is just another Battle Royale game, in a genre which has already got two big Battle Royale titles that have been prominent for over a year, and full of saturation. It’s chasing a trend, and throwing away its value, thus it’s less of a game than it could be.
Mind you, if they wait a little while, Activision’s shares will increase again around November. The Reignited Trilogy might not be mega bucks like Call of Duty, but it has a solid fan base and looks set to please a lot of long term fans of Spyro, and probably the newer Skylanders fans and anyone looking for a mascot platform game.
It’s not $725 million though, and it’s about 10 times less the game than RDR2 is.
It’s exactly like you’ve always said, Jim. There is never “enough” for them. They always expect more profits than last quarter, regardless of the circumstances, even if they’re still making a lot of money (big publicly traded businesses driven by stockholders in general.) It reminds me of a lyric from a band called Pain I used to listen to: “Too much is never enough…”
“if they’re not making all of the money, they’re not making any.”
No wonder these publishers are so greedy, their investors are and investors are the bosses of the bosses…
Do they even need investors though with these kinds of profits? Just ignore them, I say
Infinite growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer.
*Activision (and their Investors) are like the Abyss from Dark Souls*
*It consumes everything and everyone until there is nothing left*
Tie men ruin everything they touch and they touch everything.
Instead of showing blurred out footage of Black Ops 4 to avoid being flagged, just show footage of your local Casino. It’s basically the same experience as playing an Activision Blizzard game these days.
Anyone else here haven’t bought an EA/Activision game since 2014?