every company has their missteps but
this is a bit much
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despite their merger with lizard as
Blizzard has definitely proven worthy of
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number ten call of duty black ops for
open DLC ever since downloadable content
became a common aspect of gaming with
the rise of online services there’s been
a strong push and pull between consumers
and publishers on what is and isn’t DLC
worthy the conversation has only gotten
more heated as things have shifted
towards microtransactions at the end of
2018
Activision publishers of the Call of
Duty franchise decided to push the DLC
limit once again by offering a single
red dot sight for purchase on their
in-game store the only difference
between this red dot sight and the
standard red dot sight the pay dot isn’t
colored in the special attachment runs
for about 100 Cod points which equals
number nine milking the Guitar Hero
franchise to death after the massive
success of the first two Guitar Hero
games in the mid-2000s Activision
purchased production company redoctane
and took over control of the franchise
instead of continuing to work with the
original developer Harmonix the
publisher enlisted Neversoft to take
initially success continued with Guitar
Hero three legends of rock maintaining
high sales and reviews however things
soon went off the rails between 2007 and
2010 Activision released a ton of
spin-off games across multiple platforms
and devices instead of working to
continue the franchise’s innovation the
series became a victim of market
oversaturation and creative stagnation
leading to the franchise’s demise at
least for now number 8
letting the crash bandicoot franchise
we’re already beginning to see a trend
here after purchasing rival publisher
Vivendi in 2008 activision gained the
to be fair to activision by this point
this series was already a far cry from
its early heyday however instead of
attempting to reinvigorate crash the
publishers sat on the franchise opting
to do nothing with it for years and
showing the world they had absolutely no
faith in the once dominant franchise
after a slow but steady increase in
vocal fan support over the years
activision finally released a
high-definition remaster of the first
three games in 2017 which was a critical
and commercial success and a Crash Team
Racing remaster coming in 2019 will we
see brand new crash games anytime soon
number seven overhyping destiny the law
runneth over
after Bungie left Microsoft and Halo
behind in 2010 and announced their
partnership with activision the
publisher immediately got to work on
hyping up the next big game from the
studio the limitations are our
imagination our ability to conceive
these ideas and that’s a pretty special
place to be in it seems that from the
beginning the two companies weren’t
always on the same page it’s obviously
the publishers job to sell the game to
consumers as best they can but when it
became clear the plan for the end game
essentially amounted to a transparently
addictive gambling loot system and not
much else
there was definitely a problem the lack
of content has been an issue that has
plagued both games in the series with
the only real solution to be purchasing
the DLC hopefully a brighter future lies
ahead for the franchise
[Music]
over the years Activision has earned a
notorious reputation for closing studios
after an unsuccessful game release it’s
impossible to track the thought process
of the company’s leaders but these
shutdowns often feel like knee-jerk
reactions that disrupt the lives of
dozens or sometimes hundreds of people
major studios such as red octane Bizarre
Creations radical entertainment and
Neversoft
were all shuttered after disappointing
games and that’s not including many of
the smaller studios acquired and closed
by the company lost chance where is it
business may be business but looking at
the often yearly release schedules these
studios are put under by Activision a
bigger picture begins to form one of
unrealistic expectations held by a
demanding triple-a publisher number five
Call of Duty Elite come on man just roll
it as if paying for a brand-new barely
changed title in the aging franchise
every year wasn’t bad enough already in
2011 Activision launched Call of Duty
Elite a subscription service that
offered players extra content gameplay
statistics and more I’m talking about
real prizes and you still get that warm
fuzzy feeling that comes from simply
blowing a dude’s head clean off as they
always tend to do when it comes to
making money Activision was ahead of the
curve here giving gamers a future
glimpse into our current landscape of
season passes and microtransactions that
seemed to be dominating the industry
elite was apparently not very successful
however reverting to a free model only a
year after its release before eventually
that’s what I’m talking about
number four Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater five
and we started picking out like it can
be very interesting if we decide to add
like a new unique kind of gameplay
mechanic into each level making its name
as one of the most beloved game series
of the past 20 years the Tony Hawk’s
games were eventually run into the
ground by Activision
just like so many franchises before and
after I don’t have to school them and
what skateboarding is or how to
represent it well so working together as
pretty scenes after nearly a decade
drought between core entries in the
series Activision announced in 2015 that
the next game would be a direct
follow-up to the original pro skater
games in the series upon release the
game was utterly demolished by both
critics and fans with some of the most
common complaints being its horrendous
graphics numerous bugs sloppy gameplay
and level design after the game’s
disastrous launch following a rushed
development cycle Activision promptly
shut developer robo-moe toe down all the
fun stuff that was from pro skaters that
people loved or bring into this game
number three hiring Jamie Kennedy to
host their e3 panel video games they’ve
been where my jokes activision had to
know what they were getting into when
they hired comedian Jamie Kennedy to
host their 2007 III press conference
that or they just didn’t do their
research that’s I got that job
unfortunately for them
Kennedy completely bombed and may or may
not have been under the influence of
something it’s been more than ten years
since this mother of all awkward III
press conferences and the fact that it
still stands out in our heads just goes
to show how much of a trainwreck the
situation was Activision no longer holds
large press conferences at e3 and we
have a feeling this incident played at
least a small part in that decision
there are so many virgins in here
Richard Branson is doing this number two
for years modern warfare was viewed as
the pinnacle of the franchise in the
eyes of many fans when Activision
finally announced they’d be giving the
community when it had been begging for
with a remaster of the game excitement
could not have been higher well until
Activision announced the game would only
be available bundled alongside its
newest release in the franchise infinite
on top of that several weeks after the
game’s release the company implemented a
micro transaction system into the game’s
multiplayer and announced that the
pricing for the games downloadable maps
which normally would be included with
any game remaster would in fact cost
before we unveil our topic here are a
I really feel like anyone can experience
this so um check it out when ships later
this year thank you number one tweeting
a fake terror attack as far as
boneheaded PR moves made by influential
corporate entities go this one seems
kind of difficult to top I may not want
to come back in 2015 to promote black
ops 3 the Call of Duty Twitter account
was changed to a fake news account and
began tweeting as if a terrorist attack
was occurring in Singapore it’s quite
honestly astonishing that this move made
it past the initial idea stage let alone
was okayed by the people in charge if
the act itself wasn’t bad enough
Activision and Treyarch apologies made
it seem as though they couldn’t see what
the big deal was
the ordeal even received mainstream
press coverage and when all was said and
done
Activision wound up looking incredibly
foolish don’t understand I’m taking us
home
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to be notified about our latest
videos [Music]
this is a bit much
fails before we begin we publish new
videos every day
so be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list we’ll be focusing
exclusively on the activision side of
things
despite their merger with lizard as
Blizzard has definitely proven worthy of
[Music]
number ten call of duty black ops for
open DLC ever since downloadable content
became a common aspect of gaming with
the rise of online services there’s been
a strong push and pull between consumers
and publishers on what is and isn’t DLC
worthy the conversation has only gotten
more heated as things have shifted
towards microtransactions at the end of
2018
Activision publishers of the Call of
Duty franchise decided to push the DLC
limit once again by offering a single
red dot sight for purchase on their
in-game store the only difference
between this red dot sight and the
standard red dot sight the pay dot isn’t
colored in the special attachment runs
for about 100 Cod points which equals
number nine milking the Guitar Hero
franchise to death after the massive
success of the first two Guitar Hero
games in the mid-2000s Activision
purchased production company redoctane
and took over control of the franchise
instead of continuing to work with the
original developer Harmonix the
publisher enlisted Neversoft to take
initially success continued with Guitar
Hero three legends of rock maintaining
high sales and reviews however things
soon went off the rails between 2007 and
2010 Activision released a ton of
spin-off games across multiple platforms
and devices instead of working to
continue the franchise’s innovation the
series became a victim of market
oversaturation and creative stagnation
leading to the franchise’s demise at
least for now number 8
letting the crash bandicoot franchise
we’re already beginning to see a trend
here after purchasing rival publisher
Vivendi in 2008 activision gained the
to be fair to activision by this point
this series was already a far cry from
its early heyday however instead of
attempting to reinvigorate crash the
publishers sat on the franchise opting
to do nothing with it for years and
showing the world they had absolutely no
faith in the once dominant franchise
after a slow but steady increase in
vocal fan support over the years
activision finally released a
high-definition remaster of the first
three games in 2017 which was a critical
and commercial success and a Crash Team
Racing remaster coming in 2019 will we
see brand new crash games anytime soon
number seven overhyping destiny the law
runneth over
after Bungie left Microsoft and Halo
behind in 2010 and announced their
partnership with activision the
publisher immediately got to work on
hyping up the next big game from the
studio the limitations are our
imagination our ability to conceive
these ideas and that’s a pretty special
place to be in it seems that from the
beginning the two companies weren’t
always on the same page it’s obviously
the publishers job to sell the game to
consumers as best they can but when it
became clear the plan for the end game
essentially amounted to a transparently
addictive gambling loot system and not
much else
there was definitely a problem the lack
of content has been an issue that has
plagued both games in the series with
the only real solution to be purchasing
the DLC hopefully a brighter future lies
ahead for the franchise
[Music]
over the years Activision has earned a
notorious reputation for closing studios
after an unsuccessful game release it’s
impossible to track the thought process
of the company’s leaders but these
shutdowns often feel like knee-jerk
reactions that disrupt the lives of
dozens or sometimes hundreds of people
major studios such as red octane Bizarre
Creations radical entertainment and
Neversoft
were all shuttered after disappointing
games and that’s not including many of
the smaller studios acquired and closed
by the company lost chance where is it
business may be business but looking at
the often yearly release schedules these
studios are put under by Activision a
bigger picture begins to form one of
unrealistic expectations held by a
demanding triple-a publisher number five
Call of Duty Elite come on man just roll
it as if paying for a brand-new barely
changed title in the aging franchise
every year wasn’t bad enough already in
2011 Activision launched Call of Duty
Elite a subscription service that
offered players extra content gameplay
statistics and more I’m talking about
real prizes and you still get that warm
fuzzy feeling that comes from simply
blowing a dude’s head clean off as they
always tend to do when it comes to
making money Activision was ahead of the
curve here giving gamers a future
glimpse into our current landscape of
season passes and microtransactions that
seemed to be dominating the industry
elite was apparently not very successful
however reverting to a free model only a
year after its release before eventually
that’s what I’m talking about
number four Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater five
and we started picking out like it can
be very interesting if we decide to add
like a new unique kind of gameplay
mechanic into each level making its name
as one of the most beloved game series
of the past 20 years the Tony Hawk’s
games were eventually run into the
ground by Activision
just like so many franchises before and
after I don’t have to school them and
what skateboarding is or how to
represent it well so working together as
pretty scenes after nearly a decade
drought between core entries in the
series Activision announced in 2015 that
the next game would be a direct
follow-up to the original pro skater
games in the series upon release the
game was utterly demolished by both
critics and fans with some of the most
common complaints being its horrendous
graphics numerous bugs sloppy gameplay
and level design after the game’s
disastrous launch following a rushed
development cycle Activision promptly
shut developer robo-moe toe down all the
fun stuff that was from pro skaters that
people loved or bring into this game
number three hiring Jamie Kennedy to
host their e3 panel video games they’ve
been where my jokes activision had to
know what they were getting into when
they hired comedian Jamie Kennedy to
host their 2007 III press conference
that or they just didn’t do their
research that’s I got that job
unfortunately for them
Kennedy completely bombed and may or may
not have been under the influence of
something it’s been more than ten years
since this mother of all awkward III
press conferences and the fact that it
still stands out in our heads just goes
to show how much of a trainwreck the
situation was Activision no longer holds
large press conferences at e3 and we
have a feeling this incident played at
least a small part in that decision
there are so many virgins in here
Richard Branson is doing this number two
for years modern warfare was viewed as
the pinnacle of the franchise in the
eyes of many fans when Activision
finally announced they’d be giving the
community when it had been begging for
with a remaster of the game excitement
could not have been higher well until
Activision announced the game would only
be available bundled alongside its
newest release in the franchise infinite
on top of that several weeks after the
game’s release the company implemented a
micro transaction system into the game’s
multiplayer and announced that the
pricing for the games downloadable maps
which normally would be included with
any game remaster would in fact cost
before we unveil our topic here are a
I really feel like anyone can experience
this so um check it out when ships later
this year thank you number one tweeting
a fake terror attack as far as
boneheaded PR moves made by influential
corporate entities go this one seems
kind of difficult to top I may not want
to come back in 2015 to promote black
ops 3 the Call of Duty Twitter account
was changed to a fake news account and
began tweeting as if a terrorist attack
was occurring in Singapore it’s quite
honestly astonishing that this move made
it past the initial idea stage let alone
was okayed by the people in charge if
the act itself wasn’t bad enough
Activision and Treyarch apologies made
it seem as though they couldn’t see what
the big deal was
the ordeal even received mainstream
press coverage and when all was said and
done
Activision wound up looking incredibly
foolish don’t understand I’m taking us
home
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and be sure to subscribe and ring the
bell to be notified about our latest
videos [Music]
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