He has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Everyone at Blizzard is exhausted from trying to explain to everyone who learned just this week about everything this son of a bitch has done exactly why he’s still in charge.

Let’s be real, threatening to have an employee murdered and actively protecting people accused (and in one reported case, proven) of sexual assault ABSOLUTELY deserves being fired. Those are only A HANDFUL of the allegations against him.

He’s been in charge of this company for DECADES. The entire point of his obscenely high salary is that he is constantly claiming that everything the company does is related to him. You don’t get to claim credit for decades of success and say you weren’t responsible for the decades of abuse. Kotick even has a level of…

That’s what the last 6 months could have been for.

He thinks he can ride it out. No other explanation. He thinks we'll forget and move on and he can keep his vanity job.

Yeah weird how they only seem to realize the product doesn’t meet their standards of quality until after they release it for sale.

“The updated versions of these classic games did not launch in a state that meets our own standards of quality, or the standards our fans have come to expect.....but we released them because you gamers have shown you will buy any broken piece of crap day 1 lulz. We wasted so much money on QA on RDR2 for no reason!”

Exactly, the vast majority of the gaming public doesn’t give a shit or doesn’t pay attention.  They just care about if COD is working properly.

“I mean, Activision has to understand that they’re losing customers over all of this, right?”

I mean it definitely cost money to make anything back-compat. So there was a price involved. And it’s that very cost that’s preventing further work. I’m sure the pay-off hasn’t exactly stuffed their coffers.

I appreciate the dedication to emulation, but have no worries, Phil. I will continue to illegally emulate all the games that cannot be legally emulated due to licensing and other constraints. 

I find Phil’s attitude extremely hypocritical. With the Xbox Series X, due to the DRM they’ve added, without an internet connection, most games are unplayable. Even disc games, which should not be the case whatsoever (unless it is a game like Destiny or Avengers of course). I’ve lost internet before, due to various…

The tongues may be clipping through the chins, but how do you explain the eyes?

I love the fact that among the first few mods I heard about that train wreck trilogy is a “fuck you Take-Two" shirt for CJ.

An argument not brought up here was this: Take2 and Rockstar actively encouraged the modding scene. Even contributing themselves to the Multi Theft Auto project.

An additional thing missing from GTA III is the top down view as I was trying for hours to finish my rampages to get 100% completion and I was stuck on the flamethrower the cartel one and one of the cheap ways to do it in the past is to top down and go to the hedges in the backyard and flame through that. Also when…

lets remember this the next time take-two and rockstar decide to release a game. Stop funding this crap.  Every dollar not in their pockets, is one less dollar they have to sue people solely so they can make an extra buck.     On the flip side , picture instead them putting these games out with some of the best mods…

Rockstar like so many of my favorite development teams, is a hollow and pathetic shell of what they once were. 

Maybe it would be a better idea for TT or R* to hire these modders to fix their broken game.... ah who am I kidding.  They’d rather sue and win money than fix their disastrous definitive distraction.