EA says something Brutal about Activision

So Activision don't want to publish it, except now they sort of do?

Man, EA is really starting to kick some ass lately. What a burn.

Screw Activision. I hope it sells millions and Double Fine can point and laugh at Activision.

THIS IS CNN BREAKING NEWS:
CNN has just learn that approximately at 11:45 am, EA's CEO took a massive $h!t at EA studios men's room. Details are still slim as to what force him to take such action. But we have contacted Activision to comment on the matter. Keep it here to watch as this story develops.

DAMN. That is amazing, and the "Oh snap!" is deserved. I wish all communiques were this witty.

Activision's gonna need some ointment for THAT burn!

Oh Snap is right lol. that doesn't really seem like good business tactics on ActiBlizzards part. if they thought they might want it, they should have kept it when they had it. no give-sies back-sies now.

I hope Brutal Legend shoves its giant ass kicking penis up Activisions ass when it sells millions. I don't like activision...not one bit

Shouldn't the spend more time accusing devs of ips the purchased of stealing said ips? Oh and activison can smoke a fat one (wiener that is)

I know "EA responded to the letter with guns fully drawn" meant that EA was ready to fight, but I was really hoping that EA had sent Activision a letter with little guns doodled on it

I now really hope this game turns out to be good. Business tactics like this really piss me off.

I want to share with you a few of the tentative conclusions I've reached regarding Activision's proposed social programs. And I stress the word "tentative," because the subject of what motivates Activision is tricky and complex. You see, I indisputably believe that our country is being destroyed by closed-minded, lethargic present-day robber barons. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that any rational argument must acknowledge this. Activision's pushy exegeses, naturally, do not.

Here's an extraordinary paradox: All of the despicable freaks who shouldn't be allowed to ensure that there can never in the future be accord, unity, or a common, agreed-upon destiny among the citizens of this once-great nation invariably want to. Activision has convinced a lot of people that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. Furthermore, Activision's whinges should be labeled like a pack of cigarettes. I'm thinking of something along the lines of, "Warning: It has been determined that Activision's taradiddles are intended to bowdlerize all unfavorable descriptions of Activision's insults." If you think that a plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Activision wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance such as that I'm sure it wouldn't want me to eavesdrop on its meetings. So why does Activision want to instill a subconscious feeling of guilt in those of us who disagree with its ultimata? The answer is almost entirely obvious—this isn't rocket science, you know. The key is that Activision's favorite buzzword these days is "crisis". It likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. It then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for it to engage in or goad others into engaging in illegal acts. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that Activision avers that university professors must conform their theses and conclusions to its pusillanimous prejudices if they want to publish papers and advance their careers. As you can no doubt determine from comments like that, facts and Activision are like oil and water. Let me end by appealing to our collective sense of humanity: All Activision does is complain, complain, complain.

*shots fired*

Wow, Tim Schafer sure is getting some hype on Brütal Legend.

Not that it really needs any more at this point though.

I blame WoW.

It made Blizzard way too much money, and turned them into greedy asshats. They sold out to Activision, thus propagating the asshattitude throughout the entire company, which is now the biggest publisher in the industry.

Though I'm still confused on their actions here -- if they WANTED to publish Brütal Legend, why didn't they just KEEP the damn game instead of dumping it like an unwanted sack of used underwear? They only want it back NOW because someone ELSE thought it would be a good idea to publish it, and they'll be damned if they're going to let EA make any money off of it.

So yeah. The gaming industry has regressed to 3rd grade bully tactics, and it's all WoW's fault.

It would be interesting if there were any legal grounds for this. Of course, it's just about Activision finally waking up to the fact that in this age of GH and Rock Band, a game about a badass Rocker ronin played by Jack Black could, just perhaps, make some money

Brutal Legend is like MadWorld. Sure the developer has never made a financially viable game before, but this time the mainstream appeal is painfully apparent