Where better to start than what I consider to be part of the downfall of the current PC shooters, Activision. Poor concepts and recycled themes lead to destroying the Call of Duty games just to make a few bucks.
Aside from bastardizing what could have been a front-runner in a tight shooter race years ago, Activision also managed to infuriate gaming fans by shitting on an old franchise. Starcraft. Sure, Starcraft is actually a Blizzard franchise, but since the combination of the two companies, everything is a 50/50. That means the fucking abortion of a game that is Starcraft falls squarely into the lap of Activision as well. Awesome!
Selling us old maps from old games (MW maps for MW2) wasn't bad enough, now they are selling us a 3-part game one part at a time. Sweet! Because I didn't want a finished product after all these years. Right? We watched as the Starcraft shooter fell apart and faded away. We watched as consoles got a taste of Starcraft love... sort of. We finally get the franchise back to PC and in a format that we all knew and loved AND YOU FUCK IT ALL UP?! WHAT IN THE FUCK?! Why?!
Oh yeah... money.
Activision also managed to cash in on a mediocre Transformers game, too. It was so forgettable that I almost forgot to even mention it. Activision did manage to release a new Guitar Hero and DJ Hero game, though. Since we know that ALL gamers really love being ignored. What is sad, is I bet both of those silly time-wasters probably sold better than most of the best PC games released in the last 3 years. Not only were they unable to not give us a decent experience on PC, but they are obviously shifting their focus AWAY from PC.
I don't even want to get started on the shitty port that is Black Ops, or the fact that people couldn't play it online, or even at all, for weeks. Who do you have testing this stuff? Oh yeah... console fucktards. Sometimes, I think that I should just get a console so I can play finished games of a decent quality. Le Sigh.
Fuck you, Activision, you're awful. You managed to further corrupt one franchise you've been whoring out for years, decided to shit on another and the only good thing you put out this year was Blur... Really? A racing game? Ugh! Please die in a fire.

Starting strong with Activision. I'm looking forward to "B". Hope you can top it, Activision is probably one of the most evil gaming companies ever to grace the earth. Well, I guess the people who developed and published the shit-storm that was Daikatana, but that was years ago :-p
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