A - Activision means Asshole in Gamer.

To start off my month full of anger, I am going to start with... A. Duh. I told you it was A-Z.

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.

The Stimulus Map Pack

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?

This? THIS is what you give to PC gamers for shitting on everything that they know and love about PC gaming. You remake a couple old maps and slide in a new one or two? You ship a PC game WITHOUT dedicated servers, something you failed to mention until close to launch, and then you expect them to just lay back while you fuck them out of another 15 bucks?! Wow.

Why do you people let them do this? Why do you buy these games and allow this to continue. As much as they are the problem, the community is to blame. If we didn't buy these half-finished, half-featured games.... well, then they'd pull an EA and stop making the game for PC at all (in reference to them ditching the Madden series after Madden 08). In the case of EA, though, they own the rights to, basically, all of the NFL and no other company can even make a game to compete. It's really, really sad.

I don't play, have never played and do not intent to play Modern Warfare 2. The lack of dedicated servers for the PC instantly made the decision for me, upon release of the game. The fact that months later they rehash old content and charge people money is just... awful. I remember when Half-Life was the GAME and Counter-Strike was the MOD. While I understand that those days are gone, quality games should still make it to PC... for the PC.

I really look forward to the next batch of gaming coming to PC over the next few years, those that are full Direct X 10 and even the new games that give us glimpses of Direct X 11. I hope that these games can help me wash the bad taste out of my mouth, the last five or so years in gaming has been mostly lackluster. We keep supporting it, though and end up with... A Stimulus Map Pack. Sigh.