29th July 2008, 8:47 AM
Hey, killing off Double Fine(Tim Schaefer)'s Brutal Legend, Terminal Reality's Ghostbusters (this may be okay), Massive Entertainment (developers of World in Conflict, last year's amazing RTS, currently working on a now-in-limbo addon), Swordfish Studios, and, it seems, Sierra Online (the XBLA/etc downloadable games side) and Sierra/Vivendi itself most certainly is big.
I mean sure, Sierra/Vivendi never has been anywhere nearly as well run or profitable as Blizzard, that's for sure. So if something was going to go, it was the Sierra side, which has just never quite gotten it together, not since Sierra's fading in the late '90s. I wouldn't blame Activision if they wanted to ditch most of the Vivendi side apart from Blizzard, which is what they're clearly looking into doing... but who would want it? In pieces, maybe?
Also, it seems that it isn't all determined yet, so the worst case may not be true. But we'll see...
I mean sure, Sierra/Vivendi never has been anywhere nearly as well run or profitable as Blizzard, that's for sure. So if something was going to go, it was the Sierra side, which has just never quite gotten it together, not since Sierra's fading in the late '90s. I wouldn't blame Activision if they wanted to ditch most of the Vivendi side apart from Blizzard, which is what they're clearly looking into doing... but who would want it? In pieces, maybe?
Also, it seems that it isn't all determined yet, so the worst case may not be true. But we'll see...
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