Activision

So every year for Call of Duty, people do all of that stuff.

And with Call of Duty in particular, there's also an Activision account that you can go flip to New Zealand, and sometimes that will speed up the process as well for some other platforms.

This year... feels like the you know because of their their weird kind of staged rollout they kind of just threw the doors open early because everyone was doing the new zealand stuff or like they there was a series of menus so they this is a longer story than it needs to be So when the game launches, you're given the three pillars of the game, multiplayer, DMZ, and the campaign.

Multiplayer was still locked.

laughing.

Like, oh, really? Yeah.

I think Activision would try to tell you that that's what the games were about.

Like, these aren't cartoon characters.

know um yeah like i i definitely lean i hope i'll say that i i lean and cope in that direction for sure so it's and then you look at like world's edge and age of empires age of mythology being moved under activision as well And I just don't see a reason to do that unless you're going to try and leverage some of that experience.

Exactly.

Across the studios, which I understand Activision isn't Blizzard, but it's still a lot closer than the next GS was or is or whatever.

So that would be extremely cool.

I mean, if they bring it, I will pay.

And this sort of the wave of experimental games Xbox had worked on to the detriment of some of the big stuff like Fallout or, you know, some of the bigger franchises they've got.

I

mean, Activision Blizzard is more recent, you know, but still, they're like, I'm excited for that StarCraft shooter, it's kind of mind-blowing to me that we're waiting until 2030 for that, right? Like, that's just such a no-brainer, that should have been a thing a while ago.

Halo is being made by, well, was being made by 343.

And now it's going to Activision, but it's not Bungie.

And even Bungie is not the Bungie it was 20, 25 years ago.

So you need to follow people.

Is it dead? Are we back? Because I feel like we've talked about this.

It's like Activision being in charge is like, you don't know how to feel about it.

It's like, okay, well, we might get more games, but will the games suck? So the floor is yours.

I think 343 Industries, they really struggled to figure out what to do with the Halo franchise.

was wild.

It was a wild experience.

But so where was I going to go with that question? The Activision thing.

Are you excited? Yeah.

Yep.

So yeah, Call of Duty, as most people probably know, it's developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision because it's always been developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.

It's one of their flagships fundamentally in regards to games they create nowadays.

It's

always been published by Activision, but I think Infinity Ward's only done about like a third or half of the Call of Duty games.

Oh, do you know who the original was? I did.

Isn't the other

A bit, at least.

Halo is being made by, well, was being made by 343.

And now it's going to Activision, but it's not Bungie.

And even Bungie is not the Bungie it was 20, 25 years ago.

So you need to follow people.

Maybe.

I think Activision stole it after a while, too, though.

I remember what you're talking about, but I think the Bobby Kotick stuff started happening at Activision, and then Activision was just being what Activision is now.

Well, they killed off Fight Night

Champion, too, and they just announced that they're going to make a new one.

So they called Respawn.

And then...

After the lawsuit at Activision.

This is 25, 26 years ago.

Look at the stock market crash in shares of Activision, EA.

That's Electronic Arts.

Activision, Acclaim, GT, and Eidos.

I always get that wrong.

We have to specify what EA is now?

Halo is being made by, well, was being made by 343.

And now it's going to Activision, but it's not Bungie.

And even Bungie is not the Bungie it was 20, 25 years ago.

So you need to follow people.