Kotick wants to sell fucking cutscenes

[Suchy]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1120940p1.html

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said it's likely his company will begin selling in-engine cutscenes as full movies in the near future.

Speaking today at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California, Kotick said StarCraft II's in-game cinematics are so good that the publisher could edit them into one film and distribute it to fans digitally, a move, he said, is likely to happen sometime in the next five years.

"If we were to take that hour, or hour an a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?'

Kotick continued to say he believes his business model is superior to that of current film studios, saying a StarCraft movie distributed by the publisher would crush any opening weekend box office record ever.

"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," he said.

"Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. It might be in a partnership with somebody or alone, but there will be a time where we'll capitalize on the relationship we have with our audience; deliver them something that is really extraordinary and let them consume it directly through us instead of theatrical distribution.

"If we were to deliver a film digitally this way, I'd say an extremely high percentage would then go to the theater and watch it again."

What the fuck?!







And you know what...the sheeple will gladly pay for this.
And you dumbfucks will keep praising Blizzard.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Kotick's a fucking genius, news at 11

:jew:

jewnius

 

[Freelance Henchman]

:jew:

 

[Felix]

The said part is people will likely buy them.

 

[Kingston]

"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," he said.

Is he fucking retarded? Who is gonna pay 20-30 bucks to watch a movie at home when you could pay 10 bucks to see it in a huge-ass theatre with a gigantic screen and superb audio playback.

 

[Satori (original)]

Superb evolution of the genre

progressiveness

 

[Suchy]

"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," he said.

Is he fucking retarded? Who is gonna pay 20-30 bucks to watch a movie at home when you could pay 10 bucks to see it in a huge-ass theatre with a gigantic screen and superb audio playback.

Consoletards.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

I would totally pay extra money to Mr. Kotick to strip out all of that annoying last-gen gameplay in SC2 so I could focus on the excellent plot, dialog, and characters.

 

[Raapys]

Kotick will eventually take over the world, mark my words.

 

[Chateaubryan]

Kotick loves to spout shit just to get coverage. Cheap marketing.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

He is simply taking the popamole consoletard genre to it's next logical step in it's evolution. The complete removal of any playable content, while the industry has been heading this way for quite some time it takes a true greedy bastard to take it this far, and a genius to make people buy it, I can but salute the man and go purchase some shares in Activision.

 

[Silellak]

I've already pre-ordered the Blu-ray release of Diablo 3: The Re-cashening.



Uh, I mean, fuck this shit.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Bobby bobby bobby... karma is gonna bite you in the ass with these continued businesses practices. I know for a fact that i will be avoiding ANY product he manages to get his hands on.

 

[treave]

Uh... it's nothing new.

Final Fantasy games have had their CGs and cutscenes cobbled together and sold on DVDs as video for years now.

 

[Achilles]

Meh, most games today are already just a series of cutscenes with barely any interaction. If they add some quick-time events to the movies ("press >> to dodge!") then they can ditch consoles completely and offer "gaming" through the DVD/Blu-ray player.

 

[DriacKin]

Terrible idea, methinks -- It would never sell. As odd as it may sound, people are willing to buy interactive movies like Heavy Rain, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc... largely because they have 'some' interactive elements and still remain video games. The moment that they remove the interactive elements completely, it ceases to be an interactive movie, and becomes just a regular movie. And when you get critics like Ebert reviewing this stuff, they're gonna get ripped to shreds.

Interactive movies often succeed because they manage to avoid comparisons to real film. This stuff won't have that luxury.

 

[DraQ]

Cocktick is being a cock-tick again.

Cool story.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

Terrible idea, methinks -- It would never sell. As odd as it may sound, people are willing to buy interactive movies like Heavy Rain, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, etc... largely because they have 'some' interactive elements and still remain video games. The moment that they remove the interactive elements completely, it ceases to be an interactive movie, and becomes just a regular movie. And when you get critics like Ebert reviewing this stuff, they're gonna get ripped to shreds.

Interactive movies often succeed because they manage to avoid comparisons to real film. This stuff won't have that luxury.

Thats a valid and good point, movie critics are generally speaking much better than their counter parts in games to make out what is good and what is not. You never see any (serious) movie critics go "omg best movie evar" at some random summer block buster, but instead reserve such praise for movies that are actually genuinely good. Of course even with out the 10/10 best game evar reviews the hype machine itself and marketing might actually sell it. Though we shall see.

 

[MetalCraze]

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said it's likely his company will begin selling in-engine cutscenes as full movies in the near future.

Looks like Kotick finally decided to follow Bioware's and Obsidian's business model

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," he said.

Is he fucking retarded? Who is gonna pay 20-30 bucks to watch a movie at home when you could pay 10 bucks to see it in a huge-ass theatre with an obnoxious audience eating crunchy stuff, tons of advertisements and too loud audio playback.

Fixed

 

[Castanova]

As long as the cutscenes are written by David Gaider, I'm sold.

 

[baronjohn]

Who gives a shit? Seriously, stop posting about this guy. Just fucking stop it.

 

[Lyric Suite]

I think the most offending element here, and the one being ignored the most, is that he's talking about using the Starcraft II engine for the cut scenes. The entire fucking point of cut scenes is to get a cinematic view of the game, either using live footage or detailed GCI. Engine cut scenes were introduced as a way for ghetto developers to have cinematic elements at a low cost. Who the fuck wants to look at them for their own sake?

 

[fizzelopeguss]

SC2's in engine stuff was pretty fantastic, more exciting than the CG actually (which was crap and not at all in the same leage as War III)

 

[Hobo Elf]

Next up: Kotick puts up the Moon on eBay!

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Pfft. All the SC2 cutscenes are already available on the Making-Of Disc, which can be easily removed from inventory.