Oh Bobby Kotick you get funnier and funnier every month...
Kotaku
If Activision stripped all of the cutscenes from StarCraft II, pasted them together into one big movie and charged between 20 to 30 dollars for you to buy it, would you pay? Activision's Bobby "I Need Moar Money" Kotick thinks you would.
"If we were to take that hour, or hour and 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?"
And this gem of a quote here...
"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."
They are saying they can get this out the door and in our homes in five years. Don't know about you guys but this is just asinine to even think people would shell out big bucks to watch game cutscenes when you can already watch them from the damn game. Does anyone else think Kotick needs a nice shiner in his left eye? Seriously he has managed to turn Activision into the new EA which isn't a good thing.
