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Title: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Rick Astley on January 05, 2013, 12:33:40 am
http://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=10723&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

the best news i've heard Activison might be loosing the licence and so...no more COD Games with Bond Charaters and hopefully a good developer and publisher will win the rights.
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: namajnaG on January 05, 2013, 01:12:32 am
Neat.
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Rick Astley on January 05, 2013, 02:18:22 am
still makes me wonder why they are taking the games down though..
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Storm101 on January 05, 2013, 02:21:37 am
I hope Microsoft gets it, so that cancelled XBLA version can finally get released. But I guess that wouldn't be too good for original games, so perhaps the developer that made TimeSplitters, since it's apparently composed of the people that made GoldenEye.
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Rick Astley on January 05, 2013, 04:03:11 am
I hope Microsoft gets it, so that cancelled XBLA version can finally get released. But I guess that wouldn't be too good for original games, so perhaps the developer that made TimeSplitters, since it's apparently composed of the people that made GoldenEye.

So..Crytex UK basically? (most of the developers went there) still i would love to see Rare get their hands back on it and finally release the XBLA version but since they are making Kinet Games..that would be...Problematic

Still Rocksteady would make a great developer or Valve
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: kraid on January 05, 2013, 09:49:43 am
Valve would be cool. Rare isn't the company it was anymore and it would lead to M$ exclusivity.
Crytec UK would be the best choice if EA buys the rights again.

But right now, it's only speculation that AB will give up the rights, because the only thing that happened is that the games were removed from the market places.

Far more interresting would be to know what will happen to all the ppl who allready have the games and wanna download them or DLC (Like the skyfall mission in 007 Legends) again, or even play on a multiplayer server.

But even if they lose the licence now, i don't see a reason to remove games they released when they had the licence.
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: namajnaG on January 05, 2013, 05:04:23 pm
I wouldn't mind EA taking the licence back, I honestly really liked some of the titles they have released, Notably Everything or Nothing and Nightfire (Both PC and Console).
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Jonathon [SSL] on January 05, 2013, 09:32:47 pm
I wouldn't mind EA taking the licence back, I honestly really liked some of the titles they have released, Notably Everything or Nothing and Nightfire (Both PC and Console).

This. I made a point of playing the newer Activision games to see if they had anything new or interesting, and to my disappointment they were CoD clones. Not to mention 007 Legends on its own is simply just one of the worst games I've ever played. I spent almost as much time on Everything or Nothing as I did with GE64, and everything Activision's put out is clearly just a cheap cash grab using the Bond name compared to EA's attempts at doing fun and creative things with their games.
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Storm101 on January 05, 2013, 09:47:43 pm
Nightfire and Agent Under Fire had some pretty good multiplayer. Especially Agent Under Fire with its claw that could latch onto damn near anything. I'd love to play around with something like that in GES.  :P
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Luchador on January 05, 2013, 10:09:00 pm
You know things have gone rotten when we'd rather see EA with the Bond license. I do have good memories of Nightfire and Agent Under Fire though. Really hope this rumor turns out to be true!
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Rick Astley on January 06, 2013, 12:22:54 am
This. I made a point of playing the newer Activision games to see if they had anything new or interesting, and to my disappointment they were CoD clones. Not to mention 007 Legends on its own is simply just one of the worst games I've ever played. I spent almost as much time on Everything or Nothing as I did with GE64, and everything Activision's put out is clearly just a cheap cash grab using the Bond name compared to EA's attempts at doing fun and creative things with their games.

man tell me about it- it was downright hard to get the plantium and Gold awards to unlock cheats
Title: Re: Fantastic News- Activison gets The Boot
Post by: Rick Astley on January 09, 2013, 11:33:16 am
UPDATE:

Its Offical:

http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/gaming_activision_game_over.php3