News - Activision: Video-game cut-scenes could be sold as movies

[HEXUS]

Activision sets five year plan to charge you for viewing in-game cut-scenes.

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[Kjnowak]

Don't most games allow you to go and watch the Cut-scenes as many times as you like in the options/extras menu anyway?

[danroyle]

Don't most games allow you to go and watch the Cut-scenes as many times as you like in the options/extras menu anyway?

yes they do.

If they came to me and said that i could watch the cut scenes for $20-30 i'd tell him to lube his cut scenes up and shove them up his ...............................................

[Fraz]

So charging you $20-30 for some video footage you've already watched and already paid for. Great thinking. I'm sure the consumers will just lap that idea up. Even if I didn't have the game already, I'm sure $20-30 is waaaay too much for a movie.

Clearly Bobby Kotick needs his frontal lobes removing.

[MaddAussie]

Oh dear someone's going for the headlines.

Cant see this working and TBH I'd rather sit through a video of someone's root canal work. There are very few games that have decent cut scenes that would warrant me sitting down for an hour and a half to watch, yes as a driver for the plot in games they are OK but IMHO they have a very long way to go (and so does Hollywood in a lot of its films, especially action films where the plot is usually a driver for the action sequences) to be called a fully fledged release

[kalniel]

Sounds like some people are completely misreading his statements...

[jim]

To be fair, he has a tremendous aptitude for saying stupid things that he then has to spend a lifetime justifying because they were misinterpreted.

[HalloweenJack]

on reading the whole thing - did he means to remove in game cut scenes and charge you for them or make a movie and charge for that?


edit:


meh first line:

If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, take it out of the game

£40 for the game and another £20 for the in game movies......

[Hicks12]

well to be honest the only real good games with cut scenes are stuff like mass effect which i believe is already set to be put into a film? SC2 maybe but not like the way i read it, as in we get no cut scenes unless we pay $20+ and for that we get all the cut scenes moulded together.

[dshepsman]

so let me get this right:

they sell us a game for £30-£40, we play it - get confused as we have NO idea what is going on, maybe not even play the game to the finish because of it, and then have to pay extra to watch the 'movie' just to try to understand what just happened??

now i admit, i do get impatient at the cut-scenes, as im playing a game - and want to PLAY, not watch a movie, but thats just taking the wee wee??

[Flash477]

I don't know what this guy is smoking, but can I have some?

So are they going to take $20-$30 off the cost of the games then?

[kalniel]

To be fair, he has a tremendous aptitude for saying stupid things that he then has to spend a lifetime justifying because they were misinterpreted.

They certainly seem to be misinterpreted - I don't think he's saying anything like what most people have replied about, especially taken in context of who he is talking to.

As for saying things in a manner that could then be open to selective quoting an misinterpretation, yup, he's certainly guilty of that, but aren't we all really? Perhaps we're not in his position though, and he should be more aware of this kind of thing.

[Blastuk]

Very relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/5/