News - Activision Blizzard complete multibillion buyback from Vivendi

[HEXUS]

Firm will start a “new chapter” and promises the “creation of great games”.

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[Jonj1611]

50GB hard drive space!! Why for the love of god why!!!

[ik9000]

50GB hard drive space!! Why for the love of god why!!!

Duh. Isn't it obvious? 1GB for the game and 49GB for the DRM.

[Jonj1611]

Lol of course, I see it now! Thanks man

[LeetyMcLeet]

50GB hard drive space!! Why for the love of god why!!!

Duh. Isn't it obvious? 1GB for the game and 49GB for the DRM.

lol

[shaithis]

50GB hard drive space!! Why for the love of god why!!!

Because it's about bloody time!

We have had to put up with crummy textures and low quality sound for a while now due to consoles, now they actually have decent amounts of RAM, we finally get non-overly-compressed-to-hell files.

[DanceswithUnix]

I presume you also get 40GB of pre-rendered cut scene movies.

[jnutt]

Personally I think COD is the biggest rip-off out there

[OilSheikh]

Why do games keep getting bigger in size. Crysis was 8GB ? and no game has matched up to that level of awesomeness yet. And, only needed 2GB RAM.

[addz17]

50gb is insane! COD games have been nothing but the same crap for the last 5 years and each game holds my attention for 10 minutes max. I have quite a few terabytes to play with and even at that 50gb is too much.

[crossy]

Because it's about bloody time! We have had to put up with crummy textures and low quality sound for a while now due to consoles, now they actually have decent amounts of RAM, we finally get non-overly-compressed-to-hell files.

Your timing of that comment is great - I finally got around to starting up Sleeping Dogs yesterday (purchased more than a year ago). And that game offered me the option of hires textures. "Coo" I thought "it'll just be downloading a couple of data files" ... bit shocked to see that I needed more than 4GB of new data for that "update". Although - got to admit - that game looks sweet now.

So 50GB for CoD:Ghosts is probably on the highest end of "acceptable" - that said, I hope to hell that BF4 isn't also that size otherwise I'm going to have to do some serious app pruning - only got 36GB left on the partition at the moment, and my new drive will only add another 50GB.

[CountBartok]

“With the completion of this transaction we open a new chapter in the history of Activision Blizzard,” Mr. Kotick said in a statement. “We expect immediate shareholder benefits in the form of earnings-per-share accretion and strategic and operational independence. Our audiences and our incredibly talented employees around the world will benefit from a focused commitment to the creation of great games. Our shareholders and debt holders will have the benefit of an energized, invested, deeply committed management team focused on generating long-term, superior returns and effectively managing our capital structure.”

And within this statement is reason Acti/Blizz no longer make games of any creative or artistic merit.

[minicale]

50GB hard drive space!! Why for the love of god why!!!

Because it's about bloody time!

We have had to put up with crummy textures and low quality sound for a while now due to consoles, now they actually have decent amounts of RAM, we finally get non-overly-compressed-to-hell files.

Bf3 which is miles better looking is only around 20gb so I think they have either got the file size wrong or have really badly optimised files.

[Jingee]

50Gb is most of the free space on a 120Gb SSD...

[djsarcher]

50GB does seem a tad ott, but will be interesting to see what exactly they fill it with.

[ik9000]

50GB does seem a tad ott, but will be interesting to see what exactly they fill it with.

dataprotection.exe 24GB
internetsnooper.exe 20GB
unwanteddataminer-adexchange 4GB
indeterminatesystemhang 1GB
game.exe 1GB