Thread 712916858

In what civilized world is successful numbers like these rewarded with the entire franchise becoming dead again?

Activision is as retarded as Nickelodeon.
If it doesn't sell as much as their equivalent of SpongeBob, it's a failure. Thats why VV and Beenox had the privilege of being forced to work on call of duty

>>712916858 (OP)
>successful numbers
If these were successful, then we'd be getting more remakes and NF port/sequels. Even Tony Hawk is getting more remakes.

>>712916858 (OP)
One where you "get woke go broke".

>>712916858 (OP)
why the actual fuck did they never release nitro fueled on PC

>>712918850
MTX + Online management + online PC hackers made it more effort than a simple port

>>712917071
Activision is even more retarded when you consider N. Sane and NF sold more than competitors like Sonic. Instead of finding enthusiastic devs and giving them room to whip up something nice they just gutted everything and killed it again.

Never forgive, Never forget

>>712917158
The N.Sane Trilogy was an instantaneous and gigantic success yet Activision gutted Vicarious Visions into a Blizzard support studio as a reward.

>>712916858 (OP)
Because instead of going with either of the two dev teams (who proved themselves) that made those they went with the shitty third option.

Fans loved CTRNF because you could see that Beenox devs loved the og CTR and managed to port and improve on all the core mechanics that made CTR a success, and they cared about the character design and the level design of new tracks (great skins and the sexiest bandigirls), plus adding the entirety of nitro kart and cameos such as Spyro.
The game was still rough on the netcode and the collisions, but I'm sure with more time they would have polished it to make it ready for a PC port.
But nooo, Crash is not Mario or Sonic, the new COD expansion is more important of course

>>712921139
Also the fact that the execs at Activision probably hated that they couldn't monetise the hell out of these games with microtransactions and dlc like they do with their other series.

>>712918938
Did anyone actually buy coins for CTR:NF?

>>712921430
I completely emptied the shop every season just with coins I got in-game from playing a couple hours every weekend day. It seems unlikely anyone would need to pay if they just wanted some specific items unless they weren't playing much at all.

>>712921430
Yes, a lot of people. In comparison, the coins in CTRumble got patched out in the final update cause nobody was buying them.

>>712921861
can't believe they actually made that shit

>>712920728
Activision is just incredibly mismanaged with their studios and IPs. I can only assume it took some convincing from Iron Galaxy to allow them to do Pro Skater 3+4, instead of just having VV do it.

>>712921430
If you were playing optimally you could easily get 10k+ coins per day on a weekend

When its Activision. And even more when its Microsoft, who don't give a shit about their backlog of cartoony platform characters.

>>712920273
Make the perfect Coco design, then go back 15 steps did Crash 4 do anything right?

>>712916858 (OP)
For perspective on how retarded Activision is, these are better numbers than what Mario got on the WiiU and mostly 3DS.

>>712921430
i never saw the MTX as a con since I never paid for anything and if you wanted to unlock more shit you just had to play a fun game more and getting good rewarded you more, so I didnt see the issue. the biggest problem with the game was load times and matchmaking times.

>>712916858 (OP)
But OP, they got rewarded with the likely forced task of making a
>Console Exclusive
>Crash Bandicoot Themed
>ASSFAGGOTS
>That Wasn't F2P

When you think about it, it's entirely Crash's fault this flopped. ActiBlizz made the right choice to kill him after.

>>712920273
Crash 4 art style was just ass in general.

>>712916858 (OP)
>10 million CTR sales
>Still no PC version
>Still no 60fps Series X and PS5 version
Not even being bought by Microsoft and the CEO replaced can fix Activision

>>712922730
The problem with the mtx was that it was so transparently greedy of a power move on Activision's part to force it into the game after the launch period rave reviews were out.
Beenox stuck their neck out for players by making coins easy to grind out through regular play, rather than opening wallets and Activision absolutely had to have hated that.

>>712923701
>Beenox stuck their neck out
They lied through their teeth.
>making coins easy to grind out through regular play
I'd like to see the actual math behind that. How many coins were you generating per hour of play. F2P retards always claim the grind isn't bad but its always a lie.

>>712924034
There were also codes for exclusive karts that were given with the most random collaborations like cereals, fast foods and ISPs. Beenox added karts that were 99% identical to all of those in the regular rotation towards the end.

>>712921430
I worked 40 hours a week and had chores and various bizarre life occurrences in 2019 and I was still able to unlock everything by playing with people I knew and on /v/.

>>712916858 (OP)
activision's greed is limitless

>>712924741
This is a lie.

>>712916858 (OP)
>One by Vicarious Visions (Closed)
>Other made by Beenox (COD Mines)
>The 2 games made by Toys 4 Troons flopped
If only Activision hadn't been retarded and closed VV we'd have a good Crash 4, 5 and 6 by now

>>712924220
I dont remember the exact math on it but I played a few hours after work most days and never had any issues unlocking anything. The online bonus they gave was more than generous enough to fuel that without needing to do an overnight grind like some anons did
I was just playing with randoms while taking my evening shit.

>>712920273
left head on right body is the perfect coco

>>712924220
On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays you got double Wumpa Coins by default, plus one hour each day with a times five multiplier, meaning you'd get times ten coins for three hours on weekends. Since the hour only counted actual time spent racing and online sucked donkey dick, it was about two-something hours a day accounting for load times and waiting. In my personal experience, three weeks of emptying out the hour bonus each day of each weekend was enough to completely clear out that season's shop items. I did get a lot of coins because I was good at the game and always came in the top whatever percent of players who'd receive an extra decal as a reward, but aside from that, those three weeks were also enough to clear out the "battle pass" items you'd unlock by doing dailies and weeklies.

>>712916858 (OP)

Because Activision wants to sell new games at either 60 claps or more. The market data for 4 showed them that it would be an uphill battle so they pulled the plug enitrely.

>>712916858 (OP)
>20 million
>after being severely discounted
Not as impressive when I know I bought the game for like $20 new

>>712918938
>not making money off mtx means they dont want to bother making money off the game at all
Wild. Insane even.

>>712916858 (OP)
Activision.
It also doesn't release Vigilante 8 + Second Offense for some weird reason.

>>712916858 (OP)
because of greed.

>>712925906
>>712926350
I can say with absolute certainty that these are both lies.

In a world where CoD sells 40+ million plus all the microtransactions

>>712927794
You're probably still mad that I was DNFing your ass while taking an actual dump.
Get shit on, kiddo.

>>712928774
No, I just did that math....It's really fucking bad.

>>712916858 (OP)
nice numbers, well back to being the Call of Duty company

>>712928952
Sorry to hear how you never placed first.
Wasting your multiplier on being bad at the game is a damn shame.

>>712920273
Did she really need titties?

>>712926672
Value and interest is added to it being console exclusive. No console like games should go to PC, Steam should be RTS and FPS only

>>712916858 (OP)
Boby Kotick is just a proper retard. Simple as that. He killed off every franchise that didn't pull CoD or (formerly) Overwatch money, even if said franchises were profitable. See Heroes of the Storm for reference. The puppet leadership that was installed prior to his departure simply continued his retarded decisions.

>>712930020
She always had breasts, even back when she was just concept art for crash 2.

>>712930020
The original ND concept art and all of her ingame models sans Wrath of Cortex and 4 had a bust. It wasn’t large or supple, extremely modest.

>>712916858 (OP)
games dont make money on raw sales numbers alone anymore

>>712930020
>did a female really need female qualities???
Kill yourself, fag.

>>712916858 (OP)
Vidya investors are dumb as fuck and completely context blind. If they see a game (like GTA, Animal Crossing, Minecraft or Mario Kart) selling a gorillion units, they expect their game to do the same otherwise it's a flop.
Large studios also make the mistake of promoting games bigly and not smarly, so they bleed a lot of money in advertising.

>game finally gets ported to PC
>have to do the grind all over again or spend on MTX
I don't play COD or whatever else Activision puts out, they don't do cross-saves do they?

Post the trophy girls

>>712934970
Wtf were they thinking with these models?

>>712916858 (OP)
(((They))) hate furries. :(

>>712934592
Theres no infrastructure for save transfers on most platforms.
I'd honestly start over anyway itd still be fun to do. you arent a scrub that can't beat the dev times again, right?

does anyone really believe those two games had 10m and 20m sales?

>>712936493
On ps4 CTR NF GP1 had over 1.5 million people registered via leaderboards so probably.

>>712916858 (OP)
Where are the Crash 4 numbers? Lmao

>>712936983
Some random retard who got fired on Linkedin is the “source.” As opposed to ActiBlizzs official reports on the remakes in the last 8 years.

>>712936983
One mid dud should not be capable of killing a strong IP

>>712934592
Having did the math on how bad the grind in that game is, you are fucked.

>>712916858 (OP)
it's for the best, Nitro-Fueled's art design didn't age well, they Mario Kart-ified the edgy Naughty Dog style that made it so fun in the first place, plus Activision shit the bed with the online and the paypig gacha shit