headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22d heard this in a youtube video and burst out laughing so went to find the direct quote and there it is buried in an old kotaku interview, one of the all time funny executive quotes and also another rosetta stone for why video games are Like That now
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There's no reason Rayman shouldn't be as big as World of Warcraft
"So if you can just make the next iphone that would be great for our quarterlies"
Rage 3 could have been greenlit any time
Funny given the most influential part of it was the soundtrack and they decided to shit all over that afterwards
It will never stop being insane to me that before the buyout Zenimax was literally telling BGS "stop making big games that print money for us because we don't like having to wait for a few years between money printing sessions. Start making online games with MTXs"
bobby kotick wanted monthly guitar hero's
doom 5 can be the new pdf
Imagine these people buying lotto tickets, just insisting to themselves how they can make tons of money if they only buy the winning tickets.
i hadnt considered until now that of course bethesda and now microsoft leadership have probably viewed literally every single game published since skyrim as different levels of failure but of course they do. why aren't we getting skyrim every time
This is why ES6 is taking so long. Anything other then exponentially more success is a failure that will gut the studio. And the expectation of unimaginable success is often more valuable then the realities of moderate, or even great, success.
I will always *always* think about how no Square Enix game ever sells enough, no matter how big a hit it was
they NEED every game to be The Next Skyrim and if it isn't, the game is a failure and the entire studio needs to be destroyed
We had oblivion with guns, it's time for skyrim with guns. Unless that was starfield? I guess it was.
It’s really funny how many executive-lead game “ideas” are literally just “what if we made a lot of money”
It seems so easy to be an executive...
Learned yesterday that Bobby Kottick nearly cancelled Heartstone and the only reason it wasn’t canned is because people in high positions at blizzard fought for it. These reptiles don’t understand games