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Games that I boycott part 2 - Conflagration
Hoborg | 3:10 PM on 06.10.2009 37 comments


There is now an official period of video game dearth during which many game developers focus sharply on finishing their products for fall. This publishing abeyance is usually a negative thing for most gamers who haplessly overturn their wallets for subpar titles headlong. The Newtonian universe consists of a totality of casual links that beget even greater astronomical events. One such advent is centered around Bobby Cotick who may be the devil. For every Activision-Blizzard game you now buy, Bobby Kotick can afford to sate his infernal appetite for virgin blood. I need to descry that Bobby Kotick is the personification of an ancient archetype present in antediluvian cultures, and not a literary figure of the abysmal realm. He is a perfidious deceiver with whom men sign infernal contracts for insular pleasures. Not only has made known his callous intent to exploit intellectual property, and those who consume them, but he has aggrandized his reputation as a niggardly Anti-Christ by recently announcing a law suit against Brutal Legend.

What game am I boycotting? Several to be exact. The older one in mind is viscous developer Treyarch's conventional WW2 simulacrum which was a soporific experience based on the demo. It's still on my shitlist because it is a patent money grabber. This is old news to be true, and so I am being informed that my hatred of Bobby Cotick is prosaic. If this is true, and if MANY hate Kotick, then why do you buy his games? The misanthropic Mr. Kotick has no interest in games so calling them "his" games to denote ownership is purely pro forma and not a reflection of pride. Do you know why Starcraft is coming in three installments? Do you know why these highly anticipated Blizzard games are taking forever? Is it exhaustively the work of this video game devil as he bids to subvert and debauch you gullible gamers? No, it’s because you subscribe to WoW, the most lucrative and effluent cash device ever engendered. Why is Nintendo treating its hardcore fans like shit? Because they can afford to. Likewise, Activision-Blizzard can afford to delay high quality games while they invent new ways to cadge profit because WoW is an indelible source of income. The average petulant gamer will probably occlude any attempts to criticize a game I find insipid, so my call to boycott WoW is already rendered moot. But I will say it anyway because I can, don't pay for WoW! Try other MMOs, and if you don't like it, go back.

I understand that my imperious tone falls on deaf ears because it is largely ingenuous. But it is the truth; WoW is evil because it empowers corporations with too much incentive to exploit. Game developers and CEOs should be diffident under the prospect of an angry and unified mob. Instead, you are engaged in a modern-type of indentured servitude. From now on I will do my part and I will only buy Activision games used or at a heavily discounted price. That is ironically a statement of rarefaction, and we must all do our part to make Bobby Kotick's life as miserable as possible.

I will also pass on Prototype this summer. The review embargo is just another (Reference to person of a differing political ideology) tactic to conceal an inchoate sandbox game based on the recent post-festum reviews (e.g. IGN).



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Blasto's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 16:24
Blasto
Death ears?

lol, bless your little heart Hoborg, don't ever change.
DocHaus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 16:48
DocHaus
You might have had a point in this post about Kotick exploiting intellectual property for profit, but then you had to ruin it at the end by running headlong into Godwin's Law. Unless you're doing an awesome job of sarcasm, in which I would say "bravo, good sir. You certainly had me fooled."
norm9's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 17:07
norm9
Meh. Not enough big words in this blog. You can do better Hoborg.

Also, World at War was a fun game. In fact, I think I enjoyed it more than Bioshock.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 17:11
Tubatic
@4
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 17:18
Naim Master
Actually , Blizzard always obscenely delayed their game ; also , Dochaus , you got troll'd !
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 17:42
Chris Carter
Boycotting a game you haven't played! These blogs get better everyday. I had the chance to enjoy Prototype, and it wasn't bad at all.


BlackSunEmpire's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 18:29
BlackSunEmpire
You still have not explained why you write like this, so I intend to post a similar comment to what I posted yesterday.

These blogs are bordering on unreadable, which is surely directly against the point of writing it in the first place (or atleast posting it on a website where it shows in a feed to other users of the site).

This is not because the words are not understandable by themselves, but because you have so obviously gone out of your way to use any string of 'big words' you could look up and that actually detracts from any information contained within. A 'big word' in a sentence is no problem, even if someone doesnt understand the full meaning, they can generally infer it from the rest of the words grouped around it.

It has to do with the fact that you are so keen to get the next 'big word' out there, you dont write with any fluidity, it stops and starts like a garbage truck, and the result is a steaming pile of shit. If you cant write it naturally, the people reading it sure as hell cannot read it naturally. This shows mainly if you look at paragraphs individually, your first few always contain the days quota of thesaurus. Then you actually lose steam and the last few paragraphs are written in a close to normal way.

Finally, it is more than obvious that you seem to think it makes you appear intelligent (I would actually argue otherwise). But as people have expressed in your previous blog entries, it is far more impressive to explain something that is complex in simple terms, rather than your chosen method of taking something simple and making it needlessly complex.

So again I ask, why do you write like this??

Also,
SephirothX's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 18:35
SephirothX
[/i]...tactic to conceal an inchoate sandbox game based on the recent post-festum reviews...[/i]

...tactic to conceal an inchoate sandbox game based on the recent post-festum reviews...


...to conceal an inchoate sandbox game...


...an inchoate sandbox...

...an inchoate...
SephirothX's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 18:38
SephirothX
dont ask me why i felt the need to point that out. when i said it out loud it just sounded silly
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 18:39
AgentMOO
Multipass.


Also, pedantics
Tronjoy's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 19:28
Tronjoy
I feel I must castigate this verbose, bombastic blandishment and reciprocate in a synonymously garrulous manner to vocalize how ineffable this perfidious blog has made me.
Daxelman's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 20:04
Daxelman
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See, I can use binary as a language. Beat that, stupid.
ShuperShawn's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 20:43
ShuperShawn
Use paragraphs god dammit!! When you type out a big wall o text, it all jumbles together and makes your blog a pain in the ass to read.
MEE's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 20:53
MEE
BIG WORD! I AM INPRESSED, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE AUTHOR EVER! FUCK ERIC_EMMANUEL SCHMIDT!
TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 21:38
TheCleaningGuy
Put down your thesaurus, lose the rhetoric, and write something interesting.
Also, decide whether to spell Bobby Kotick's name correctly or incorrectly.
ArcticFox's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 21:59
ArcticFox
The comments in response to your blogs are far more interesting then your blogs themselves.

This is mostly due to the fact that:
YOU ARE A SHITTY WRITER.

You're also a pretentious asshole.

It's sad, if you had been a better writer, you might have been able to present a coherent thesis, rather then a jumbled one that seems to not suck due to the overuse of your many twenty dollar words. Your blogs present nothing but straw men and ill thought out opinions.

I dont usually like responding to flame bait, but yours is too much fun to ignore.

Also, cocks.
Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 22:06
Qraze
i'm trying to read this but it pains my eyes and brains to stay with ya. there ain't nothing wrong with paragraphing this to make it better.
ShuperShawn's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 23:13
ShuperShawn
@Hoborg

I really don't see how writing this blog will help you out with the verbal section considering it's a multiple choice section where you analyze written material and pick it apart.

The only thing this would help you with is the analytical part of the test and if that's the case, I can tell you you got some work to do.

You start of with how Kotick sucks and he's terrible for the gaming industry and your doing alright until you start talking about WoW and turn your whole argument into WoW is evil and then you bring Prototype into it at the end.

The problem with your writing here is that it's simply not very coherent and is very unfocused. You jump all over the place while you write and over complicate everything when you really don't need to.

In my opinion, I think you really have to re think your writing style and make it much more coherent and focused, you must definitely have a good vocabulary but you MUST organize your thought and ideas in order for it to be good.

You really shouldn't clog up the c blogs with your writing until you are able to make it flow and make coherent points that are easy to follow and read. Otherwise, you will just end up with the same result as this blog.
ChronosWing's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 23:15
ChronosWing
Yes your opinions are so popular most of us don't even read them then comment about how much of an idiot you are.
norm9's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/10/2009 23:57
norm9
Maybe its just me, but I'm sensing some tension in the comments.
ChronosWing's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 00:26
ChronosWing
Says the guy who's entire existence on dtoid revolves around flame baiting and ps3 bashing.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 00:28
Tubatic
"It's because my opinions are popular and people want to read this shit. "

Qraze's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 00:55
Qraze
much better now. i usually just skim thru blogs these days and gauge my comment on everyone elses comments. its just easier that way.
Space Monkeez's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 01:14
Space Monkeez
First of all, we must internalize the "flatulation" of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the "Indianisian" proximity in order to further segregate the crux of my venereal infection. Now, if I may retain my liquids here for one moment. I'd like to continue the "redundance" of my quote, unquote "intestinal tract", you see because to preclude on the issue of world domination would only circumvent - excuse me, circumcise the revelation that reflects the "Afro-disiatic" symptoms which now perpetrates the jheri curis activation.
norm9's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 02:00
norm9
@Space Monkeez,

Holy shit! Hoborg is Damon Wayans as prison nerd Oswald Bates.

BlackSunEmpire's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 06:46
BlackSunEmpire
If you actually read the comments, (comprehension is part of the GRE right??) most people dont actually read your opinions to decide whether they are correct or not. The reason for this is that your writing in its present state is unreadable, I skim read to get the gist, but you are deluding yourself if you think anyone reads it all.

Most of the commenters are trying to tell you how to write something that is readable. You refuse to listen.

Learn to write, and then come back.
Blasto's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/11/2009 10:39
Blasto
Holy shit, SpaceMonkey, you are f'n brilliant. Bless you for that comment, I LOL'd. Combined with Norm's pic, I LMAO'd. Fucking great work gentlemen.
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