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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-09-16 22:23
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said it's likely his company will begin selling in-engine cutscenes as full movies in the near future.
Speaking today at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California, Kotick said StarCraft II's in-game cinematics are so good that the publisher could edit them into one film and distribute it to fans digitally, a move, he said, is likely to happen sometime in the next five years.
"If we were to take that hour, or hour an a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?'
Kotick continued to say he believes his business model is superior to that of current film studios, saying a StarCraft movie distributed by the publisher would crush any opening weekend box office record ever.
"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," he said.
"Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. It might be in a partnership with somebody or alone, but there will be a time where we'll capitalize on the relationship we have with our audience; deliver them something that is really extraordinary and let them consume it directly through us instead of theatrical distribution.
"If we were to deliver a film digitally this way, I'd say an extremely high percentage would then go to the theater and watch it again."
Would you pay to watch an in-game cutscene movie?
Activision 'Likely' To Sell Game Cutscene Movies - PC News at IGN
Bob Kotick...
You douchebag
$20-30 for cutscenes?
looks like Activision has some "controls" over Blizzard.
AND YES
these are cutscenes from the game
not something made from scratch
the cutscenes in Starcraft II are only half the story
the story's narrated in the gameplay also
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Crimmy wrote on 2010-09-16 23:06
Reminds me of the bootleggers who sold game cutscenes as movies. They used to be all over eBay, I don't know if they still are.
Sounds like a dumb idea.
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Magenera wrote on 2010-09-17 00:02
Man and to think, that the used game is going to be destroyed by EA and Activision.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-09-17 01:20
Is he serious?
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Time wrote on 2010-09-17 01:22
That just sounds like a mean thing to do! Its like having a pokemon game where you have to buy the game and then all the new pokemon....Maybe, if that made sense that thats what I mean.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-09-17 01:51
Quote from Osayidan;158418:
Is he serious?
this man wanted a monthly subscription for call of duty
of course he's serious
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Chockeh wrote on 2010-09-17 02:06
Not like anyone will buy it...
Okay, be some people will for their collection or something >_>...
Hope they lose money kinda xD.
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wolfram wrote on 2010-09-17 15:35
lol. Dumbest idea ever.
Its called youtube, if you want to see the cutscenes. Or you know for SC2, there is the mission logs.
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Zid wrote on 2010-09-17 17:38
Speaking today at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California, Kotick said StarCraft II's in-game cinematics are so good that the publisher could edit them into one film and distribute it to fans digitally, a move, he said, is likely to happen sometime in the next five years.
Dumb...
"If we were to take that hour, or hour an a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them 'Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?'
Dumber...
Kotick continued to say he believes his business model is superior to that of current film studios, saying a StarCraft movie distributed by the publisher would crush any opening weekend box office record ever.
"My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say 'We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we'd like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,' you'd have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever," he said.
"Within the next five years, you are likely to see us do that. It might be in a partnership with somebody or alone, but there will be a time where we'll capitalize on the relationship we have with our audience; deliver them something that is really extraordinary and let them consume it directly through us instead of theatrical distribution.
"If we were to deliver a film digitally this way, I'd say an extremely high percentage would then go to the theater and watch it again."
So dumb that you can easily laugh at it.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-09-17 18:10
Activision ruined the world of gaming. They control half of it now and they can only think about money money money.