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Activision sends along news that the Call of Duty demo at the center of last
night's firestorm ( story) will be released this evening all
across the internet, with no exclusivity. Here's the deal: The recent
reaction to the upcoming Call of Duty demo has caught us here at
Activision by surprise. We're appreciative and excited about the high level of enthusiasm the game has received throughout the gaming community. Due
to the tremendous demand for the demo – we are answering the call by not only
making the demo freely available to all gamers at the same time, but early –
This Friday Night - just in time for the long weekend.
Gamespy has been a great partner - working with us so that we can make our fans
happy and give them a taste of a game they're clearly excited about. The demo
will be available across the net on fan and gaming coverage sites,
including GameSpy's FilePlanet.
We think you'll love Call of Duty, and we can't wait for you to play the demo.
Look for it Friday night!
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Re: Lame |
Aug 29, 2003, 21:53 |
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It's called a competitive advantage. FilePlanet had a perfectly legitimate one until its competitors whined, colluded, and extorted it away. Such behaviour shouldn't be called capitalism.
It would be one thing if it was the CONSUMERS, via some sort of petition, clamored and Activision ceded the point. However, in this case, it was FilePlanet's COMPETITORS that bullied their way into getting want they wanted. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and yes, makes me respect bluesnews a little less.
Thanks for sticking up for me Blue, although I don't remember asking you too. Oh wait, perhaps your real motiviation was defending your own website in the face of new and unusual competition. Perhaps you should discuss future tactics with RIAA...
I have yet to see how this situation differs from the case where magazines are packaged with exclusive demos. Suppose you own Fox News and I own CNN. If CNN secures an exclusive interview with some VIP no one can get too, is CNN obligated to share it with every other news network immediately? Either way, it costs the consumer nothing, and the VIP, if they are trying to get their message out, wants it to reach as many people as possible...perhaps Barbara Walters should share all her exclusive interviews with everyone when she gets them. After all, everyone wants to hear want Michael Jackson has to say, and he wants everyone to know what a great guy he is, so why should Barbara keep it too herself?
I don't have a subscription to FilePlanet. I can also totally see how people think exclusive demos are a dumb idea. But FilePlanet didn't do anything wrong. Gamers have a right to complain, but it's pretty lame of all of FilePlanet's competitors to get together and outmuscle them of something that they earned.
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