Activision kills off Guitar Hero and cancels True Crime

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#1 XboximusPrime
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-09-activision-kills-guitar-hero

Apparently Activision has hit DJ Hero developer with severe layoffs and axed the Guitar Hero series, Eurogamer understands.

Crazy stuff. So what, were going to get TWO Call of Duty games a year now?

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#2 deactivated-58b6232955e4a
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Activision can survive just on Blizzard and WOW really...
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#3 mitu123
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This is great news, but Tony Hawk should die with it as well, hasn't been good since last gen!!!

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#4 Led_poison
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Oh good, also True Crime was terrible anyway
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#5 GreenGoblin2099
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Activision will use them to develop Call of Duty Hero.

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#6 XboximusPrime
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We shouldnote that this isnt officaly offical yet until we hear it from Activision, but it looks legit.

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#7 BPoole96
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I would lol if out of nowhere they cancelled Call of Duty. There would be riots

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#8 Pug-Nasty
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I'd love to see that whole company fizzle out of existence, taking their sloppy games with them.

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#9 johny300
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Wait you mean they cancelled true crime hong kong?
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#10 Sp4rtan_3
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They kill True crime and Guitar rehash but NOT tony hawk :|?

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#11 N7v1K0
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About time :roll:

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#12 Chris_Williams
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dang, rockband did alot more damage then i thought it would

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#13 dakan45
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Did they really cancel true crime? :cry: activision sucks.
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#14 GreenGoblin2099
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Did they really cancel true crime? :cry: activision sucks.dakan45

And you realized just now?? :?

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#15 Upparoom
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I don't think this bodes well for COD. They only have one novel idea left to destroy now.

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#16 johny300
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I was really looking forward to it after the E3 demo, damn you activision :cry:.
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#17 topgunmv
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Activision can survive just on Blizzard and WOW really... SAGE_OF_FIRE

I think if it comes to the point where activision is literally just leaching on the success of blizzard, that the activision branch of their operation will experience considerable downsizing, maybe even the "activision" part of the company name being dropped.

Look to AOL Time Warner for what could happen.

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#18 Snakemaster9
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imagine if there was no more cod. :o

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#19 joshrocks2245
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I was looking forward to true crime. It's such an underrated game in my opinion. I don't really care about guitar hero but I was really looking forward to true crime :(

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Aww:( I was interested in true crime.
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#22 BZSIN
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They kill True crime and Guitar rehash but NOT tony hawk :|?

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The only reason I can think of for that is that they've got a multi-game deal. No way Activision would keep it otherwise.
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#23 vashkey
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Kinda sad to see Guitar Hero go down like this.
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#24 vashkey
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dang, rockband did alot more damage then i thought it would

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No, I'd say it has more to do with interest in plastic instrument games going down.
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#25 thespywholied
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Activision can do what ever they want now.. thanks to CoD. :(

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#26 TheEroica  Moderator
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dang, rockband did alot more damage then i thought it would

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or maybe activision itself did.
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#28 Mazoch
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I cant help but wonder if Activision is going to loose out in the long run from riding their few top franchise so hard. I can understand that they want to capitalize on a successful franchise, but it sounds like they are planning to actually release something like 2-3 CoD titles over the next year. How many people are actually going to continue to buy those titles if that's the case? I think one of the main reasons why Guitar Hero and Rock Band are hurting is because they've been pushed so hard. They've released so many different versions, expansions, band boxes, instrument sets and god knows what in just a few years that people ultimately had enough. It was interesting for the first couple of games but after the 5th game... not so much. With CoD they've now released 4 games based on the successful model of CoD:MW. How many more games until the franchise deflates and dies and stop selling?
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#29 Jynxzor
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I'm still curious is Vivendi is going to split off Blizzard from Activision givin the massive downspiral the studio seems to be in. Although I doubt this will happen until the CoD franchise starts to burn out, and knowing how much people love they FPS's that will be a good 2-3 years until they drive CoD into the ground or someone replaces it.
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#30 taterfrickintot
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Good, now lets hope they destroy the CoD franchise ...

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hows is the death of 2 good franchises good? and COD is great. chill bro.
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#31 Deadbeatcobra
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[QUOTE="KiZZo1"]

Good, now lets hope they destroy the CoD franchise ...

taterfrickintot

hows is the death of 2 good franchises good? and COD is great. chill bro.

too much of a good thing is bad, i wont be surprised if they end up releasing 2 CoD titles in a year with so many devs working on the franchise

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#32 trugs26
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I despise yearly installments of any game. Especially those that hardly evolve (most sports games). If you cut out say 2 or 3 years in between games, and say compare a game from 09 to 06, you'll see worth while changes, but usually comparing the 09 to the 08, it's hardly worth the purchase.

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#33 tagyhag
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Well it's not surprising, Guitar Hero wasn't making enough money. I wonder what they'll do next.

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#34 deactivated-594be627b82ba
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damn it that true crime game looked good especially for a true crime game

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#35 JohnF111
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About time :roll:

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Agree, cannot stand those cheesy shovel-ware Guitar Hero games... True Crime wasn't the worst thing in history but i only played the first one so don't know what the second one was like.
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#36 RandomWinner
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My friend just showed me the True Crime E3 demo! I was looking forward to it! They make so much damn money they shouldn't have to cancel games, just end franchises like Guitar Hero.