@Paintballa Do you play SC2 and D3? Those players hate on those games damn near 24/7. Every now and then you catch a break while they take a bite out of a taco or sip their mountain dew, but other than that, its like any other genre warzone.

@ExtremeGamer564 I'd have to go back to the original article about this, but I believe Activision fired just the two execs, and the rest followed them for whatever reasons.

@Slash_out Well, its bonuses for two games that both broke sales records in their time. I think MW2 was a 10 million seller world wide?

It's not like Activision wasn't paying them their actual salaries, that would be too obvious lol.

@GinobilusPrime This article actually makes it sound like Activision paid everyone but those two, and will go to trial for them.

And all other developers can't ignore single player. Multiplayer is fun, yes, but single player is where the creators get to actually present stories, characters, and actually make an argument that videogames aren't brainless scapegoats for teenage violence.

@q-bert39 This is one of the hundreds of games to come out of America and you choose to use it as the exemplar for its ability to do anything? You're not biased :P lol

@Trickymaster Still not the lowest. It was Superman 64 for the longest time, but I believe Big Rigs took the crown. Cosmic Race got perhaps the lowest score ever on any magazine or site. 0.0 haha

EA seems to be the current dead horse to kick around. Its not hard to see why, with its recent string of bad moves with big name titles, but please, "Destroying" gaming? No single company is responsible for such an impact, and we, the consumers, have a part of the blame too for largely buying into what they're doing.

Indies saving gaming? That's also way off the mark, but I expect nothing less from an indie dev that's on one hell of a high horse.

@WCU_deva I don't think anyone thinks that, lol.

This is something that will always face games with online components, and is certainly nothing new. What is so "shocking" about this instance is that its for so many games at once, and some aren't even that old. I also question the objectivity of the writer of this article, because it couldn't have been more than a few weeks ago SOE announced unplugging four of its titles, yet that didn't come under any scrutiny at all. There also seems to be a lot more rage over this than MS shutting down original XBox support on live. Why is this instance getting all the gunfire? I certainly thinks that this kind of thing sucks, and if it ever happens to a game I'm actively playing, I'll probably feel the burn. But, this is also a reality that I was always aware of when it came to online gaming. They will only run as long as the company wants to run the servers.