Rumors About Activision Wanting to Buy Take-Two

Well, rumors are going around that Activision wants to buy out publisher Take-Two who has been the publisher of a few small games nothing major. Just the Grand Theft Auto series, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, the Civilization series, Borderlands, among others. Keep in mind, publisher not developer. Also keep in mind that this is a rumor.

However, if this rumor is true, here's my reaction:

 

This is just like 4 years ago when EA was the dickish publisher on the block. While they're not perfect they've definitely gotten much better since then. Yeah, they tried to buy out Take-Two which stood its ground and held against EA (GTAIV's release a few months later might have had something to do with it).

Take-Two has been the publisher of many fine games to say the least and they've given nearly all the games that they publish a significant amount of backing and marketing seeing the importance of them, something that Activision has failed repeatedly to do over the last few years.

Now if this rumor is true and Activision succeeds, that doesn't automatically mean that they'll hurt Take-Two's properties and the developers that work under them. But that has been their MO for a while now and when you do the same shit over and over, you start to build a reputation for things. So I hope Activision forgives me when I say that I don't trust them to show Take-Two and its great developers and properties the proper respect that they deserve.

I want Activision to get better, sooner then later so they don't start creating casualties out of other companies first. When Bobby Kotick, head of a game publishing company, says on record that he wants to take all the fun out of making video games, your company has a big problem.

Bobby Kotick: When he smiles, can he at least TRY not to look like the embodiment of pure evil?

In the end, until Activision gets their crap sorted out, and this jackass out of the door, I want them to stay away from Take-Two, as far away as possible. (Even then I would be averse to the idea, though maybe a partnership).