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Having worked on Wall Street 20+ years now I can tell you it is all<br>
about expected earnings. ACTV is turning a deaf ear because
this<br>
is already money in the bank. NEXT...<br><br>
As much as I wish a server shutdown would help, it won't. With 3200<br>
servers out there, I suspect it will make a small dent.<br><br>
The saying goes "You need to hit them in the pocketbook", that
is what<br>
hurts. There are a few ways to do this.<br><br>
1. I belong to an investment club. We hold ACTV stock. I can
say<br>
we have had a good ride, but it is clear this ride is not likely to
continue<br>
based on this attitude change from ACTV. It is time to sell.
Investment<br>
clubs watch other investment clubs, not just companies.<br><br>
2. While I am at work this week it is time to pay a visit to my friends
that<br>
have been very helpful for so many years. As equity analysts
specializing<br>
in various industries, I will put my two cents in about ACTV to
these<br>
friends. Since I am expensive, I do not work for any one brokerage,
I<br>
have 4 brokerage clients however, and they have been so wonderful<br>
to me in the past, it is time to repay based on where I think ACTV
is<br>
heading financially. Reality is they are moving more to consoles.<br>
A crowded market that will become more crowded. I<br>
have my business reasons why I don't think ACTV will do well there.<br>
(Perhaps History will repeat itself. Consoles is where ACTV started<br>
and I recall the time when they were on the brink of
bankruptcy).<br><br>
3. To hit them in the pocketbook, you need exposure, and to try<br>
to dissuade people from buying their products. As a buggy PC
game<br>
developer, they are entering a market where "they don't send out
updates"<br>
for console systems. One way is to start a web site that states
the<br>
situation, poor support, etc, and massively link that site to push
it's<br>
Google rating up.<br><br>
We should also see about recouping some of our money. I
pre-purchased<br>
COD2 with the understanding that COD2 was a sequel in the series<br>
and COD2 would have basic A/C as it's original COD did. I am not
an<br>
attorney, but this is what I believe is class actionable. I want the
money<br>
back for my three copies of COD2 as ACTV did it on the cheap and<br>
did not add A/C. It can clearly be shown this is a financial
decision.<br><br>
Know an attorney that is in the business, or is among us? We
should<br>
take this off-line and consider this.<br><br>
On the exposure:<br><br>
I will donate "Activisionsucks.com", and the webspace and
bandwidth,<br>
and we need as many sites to link to it as possible. Once in place<br>
I will submit to all the webcrawler bots.<br><br>
The goal: Boycott all Activation products and get the word out about
their<br>
lack of support. We owe it to other consumers out there as this is
IMHO<br>
large scale fraud. I certainly feel defrauded. Had I known there was not
going<br>
to be basic A/C, I would never have purchased the game. I believe the
bulk of<br>
people that pre-ordered the game that are unhappy are in the same
position.<br>
This is the group I believe is class actionable. We need an
attorney amongst<br>
us.<br><br>
Once it is up, we will let all the rags know about it. They won't turn
away<br>
ACTV's money, but if we do it right, it is news, and any press is good
press<br>
as any business man knows. Of course I mention the site to my
equity research<br>
friends..., and if you know any, so should you.<br><br>
There is no liable or slander. These have several legal requirements. One
is that<br>
the statements made are not fact. That is not going to be the case.
We<br>
tell it like it is... The facts are what they are.<br><br>
Mark<br><br>
<br><br>
At 12:25 AM 11/27/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>FYI, in case you didn't see
it...<br><br>
<br><br>
<a href="http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/index.php?showtopic=17450" eudora="autourl">http://www.iwnation.com/Forums/index.php?showtopic=17450</a><br><br>
> There comes a time when a little revolution can do an awful lot more
good than meekly submitting to the will of others, especially if you feel
you have a genuine greivance.<br>
> <br>
> That time is NOW my friends.<br>
> What do i mean?<br>
> <br>
> I propose that if you are happy with following Statement you post
your acceptance in this thread and get as many others as possible to sign
up including League/Ladder players & admins, Clan members, server
admins/providers and just about every COD/UO/COD2 player you can
ask.<br>
> <br>
> "We request here and now that either Activision or Infinty Ward
make an offcial announcement regarding their future support for the Call
of Duty series of games on or before 16th December 2005.<br>
> <br>
> The statement should include the following:<br>
> <br>
> 1. When will you include an Anti-Cheat system for COD2?<br>
> 2. When you you release your 1st patch for COD2?<br>
> 3. What will it include?<br>
> 4. What other plans have you for the support of the Call of Duty
Games?<br>
> 5. What will you do to ensure this situation does not arise
again?<br>
> <br>
> Failure to comply with this very simple request will result in the
following action:<br>
> <br>
> We will actively encourage ALL<br>
> Clans, Leagues, Ladders, Players, Admins and server providers to
enforce a series of 24hr mass server shutdowns of all Call of duty games
at a time of our choosing.<br>
> <br>
> Don't take this lightly, word spreads, people won't buy a broken
toy.<br>
> This has never been done before and do you really want to go down as
the first and only companies to have it's client/fan base take such
drastic measures in order to simply be given some regular information
about a product, the choice is yours alone.<br>
> <br>
> WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED ANY LONGER.<br>
> <br>
> TALK TO US AND HELP US, TO HELP YOU MAKE THE CALL OF DUTY SERIES
BETTER ONLINE GAMES.<br>
> <br>
> DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES, YOU HAVE BEEN
WARNED!<br>
> <br>
> To my knowledge, should this action take place it will be the first
and only time such drastic measures have been taken by any gaming
community anywhere in the world.<br>
> I don't want us to make history but it may come done to it.<br>
> <br>
> SHAME ON YOU AV AND IW FOR LETTING IT GET THIS FAR....
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Mark J. DeFilippis, Ph. D
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defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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