Timesplitters HD Collection Petition

[the dark side]

i know, but, they still have the rights from when they published Timesplitters: Future Perfect. they also have shares in Crytek, the company that now owns the former "Free Radical".

the sad thing is, as bad as EA are, none of the others are any better, even if it went back to Eidos, they would want it to be a "modern shooter", as the marketing departments of all the companies are OBSESSED with making games "authentic" and "Accessible", hence the sheer glut of "authentic modern shooters". so, no matter who had the timesplitters liscence, baring Rockstar Games or Devolver Digital, who still beleive that classic shooters can still sell well, Timesplitters would still be facing the "make it a modern shooter for the casual gamers, or we wont greenlight it" marketing issue,. beleive me, i have had More than enough encounters with greedy marketing divisions the last 6 years to know just how stupid they are,.

you see, they are businessmen who think only in "profit margins", so, they dont care about a brands history, or what its classic fans want, oh no, they want new gamers, and they want to take on the current industry heavyweights, call of duty and halo, and to them, the only way to do that is to clone those titles, 100% carbon. so what if it angers the old fans and betrays the franchise history?, all they can see is getting the massive IGN scores and legions of casual gamers that call of duty or battlefield gets for being "authentic" (read, unplayable) and Accessible (read, dumbed down casual), and then they cant beleive it when they get a 3.0 "abysmal" from IGN and no sales because the classic fans, who often are like me and cannot STAND modern shooter mechanics get angry at being stabbed in the back and walk away, and the modern fans they sook to get dont go for it because it doesnt have the "golden" name of there favourite shooter franchise, be it COD/Halo/Battlefield/ whatever, plastered on the box,.

so the publishers money people, upset at loosing money on the title instead of minting it, and unwilling to beleive that it hasnt sold becuase they didnt make the game people wanted and instead blame it on the developer, so, to recoup the lost money, they fire the poor developer who did nothing wrong other than following the orders of stupid people who think they know best because they have a marketing degree from some backwater USA polytechnic.

its a terrible mess, and sadly, ALL the big publishers, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, 2k, Eidos/Enix, they all think the same way, so no matter who had the rights to Timesplitters, bar devolver digital or rockstar, it would have the same issues it faces at Evil Alliance.

As thats just the games industry today. its not run by gamers anymore like it was in the '90s. its run by greedy money hungry businessmen, who dont even Play videogames themselves, so they dont care about them, they care only for a fast buck, and dont care if they run the industry into the ground again, in order to make that fast buck, just like it was in '81. we all know what happened in '82. and sadly, i think its gonna happen again, perhaps then Ts4 wont have as many issues as there will be less casual gamers around, and more older/experienced gamers, who will want games like "they used to be" and more indipendant small publishers run by gamers with the guts to provide them as they will care more about games than money, but sadly, we will just have to wait until then, and just hope this petition allows us to get TSHD to tide us over until the crunch.