Despite acquiring them just this spring to eliminate competition...
Back in April, Activision was sued by Genius, publisher for the lesser-known Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. Apparently Activision had done a lot of corporate bullying that failed to discourage Genius, so in order to eliminate the competition for DJ Hero, they simply bought the developer, 7 Studios. Then there was the nasty lawsuit because Activision began hindering development and witheld Scratch DJ assets from Genius.
Activision denies all this, of course, but their new relaitonship with 7 Studios is not exactly off to a great start. Months after the Scratch incident, the DJ Hero publisher is cutting staffers from the budding development company. 30 employees have been dropped from 7 Studios as Activision moves for a greater focus on music-gaming.
"Since the completion of its acquisition by Activision, 7 Studios has realigned its business to focus its development resources on the music genre," a rep explained. "As a part of this realignment, the studio is reducing its workforce to better reflect Activision's upcoming slate of music-based games."
Perhaps 7 Studios will soon be tasked with developing future Hero titles? I'm thinking Band Hero III World Tour Van Halen, or something.
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They seem nobody would suspect what are they planing about , then they reply with an utterly meaningless reply "reducing it workforce to better reflect next slate" cocky business-like talk with no practical sense at all. Let me just remind you , that activision does not do anything , they don't develope anything , everything they theoretically do , are developing subsidaries and those that were acquired.
Heck , Activision is such an old company, responsible for quite some things in past , with a reputation at least , now what this idiot bobby did , turned it into an capitalist publisher EA-like crapfest.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
oh well what can you do?