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1. PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 06:54:25 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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   @coolboymew @kroner Of course. Aside from the sex pest allegations, just look at the games Activision released in just the 2010s. There's so many in the first half, and then the second half is just CoD (literally), the only old IP they used that they bought up was fucking Crash and the infamous Skylanders series, but also notably after the mid 2010s the whole market for "licensed" games dried up. Otherwise the entire business model of Activision has been to see how far they can milk the CoD cash cow, and unfortunately with Warzone and mobile it's lasting a bit longer.
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_games:_2010%E2%80%932019
   
   That's also when licensed games began to die out too, the Xbox One/PS4 generation did a number on those for the early days (accelerated by multiple events including the fall of Foundation 9 and Disney taking gamedev solely in house, only to kill it as well and go back to licensing it out). There was a mindset of "shitty lowest budget phone tie in game only" before trash publishers popped up like Outright Games (modern day LJN) to make Unity based shovelware games based on popular IPs. It didn't help that for every good one (such as the Star Wars games), there were so many shitty shovelware games that not even diehard fans of the movies/TV shows could like. So as a result of that industry collapsing and to maximize money, Activision and others decided to stop making those games.
   https://www.wired.com/2013/02/activision-licensed-games/
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