Activision Leaves PC Gaming Alliance

[Spawndemon]

In a report posted over on Kotaku, it's been revealed that Activision is no longer a part of the PC Gaming Alliance. Take a look:

Despite being one of the founding members of the industry awareness board, it's been revealed that Activision have now left the PC Gaming Alliance.

Over the weekend, a couple of readers noticed that the company's logo no longer appeared on the PCGA's website. Contacted for comment, the PCGA confirmed that "a few members have decided they cannot justify the budget (membership and staff) required to maintain an active role in the PC Gaming Alliance at this time." It would appear Activision are one of those members.

It's the second industry advocacy group Activision have walked away from in the past year, with the company leaving the Entertainment Software Association last July.

While the loss of the world's biggest publisher - and the people pushing PC stalwarts Call of Duty and World of Warcraft - is a big blow to the group, they're at pains to point out that that everyone else is sticking around, including Microsoft, Capcom, Epic, GameStop, Sony, Intel, AMD & Nvidia.

Will this hurt Activision at all or the PC community as a whole? Post what you think.

[MrKLM]

Re: Activision Leaves PC Gaming Alliance

It wont effect anything. Activision-Blizzard will still support PC gaming as will EA and many other companies that are not part of the PC Gaming Alliance. Being members of "coalitions" like this cost money and when its an extra expense that you dont really need why have it.

[imported_Whiskey]

Re: Activision Leaves PC Gaming Alliance

Interesting that neither Valve nor EA seems to be on that list either.

While something like this "alliance" sounded good on paper, I'm not sure all these companies were actually really interested in working together for the betterment of PC gaming. Maybe the next attempt will.