I’ve seen DVDs of cutscene for Final Fantasy, but we’ve yet seen a big scale of cutscenes from big titles being sold in DVDs. Activision is planning to strip all of the cutscenes from Starcraft 2, turning them into one big hella of movie somehow, and sell it for 20 to 30 bucks. Why are they doing this? Cause they think you’d buy them of kush. Anything that’ll make a profit would be a good business after all.

That’s what Activision Blizzard’s CEO Bobby Kotick said during the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference in California.Crazy ideas, but if the dude sees gold mine somewhere, there’s no harm in plundering it.

“If we were to take that hour, or hour and a half, and take it out of the game and we were to go to our audiences, who we have their credit card information a direct relationship, and say to them ‘Would you like to have the StarCraft movie?’

I’d like to believe Blizzard’s audience would collectively fall over laughing. That’s not what Kotick believes. He believes that a publisher-distributed StarCraft II movie of this sort would crush opening weekend box office records. Alright Mr.Kotick, that’s as far fetch as you can go with your silly ideas, but smashing box office records? Let’s keep that to James Cameron at the moment.

“My guess is unlike film studios that are really stuck with a model that goes through theatrical distribution and takes a signification amount of the profit away, if we were to go to an audience and say ‘We have this great hour and a half of linear video that we’d like to make available to you at a $20 or $30 price point,’ you’d have the biggest opening weekend of any film ever.”

SOURCE via Kotaku