Over the past year, Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, has frightened and angered many gamers, particularly PS3 fans. A few months ago, before the September price cut, he publicly threatened (whether his words had substance is another story) Sony to cut the price of the PS3, or Activision would cut support from the overpriced behemoth.



Even more recently, PC gamers are furious that Modern Warfare 2, Activision’s flagship title, is priced $10 more than regularly priced PC games. That, and custom servers, a cornerstone for gaming communities, would not be in Modern Warfare 2.

Many gamers have taken action into their own hands, they have created countless online petitions (although one, created by the announcement of no custom servers for the PC version, reached well over 150,000 votes) and boycotts, never doing any coordinated damage. Well, Activision’s recent financial report shows that even disgruntled gamers buy games.

PS3 sales represented 10% of Activision’s Q3 results, bringing in $73 million. This fell just short of the Xbox 360, which accounted fo