[PIGMI] Activision Blizzard lobbying for new R&D tax changes

[Eva Tudori]

Thats really interesting! In answer to your question Wez, I think WoW wasn't
mentioned as Activision developed Call of Duty and the Guitar hero games
before their merger with Blizzard in 2007. Activision and Blizzard still
exist as different entities and Activision doesn't have anything to do with
WoW development.

Anyway, fingers crossed this comes about!

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Wesley Lamont <pigmi at raez.net> wrote:

> Very interesting. I'm suprised they are even looking at us with the Aussie
> Dollar so high. There must be something else I'm missing or what they are
> requesting is going to be more viable than Canada/US development though you
> would think they would be asking those governments for a similar agreement.
>
> I'm amusing  that Activision/Blizzard makes no mention of Warcraft in it's
> list of well known games.
>
> WEZ!
>  On 08/03/2011, at 9:32 AM, Jetha Chan wrote:
>
> > My bad - didn't realise it was behind a login on the website.
> >
> > Try http://puu.sh/19qg for page 1 and http://puu.sh/19qh for page 2 -
> would've given in PDF but didn't want to embed licensing information.
> >
> > Jetha
> >
> > On 8 March 2011 09:09, Chris Kruger <chris.kruger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't imagine why they'd bother unless they thought Canda was drying
> up?
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Nick Lowe <nick at onetwenty.org> wrote:
> > > Interesting!
> > >
> > > Um... does anyone have a link that's not behind a login?
> > >
> > > - Nick
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 08:37 +0800, Jetha Chan wrote:
> > >> Anyone see this in the AFR today?
> > >>
> http://afr.com/p/business/technology/game_on_for_players_XJBsCXCaZSecRh5atAWs3O
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> "The world’s biggest game studio, Activision Blizzard, which makes
> > >> some of the industry’s best-known games, including Guitar Hero and
> > >> Call of Duty, says it will invest tens of millions of dollars in
> > >> Australia in coming years.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> But there’s a catch. It wants the Senate to pass proposed research and
> > >> development tax changes."
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Worth a read - here's hoping they're met with some success.
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