https://twitter.com/ScarizardPlays/status/1740847586863665530
Hot damn. I've seen friction between upper management before but it's literally inconceivable to me that I would ever wake up and see that level of genuine hatred from like, one of my place's senior management tweeted out to an ex-CEO.
I guess Bobby was a very special guy to the Blizzard crew, huh?
There was also one string of Tweets in which many seniors from the Overwatch crew blamed Kotick for sabotaging the franchise and ruining Overwatch 2 with terrible decisions from higher up getting in the way of development. I really felt that one since I used to be an OW fan.
Everyone knew something was off when the game director which was extremely passionate (Jeff Kaplan) just straight up left the team after OW2 was announced. Really sucks, but at least we got some context.
If the people who make those profits could make another 5% at the expense of a million people dying, then a million people will die, and it won't be the first time.
I guess it depends on how you define success.
If you take it to mean achieving a given set goal, then i am as successful as bobby k.
I have achieved many of my goals and would consider myself very successful.
But bobby has significantly more money than i do. Does that make him more successful than me? I would argue he is less successful as his goal isn't to make the amount of money he has made up to this date. He won't have achieved his goals/success until he has bled dry every single game company he can get his gruby hands on.
Yeah, I worked there back in the day. Started when we were still owned by Vivendi. Quit after about a year of ownership by Activision. Fuck Kotick. Seriously.
Microsoft will have made this guy a billionaire, and he doesn't deserve a penny. Oh well, at least we get to keep specific games away from another game platform, I'm sure that makes it worth it.
I have every console from the 2600 to the PS3Wii360 but stopped buying them when I realized they’re just low-powered, locked-down PCs now with HELLA EXPENSIVE after-purchase costs.
I’m not just talking about PS+, I’m talking about the exorbitant price of games as well.
Computer games go on sale insanely more often, for much lower prices. I’ve bought many games day-one for 15+% off from GMG and whatnot.
That and rebuying old games if you don’t keep your older consoles.
Well you don't need a "modern" gpu, an RTX 2060 or 5700xt would give better performance on most games. In which case, I've spent more on Xbox Live Gold in 5 years ($~70 each year for 5 years, around $350) and just the subscriptions cost about $100-150 more than a 5700xt assuming mostly yearly payment. Plus there's the fact that you can actually do anything on a PC, most game development is targetted towards PC and you can get a lot more (indie) games, PC games are infinitely more modabble because of the tight restrictions that are put on consoles that prevent the user from doing anything the console companies don't like, and you can obviously use it for everything other than games. And you can pirate anything on PC, you can't on Xbox or PlayStation, and you obviously can run your own FOSS OS & software.
There is absolutely 0 reason to pay for a console in this day and age, it's caveman technology and costs far more in the long run. The only reasons to stay are artificial, either your friends exclusively play consoles and you can't play with them if you only have a PC, or artificial restrictions like games agreeing with Sony/Microsoft to exclusively launch on one platform for a few years.
If you're a person who doesn't do literally anything other than gaming, and you only play single-player or free games, then a console might not be a detrimentally bad use of money, but otherwise it is just a waste of $600 plus hundreds of dollars of subscriptions.
Shitty CEOs like this are rewarded for their bad behavior, not punished. Fuck these assholes.
I'm glad that Kotick is gone. I'm hoping Microsoft and the remaining ABK leadership can steer the company in a better direction.
Microsoft tends to give companies they acquire as much or as little oversight as Microsoft thinks they need.
When they acquired Mojang they essentially did not change anything. It's basically the same company now as it was before.
Which is weird because they don't seem to understand a lot of the appeal of Minecraft and tend to boil it down to the aesthetic. When seeing talk of Minecraft dungeons, I was amazed that there was no dungeon crafting tool. Seems like it would have added a ton of value to a game and made it far more related to a game about... crafting.
I’d bet the person you’ve responded to has at least a few parasocial relationships with online personalities.
Most likely. And probably people who either haven't done much or are really terrible people.
Art is important. Entertainment is important.
Its not being a doctor and saving lives but it makes people happy and gives people jobs which helps the economy.
So it is important.
Jackass.
Umadbro?
Shit like this is cringe. Kotick makes money and turned a failing company into a successful studio. You might not like it but he makes games for the majority and he wouldn't have been successful otherwise.
Wotlk WoW era Blizzard was a failing company? In what metric?
Money makers like OW2/Diablo Immortal aren't designed for the majority either, but for the 1% willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money. He made a successful studio develop into a souless money printing machine.
Edit: If you want to credit him with everything Blizzard's achieved since his tenure, why not also credit him with sinking Blizzard's reputation into the ground for the current generation of youths, ensuring that whoever comes after will have nothing to work with?
Not defending kotick but, isn't that what a big corp CEO's job is? Make money for the shareholders, at any cost? I hate what he's done. But I don't see a point in bashing him for doing exactly what your typical scum big corp CEO does.
No. It's not generally the CEOs job to cover up rapes and sexual assaults. There's a line and Kotick crossed it. Whatever money he made wasn't worth the shit he did. If you participate in covering up for rapists you are not serving your shareholders, you're destroying the reputation of the company as soon as what you have been doing gets out. Which is exactly what happened and led directly to Microsoft taking the company over.
Short term profit is great, but if I was a shareholder I'd rather get a Bezos or Murdoch making sustainable scummy decisions rather than a Kotick or Musk damaging the company's long term reputation and haemorrhaging skilled workers in the process. I believe Kotick is lacking as an 'ideal' scum big corp CEO, as do his workers and Microsoft.
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Either you're blissfully ignorant toward the truly heinous shit Kotick has done and has allowed to be done under his watch, or you're aware of those things and are okay with them.
I really hope it's the former, because that's at least correctable.
You joined lemmy after the reddit protests. Either you came here to make it a worse place or you came here because you disagree with the scummy shitty decisions that people like spez and bobby make so they can make more money.
So you are either suffering a huge amount of cognitive dissonance, smoking some mad copium, or you are a massive troll.
You have -2000 or so karma already so im guessing its all three.
