Controversial Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick will depart the company on 29th December, it's been announced. Koti…
  • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1261·
    11 months ago

    I could’ve sworn I had NSFW content turned off, but yet there’s a picture of a gigantic asshole on this post

    • Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      11 months ago

      This golden parachute is glorious.

      He says exiting the building.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    11 months ago

    I’m glad he’s finally fucking off, it’s just a shame it’s with such a fat bag of cash

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Except any good will that Blizzard used to have. But then again, that happened before he left.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    11 months ago

    And while it’s a good thing that this asshat is gone, I’m sure he’ll be running another company soon enough and spreading his cancer and bad practices elsewhere very soon as a CEO at some other company.

    Plus you know that he’s not the only cause of this at the company and his underlings that are just as cancerous with their bullshit are still there.

    • Cossty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Oh he most definitely will be, probably in few months, I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the January he is already CEO again.

  • GregorGizehEnglish
    242·
    11 months ago

    New director starting with “building on the successful launch of starfield,…” doesn’t inspire confidence. Neither did kotick though so let’s just see what happens

      • Zorque@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        Hype’ll do that. I guess the question is if we should trust a statement basing the success of the game purely on the launch and not on the staying power.

      • GregorGizehEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Oh im sure the numbers check out. It’s more that I played the game, which I even got for free, and found it to be the most uninspired, bland and overhyped let-down I’ve played this year.

        It is worse than cyberpunk at launch, only that game at least had an amazing universe and aesthetic to enjoy (and is in a much better state now).

        A director who apparently celebrates creative bankruptcy as a huge success because marketing sold it well is just not a good outlook for a game franchise already in similar creative trouble (blizzard).

      • Alto@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        I’d wager that’s not a successful launch, that’s a successful marketing campaign. It clearly has fuckall to do with how good the game is.

          • Alto@kbin.social
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            11 months ago

            “The blatant general consensus doesn’t count!”

            It was breaking records on sales immediately. That has nothing to do with how good the game is, that has everything to do with how many people your marketing campaign managed to trick into preordering. Just because bethesda has been coasting off their reputation for the last decade doesn’t mean everything they shit is still gold.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    11 months ago

    He’s going to avoid blame for all the shit that Blizzard is going to experience going forward, likely due to his management.

    • DraEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Is there a scraped list in text format somewhere?

  • Album@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    Imagine getting paid that much to ruin everything you touch.