This 1 fucking guy ruined a whole generation of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.
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This 1 fucking guy ruined ~~a whole~~ future generations of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.
Ftfy
Dude has ruined multiple generations
It would be ruined if people didn't buy the stuff, but they do, so it's a success.
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Hope he burn in hell. He's the best example of how not to run a company. It's insane that he's not been let go for years now.
This fucking goblin enabled systemic rape in his organization. He deserves prison.
Which ring of hell is he planning on spending his retirement within?
Edit: Also, give me an example of another human being that looks more like a testicle with eyeballs.
Harvey Weinstein, but using him is practically cheating.
I hear his actual testicles (testicle?) look like they have eyeballs as well. There were a lot of similar accounts from the women he abused who used terms like "genital deformity" and "botched surgeries" when recounting the sex he forced upon them.
John Riccitiello , former EA CEO, and now former unity CEO
I am so glad he is gone. I stopped playing any blizzaed games partially because of this shmuck... and partially because the games became trash. Here's hoping things will turn around now that he is gone.
Yeah, i'm sure microsoft won't do anything to increase monetization on their 69 billion dollar purchase. The objective is to make blizzard's games better by minimizing highly profitable systems like microtransactions, battle passes, DLC season passes, xp boosters, in game real money stores.
They wouldn't be buying these properties to try and milk as much profit as possible at all. No sir.
Hey, this is the last hope I have. There's not a lot of it, but there is a tiny chance that maybe maybe maybe things will get better. Very likely not, but, you know, one could hope.
I paid full price for both Factorio and Skyrim because they are full games that I get to own. No micro transactions, and modding is almost encouraged through Steam. I will never buy another microtransaction game. I will never buy another "subscription based" platform like Xbox. I'm so fucking over not owning the thing I bought
What the big developers see when they read this is that you're a low-value customer and marketing to you will be less profitable than milking 14yo kids who use their birthday money to buy fortune gift cards.
Most underaged individuals are being taken advantage of and the government does jack shit. Gambling is banned but this you never gain money at least in gambling you have a chance to gain which makes all of this so much worse.
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I hate to break it to you but you don't really "own" the games on steam either. You have a license agreement with valve which they can revoke at any time, and you lose access to the games you paid for.
I mean, if it’s playable offline there isn’t much they can do about it, right?
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I expect some changes to integrate better with gamepass, but overall if monetisation is the problem, MS won't fix anything.
Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard to design pachinko machines and mobile games, exclusively.
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He looks like Bilbo Baggins in the scene where he's overcome with desire for the ring and tries to take it from Frodo.
the shareholders will identify a suitable replacement my dudes, no need to cheer up over this
Such a punchable face. Damn
What a piece of shit
We've replaced Kotick with Microsoft lol
And there was much rejoicing
Remember when kotick threatened to kill an assistant, and then they were fired and paid to not talk about it?
Microsoft must have a policy of no stealing breast milk, poor guy lost his job to that (fr tho, he will get a really nice bonus and will never 'pay' for the terrible work environment he created)
Vote me as a CEO I will
- bring back original maps from several CoD titles, make more, compact 3-4 row maps.
- remove skins from the game and replace buyable weapon skins with unlocks
- create 4-5 paid dlc with good content.
- revert matchmaking to OLD days…. No SBBM
- Actually invest in an working Anti-Cheat
- Reduce the amount of „Celebrities“ in-Game and Trailer
- continuing zombie lore
- console crossplay no pc
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It's "a massive change for the video game industry," Schreier writes, which seems almost restrained, given Kotick's longevity and recent history.
Kotick, who has led Activision for more than 30 years and orchestrated its merger with Blizzard, had considered stepping down in late 2021.
Activision was also sued by its shareholders and pressured by state treasurers over its secrecy and responses regarding the California lawsuit.
In early 2022, Microsoft announced its intent to buy Activision, and the timing, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, was not a coincidence.
Kotick told VentureBeat after the Microsoft announcement that he didn't believe the harassment and mismanagement accusations hurt the company's stock.
He cited delays in shipping Overwatch and Diablo titles, along with Call of Duty's sales performance.
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ITT: people who think the guy getting a $375M golden parachute is taking a huge L.
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