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[@FFVogter.-em6zz]

At this point, I no longer blame Kotick for being the rat that he is, but the people that allowed him to get away with it.

[@riddif]

Microsoft paying that money to him is the clown.

[@keonkla]

Makes me think who the hell thought microsoft would fix activision-blizzard.

[@hahahano2796]

What makes you think they weren't in on it themselves? This never happens in a vacuum.

[@josephross8753]

saddly those people never face the consequences of there actions

[@mothwhomightnotbetrustworthy]

Fr. People like this are common, but their at least either transparent about it, or they're plain bad at hiding it. And not a single on of those conclusions proves that Microsoft has a soul

[@gregorymirabella1423]

He didn't get a golden parachute, he got golden wings. I'm honestly impressed that he can just walk away with nobody stopping him.

[@SlimThrull]

Who would stop him? Who COULD stop him? What he did was nothing short of incredibly sleezy. But sleezy isn't illegal. The best option would be to stop supporting companies people like him own. But the first thing they're going todo is cut out all the employees. He won't be affected by it at all. He'll still get his quarter billion dollar payout. The law won't do anything because none of this is illegal. Even if they could, he has enough money to pay lawyers to keep this out of courts for years if not decades.

[@YungRamo]

@@SlimThrull i would think at the very least the shareholders would use it as an excuse to get of him without a payout so they could have more money for themselves, of course i dont think they would be doing it to benefit the gamer at all.

[@SlimThrull]

@@YungRamo Shareholdrrs are part of the problem. All they see is green. Cut costs? More green for them. Guess what the easiest wat to cut costs is.

[@devinschexnayder7440]

​@user-hz6fj9xy4yExactly. He did what he was hired to do.

[@YungRamo]

@user-hz6fj9xy4y true, i didnt think from this angle

[@MonochromeMemories]

These clown CEO's get payed all this money, meanwhile hundreds of actual developers lose their jobs. What an absolute joke, both Blizzard and Microsoft.

[@ryantetreault3447]

He lost his job too.

[@lolwtnick4362]

*paid

[@vayne7556]

@@ryantetreault3447He got paid money that he wouldn't be able to spend until he dies. Meanwhile, the payout for most people that lose their jobs is frantically searching for a new one before they default on their mortgage.

[@plattbagarn]

@@ryantetreault3447 He got to retire with 293 million dollars*

[@ancientgamer2386]

Microsoft had contractual obligations that they had to fulfill when they got Activision or get sued and lose in the long run to this scummy person. It was Activision fault in the end because they didn't fire this scum a long time ago.

[@jacobcrowson3074]

Remember when former Nintendo CEO Iwata, willingly took a pay cut so he wouldn't have to layoff any of his employees? I do, those were good times.

[@WeedShaggy]

Iwata was Jesus while Kotick is the Antichrist of gaming

[@jacobcrowson3074]

​​​@@R3s0n4te??? How do you function ??? Edit: He deleted his comment lol, basically he was calling me antisemitic for some stupid reason.

[@nerovanbraus9119]

@@R3s0n4te wtf are you on about ?

[@lifdrasill]

Good people still exist, it's just that the scum gets more coverage

[@viktorlindqvist5308]

@@R3s0n4teWhat’s that stuff seeping out of your ears and nose? Oh. It’s your brain turning to goo from how brain-dead of a take you just made.

[@X_Blake]

Bobby's one more fvck you to us gaming fans.

[@dudebruh8534]

One? Oh, I'm sure that cum stain has a few more left in him.

[@Void-Knull]

@@dudebruh8534 that's offensive... to cum stains

[@JackCrossSama]

Bob paycheck

[@rall4688]

hes also jewish btw

[@iller3]

well he better hope social order never breaks down....or he better already be on a jet out of the country should it ever happen

[@todd8398]

If games journalism had real journalists, maybe Kotick would have received more scrutiny, but they were all too busy calling the gamers toxic.

[@sergeontheloose]

The game journalists don't play the games they are supposedly covering. Moreover, they are political activists and political writers that were not taken by a serious newspaper and decided to vent their left-wing anger at the gamers.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Tbf Kotick wasn't popular even with the kinds of journalists who also called gamers toxic. He was criticized aplenty. NO ONE liked him, except maybe his suit exec friends. But it didn't matter. Gamers couldn't touch him, and neither could the journos.

[@akatsukicloak]

Most of journalism is owned by the same tribe, you know it.

[@filozof90]

​@@akatsukicloak The world isn't controlled by some big conspiracy,the people are just stupid. Both you and gaming journos are a good example of it.

[@Joseph_G]

@@sergeontheloose Asmon's editor in this vid and apparently most of the commenters on this thread are venting left-wing anger on behalf of game journos, whether they realize it or not. Asmon's editor even includes woke journo headlines at the end of this vid, and clearly sides with the woke journos over Bobby's claims of misrepresentation.

[@ChinNationFTW]

You need to understand. Every new mega yacht Bobby buys are important

[@dindunuphenwong]

How many of those yacht's took a trip to Epstein's island?

[@holeindanssock156]

Money will not exist in 300 years. Guaranteed. 100 percent.

[@Foxaris]

And if a company wants to give him lots of money so he can buy an entire yacht fleet, well who are we to say what they should do with their money, obviously they are very happy with his hard and dedicated work.

[@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp]

He was in Epstein black book btw

[@BDRmongoose]

How else would he get to Epstein Island?

[@XSouLxIxTaKeRX]

Kotick did exactly what he was supposed to do under the current corporate playbook: increase profits by any means, cut costs by any means, and make sure the stock price goes sky high. Even if this isn't good for a business in the long run, it's good for the people that run it, and the show that satisfaction by giving him more than $250m, even if that means tearing down everything that them that money, because they don't care. They'll just move on to be executives, CEO's, etc. at some other company and the cycle will repeat. It's all about wealth extraction now, and to executives, these companies are merely sponges to suck up all the money, only to be wrung out and cast aside.

[@Joseph_G]

There are probably plenty of valid criticisms of Bobby, but this isn't one of them. He increased profits by selling products, and he got all that money by selling his shares, because they were worth that much. To sell a company for a vast fortune, because it is _worth_ a vast fortune, is not "wealth extraction", it's wealth creation.

[@Vittrich]

@@Joseph_G also people never talk why those studios got closed, like the Take2 studio who had its last game in 2020 with 40.000 copies sold. no one gaf if your game is praised by critics if your team did literally nothing for 4 years after the game and it was a huge loss on production cost. it was a team with 140 people that they paid 48 months for literally twiddling their thumbs, putting millions of dollars into the toilet. no sane person would keep this studio open, does not matter if it could be paid 8000 times with the ceo's compensation, its simple math.

[@someoneinthecrowd4313]

Exactly the same thing as politicians in non-EU countries in Europe. Turn their backs on their country, lick EU's boots and it doesn't matter because after their term they will move on to high positions in Brussels. I.E Kotick is basically a politician.

[@Joseph_G]

​@@Vittrich Exactly. Yet when these studios are closed, there's often massive controversy caused by people who just don't want to know that there were good reasons for closing them.

[@benjamingrant6203]

It’s Bobby’s world and we’re just living in it

[@R3s0n4te]

Almost, it's his tribe's world.

[@Krachbumm-Ente]

He's a jew

[@nielsdejong]

Yup, it’s a small hat’s world. Especially when it comes to mass organized immigration, hence why Israel doesn’t allow “diversity” but the people who live there shove it down our throats!

[@FirstDagger]

@@R3s0n4te That fact that his Wiki page doesn't mention it is telling.

[@moomeuh1342]

Heavy Capitalism baby !

[@NoobieSnake]

0:18 did anyone else caught what Asmon called him? 😂

[@Azmania3000]

There is no justice in this world

[@Wbfuhn]

Be patient. It aint over yet.

[@reyray7184]

What are jew trying to say? 🤔

[@dickkickem6941]

​@@WbfuhnYea ,its only going to get even worse

[@xtradi]

Then there's the afterlife. Hitler kills millions yet only die once

[@unsuspectingvisitor]

Did he took your lunch money?

[@AnthonySmith-x5z]

To wiki now i go, To look under early life is a must though, Now everything makes sense when i know.

[@liamwilson7549]

Corporate is what kills creativity

[@nogerboher5266]

Bobby Kotick is Jewish... Need I explain more?!

[@LavishPatchKid]

Goblins gonna gob.

[@rall4688]

Cool it with the antisemitism goy

[@zenvultra]

😂

[@grimngruesome8988]

Lmfao

[@alfredmitchcock8518]

juice like him are the main reason why everything is fucked

[@npc-bl2vw]

Oy VEY!

[@doomspud6302]

This is exactly why the "AAA" industry will never change. Not only are the people responsible for intentionally sinking their own ship not being punished for it, they usually get rewarded for all their "hard work". So when they inevitably fail, they don't go down with their mangled ship. They just find someone else's ship, and start drilling speed holes in the hull again.

[@Kiryu_Kazuma01]

Of course they won’t change. They’re in too deep now. The old devs and publishers we knew 20 years ago, are gone. The “AAA” we have now will only get worse and worse. This is why indie devs and even AA devs, especially on Steam will start to thrive. Who wants to put up with the standard BS that the AAA industry is known for nowadays? I certainly don’t. And that’s why I am very selective on the games I buy now. There are very few “AAA” games I buy anymore, but plenty of indie and AA games I’ll buy, because they don’t treat their customers like garbage

[@A1stardan]

​@@Kiryu_Kazuma01 for every gamer like you and I who do this, there's 5 casuals/whales who'll buy the next cod 😢 This industry is doomed

[@Kiryu_Kazuma01]

@@A1stardan maybe that’s a good thing though? If it does fail, maybe a reset is what the industry needs.

[@iminumst7827]

Lunatic take. You want to live in a world where we can legally steal and harm people who make unpopular decisions managing videogames? Like seriously what on earth do you mean by "punishment"? I think paying him to leave the company is the best case scenario, both ethically and for the future of Blizzard.

[@TWEAKLET]

@@iminumst7827 bro no one said anything about stealing from or harming them punishment can mean anything

[@Koroar]

But remember guys, we live in a meritocracy. Lmfao.

[@TheDeer99]

They didn't pay Kotick that much, he owns Activision stock worth that much.

[@osmaniesquijarosa4308]

nah you're wrong. We live under "democratic" rule, nothing about democracy is inherently meritocratic, that's your own false conclusion. If we lived in a meritocracy most people couldn't even vote.

[@cqwiii]

was the stock given to him as part of him leaving or did he always own it condition free?

[@hughwotmeight2453]

We do. It's simply impossible to erradicate Nepotism from human nature.

[@Koroar]

@@TheDeer99 Either way, this man owning anything more than a cardboard box that should be his address says it all.

[@ChaoticGoodPeasant23]

I've never seen someone look so much like a real life goblin, and that's ON an Asmon video.

[@mshepherd2154]

Isn’t this the fault of whoever originally gave Bobby that contract? (meaning Microsoft HAS to pay him the $ to fire him?)

[@posionwisp]

Pretty much.

[@250914616672152]

yes, that how executive world works, unless you have something good agaisnt an executive and he doesnt have something good agaisnt you there is no way to fire him without giving him a BIG FAT paycheck

[@R3s0n4te]

Who gave him the contract? Any suspects?

[@Giliver]

Does it matter? This is standard in American companies so no matter what nothing would've changed.​@@R3s0n4te

[@cresttoothpaste8133]

@@R3s0n4te Maybe I'm mistaking something but Microsoft recently bought Activision so it's very likely that Microsoft wasn't the one to write the contract.

[@enes-the-cat-father]

Here is what people and Asmon are missing : Bobby was literally Activision itself. The guy had huge stock there, hence at Activision-Blizzard. Most of the Microsoft payment is his huge stock. This is Bobby's exit. Microsoft had to pay his equity/stock if they don't go against law, and steal his equity from the company.

[@kael13]

Just because laws exist, doesn't mean they're just.

[@mykoladavydenko3578]

@@kael13 What is not just about it? Bobby ruled Activision for years and years, and he literally own big part of the company, which is makes sense.

[@ersankuneri4815]

Tango Gameworks made great games and MS awarded them by closing the studio. MS bought Activision Blizzard and gave billions to greedy owners of Activision Blizzard. See? If they don't buy more and more, maybe they can manage studios that they have. Right now, Xbox is just too big to manage. It's impossible.

[@michaelbuto305]

​@@ersankuneri4815 Not really. The team who made Palworld actually more enticing for customer and stockholder. World not lacking talent. It just these dev feel the need to say oh Tango Gameworks did great games, despite the number only told they might be decent not great. Whatever the dev doing for their agenda, the Customer dont lie, Numbers dont lie.

[@Joseph_G]

Yeah there's loads of mindless leftist nonsense on this thread, and from Asmon's editor in this clip. Ironically, it's from many of the same people who object to the woke leftism of games journos. Asmon's editor in this vid throws up a bunch articles by woke lefty outlets at 0:47 to attack Bobby - these are the same people pushing woke nonsense in video games, and Asmon's editor and thousands of commenters here are siding with them because they're butthurt Bobby had a lot of stock and sold it rather than using it to subsidize money-losing studios.

[@azo5000]

Bobby Kaustic

[@dindunuphenwong]

Dude Holocausted the video game industry and walked away with a quarter of a billion dollars

[@--Traveler--]

@@dindunuphenwong which is pretty ironic considering he is a jew.

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

​@@dindunuphenwongironic considering he is Jewish lol

[@turbosmurfin]

Do not go to the early life section of his wikipedia, you'll be racist.

[@ryanvacation7319]

For the corporation what matters is how much money Bobby made for the shareholders even at the expense of the developers and gamers. By their standards, he excelled remarkably.

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

Yep people only want to look at 1 side ( theirs) and fail to understand how much freaking money he made the shareholders its why he stuck around for so long even though everyone hated his ass.

[@awowadas]

@@AlbertoMartinez765 because nobody gives a shit what he did for his board, they give a shit about the culture he personally tried to ruin. Same reason why people hate every other CEO, demand production while producing nothing just to end up getting a fat check for destroying thousands of american's lives. Nobody likes a social parasite like a non-contributor. There are currently 0 executive level americans who are contributors.

[@Joseph_G]

And the way Bobby made that money for shareholders was by selling games, if gamers really thought this was at their expense, all they had to do was stop buying, they didn't. The company makes money for shareholders by selling games that lots of gamers are willing to buy, it's interesting that those who denounce corporate profitmaking always overlook this.

[@iAzajar]

They're Corpos. The literal villains in every contemporary & futuristic story I've ever read since I was a kid. Were you expecting anything less?

[@sean7221]

Funny way to spell jews

[@max7971]

Did you just proudly declare that you were brainwashed from childhood?

[@bennyboy776]

I can not stop noticing.

[@ersankuneri4815]

Good

[@Propane_Acccessories]

Oy vey?

[@zigzera7757]

This was always how he was going to be leaving

[@mhods4457]

Just remember that all of these CEOs wear tiny hats.

[@Rexhunterj]

And the ones that dont are bullied or bought out by the oens who do. The sooner 80% of people realise we are all just a product to be farmed by ultra rich types, the better> But it won't happen.

[@Halfort57]

Of course, sweetie, of course. Now take your meds and go to bed

[@mhods4457]

@@Rexhunterj You are absolutely correct. I don't think most people understand just how little these ultra-rich juice care about them. They view us as cattle. To be milked, farmed, or slaughtered. However they see fit. And no, I'm not exaggerating.

[@mhods4457]

@@Rexhunterj The juice view us as cattle to be milked, farmed, or culled at their convenience. Most people have no idea just how little they think of us.

[@mhods4457]

​@@Rexhunterj The tiny hats view us as cattle to be farmed, milked, or slaughtered at their convenience. Most people have no clue just how much they despise us.

[@Crusader1984]

I blame the gamers for buying Microsoft products and funding this

[@BuddyTheWolfYT]

It's intentional. Cultural vandalism

[@hiiambarney4489]

Which is still a very "white culture". It wouldn't happen if it was otherwise.

[@Pause4pot]

Oi Vey

[@jaredweiman2987]

"Kotick" Impressive, very nice. Let's see his early life.

[@MB-em9ek]

Shut it down!

[@TheSeth256]

It's always the Altmer, always.

[@max7971]

Kotick is kitten in Russian 😊

[@hiphopgrind1]

"Buy an xbox" they said 😂

[@Otgel]

Bro Sony while not as bad, is also quite awful when it comes to the stuff they do, it's the whole industry not just Bobby over here.

[@chemicalcabbage]

🇮🇱🇮🇱I am so shocked and suprised🇮🇱🇮🇱

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

Careful now people will call you antisemitic

[@Veren999]

Oy vey!

[@VitaminDelicious]

You will own nothing and be happy

[@jububoobaroo67]

Bobby Kotick is a hero of the jewish people, he exemplifies all their most prominent traits and with them achieved great success.

[@THEvillasukka1]

yes

[@rafadylewski7190]

For me it's still George Soros, just for acually working with the SS.

[@ersankuneri4815]

He is the kosher gigachad. Literally

[@freeweights101]

I mean Activision players did pay for his retirement so ya'll can't be that mad

[@blackjackjester]

Yea that money didn't come from nowhere. It came from gamers.

[@ETBrooD]

I told people since the release of WoW to stop giving Blizzard money. They never listened.

[@mikonson4091]

@@ETBrooD Stupid people gonna stupid

[@traductus3337]

@@ETBrooDdont forget the CoD shit eaters

[@OilFreeFeathers]

​@@ETBrooD>the release of WoW It was still a few years before they even started merging.

[@VitaminDelicious]

Also something else to think about is that a lot of stock is created out of thin air that the company buys itself and then they give to their executives and then they create more stock and do it again over and over. Something like that

[@max7971]

Bro has no idea wtf share emission is, and what rules and regulations apply to it 💀

[@mattboyko09]

CEOs, executives, and owners. Those are the guys who make all the money and decisions. Everyone else is interchangeable on a whim😂 welcome to corporate America!!

[@Darth_Sidious_66]

Yes we do! Off the backs of high-school grads! CHACHING 💰

[@The.Nasty.]

@@Darth_Sidious_66what are you even responding to?

[@dindunuphenwong]

More like money laundering America

[@DontWorry-ov8qf]

Well I would argue that the original owner / person who starts a company deserves it. They are the one that put the time, work, effort, took the risks and liabilities so they should reap the rewards.

[@Haonnn]

@@DontWorry-ov8qf at the expense of an incomparably large amount of workers. One guy turns millions to slaves and he deserves that because he came up with an idea?

[@betasector]

Wow, I didn't know Arkane and Tango was obligated for 17 years of payments for unsuccessful products.

[@Zorro9129]

Never look up early life.

[@AaronMichaelLong]

It was *part of the deal*. Microsoft was buying ATVI *from him*, as in his shares. Kotick had 22 years of stock grants and options banked up, and that payout was them buying his position.

[@mariuszmoraw3571]

This is actually major issue for us all, no matter gaming industry or all aspects of life. It's not first time I hear some fucker CEO destroy firms, leave shareholders in dust and takes big chunk of company with themselves.

[@jefflukey123]

I have a feeling Some of the talented staff from all these studios were pulled and conglomerated into one to work on the next Fallout.

[@billybegood466]

Bobby CockTick is a true inspiration. If he can fail over and over and over again, his entire life nothing but failures, and still come out of it worth $600 million, then so can I.

[@grimngruesome8988]

Instructions unclear. I am now spat upon and homeless

[@billybegood466]

@@grimngruesome8988 Just keep being a failure my friend. You will get there!

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

he was actually Very successful love him ( stockholders ) or hate him everyone else on the Planet ..he made his companies a LOT of Money with his business decisions at Activison and then Later purchased Blizzard which was a brilliant move. Though he famously cried becuase he should have bought them years earlier when they were only worth 10's of Millions. When they finally managed to get rid of him ( he still on the BOARD of Directors for Act/Blizz by the way they had to pay him all this fkg money..yeah If he a Failure I want to be a failure.

[@andyb7891]

It takes money to make money it's as simple as that. If you have the wealth you can make it grow exponentially. If you are poor more than likely you're gonna stay poor no matter how great you are.

[@billybegood466]

@@andyb7891 Yeah, pretty much. Real estate is a good example. The rich buy up all the rental properties and jack up the rent. So now rent has far outpaced wages and the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.

[@eduardomartin8510]

Never forget he went to the island.

[@joeylawn36111]

Dayum - didn't know this

[@Wbfuhn]

The getaway orgy?

[@dindunuphenwong]

99% of rich people have been to the island.

[@thisguy103]

when you play ball with the real powers this is what you can recieve

[@abdieljove2011]

At this point he probably has enough money to set up an island of his own. With several school busses full of children.

[@ragzael1723]

That Bobby's "*sigh**sigh**sigh*" was almost same like Robert Makłowicz "EEEEEEEEE" 😂

[@TheStuffEnjoyer]

I want Bobby as my spiritual animal. This man survives everything.

[@Jadty]

Bobby’s on that Sigma Talmudic Grind arc.

[@hugotheimpecileone]

this guy definitely goes to Eye's Wide Shut rituals

[@-EndlessHorizon]

He fell upstairs. Failing up is the death of us.

[@Ximeao_Melanida]

0:18 Did he just say "Bobby COCKtick"? LMAO

[@KevinKurosaki777]

Bobby Cockdick

[@Dgalvez420]

Bobby cockdick

[@wiLL_mB]

New here? :)

[@Sazabi4prez]

He says cockdck in fact

[@Grabjona]

"Bobby CockDick"

[@Tamachii12]

That's why CEO's doesn't give a fuck to the business they are running, they can screw all they want and still get out with a golden parachute, they can run it into the ground for short term profits and they will get away with it.

[@Nagaimba]

Im sorry kid. I have more than 12 IQ so i would need you to explain me your monkey brain. Bobby is CEO of Activision. He was for 22 years. You are saying he ruined buisness for SHORT TERM PROFIT. In 20 years of Bobby as CEO Activision stocks increased in price by 900% and it's not falling down. What does you mean by short term profit? 20 years is short term? And how did Bobby screwed anything? It's fcking 900% stock increase of company he was CEO of. WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT , BRAINDEAD? I understand that your education is non existence at the best. But even you can understand that Chief Executive Officer job is to make COMPANY STOCKS HIGH AND MARKET VALUE HIGH. It's not his job to care for your sorry feeling even your mum doesn't care about. If people wanted to change smth or they REALLY DIDN'T LIKE WHAT BOBBY DID = PEOPLE WOULD STOP BUY PRODUCT HE IS PRODUCING. You all saying he is ruined everything yet still all of you consume products he is making. You all saying it's beyond bad , yet you still buy it. Grow up. Bobby did excellent job as CEO and all people WHO REALLY MATTER acknowlege it. Your opinion is worthless on this point. You are not in company, you didn't invesnt in company. You just a consumer. one of millions.

[@iminumst7827]

That's not how the world works. His worth is based on his stocks in the company. If the company is run into the ground, so does his worth. The reason he got paid so much to leave, is because the company is actually doing fine financially, it's Blizzards reputation among hardcore gamers that is declining, not the company itself. CEOs can't get away with running all their businesses into the ground.

[@Tamachii12]

@@iminumst7827 Doesn't matter if he run it into the ground as long as he leaves in time when things start to crumble, you can make record profits on expense of the company longevity.

[@Otgel]

​@@iminumst7827arguably Activision reputation is just kinda overall In the ground, it's just that most people don't care about said reputation, it's all games and whatnot. Like look at the overwatch 2 reviews and stuff, that's a bit more than a minority and they proceed to play it anyways. It's basically Stockholm syndrome, it happens everywhere in the industry, I'm a victim of it as well, I play runescape. I don't get paid to do it, but I don't have fun either maybe when I reach 99 cooking I will.

[@max7971]

Dude, he just sold his share. If he really did screw the business he was running he would be paid 0 on his way out.

[@Bonesawisready926]

Losing Arkane Austin is no big loss, but yeah they could have kept Tango Gameworks open. Executives only care about the money in their own pockets and couldn't care less about anybody else. Time we all learned that.

[@ArouzedLamp]

Dude IS the illuminati

[@padalan2504]

Corpos: We need to shut down these game dev studios Also Corpos:

[@nyanko2077]

He's an inspiration for every person who's an asshole but still wants to succeed in life. His legacy will surely live on as humanity is full of these.

[@BennyVibes]

Mafia at it's finest

[@joeylawn36111]

Actually, Bobby Kotex would 💩his pants if he met a real Mafiosi, Fughittabouttit.

[@BennyVibes]

@@joeylawn36111 true, he'd be so shocked... at how much more money he made screwing people over than the real mafia.

[@dindunuphenwong]

Money laundering at it's finest*

[@R3s0n4te]

Oy

[@jbkibs]

@@dindunuphenwong embezzlement

[@cornheadahh]

He owned stock and they had to pay out. That money had to go to him and couldn't be reallocated

[@adammalinowski8651]

It could have been. Point is people do not follow common sense.

[@bopbop076]

Still Asmon fans probably all bough WoW, Diablo 3 and 4, then whine about the dude pretending he ruined their hobby... You guys are clowns.

[@ShadowVulcan]

To be fair, that's a mischaracterization of how useful that money is. Yeah, it would pay for the employee's salaries but that's not including all of the money Microsoft would have to also continue pumping into the studios to pay for the buildings, utilities, hiring new employees, severance pay for fired employees, R&D for project ideas, etc. Further, Microsoft closed Arkane Austin, the US branch of the main Arkane Studios, which kept releasing bad games. As for Tango Gameworks, of the 4 games they released 3 of them were middling in terms of their scores and sales so its closure was definitely more, "not enough money being generated in the long run." We also don't know how many people from both of the studios actually kept their jobs by being moved to a different studio. Now that that is out of the way, I still hate Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, and Bobby Kotick.

[@nemesisnick66]

dont like it? put your wallet away youre the ones who paid him that $290 million not anyone else

[@xikaryo6735]

Agreed. This is what gamers get for supporting trash games like COD and Diablo.

[@Kiryu_Kazuma01]

Facts! Stop buying games like CoD, and basically anything from Ubisoft or EA, and that’s when the “AAA” gaming market can start the healing process

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

Exactly, wtf guys don't be so dense.

[@HookahOtaku]

i laugh at every miserable nutguzzler who bought Diablo 4. I played it for free on gamepass and laughed at the shit game, uninstalled in one day. i laugh at every overwatch loser who still plays and continues to support craptivision. I will laugh at all the clowns that buy the new warcraft expansion. you have ALWAYS been the problem.

[@paulgonzalez7610]

Bobby needs another yacht.

[@RigorFortis]

Coincidence that Kotick's body language/speech/physical appearance matches that of Gates and Zuckenberg?

[@mikonson4091]

They're all from the same s*x cult, of course their mannerisms will be similar.

[@Bones_]

If you’re at the executive level, as long as you personally don’t get sent to jail, it really doesn’t matter how hard you succeed or fail you’ll be disproportionately rewarded no matter what.

[@AnthonyFransella]

A friend who teaches entrepreneurial finance once told me that when Boards are hiring a CEO their primary concern is if they've managed a business of a similar size and structure, not their track record.

[@A-TALKING-TOASTER]

And that's why they get screwed over

[@cane6074]

They don't want anybody who will rock the boat, they want to keep the status quo which benefit from personally. The interest of the company doesn't really matter, they just want the appearance of success without actually doing anything meaningful.

[@veritas4698]

Crowley is going to collect his soul any day now.

[@FatSultan]

He was in the Epstein flightlogs. And in Epsteins private phone.

[@Relhio]

Good for him, he's filthy rich, banging underage girls and is getting away scott free? What a fucking legend.

[@Jekuj]

he even looks like a goblin bro lmao

[@JohnSmith-ro8hk]

bagel

[@jzea5605]

You know if the gaming industry collapses the only thing that will survive is good games.

[@Fantasygod19999]

I’m on Bobby’s side on this. You all made him, you all paid him. He said suck it and dipped lol. Kinda funny really. I respect him

[@grimngruesome8988]

He said "SUCK IT" and the fan base took it balls deep

[@Kiryu_Kazuma01]

Kinda true right? People keep buying CoD every single year, and that franchise has crapped all over its fan base for over a decade. And people still pay for that trash, thinking each game will be different from the last. Just with added microtransactions that keep adding up, battle passes, and all that nonsense

[@AlbertoMartinez765]

Yep..all these people complaining on how he was able to do this? Go look in a Mirror chumps.

[@koreanprodigy3251]

lets accept it guys, we are just living in a world filled with npcs

[@mythoceanas8874]

How about next time “something happens” a game studio shouldn’t sell itself to Bethesda or Microsoft. Everytime a studio wants more money for something they go find a sugar daddy then get mad when the sugar daddy starts smacking them around and cuts them off.

[@Mark6O9]

Pirate. Everything. Microsoft.

[@arandomuser1723]

Yarrr matey 🏴‍☠️

[@bloboblobo]

But why? Didn't Activision make the contract and not Microsoft?

[@imperfect_cliche]

Im just gonna say this. Purely based on video title. I agree. Im head of IT for a small company. Multiple mistakes made by Microsoft support agents screwed us out of office 365 E3 license package. They failed to bill us in time, and i reached out to 3 support agents begging them to take our money basically. And now, months after i was supposed to be billed, package for e3 no longer includes some items. Items of which were included when we were supposed to be billed. This new package only applies to NEW customers after a certain date. We would have been grandfathered in meaning we would still have the version with these included items as we wouldnt be new customers from that change date onward. 2 of the support agents said i would not lose these features, while the 3rd support essentially said "we messed up, my b, too bad give us more money anyway." Im 90% sure this was done on purpose to get more money of us. We spend 12k a year on their licenses total so its very small compared to their other clients. Its like they know we are small and wanted to walk all over us to get more money out of us..... im still fighting this btw. In contact with agent number 4 now.

[@Kezmark]

Can we stop pretending like Arkane needed to be saved? People are overly attached to names of companies. Most of the people that worked on their older, good games were already gone. It was just a fucking corpse wearing the Arkane skin and their last game was horrible. If anything, it was just put out of its misery.

[@AHersheyHere]

Company: we have to pay a golden parachute to an executive who is no longer going to be doing anything else for us. Also Company: we can’t afford to maintain the studios that we acquired.

[@LizardOnAMushroom2358]

Another small hat

[@sahmuss1164]

Imagining phil spencer bringing bobby in a room and giving him his final ultimateum is so funny to me. "The gigs up bobby, it's time to sell the company, take it or leave it."

[@Honyakusha]

It is absurd to compare some developers to an enormously successful entrepreneur. The man bought the bankrupt Activision, fired almost everyone, and spent three decades making that company one of the giants in the gaming industry. Hate him or despise him, the bastard was extremely successful.

[@hackneo64]

Ive actually met him in person at the COD black Ops launch party in Santa Monica in an event for Veterans Education. All it was was a huge tax writeoff for Activision.

[@Proxy-0]

He took a dying company and turned it into one of the biggest household names of its activity. I fail to see the problem here

[@eddiebernays514]

Anytime someone says corporations cant afford to pay their low level employees more i point to things like this. No one at a company should get paid absurd amounts unless every employee is financially stable.

[@superourico5551]

Gradually, I began to hate them.

[@crashzone6600]

Bobby wasnt the problem, he is a symptom of what the real problem is in gaming which is share holders. As long as a publisher is publicly traded, then there will be investors that demand that you make the line go up on the stock prices year over year. So they choose a person (basically a psychopath) with no shame to make that happen, this was Bobby. As long as these companies have shareholders, they will continue to become more predatory and implement more ways to exploit the consumer. The problem for these shareholders is that I think the stock price are doomed to plateau, and in fact even decline. The reason for this is simple, there is only so much audience they can have, and only so much money that audience is willing to relinquish or so much shenanigans they are willing to put up with. Growth is not infinite.

[@grimngruesome8988]

BUT BUT MONEY!? 💰

[@crashzone6600]

@grimngruesome8988 getting profits is not the problem, It is to the degree of which shareholders wish the company to profit. The shareholders want a y=x² or y=2x growth in profits, when profits have a nature of being more like a y²=x so the amount of profits usually will plateau when your consumer base stops growing. I think a similar example to this is probably a KZbin channel, where many channels suffer from stagnation of growth. Those channels will still be very profitable indefinitely, but that level of profitability will never rise and infact probably decline as the market becomes oversaturated and the amount of ad money that is given per view declines. I think the issue for publishers too is that profit margins also continue to shrink because games are costing more to produce, and that production is taking longer. This means that the publicly traded companies are gonna get more and more desperate to with their measures so they can impress shareholders. But I think this means it will only lead to a collapse of these companies as they essentially implode like rocksteady did with suicide squad.

[@araamahasla555]

Completely disagree. The only problem here are braindead consoomers who will buy into literaly anything, pigs that eat worst slop imaginable. They are the reason line goes up because of absolutely vile practices instead of good products.

[@inendlesspain4724]

At this point, you only wouldn't agree that this is the darkest age for gaming if you're either a paid shill, a mindless consoomer who's too addicted to care about being milked dry, or simply coping.

[@Otgel]

It hasn't been great, but it has been worse actually, I still remember the days when practically every single live service game was a gacha.

[@Treblaine]

As bad as this is, Shinji Mikami didn't leave Tango Gameworks for lack of money, he left because he simply did not want to work for Microsoft. And the rest of the talent left with him, they joined TG to work with him in an mostly independent studio, not be micro-managed by some bureaucrats from Redmond. Bobby Kotick did oversee the Call of Duty franchise, which involved getting alternating studios to put out games in the same franchise every year, that is not nothing. That's a lot of plates to keep spinning for a long time. Call of Duty made as much money as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

[@catbuikhang6482]

Here is the problem, the guy is the literal main antagonist from those animes you watch: Mastermind, being hated, doing all the things that are wrong and yet, so manipulative and smartly exploitative that he gains a position so high in the food chain and that, with his cunning despicable methods, always gave him the higher ground in the end

[@Utrilus]

The only difference is that he's the main character of the anime, and everything, anything the good guys try fails. Fails catastrophically at that.

[@catbuikhang6482]

@@Utrilus To be honest that's probably what will happen to all main characters in animes without plot armor, hence, real life lol

[@enthiegavoir5955]

Usually anime villains have more interesting motives than just "making the world a worse place by still being alive"

[@grimngruesome8988]

​@@enthiegavoir5955 not this villain lol

[@max7971]

Bobby is an anime protagonist, that has his own harem, and kicks shmucks like you in the nuts with ease. No wonder no one can stop him-you are just a lvl 1 goblin to the Bobik’s lvl 999 mafia boss.

[@bluroguevyse08]

As an outsider who knows nothing about this situation except what was presented in this video: If he did such a bad job, why did Microsoft decide to pay $200M for his company?

[@JediMage]

I mean, my man sold the modern activision-blizzard to the microsoft for ridiculous amount of money... The guy is a good businessman. Maybe taking an L as a human being, but who needs being decent human being if yoi can be rich instead?

[@halowaffles]

"Who needs being a decent human being if you can be rich instead?" is the exact ideology behind why there is a global child sex traffic ring between the ultra-wealthy and politicians.

[@ithesisko]

He was failing in life, but upwards.

[@paperluigi6132]

Let’s get him to whistleblow Boeing. The perfect company that does absolutely nothing wrong. That’ll teach him.

[@Grevier]

Imagine having so much money you don't even know what to do with it... oh yeah we're talking about Bobby sorry ~

[@Lin117]

A parachute big enough to carry his yacht into the horizon...

[@gingerbread_GB]

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the Villian. Bobby survived.

[@kenbobcorn]

I feel like gamers are so dumb because they are less than 14 years old they don't know what Activision was when Bobby Kotick bought the company. Activision (then known as Mediagenic) had less than 100 employees, and 60 million in debt and made no revenue. Bobby bought a company with 60 million in debt and turned the company around and created all the franchises that became great. You may complain that he is solely responsible for destroying the franchises, but when he had the most sway and power over the company he created all the great products that made Activision what it is, and over time the marketing people have been driving the company towards profitability and making money. He gets no credit, yet all the hate because people think the year Bobby bought his yacht is the year he started as CEO. He can afford a yacht because he took a gamble where 99.9% of entrepreneurs fail and he won.

[@Nier73h]

Agreed he build a company that started off worth less than $500,000 and debt in 1991 to be acquired by Microsoft for $69 billion? So, yeah, Bobby deserves his paycheck. Asmongold might hate him, but without him, his favorite franchises like WOWC and Diablo might not exist.

[@Giliver]

I call BS The company would've survived just fine with any other CEO not dragging its reputation through the mud. Blizzard would arguably be bigger without Bobby because then they (likely) wouldn't have abandoned so many IPs.

[@hafirenggayuda]

Kotick is good at business and management, but he STILL a scumbag. Separate talent and behaviour

[@Psychof1st]

I highly doubt he created anything. All he did was green light and invest in the projects he thought would have the best turn around and return on investment. And managed the business, of course. The closest involvement he could have had would be to order the cutting of content and features, in order to meet deadlines and stay in budget. But, he most likely didn't create squat.

[@kenbobcorn]

@Giliver got it. Thanks. I was worried we didn't have someone who understood the finances and debt of Activision in 1991, but thankful we have you who's don't a thorough assessment of the market conditions. And can say, with confidence, a company with 60 million in debt would in fact be worth more than 69 Billion without Bobby as CEO. You must have also done your research on everybody else who is on Activisions board and makes decisions, as Bobby obviously is not the only one. Good to have you with us!

[@kotaserrill]

So I guess no one remembers that Bobby bought Ubisoft many years ago, made himself CEO and gave himself a contract clause where if he is to be removed by a buyer they have to pay him the parachute. It's terrible PR to kill him. So it's either keep him and take the PR hit forever or pay him off. I'm not defending MS but rather expressing that he is indeed a rat and unfortunately rats win sometimes. Obviously it's awful the teams got laid off and more people probably will in the future and they couldve been saved by that money. Maybe.

[@HUSK3RGAM3R]

I'm genuinely so tired of these dumb ass executives getting paid so outrageously much while hundreds, if not thousands of people lose their jobs. It makes me so mad.

[@R3s0n4te]

It is injustice and a deeply rotten system.

[@max7971]

Sucks to suck. They should’ve made better games.

[@baraka629]

This news sites take is stupid cause Kotick's severance was most likely part of his contract, also they probably paid him enough to ensure he shuts his mouth for the rest of his life.

[@othahex]

Never underestimate the power of greed that knows no bounds.

[@Airbag888]

This is the apocalypse playing in front of our eyes with Gabe starring as Jesus and Kotick as the Anti Christ

[@Reformed322]

genshin company made 2 billion in profit last year and still lowered salaries

[@danielm2808]

The amount of people that fail like him and still get these huge payouts is astounding.