CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”::Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”
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.
Yewb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This 1 fucking guy ruined a whole generation of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.
Bobert@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ftfy
chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Who would win?
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude has ruined multiple generations
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would be ruined if people didn’t buy the stuff, but they do, so it’s a success.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How? Did he force people to buy and subscribe and endorse something?
No. Idiots bought in, sucking balls purchase after purchase.
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They trick people into buying in. The majority of people buyi g these games are extremely susceptible to the tactics they use to get you to buy their games and when you buy thwm they have more tricks to keep you locked in. The people falling for it arent idiots. They just fall for this stuff a bit easier. Or they havent been shown how it works so they dont know what to look out for.
Things like fomo and gambling mechanics as well as clever pricing tricks are just aome examples. Tbere are conferences and lectures held by industry people for lther industry people where that talk about consumers like they are cattle or other livestock and how we can be manipulated if certain tactics are followed. Games are more like “storefronts” to them. In fact thats literally how the fortnite developers referto fortnite, a storefront. With a game attached.
So, no, bobby didnt force anyone to buy his games, he didnt point a gun at anyones head (well actually we dont know that and i think there was a rumour aomewhere of something like this, couls be wrong tho) but he did remove all choice and boil everything down to a basic game with an inflated shop which fans of activision and later blizzard games fell for, for far too long. CoD was one of the most popular games in the world and fans of the game took some time to realise that the same game was being re released with a new skin for years.
Bobby took away that choice by not releasing other games, he just preyed on the susceptable and knew exactly what he was doing.
So please dont pretend that, for all those people, simply not buying the games or in game purchases was “simple” for the majority of people and that in a round about way, people weren’t forced into buying into it. It just shows a lack of understanding and research into the subject.
stillwater@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve never seen any other industry be bewildered by the idea of caveat emptor as much as gamers. My favourite are the ones that act as if Steam allowing bad quality games on their store is a bad thing because it means they could spend their money on a bad game. The idea of “just don’t buy it” is a mystery to them.
yeather@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Agreed, don’t buy the battle pass, or better yet, don’t buy the game if all you’re going to do is complain.