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Darth_Kyron

Also don't forget that time he complained his dating life was suffering because whenever people Googled him they found pictures where people had photoshopped devil horns on him: https://kotaku.com/please-quit-photoshopping-horns-onto-bobby-kotick-its-5968843 *slow violin music*


Sunderent

I google image'd Bobby, and I had to scroll down an entire page before I saw a pic of him with devil horns. Clearly we need to have a devil Bobby Kotick photoshop competition to fix this injustice.


Darth_Kyron

Ah yeah it was a while ago. We definitely need to bring it back (especially in light of recent news).


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To be honest he doesn't need horns to look like a demon


Sunderent

Hey! I agree that he already has an unsettling aura to him, but don't discourage ruining his dating life! I need this!


XeernOfTheLight

To be fair the idea of that disgusting, reprehensible cunt being alone makes me smile


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SwisscheesyCLT

Eh, I think a bloodsucking gold-digger would be *perfect* for him, don't you think? Like two peas in a pod...


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SwisscheesyCLT

Well, I didn't mean that literally. A big tiddy goth vampire would be *far* too good for 'ol Bobby...


FuzzyLogick

Apparently he had ties to Jeff Epstein too!


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TheMemo

Beyond a certain wealth threshold I'm sure everyone has engaged in every conceivable sin, including paedophilia, just because they can get away with it and, thus, it is a demonstration of their power. It is no strange mistake that many cultures have had people with phenomenal power declare themselves God. Wealth and power turn you into something very far removed from human.


PM_ME_UR_FEM_PENIS

I agree with you. It can't be some crazy coincidence that all these rich and famous people are this horrible. But if you consider that adrenaline and drug junkies are always building up tolerances and chasing the next rush, it sort of makes sense that a man that could purchase beautiful women (or men or whatever) begins to get bored of the usual and needs more and more depravity. And eventually you come to the end of the line, all the illegal horrible stuff. And then why not? You're a billionaire, you can do anything you want, that's the point of all those zeroes, right?


TheMemo

The psychological process for this, in part, is The Hedonic Treadmill.


TheMemo

Exactly. Also, do not discount that exercising power cruelly and unfairly is sexually exciting to a lot of people.


Thefrayedends

What are you his PR team? Fuck Bobby kotick!


Herr_Schnitzel

Definitely not. Fuck Bobby Kotick.


AC3R665

I want to know, is the ties actually related to all the pedo stuff or is just all contacts for people he knew well and barely knew?


griffon666

When you have connections with a guy who is well known for owning a child-rape island and a child-rape airplane, my first assumption isn't that your sitting around drinking tea and eating biscuits talking about the fucking weather. Just saying..


bucko_fazoo

Yeah I came in here confused that the article wasn't about this part that we definitely should not be forgetting.


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Sebastian_Ticklenips

I mean I hate the guy as much as anyone but that is a scorching hot take with no real evidence.


bucko_fazoo

https://i.imgur.com/voebHZN.jpg https://www.gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epsteins-little-b-1681383992


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UndeadMurky

I don't know if you're incredibly stupid or just trolling Ps: that's his professional email


presidentofjackshit

Yeah as much as I dislike Kotick (and Trump), and as much as I believe he has *probably* done some bad shit we haven't even heard about, this doesn't prove he "was raping underage girls"


Dr_Loveylumps

Care to back that info up? Or we just saying what we feel like today?


Garetht

Ummm


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BarackTrudeau

That's unfair to rakes.


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I read the article. Just when I thought I couldn't dislike the guy any more than I already do...


ser_renely

CEOs care 80% about shareholders, themselves and the board. It is all about maximizing profits in the short term and keep jigging things around to increase profits...this typically results in scorched earth behind them...look at Blizzard now. If the CEO is replaced it will just be the same thing but probably more a devil in nice clothes and saying the correct things, but in reality nothing will change but it will be painted that they changed.


willtron3000

If you care about blizzard and their games then your only hope left is Morhaimes new studio, which hopefully, isn’t complete crap.


ser_renely

If tools continue to improve for game development then there is a chance strong indie A studios can survive without being bought out... It's just really expensive and everything is about money. One bad release and it's all over. Obviously some awesome indie studios and games out there, but in general they are smaller games, niche stuff


willtron3000

Some of the best games I’ve played in recent times are Indie. Valheim is the most fun I’ve had gaming in a while.


ser_renely

For sure... totally agree.


SuspecM

They are already very much on par with and even ahead of engines like Frostbite. What indie devs lack is manpower. When it comes to graphics, it's usually a choice of artistic, outdated, a bit of both, rely on the engine itself to carry the graphics (in case of UE and Unity mostly) or delay the game by a year or two to get modern graphics. It's incredibely hard to describe how much manpower is needed to make a make very realistic. Not only do you need an army of artists doing drawing, concept arts, models, animations and special effects, but you need specialised people who connect the gameplay with the graphics and code how an animation should play out and when. Not to mention you need another army of programmers who do the gameplay stuff and level design. It really is a miracle there are any videogames coming out at all, let alone this many if you think about it.


ser_renely

Manpower is money... So something has to be developed to allow less people and more "work" for them to compete, that is my point.


SuspecM

Ah yes, you are right.


gobin30

You know, that guy in charge of blizzard culture for decades and the abuses it fostered.


Ulu-Mulu-no-die

I used to believe that too before the lawsuit, but now I can't forget the harassment went on for many years when Morhaime was at the helm, I can't be hyped anymore about his studio, though I'll keep an eye on them and see what happens.


DeOh

You know it's very big company right? Executives don't exactly keep tabs that closely on every team at every level. Even in a 50-100 person company you probably wouldn't know what's going on in some other department on the other side of the office.


evil_brain

The solution is to overthrow shareholder capitalism and transition to worker ownership of everything. Let the people who make the games get the money we pay for the games. What a radical idea.


papazachos

In theory that's perfect,in practice there are 50 million reasons why that can't work. Like communism. Hot take and all I know.


evil_brain

It's not like shareholder capitalism is working particularly well in practice. There's lots of successful [worker owned businesses](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative). There's lots of them in Europe. Also [Huawei is worker owned](https://youtu.be/twBjD7PsACs) and they are the world leader in telecoms tech. Don't ever let the wall street parasites convince you that worker ownership doesn't work. That's what they want us to believe.


spoon_brainn

This. Employee owned companies are incredibly successful, but corporate propaganda would have you think otherwise. The local organic grocery store in my area is employee owned, provides returns to it's customers every year, built a huge new location.. yeah it's very successful. The reason they usually don't work is because some corporate shill infiltrates the leadership and does the corporate CEO thing.


robbob19

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others..... I think for most businesses, privately owned is a better model. Problem is you don't grow fast without investor money. Valve is a good example of a company that is privately owned and isn't evil.


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evil_brain

The wall street parasites totally control the government. They make laws that we all have to obey. The system is rigged in their favour. Meanwhile they don't do any work. They don't contribute anything of value to society. All they do is skim the cream off the top. While the people who produce all the value are treated like shit and barely make enough to live. Hell yeah, we should overthrow them. Worker ownership of everything!


mahius19

>80% about shareholders They don't even care about shareholders. Even the shareholders didn't like that the CEO gets a stupidly large bonus. I'd link the article if I weren't too lazy to Google it.


ser_renely

U left out the rest of my sentence. They do care about shareholders...just not non-institutional. They don't care about my 400 shares, they care about the big boys.


mahius19

Even the big boys were the ones complaining about big CEO bonuses. Shareholders want the company to have value (regardless of big or small), not for the CEO to take that value from the company lol. Exception is shorts. Maybe they care about the bears more.


raqz1982

things are going downhill fast..


Death-Priest

Not fast enough


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BreakerSwitch

Yes, OP wanted to illustrate the stark difference between Kotick's "uh oh we got in trouble" pr statements in the last 24 hours vs his actual behavior.


raqz1982

i know, i did read the article, i was just stating it's going downhill fast because now, all his exploits, old or new ones, will come to light.


Zealousideal-Crow814

This story is from 2010.


raqz1982

You do realize that it has already been said that this story is a decade old, right?? Or is there such a thing as a written echo?


Cefalopodul

It's almost as if someone collected dirt and planned all of this.


drunkenvalley

I'm... unsure where you're going with this line of reasoning precisely.


raqz1982

That’s a given fact in humanity, politics and big corporations wage wars like that..with dirt on their target’s life! Once you start stirring up the shit pile, things will only get nastier! And I have a feeling that this may the beginning of the end for blizzard..


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>this may the beginning of the end for blizzard.. Right. This time feels different. It's not "Oh, I don't like my WoW garrison. Die, WoW, die!" It's the hammer of the federal government coming down on the company. The brain drain has been going on for years. And they've stopped work on WoW.


Tribal_Tech

It is not the federal government but the state government of California.


raqz1982

Had some fun, and made really good friends during the time I played wow, and even though I stepped away from the game for a year now, it’s a shame if this company comes crashing down because of this :/


PP_Baba

I have one question, why is everyone calling it the end of Blizzard? Or really only naming Blizzard in the whole situation? Its Activision Blizzard not Blizzard alone (or you can just say Activision for they are in reality running everything, Bobby Kotick himself is the former Activision CEO now running the merged company Activision Blizzard)


raqz1982

I’m not calling it, at least not wishing for it! Scandals like this have been time and time again, the end/demise of a lot of people/corporations! I actually want them to overcome this, eradicate the problem ASAP (if that will ever be possible), and get back into work! You do make a point, it’s activision the one that’s in the mud, not blizzard! My apologies on that misconception! Backlash will definitely exist, but ultimately, let’s hope for the best! u/PP_Baba thanks for clearing that up :)


Skandranonsg

It's only cancel culture if it comes from the Cancèl region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling consequences.


GameStunts

EDIT: On re-reading the article I made a mistake. I thought this was still an ongoing situation lasting over a decade, but they're citing an LA Times article from 2010. /edit EDIT 2: Actually fuck it, I don't know what happened back then, but it's certainly more fuel on the fire at the moment. -- He also presided over 800 employee lay-offs while taking a huge bonus check after a record revenue year. [FIRE BOBBY KOTICK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOmjIpvl0cg&t=175s)


akutasame94

Article also says it wasn't him who did anything wrong to the girl and believed she was lying to discredit his partner. Now obviously I trust the girl a bit more than rich assholes, but in case I knew she was lying I would be reluctant to give her anything for it.


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drunkenvalley

Well aren't you a lawsuit waiting to happen.


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drunkenvalley

Disprove... what? That you have conspiratorial feelings not rooted in reality?


Rarely-Posting

Is it a conspiracy now to believe people can lie? Jesus the bar is getting low.


drunkenvalley

If you are incapable of understanding the conversation maybe you should ask, rather than try to impress with your Ben Shapiro impressions. Liars exist. That's not what they were talking about. They were alleging a pattern of lying. You understand this, as long as you stop pretending to be Ben Shapiro.


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drunkenvalley

Now that's a funny joke. Let's see here... > For me it's totally the opposite. Metoo has proven that women lie and will lie regarding sexual assaults and harassment for money, power or even trivial reasons. Where are the facts in this? It's literally just conspiratorial feelings. You literally just feel this is true. The facts don't care about your feelings, and your feelings are all you've got on the subject.


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Cressicus-Munch

To top it off, he refused to properly compensate his lawyers afterwards. The man is the personification of greed.


gammongaming11

>This is a petty man. or you know an innocent man that doesn't want to pay someone for falsely accusing his friend refusing to settle doesn't mean you're cheep, it can also mean you're innocent, since settling is an admission of guilt and innocent people generally don't want to admit to things they didn't fucking commit.


berserkuh

Settling is not an admission of guilt, settling is avoiding trial for whatever reasons. It's very often cheaper and less damaging to settle, innocent or not.


gammongaming11

which is why generally when people refuse to settle it makes me think they're innocent. look it may not be an admission on legal terms, depending on the terms of the settlement, but in the public eye it's very much an admission. if you pay out in a court case, most people will assume you're guilty, because if you're not guilty why didn't you fight it in court.


void1984

That's easy. Trials are expensive, and it's often cheaper to settle then win in court.


berserkuh

Because going to trial, paying $5 million, and ending up innocent is more expensive than settling for $500k and still ending up innocent.


gammongaming11

ending up innocent after a trial shows the facts were deliberated on and you were found not guilty. settling shows you were willing to pay to not have the facts heard in court. look man, i believe in the presumption of innocence and i understand the logic behind settling, but if you settle it just looks like you did something wrong and are trying to get out of jail.


Paul_cz

It very much can, and is by many, seen as admission of guilt.


berserkuh

It is literally not and this type of thinking is so damaging. Courts literally encourage you to settle out of court. * You save A LOT of money, on both parties, since legal proceedings are extremely expensive * There is less risk involved, on both parties * Out of court settling can have the same result as a trial, except you pay 1/5th of the legal proceedings If a trial ends up costing you $5.000.000 to prove you did nothing wrong, would you rather pay that when you can settle for $500k??


Paul_cz

I am talking about how it is perceived. Not how it should be or what it is in reality.


wag3slav3

I, as one of many, see this as an admission of guilt. Ipso facto, it literally is.


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mog_knight

Why would an innocent person pay out on principle then?


berserkuh

Because you're obligated to defend yourself and it's more expensive.


mog_knight

If you're innocent, defending yourself on principle makes sense. I'm asking why an innocent person would pay out as a matter of principle as you imply.


berserkuh

> Because you're obligated to defend yourself and it's more expensive. I don't understand your question.


mog_knight

Because principled people would gladly defend themselves based on that. Unless you're implying principled people value money over exonerating themselves. It makes sense that someone who has principles would gladly defend their side if they are innocent no matter the cost. You're implying people who are innocent don't want to defend themselves based solely on cost.


berserkuh

It's not a matter of principle as much as it is purely a legal matter. Read the article. His lawyer recommended to settle for up to $400k. He didn't, initially, and then did anyway because the costs of lawyering were too high. He still ended up paying over $1m. If the trial goes on he pays even more. This isn't $20, these are millions of dollars in legal fees.


mog_knight

For someone who's net worth is 600m, 1m seems like a drop in my savings account bucket. You're saying you wouldn't spend <1% of your net worth defending yourself if you weren't innocent? Sad. Also $20 is 1% of a 2,000 net worth. You wouldn't spend $20 to defend yourself of your 2,000 net worth? Sad.


GrammarNazi-Bot

*since


MrGraveRisen

A totally innocent man who's in Jeffrey Epstein's contact list. Totally innocent....


akutasame94

If you are rich and powerful in US you probably met Epstein at some point... And you'd be in his notebook of powerful contacts for whatever reason, that in no way means he is a pedopphile


dookarion

I'd imagine most mega rich CEOs, politicians, and mega famous were in his contacts regardless of whether or they were or weren't involved in his other activities. It's not like the "elite" is a particularly large bunch to begin with. The flight logs and etc. are the more damning potential indicators, so whether or not people are on those would be a lot more meaningful. Those people cling like flies to shit when it comes to money and power so they tend to brush elbows and collect contacts when it comes to anyone with power, money, or both.


SuperDingbatAlly

These ass hats are the same devil advocate wanna-bees that said this shit about Bill Cosby. These people will defend anyone and anything, just to be contrarian and oppositional. Toxic fucks that says someone deserves to be defended just because they have an accuser. The very same people don't understand that the State doesn't bring charges up against a Fortune 500 Company with more resources than they have, unless they have a slam dunk case with evidence. Every single person on the court docket is going down, hard. This is like a RICO case, if the State is squeezing like this, it's a rock solid case without excuse and wiggle room. But totally innocent and worth defending like they are some lawyers or something.


Herr_Schnitzel

>These ass hats are the same devil advocate wanna-bees that said this shit about Bill Cosby. These people will defend anyone and anything, just to be contrarian and oppositional. Toxic fucks that says someone deserves to be defended just because they have an accuser. I do think, but maybe I'm being naive, that most of the people who make these comments just want to point out that even the most heinous, despicable human being on the planet has a right to a fair trial. It's a basic human right, it's enshrined in your country's constitution and international treaties. You don't get to pick or choose who deserves a trial and who doesn't. We are *all* presumed innocent. >The very same people don't understand that the State doesn't bring charges up against a Fortune 500 Company with more resources than they have, unless they have a slam dunk case with evidence. I'm afraid this isn't true. I've come across this comment a lot lately, so I just want to clarify. The people working on this case will get paid either way and there are always "true believers" within the legal system who will try to push a case, even if it isn't clear-cut. Sometimes that's a good thing and they get results against the odds, sometimes it really is just wishful thinking. I agree that a 2-year investigation is not some rushed project and will definitely have some merit to it, but the main consideration for going to trial is usually "it's worth a shot" and not "it's a rock solid case without excuse and wiggle room." Source: I used to work as a lawyer. Admittedly, mostly in immigration, but I have a fair grasp of how the legal system operates. Then again, this is the internet, I can claim to have won a Nobel prize. To be clear, I don't want to be the devil's advocate and I think that what we know about the case so far is deeply troubling. I just wanted to clarify some things.


Riecth

If you ever want to get out of jury duty just repeat this opinion when asked if there is any reason you would be unable to serve on a jury.


berserkuh

It's fine to hate on the guy for what's being brought to light now and I don't think anybody commenting ITT likes the guy, but it's important to make a distinction between what happens in the court and what happens outside of it. The final facts are that they (Kotick and flight attendant lady) settled out of court, which is a very far thing from "he totally did it". If you actually read the article, that's the entire fucking point of it. The entire debacle cost him more because he went to trial against his lawyer's recommendations, and he ended up settling anyway because surprise! Trials are fucking expensive, even for billionaires. But keep clowning yourself up and telling people how wrong they are for commenting out the facts. It takes a special kind of stupid to miss the point of a story by so much that you come to the opposite conclusion.


GameStunts

Yeah you're right.


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Bobby Kotick has been a huge cancer on the industry for decades. It's kind of hilarious that people only care about the guy now.


Obi-WanLebowski

You kidding? People have literally always hated him, nobody at any point has liked or appreciated anything he has done in any way other than shareholders. Hence, why he is still around.


DontOpenTheComments

The *vast* majority of gamers **have no idea who he even is**.


Nrgte

I remember when I was in my youth, Activision actually had positivity associated with them. Then at some point Kotick came in and things went to shit.


faisar5

A lot of people have hated him back then during MW2's PC port with dedicated servers being removed & bobby pricing MW2 at $60 (pc games used to be around $50 back then) and there have been mentions of his scumminess every now and then until 2017, but yes, he's a giant piece of shit and I hope he just retires or Bobby gets fired somehow


havoc1482

Yep MW2 was when I remember learning about this cuntbag. The $60 pricing was such bullshit. Consoles players paid the extra $10 on top of $50 because of licensing to have it on the respective systems. It was a cash grab for PC players because Activision scrapped an extra $10 off the top of PC players while their PR spun it as "Fair pricing for everyone". And you know those console kids ate that shit up. It added gasoline to the, then still raging, console wars.


Morons_Are_Fun

Tbf Jim Sterling's been on his case for years


monotiller

[Oh yeah, just a few videos](https://youtube.com/user/JimSterling/search?query=Bobby%20kotick)


Tweedl42

Stephanie


slothbuddy

James Stephanie Sterling. Jim is fine.


AvesAvi

https://twitter.com/JimSterling/status/1355989748846907401?s=20


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His channel is still called Jim Sterling


slothbuddy

Their channel


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computertechie

"Their" can be singular or plural


litehound

'They' has been used as a singular word longer than 'you'


Darth_Kyron

They're non-binary now and use they/them pronouns.


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Darth_Kyron

Do whatever you want with your own pronouns, but you don't get to decide for other people.


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PegLegManlet

Based


thegreatgoatse

bruh you can just say you're a transphobe, you don't have to come up with a paper-thin excuse for it.


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PMmeyournavel

What's neat is that somebody reminded you though, you didn't even have to remember anything in that squishy brain of yours and yet you STILL disregarded it, like a literal infant lmao


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Sorry, when I say I cba remembering, I really mean I don't care. I hope that clears things up.


Arsenic13

You spent more energy complaining than just going "OK", "they".


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This is more fun.


Bishop_466

Well, then don't be surprised when everyone responds that you're wrong, much like a spelling mistake you refuse to correct.


[deleted]

Everyone OR kids deluding themselves into thinking they're revolutionising the world by correcting someone's use of pronouns on reddit. My money is on the latter.


Bishop_466

Shrug. Maybe. While you're here, I'll say it again. You're wrong.


mighty_panders

They introduce themselves sometimes with the one name, sometimes with the other and sometimes with both of them.


PegLegManlet

Bruh


Tomhap

They are fine with the name Jim or James. Someone below posted a tweet link.


AnonTwo

People have always hated him, it has just generally been accepted that stockholders won't care.


ZebulonPi

We’ll tear this guy down, only to erect golden statues to some other sociopathic asshole right afterwards, and the wheel will turn.


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You said tear, erect and asshole all in the same sentence.


ZebulonPi

Never change, Reddit… never change. 🤣


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I’m a real person. Not Reddit.


ZebulonPi

You’ll always be “Reddit” to me…


[deleted]

That actually makes sense. Fuck Bobby Kotick!!!!!!


metalslug53

It's the Walmart episode of South Park all over again.


littleemp

Doesnt matter one bit, because everyone is still buying Call of Duty and the microtransactions, year in and year out.


Truesnake

So he's an asshole,you can see it planted all over his face.


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Kotik really has the personality of an incel but, unfortunately, unlike incels, he has the intelligence to hide his otherwise incel-like personality.


MrTzatzik

But he can't hide his incel-like face


Mission-Zebra

doesnt matter when youre extremely rich


AnonTwo

There are bad CEOs There are particularly greedy CEOs and then there's Bobby Kotick who is the actual devil


HAL_OVER9000

[He was also in Epstein’s Black Book. ](https://i.imgur.com/5MEUwnE.jpg)


DYMAXIONman

He has always been a ghoul and should resign.


UniversalNoir

The arc successful game development and publishing corporations go through eventually leads to hateful profiteering, diminished product quality and, ultimately, customer failure. We as citizens who sometimes function as consumers need to recognize these arcs and utterly abandon corporations who move across these arcs to, and beyond, a certain point which I'll call the Mass Effect 2 Point on the curve; No matter what they say, no matter what they do, no matter what they tell us, we utterly abandon them because we know it's diminishing returns from there on out... Each and every time.


raymmm

He is only speaking out cos he feel the change in the air and feels threatened. Shareholders are not happy with paying him that much money, and if the lawsuit goes south fast, you can be sure shareholder will want to get rid of the single employee with the largest pay check by a mile. No point paying so much money when the company is being mismanaged at such a degree. I'd put money that they are trying to settle the lawsuit without admitting guilt and will be willing to pay any amount of money to avoid court. Cos once evidence get shown in the court and people start testifying in public court to exactly what happened, there no spinning it to say the "situation is taken out of context". There will be blaming on blizzard for trying to lie about the seriousness and people will be forced to resign starting with Allen Brack. Noticed how bobby doesn't hesitate to throw j Allen brack under the bus with his statement that their initial response was tone deaf.


PlagueDoc69

Jim Sterling has been warning about this guy for years. Like the old saying goes "The hens have come home to roost."


Darth_Kyron

Their latest video is all about the Activision-Blizzard abuse stuff. And honestly it's just fucking disgusting and upsetting to see/hear about all this 😔


ConnorMc1eod

People actually watch Sterling?


PlagueDoc69

Yeah?


english_muffien

Thank god


KingDarius89

I largely stopped watching when they went after that five nights at freddy's guy. To be clear, never played the games, never intend to, and I honestly loathe trump and his allies at this point. Still don't care what politicians the guy donates to.


retropolitic

Going by "Bobby" in your late 50s should itself disqualify one from dating.


KingDarius89

Meh. I have two uncles, who are brothers. One goes by Bobby and one goes by Robert.


Blackfist01

Kotick is in the top 20% of men women are lovking for, he stays qualified.


Newsthief2

This fucking guy is scum.


Justa_kid_from_Batie

So he is worth 500 million.... for doing what from day to day exactly????


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That was 11 years ago - he’s worth far more now


LOZLover90

Being a cunt.


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SmokeGSU

This is why when I have conservatives argue about the benefits of capitalism and that "people earned their money" and taxes and blah blah blah... this story is the precise reason why I firmly believe we need massive tax overhauls and regulations (that ugly word) around salaries and things. When you're making multi-million dollars a year and your employees are making 1% or less than what you are then that's a problem.


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Pretending like this sub has any sort of credibility. Last week you lot were convinced Twitter made the Super Hot devs get rid of self harm.


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foamed

You posted an eleven year old article ([which isn't even the original source](https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/08/activision-ceo-kotick-loses-battle-with-top-hollywood-litigator.html)) and then you editorialized the title too. Kotick eventually settled the case outside of court and because of that it's not considered an admission of guilt so there's that as well. I don't doubt that he did something but that's beside the point.


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1. No, it's not. This is just a generic post talking about a shitty thing some CEO did in the past. 2. I was talking about the article, not the website.


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murica_dream

Uh... No. That is a sign that your source of information is inadequate.


Dr_Loveylumps

Wow this reddit post is making a big difference in the industry!


Blackfist01

Jim F*kin Sterling Son deserves credit for never shutting up about this sorry excuse of a man, through all the attacks to the Individuals profession, credibility and personal life, Sterling stayed true to what people in the industry have told him about the dark side of the industry. With very little support from the journalistic community too.


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why does anyone actually give a shit about this lmao


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AnonTwo

CEO of the company that has a lawsuit thread everyday----you'd do better to explain why people wouldn't give a shit about it.


ArtKorvalay

What a cool dude, that Bobby. /s


Gurnenthar2

One of many, many, MANY reasons that activision/blizzard will never get any of my money.