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This 1 fucking guy ruined a whole generation of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.

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.

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.

Limp dick Kotick should have been fired long ago.

He looks like Bilbo Baggins in the scene where he's overcome with desire for the ring and tries to take it from Frodo.

While CEO of Activision, Kotick's termination without cause, or "Termination by employee for good reason following a change of control," guaranteed him nearly $300 million. Bloomberg reports that Kotick's windfall will likely be $375 million now that Microsoft's acquisition has gone through.

Such a punchable face. Damn

the shareholders will identify a suitable replacement my dudes, no need to cheer up over this

Blizzard will stay the rotten corpse of something great it is right now

What a piece of shit

Nice to see Microsoft is cleaning house one day after the aquisition went through, starting with the root of the problem. This is very likely part of the deal and is gonna bring about some long needed changes.

We've replaced Kotick with Microsoft lol

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)

employees are "very excited."

Time to polish up my resume.

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

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.