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As Bobby Kotick leaves Microsoft and Activision for good, an ex-employee describes how he once threatened to "have an employee killed" (www.windowscentral.com)
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As Bobby Kotick leaves Microsoft and Activision for good, an ex-employee describes how he once threatened to "have an employee killed"::Today marks Bobby Kotick's last day at the helm of Activision Blizzard King, a day this former employee chose to share an interesting tale of Kotick's alledged behaviour while CEO of the company.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As foretold in a memo to staff earlier this December, swooping leadership changes have been made at Activision Blizzard as the company enters 2024 as its first year under the helm of Microsoft following the $69 billion acquisition.

While it's not confirmed if the allegation is true, Kotick has faced accusations from multiple employees over the years, either of direct mistreatment or disregarding problematic workplace attitudes and swiftly settling complaints out of court.

Andy Belford, formerly of the community team at Activision-Blizzard, sounded the alarm that Overwatch 2 would be immediately review bombed after hitting Steam.

Belford recounted how Bobby Kotick himself was happy to drop the game straight on Steam without giving the community team any form of additional support.

With allegations of the company and Kotick himself not taking sexual harassment, assault, and unequal pay complaints seriously dating back to 2006.

According to WSJ, Activision has said the state has agreed to file an amended complaint that withdraws its 2021 claims alleging widespread and systemic workplace harassment at the company.

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