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[–] [email protected] 98 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hot damn. I've seen friction between upper management before but it's literally inconceivable to me that I would ever wake up and see that level of genuine hatred from like, one of my place's senior management tweeted out to an ex-CEO.

I guess Bobby was a very special guy to the Blizzard crew, huh?

[–] simple 88 points 10 months ago (6 children)

There was also one string of Tweets in which many seniors from the Overwatch crew blamed Kotick for sabotaging the franchise and ruining Overwatch 2 with terrible decisions from higher up getting in the way of development. I really felt that one since I used to be an OW fan.

Everyone knew something was off when the game director which was extremely passionate (Jeff Kaplan) just straight up left the team after OW2 was announced. Really sucks, but at least we got some context.

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[–] SexyTimeSasquatch 50 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I worked there back in the day. Started when we were still owned by Vivendi. Quit after about a year of ownership by Activision. Fuck Kotick. Seriously.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something tells me Bobby is not a good guy.

[–] Dagnet 29 points 10 months ago

Was it all the sexual harassment in his company that he did nothing about?

[–] echo64 34 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Microsoft will have made this guy a billionaire, and he doesn't deserve a penny. Oh well, at least we get to keep specific games away from another game platform, I'm sure that makes it worth it.

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[–] alienanimals 23 points 10 months ago

Shitty CEOs like this are rewarded for their bad behavior, not punished. Fuck these assholes.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

He's right. Bobby's a parasite.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad that Kotick is gone. I'm hoping Microsoft and the remaining ABK leadership can steer the company in a better direction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft tends to give companies they acquire as much or as little oversight as Microsoft thinks they need.

When they acquired Mojang they essentially did not change anything. It's basically the same company now as it was before.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Which is weird because they don't seem to understand a lot of the appeal of Minecraft and tend to boil it down to the aesthetic. When seeing talk of Minecraft dungeons, I was amazed that there was no dungeon crafting tool. Seems like it would have added a ton of value to a game and made it far more related to a game about... crafting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Warcraft was such a great games, I've enjoyed watching Grubby playing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That Nitter link ~~is~~ was not a Nitter link.

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