Report: Activision Took Years To Fire Someone Who Signed Emails '1-800-ALLCOCK'
The Wall Street Journal podcast shares new details about its Activision Blizzard Reporting
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I have seen people in my organisation be raked over the coals within seconds of sending an email to the wrong person with shit like that on it.Report: Activision Took Years To Fire Someone Who Signed Emails '1-800-ALLCOCK'
The Wall Street Journal podcast shares new details about its Activision Blizzard Reporting
That's... that's not even clever.Report: Activision Took Years To Fire Someone Who Signed Emails '1-800-ALLCOCK'
The Wall Street Journal podcast shares new details about its Activision Blizzard Reporting
It's somehow both vile and banal, like if 14 year old channers were reenacting the plot of Big
In a bit of positive news, the head honchos at Xbox and Playstation have reacted negatively to this and Microsoft is revaluating their relationship with Activision-Blizzard.
www.bloomberg.com
Xbox Chief Says He’s Evaluating Relationship With Activision
Microsoft Corp.’s head of Xbox said he’s “evaluating all aspects of our relationship with Activision Blizzard and making ongoing proactive adjustments,” in light of the recent revelations at the video game publisher.
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I can't verify but hopefully this is a warning shot across their bow. Dare I hope?
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick threatened to have his former assistant killed, according to a bombshell new investigation
In 2006, Kotick threatened to have his assistant killed in a voicemail, the WSJ reported. The dispute is said to have been settled out of court.
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And Bobby thought all the photoshopped devil horns were making it hard for him to get dates....
I wonder if this is the shredded evidence that has now somehow resurfaced? Like someone found another copy.
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick threatened to have his former assistant killed, according to a bombshell new investigation
In 2006, Kotick threatened to have his assistant killed in a voicemail, the WSJ reported. The dispute is said to have been settled out of court.
And Bobby thought all the photoshopped devil horns were making it hard for him to get dates....
Curious, if they do fully delist these games, wouldn't this give cause for Acti-Blizz to make some counter against this? Like this violates a contract they have with Sony or something?
Don't know how these deals between publishers work.
More likely it'll be refusing to do special deals with Activision in the future for exclusive content. I doubt they'd pull COD entirely
Report: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Will 'Consider' Quitting If He Can't 'Fix' Company's Culture
A Wall Street Journal report says he met last week with executives and senior managers
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"I swear, if I don't fix this within a timeframe I consider reasonable, I'll leave." Yeah, uh-huh, fuck that. Kick his ass out. I want to see him with this reaction.
He's had plenty of time to fix the problem, and he spent that time being part of it. Excise the cancer.Report: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Will 'Consider' Quitting If He Can't 'Fix' Company's Culture
A Wall Street Journal report says he met last week with executives and senior managers
"I swear, if I don't fix this within a timeframe I consider reasonable, I'll leave." Yeah, uh-huh, fuck that. Kick his ass out. I want to see him with this reaction.
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This seems likely. Both Xbox and Playstation have had timed exclusive content agreements with different Activision titles in the past, and I assume that losing something like that would be a financial hit of a couple million dollars probably. Not a huge amount when you consider that Call of Duty makes billions on its own, but investors never like to know that money was left on the table.
Its been a week? Has the walkout already happened?Another walkout planned, this time demanding the resignation of Bobby Kotick for, at the very least, being complicit in his lack of action in regards to the harassment.
Activision Blizzard employees stage walkout after new allegations against CEO
Staff are calling for the resignation of Bobby Kotick after a new report.ftw.usatoday.com
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There was a walkout that happened the same day the article dropped. Also as far as I know all of the Activision Blizzard studios were hastily given this week off, my guess to preempt further walkouts. It's hard to have a work stoppage when management decided no one is going to be working that week anyway.
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Activision stock has lost about 40% of its value since this scandal started. In Feb 2021 the stock was at about $104 a share, in June it was at $99.18, and at the time of this writing it closed today at $60.
That's not as monumentally bad for Activision as it sounds. In March of 2019 the stock was at $42, and then skyrocketed up mostly because of Call of Duty Warzone and Call of Duty Mobile to unprecedented levels at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. So the stock losing 40% of its value isn't a killing blow for the company by any means, but it's amazing how absolutely massive the reputational hit is.
I can't say I'm unhappy with the idea that Bobby lost a significant chunk of his value either (I assume a lot of his wealth is in company stock).
That's not as monumentally bad for Activision as it sounds. In March of 2019 the stock was at $42, and then skyrocketed up mostly because of Call of Duty Warzone and Call of Duty Mobile to unprecedented levels at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. So the stock losing 40% of its value isn't a killing blow for the company by any means, but it's amazing how absolutely massive the reputational hit is.
I can't say I'm unhappy with the idea that Bobby lost a significant chunk of his value either (I assume a lot of his wealth is in company stock).
It's not catastrophic, but I should point out that they've lost 40% of their stock DESPITE the release of Call of Duty: Vanguard. Not even CoD has been enough to bring back their stock. That's not something to be glanced over.