. Pat and Woolie pretty much debunked this in their video
No disrespect, but who the fuck are Pat and Woolie and what credentials do they have in regards to what happens as the head of a billion dollar company or ANY company.
They know what's going on, they just choose to be selectively oblivious or ignore it.
Like i said, If Kotick was notified of this he likely issued orders to the people in the company that handle that sort of thing and expected it done. It is much more likely that Blizzard officials tried to keep this isolated to within Blizzard and kept a lot out of Activisions' notice. I'm not saying management isn't to blame but directing such ire towards the top of the ladder simply due to it being the highest rung is just not a realistic ideal of how a corporation works.
If you want to be a leader, then everything that happens under your watch is your responsibility. Including... no, especially the stuff you didn't know about until it blew up in your face. I have zero respect for the majority of corporate management. They're not leaders, they're just micro-managing petty tyrants.
Then you, like Jim Sterling, are just unreasonably angry at the wealth, and are misdirecting that anger from the people who are actually responsible and at fault. No one person can know or handle every situation in a company that big, there is a reason why corporations have HR departments and various layers of management.
Keep the rage towards the people who did the deed and covered it up. Not people several dozen levels of removed from the situation.