A Formal Thread about Activision/Blizzard
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Hey, around these parts they're totally acceptable as formalwear... right up there with a brand new pair of all black thongs.
Haha they really struggled to not cross the line into pure parody but failed spectacularly...
I was going to wonder if Blizzard hired Actual Literal Satan as their PR lead... then I remembered he's their CEO.
Quit playing the victim card. You are nothing close, even resembling a victim. Still not buying any of your crappy games, nor will I ever root for you or the people you put in charge that hurt others
variety.com
Bobby Kotick Breaks His Silence: Embattled Activision CEO Addresses Toxic Workforce Claims as Microsoft Deal Hangs in Balance
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has broken his silence on the toxic workforce claims as he attempts to close a massive Microsoft deal.
variety.com
Not surprising in the slightest. Bobby's face must be red right now.
www.eurogamer.net
Activision Blizzard says rise in misconduct reports last year due to greater scrutiny
Activision Blizzard received 114 reports of harassment, discrimination or retaliation by its employees last year.
www.eurogamer.net
As red as the devil horns people keep Photoshopping onto his pictures!
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Well, judging by some of the accounts, he seems to be quite the... "horny" type. I refer to the sexual harassment that allegedly happened under his watch; if he himself did not take part in it then he is still a scumbag for letting it happen but it undercuts this joke.
By default I really don't want to hear rich people complain, but Kotick specifically can shit himself right off the planet before I'll feel an iota of pity for his self-inflicted issues.
I might have missed something in the intervening posts of this thread, but what has ABK Twitter said? (or whoever you're listening to now)
I asked in the chat on their Slightly Something Else stream today. I got the response:
"People that work at Activision Blizzard have indicated things improved, we didn't put a blanket boycott on their work forever."
At 23:23 in the chat of this stream:
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Sony and Microsoft are both bad, but paying video games devs to not sell to both Xbox and fucking PC is a douchy move. Also, Kotick is basically an average CEO with poor marketing. Every CEO would be greedly, but some of the smarter ones would market it better.
Valve isn't really a game developer. It's a company that can do game development, but...
From interviews with Gabe Newell, Valve does not appear to work like most companies. Perhaps in some ways a sort of "dream workplace" for some people. As long as the Steam platform still sells games, the money keeps rolling in. It seems to hire a lot of very talented people... and then to an extent lets them do what they want. It feels almost like an academic department: a load of principal investigators who can go away and do their own research just so long as they can justify the grants to their funding bodies (or for lower level staff, to their principal investigator). It seems that Half-Life 3 doesn't get made because management orders it done, it gets made when enough Valve staff decide it's an interesting thing to do and club together to do it. Lots of little studios get snapped up with Valve, and they often seem to stop making games, too. Remember "Firewatch", by Campo Santo? Campo Santo were bought by Valve, and where's their next game? Also disappeared into the ether. The Half Life series seems to have stalled because they couldn't think of a new way to take the FPS that was sufficiently interesting and innovative: Alyx was only made to help with the VR sales.