Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Loses Lengthy Legal Battle

[paragon1]

I feel like a prick, but my first thought was to wonder what the flight attendant looks like, since all of this started with her being harrassed. I hope she was worth the trouble, jackasses.

I'm sorry, I've just got to say this:

Your avatar is the most hilarious thing I've seen in months. Thank you.

 

[Odoylerules360]

Huh, this Bobby Kotick guy sounds like kind of a dick. Who'da thunk it?

 

[The Great JT]

This just in, Bobby Kotick, seen in this file photo [http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/178236-header.jpg], has promised "more ripping off gamers because he wants more money. Now shut up, I'm going to go eat a baby-and-puppy sandwich."

Someone please stab Kotick in his tightwad ass.

 

[poiuppx]

Kotick lost?

Ooooh there's gonna be celebrations....

Why? this really doenst affect gamers in any way. It wont impact his opinion on how he runs Activision Blizzard because well, they were not involved, it wont affect his view about DRM since it as I said, nothing to do with it. all this may do, is the next time he has a shovinistic pilot he may fire the pilot and not the flight attendent

It's the general halo effect. You dislike someone for Reason A. That person then proceeds to slip and fall in their driveway, which has nothing to do with Reason A. You, who dislike them for Reason A, laugh. Did this effect Reason A? Not in the least. But folks are just hardwired that way.

Either that, or the dude mistook this for the OTHER major lawsuit (or is it suits now?) Kotick and Activision are fighting, and is cheerleading the plaintifs in that one.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Karma always gets you, no matter what, no matter how much time passes, karma is wonderfull. I'm not a big religious guy, but I firmly believe in karma, it's never failed me and here's an example of karma in all it's glory.

 

[Fursnake]

The money he had to pay may not make much of a dent in his assets, but I think what affects him worse is the bad press from this. It is nice to see this lard-ass, douchebag asshat get what he deserves at least just once. Fuck

Bobby Kotick: Displaying all the wisdom, knowledge, and foresight of Steve Carell on The Office.

No, seriously, that's who he reminds me of right now.

I gotta disagree with you a bit here. Steve Carrell's character on the office is an asshat in a far more bumbling, awkward and and amusing manner that Kotik is.

Kotik is like the antichrist of the gaming industry. Michael Scott is comicly self absorbed and incompentent. But I will agree, Kotik is definitely 'mismanaging' and mistreating his employees.

The money he had to pay may not make much of a dent in his assets, but I think what affects him worse is the bad press from this. It is nice to see this lard-ass, douchebag asshat get what he deserves at least just once.

Fuck Kotik and the horse's cock he rode in on.

 

[Theron Julius]

Maybe Kotick finally learned that being a douche bag isn't a good thing.

 

[Alar]

Now let's hope he keeps losing... and losing... and losing... until they find a better CEO for ActiBlizz.

 

[angry_flashlight]

Could someone please smack Kock-tick with the baseball bat of reality rather than simply nudging him?

 

[Therumancer]

Hmm, greedy or stupid?

Look like he is a LOT of both.

The board/shareholders should vote to fire him from CEO of Activision before he runs that company (and all its good studios) into the ground.

Any way it goes, despite winning, I think she's a scam artist because you generally don't wind up in a job like that without having some idea what it entails.

Air Stewardesses =/= sex workers

Get that through your head. They are not strippers, porn star, "glamour" models and are NOT escorts! They are to serve drinks, manage difficult passenger and make sure everyone assumes the crash position so in case of an accident all their body parts will be easier for the crash investigators to collect. Just because they have to look presentable and professional for their job does not make them Arm Candy, eye candy or any sort of candy metaphor. Basically they have to be bouncers while looking like a waitress.

I think you've watched too many eurotrash pornos with certain skewed expectations of "air stewardesses" and the same could be said for Kotick and his cronies.

Go back and read what I wrote again very carefully.

This is not a stewardess hired to run a public jet. This is a private servant hired for a private jet which is only ferrying a tiny group of people are their guests. That makes it something entirely differant. Bobby Kotick is not hiring someone because he needs them to look out for his safety on HIS plane, or act as a "bouncer" as you put it or whatever. He's hiring someone to wait on him on his private toy, and pretty much make his nards feel big so he can show off to his friends. If Bobby Kotick wants to get drunk, and run around his plane naked and making indian noises he can do that because it's his bloody plane, it's nothing like an ordinary person buying a plane.

At any rate, this is why I am saying that the person being hired is more akin to an escort or potentially a sex worker. She is there entirely as a trophy not because she provides any kind of an actual needed service to the rich goobers who are flying around in a private jet and could get their own drinks if they wanted to. The job is more like "oh hey, your really hawt, how about I pay you a hundred thousand dollars a year to come serve me and my friends on a private plane". That is a lot closer to what is going on here than her being a stewardess in a professional sense despite what the title might be. Either she was out to create this scam or she's really dumb.

Complaining about being arm candy in a case like that, is akin to a guy being hired as a Butler and Manservent, told he will answer to the name "Jeeves" while on duty, and then listening to him complain because the rich dude who pays him decides to send him to do relatively trivial things in their prescence specifically to show off and say "hey, I'm rich, I've got a guy who will go accross the house to get wine for me on a whim so I can sit here and be lazy... I rule, I'm somebody!" because it's demeaning and servile.

 

[T_ConX]

What is it with Kotick and refusing to pay people the full amount owed? First there's withholding part of the IW staff bonuses until they make CoD8, and then this.

Meanwhile, my Activision | Blizzard boycott continues. Now entering third year.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Business men are assholes... this is news?

 

[duchaked]

there's another lawsuit he hopefully loses NEXT year...

Do tell. Are people suing him for being a twit?

well...essentially ya

hahaha tho I was actually referencing Activision vs. Respawn Entertainment (Infinity Ward...remaining employees evacuate!) for the Modern Warfare license. and other things too I think (not sure but we'll see, 2011 will be interesting maybe)

 

[Audioave10]

Kodick is a mean & greedy girlyman.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

*snip*

But the thing is, it wasn't her employer or some big-wig wanting to use her as arm candy, it was the pilot and while he might be her immediate superior on the plane (I think, I don't really know the hierarchy of flight crews) she has absolutely no obligation to do what he says off the plane. Actually, wouldn't that apply even if it was her employer wanting her as arm candy? I mean, she's an air stewardess, any entertaining roles she may or may not have begin when she steps on the plane and end when she steps off it.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Don't stiff your lawyers man, that is bad juju. Because really who is going to defend you if your lawyers come after you? Lawyers that aren't sure whether or not you are going to pay them? Looks like he got the help he was willing to pay for...or PWNED!

No kidding. While I still say that your Chef is #1 on the list of "People to never piss off, ever", lawyers (especially your own) are definitely in a close second. After that I would probably place your mailman. No better way for mail (especially if it's important) to "go missing" than to piss-off the guy who has to handle it.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Any way it goes, despite winning, I think she's a scam artist because you generally don't wind up in a job like that without having some idea what it entails. It can be spotty legally (as you can tell), but while he probably deserves it in a general sense, it seems to me that she probably played Kotick and his friends, signing on for the job, being very careful about the working of the contract, refusing to do the public portion of the job, and then sueing for it.

Wait a minute... "without having some idea of what [the job] entails"? She's basically the equivalent of the waitress at your local Denny's... only in the sky. This is no different than if said waitress sued Denny's for asking the same thing of her, then firing her when she refused. She wasn't there to be eye candy, and they had no right pushing it on her beyond simply asking once and letting it drop when she said "no". Anything beyond that IS sexual harassment because her job was to serve food, not be sexy and flirtatious.

They had it coming, and I'm glad she won. Not that they'll actually learn anything from it. Like Kotick himself said, he's worth billions of dollars, and I'm sure the other people involved were about the same. The occasional sexual harassment suit isn't nearly enough to scare them away from being sexual predators like that. Especially when it pays-off once in a while.