Bobby Kotick Wants to Take the Fun Out of Making Games
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All forms of (good) entertainment require creativity to produce, which for game developers is the fun had in working on your games.
I'm not sure how he ever got the position of CEO but his mentality will be the downfall of the company, especially when you pressure your employees into disregarding a critical aspect of their job damaging their motivation to keep working for you. As I recall while Google pays really well and has an excellent working environment, most of the people don't even last a year due to the stress and pressure on innovation everyone is obligated to present during employment.
Activision may be a corporate behemoth, but with people like him they'll never get anywhere near what Nintendo's goals have achieved.
I'm not sure how he ever got the position of CEO but his mentality will be the downfall of the company, especially when you pressure your employees into disregarding a critical aspect of their job damaging their motivation to keep working for you. As I recall while Google pays really well and has an excellent working environment, most of the people don't even last a year due to the stress and pressure on innovation everyone is obligated to present during employment.
Activision may be a corporate behemoth, but with people like him they'll never get anywhere near what Nintendo's goals have achieved.
i doubt it will in the long run. my guess is 10 years from now Activision will be sold off or out of business and Kotick will have long since bailed out with a golden parachute. you can only get so far in business when you have nothing but contempt for your customers and employees.Malygris said:
Well there goes any lingering doubt that Bobby Kotick wasn't a profoundly unlikeable individual.
Agreed. The entire reason for my choice of subject at university, my downloading of various game design programs, and my optional computing module next year, are all so I can make a career in games development and/or games programming. I want to do that as my career because I find it interesting, and above all else, fun. There's no point working on a project if it isn't fun to be involved with, and more to the point, fun to actually implement once complete. In this case, that means creating and playing games. There's no way I'll be applying for a position at Activision when I graduate. Which is a shame as they were responsible for Spyro the Dragon, one of my favourite PS1 franchises of all time.bushwhacker2k said:
Nah, I'll probably go for Bungie or Lionhead instead. Reasons being that, I'm a Halo fanboy so working for the company that helped create it would be awesome, even if they aren't planning any more Halo games after Halo: Reach. As for Lionhead, I just want to work for Peter Molyneux, because although he constantly hypes his games too much, I would genuinely love to be a part of his vision, since I see him as a guy who genuinely loves the industry and simply gets too excited about his company's products (to the point that they end up overhyped).
I doubt even Bobby Kotick would risk picking your pocket. There's no telling what we might find within...MaxTheReaper said:
hell yeah. must be cool to work for him. he basically hated on his developers. asshole. still, he shits money as it´s the only thing he seems to eat all day.
I believe his position as the CEO of Activision is numbered.
Also, anyone up for a game of Modern Warfare 2? I'd like to see him as an NPC in it, one that you can shoot with infinite ammo, and he keeps getting up.
Also, anyone up for a game of Modern Warfare 2? I'd like to see him as an NPC in it, one that you can shoot with infinite ammo, and he keeps getting up.
Then what happens with the real wallet? I'm assuming that's somehow worse.MaxTheReaper said:
And I realise it says a lot about both me and you that I can possibly entertain the thought that you have something worse than that in your real wallet.
Now you've made me feel bad. You really are a master of evil, it's rare that someone manages to make me feel bad...MaxTheReaper said:
P.S. Just out of interest, what is your avatar? I cn't help feeling that I've seen that picture somewhere before, but I'm not entirely sure where...
Is public stoning still out of style? I'm thinking we should bring it back for special cases like this.
EDIT: OT: It's really no wonder I've been so disinterested with the gaming market for the last few years. If everything that's being pumped out is being made under a guise of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" not to mention the company's employee incentive program that "really rewards profit and nothing else." Eugh, makes me want to vomit.
EDIT: OT: It's really no wonder I've been so disinterested with the gaming market for the last few years. If everything that's being pumped out is being made under a guise of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" not to mention the company's employee incentive program that "really rewards profit and nothing else." Eugh, makes me want to vomit.
Yeah, we did that 50 years ago, with unprotected sex.Faeanor said:
Why not just let him design his own perfect game, lock him in a room for 30 years, feed him through a hole in the door, with what ever console he has, and that game only, seems more up my street of Karma punishments.
Well I hope this guy is now happily aware of how many skitso gamers want to murder him in his sleep now. Mouth off all you want to the press sonny-jim it's going to come back to haunt you sooner or later in the form of a twitchy eyed downtrodden video game developer and a sharp object.