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[oldergamer]

Its bu

In typical Microsoft fashion: always a follower and never a leader.

bullshit like that i find totally stupid.your post i mean not spencer commenting on it.

 

[BusierDonkey]

I said it regarding Jim Ryan and I'll say it here. Phil better hope all the people in his little piece of Microsoft don't have a history because he just indicated to the world that they're all squeaky clean.

It's like whack-a-mole. Pop your head out and pop it back in the hole before you get the hammer. The moles that pop out and start waving their arms for attention are going to get the hammer.

 

[PropellerEar]

Spence will do anything to be just like Jimbo.

 

[BadBurger]

Looking forward to Jonah Hill playing Kotick in the Activision scandal movie.

 

[Ryohazuki282]

Is this the part where people tell him he should shut up and stay out of it because maybe someone in microsoft had possibly done something that could be bad at one point in time?

Yes. He should, in fact, shut up and stay out of it.

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

To the men out there:

Use suncscreen and apply some good product to your face daily, preferably after a shower.

Source: guy who looks 15 years younger than he is.

And go to a good plastic surgent, ask phil he must have a good one

 

[pqueue]

And go to a good plastic surgent, ask phil he must have a good one

Or he lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest, where our Summers start July 5 and go through August, and then the 9 month rainy/cloudy season starts over.

 

[Strider Highwind]

Phil Spender isn't anywhere near as charismatic as this guy

The way Balmer goes from laughing, joking, and dancing to full out crying within a matter of minutes always made me think he must spend good money on coke.

 

[FrankWza]

Looking forward to Jonah Hill playing Kotick in the Activision scandal movie.

Steve Carell in a fat suit

 

[The_Mike]

Seriously why does everyone have to do a statement about this?

It doesn't mean you support it if you just shut the fuck up about it.

Of course is everyone seeing this as a bad act, but why do everyone have to say this, like a group of students ratting out about who done what and do whatever to save their own skin.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Seriously why does everyone have to do a statement about this?

It doesn't mean you support it if you just shut the fuck up about it.

Of course is everyone seeing this as a bad act, but why do everyone have to say this, like a group of students ratting out about who done what and do whatever to save their own skin.

It's an email to employees; Activision employees staged a walkout.. all over the place are their friends, or ex-employees, including at Xbox, and Playstation.

So their leader sends an email out to those employees. That's really about it.

People don't want to work places where the CEO stops someone from being fired after an investigation into a harassment claim came back with "fire this guy." These companies need to retain talent.. so they do things to retain that talent, like assure them they won't act like that d-bag Kotick.

The real question is why do you and everyone else care?

 

[Excess]

>statements from lawyer's email alleged
>alleged
>no charges were made by police upon report
>no charges

Sure is kangaroo court in here.

 

[sircaw]

If only Jim Ryan had this level of defence in the other thread.

Bo_Hazem sircaw you guys are asleep at the wheel. The above is the level of dedication and commitment expected from you going forwards.

Are you saying i am a god damn Fanboy WTF

 

[alabtrosMyster]

I support due process in the court of public opinion!

 

[TaylorSwiftFan]

They are not evaluating shit. Activision’s games are still going to be coming both the Xbox and the PlayStation.

 

[DaGwaphics]

Florida.

I keed, I keed... or do I?

The bar for Floridians might be low, but we still don't have cocaine commercials.

 

[Fare thee well]

I dont really care how labeled as 'woke' this gets. I've wanted to see Bobby burn for over a decade now. If it fucks him, great. Sadly I think little will come from it.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

Kotick has to go.

I said it regarding Jim Ryan and I'll say it here. Phil better hope all the people in his little piece of Microsoft don't have a history because he just indicated to the world that they're all squeaky clean.

It's like whack-a-mole. Pop your head out and pop it back in the hole before you get the hammer. The moles that pop out and start waving their arms for attention are going to get the hammer.

Nothing to worry about. Anybody who is found to have done something wrong is ousted. That's how it works. It's no reason at all to not call this stuff out.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

If only Jim Ryan had this level of defence in the other thread.

Bo_Hazem sircaw you guys are asleep at the wheel. The above is the level of dedication and commitment expected from you going forwards.

 

[WitchHunter]

This guy is a rockstar. Someone give him a role in a movie. With John Cena, they would break boxoffice in a matter of days.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Activision hasn't produced a decent game in years and has been involved in way too many flops and badly received announcememts, plus it's basically just a Call of Duty factory now so it's okay to rip it a new one.

And it's fine, I'm all in for tearing them down but where the hell was this kind of hate bandwagon when Ubisoft was being accused of the same things?

 

[eyesabitdull]

Is this the part where people tell him he should shut up and stay out of it because maybe someone in microsoft had possibly done something that could be bad at one point in time?

Ah yes, the holier than thou attitude. Cringe as fuck. Those living in glass houses better not throw rocks around. You might just be the next juicy scandal.

Like clockwork.

 

[SpongebobSquaredance]

Activision hasn't produced a decent game in years and has been involved in way too many flops and badly received announcememts, plus it's basically just a Call of Duty factory now so it's okay to rip it a new one.

They made Crash 4 and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2 Remake. Those are great.
It's the tricky part isn't it, because no matter how hard the upper regime sucks (and in case of Activision they suck hard), the companies goal remains to create products that the public wants. Meanwhile you are sitting here and asking yourself "should I support them? I want to support the devs who made great games, but that also means I support the shitty people over there and the upper regime and I don't want or enable them ".

 

[StreetsofBeige]

They made Crash 4 and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1+2 Remake. Those are great.
It's the tricky part isn't it, because no matter how hard the upper regime sucks (and in case of Activision they suck hard), the companies goal remains to create products that the public wants. Meanwhile you are sitting here and asking yourself "should I support them? I want to support the devs who made great games, but that also means I support the shitty people over there and the upper regime and I don't want or enable them ".

Yup.

If some people want to criticize the people at fault, go ahead. But like every company, 99% of the employees are probably good people. And it's not like only execs can be assheads. Anyone can be. If the company's R&D team makes good products and the rest of departments get it on shelves, why grill all of them?

I bet the same people who say fire Kotick and boycott Activision are the same people who probably own high priced branded clothes and tech gear. The kind of shit made by people in Asia or India for rock bottom wages and lousy working conditions.

But as long as it's out of public scrutiny (slave labour articles come and go over the decades), it's no problem to wear $200 Nikes made by some poor person making $1.50/hr. Probably dont even make that much.

 

[Dream-Knife]

MS forced Bill Gates off of their board for merely flirting with an employee vaguely via email.

Oh wow. Source on this?

 

[Concern]

Oh no, the outrage.

I don't even care to read the whole scandal. Just find it hilarious all these idiots are "criticizing" but we all know nobody is going to do a damn thing. You guys really upset? Pull cod from both networks..... ahhhh you won't.

Then we have people somehow console warring in here too.... just lol

 

[Thebonehead]

Phil Spender isn't anywhere near as charismatic as this guy

That's what 100bn in the back pocket makes you feel like.

I'm up for some of that

 

[Shmunter]

Woohoo, let’s pile on. It’s expected

 

[Y0ssarian]

Remove Vanguard from the store then.

Nooooo I need n00bs to kill over the free trial period

 

[Basil King]

Jim Ryan has the stress of being profitable while Phil Spender has the trust fund job of spending papa Microsoft's money. Of course one stresses you out more.

Wow there is a place for nonsense like this it’s called Resetera

 

[AmuroChan]

Talk is cheap. If they actually want to force tangible changes, these publishers need to pull all Activision games from their online storefronts.

 

[Basil King]

Talk is cheap. If they actually want to force tangible changes, these publishers need to pull all Activision games from their online storefronts.

If they can legally do that, I think Kotick would be force out. How long would that take, 1 to 2 weeks.

I think neither one will do it unless they both agree to do it at the same time in a joint statement.

otherwise one will probably feel punished next time a COD releases.

 

[sn0man]

Evaluating what? Neither Sony or Microsoft would do more than talk here. Call of Duty and Activision are too valuable to PlayStation and Xbox that they'd ever dare cut ties no matter what the CEO or company did.

Maybe a buyout. I agree that the talk may be empty but if it’s as bad inside activision as the rumors suggest maybe MS and/or Sony forces a sale through / with shareholders.

 

[Max_Po]

These are the GOATs!

This guy is the biggest weirdo... if you make the mistake of sitting next to him at clippers NBA game.. he rubs your inner thighs for good luck....

 

[Tripolygon]

And let the law handle what happened, not social media or random company bosses. If you think an obvious statement like this means defending criminals, the issue lies with you.

The thing is you're not saying anything useful at all. When have people never had a say in what is going on in their society? The law is put in place by people, interpreted by people, carried out by people. While we appointment certain people and government bodies to that role we also have a social contract with one another and hold each other accountable for our actions. De facto and de jure are not mutually exclusive concepts, you can legally and socially be held accountable for your actions as a matter of fact.

 

[Halo is Back]

All talk but I would personally love to see MS and Sony cease selling Activision/Blizzard games on thier digital storefront. That would be an absolute bombshell to Bobby.

 

[TheGodfather07]

That's what 100bn in the back pocket makes you feel like.

I'm up for some of that

yeah 100bn worth of the finest cocaine.

 

[Basil King]

And let the law handle what happened, not social media or random company bosses. If you think an obvious statement like this means defending criminals, the issue lies with you.

The same law that lets people like Bobby kotick off the hook all the time? Yeah no thanks.

 

[Dick Jones]

All talk but I would personally love to see MS and Sony cease selling Activision/Blizzard games on thier digital storefront. That would be an absolute bombshell to Bobby.

Sony, MS and Valve need to reach an agreement regarding how to treat Activision games going forward with Bobby in charge. That's the only way to get Bobby to fuck off. None of the three will act unilaterally but having all three could see Bobby gone.

 

[DragonNCM]

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has joined the chorus of industry professionals criticizing Activision Blizzard, telling staff in an email obtained by Bloomberg that Xbox is "evaluating all aspects of our relationship" with the embattled publisher.

With Xbox and PlayStation both now sending out forceful internal statements about Activision Blizzard, pressure is growing on the board to remove embattled CEO Bobby Kotick. Spencer said he and his executive team are "disturbed and deeply troubled by the horrific events and actions” at Activision Blizzard following this week's revelations that Bobby Kotick knew for years about sexual harassment and was himself a perpetrator of misconduct.

I gues COD Vanguard on gamepass is out of picture.......now

 

[smbu2000]

Oh wow. Source on this?

I'm guessing they are talking about this from earlier this year:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/16/tech/bill-gates-allegations/index.html

Bill Gates's 2020 resignation from Microsoft's board of directors came after the board hired a law firm to investigate a romantic relationship he had with a Microsoft employee, according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal.
Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Journal reported Sunday that a Microsoft engineer had "alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship over years with Mr. Gates."
"During the probe, some board members decided it was no longer suitable for Mr. Gates to sit as a director at the software company he started and led for decades," the Journal reported. "Mr. Gates resigned before the board's investigation was completed."

 

[The Pleasure]

Wow there is a place for nonsense like this it’s called Resetera

Is this post some of that boomer humor i hear so much about?

 

[Dirk Benedict]

What the fuck, they are same age?! Impossible.

Jimmy's teeth also look as if chiseled out of wood. His laugh gif will never even share the same particles as the great Kaz.

 

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

Seriously why does everyone have to do a statement about this?

It doesn't mean you support it if you just shut the fuck up about it.

Of course is everyone seeing this as a bad act, but why do everyone have to say this, like a group of students ratting out about who done what and do whatever to save their own skin.

I mean, that's probably exactly what it is. We don't know for certain if anyone at Microsoft knew about Activision's inner workings before it got publicly leaked out, but considering how fast employees move between companies, I'd find it hard to believe they didn't at least hear an insider rumor. Companies are coming out with these statements now to appear to be reacting to something they just learned, before anyone can accuse them of "knowing beforehand and doing nothing about it".

 

[hyperbertha]

Only a naive idiot would assume this has anything to do with ethics. There is business, and only business involved. Probably figured Kotick isn't aligned enough with their direction.

 

[Kerotan]

Yes. Same as Jim Ryan at Sony yesterday

Did Jim or Phil facilitate it though?

 

[Calverz]

Did Jim or Phil facilitate it though?

Probably Jim ryan. Lots of marketing deals with activision blizzard. Cod, Diablo, destiny 1 to name a few. Who knows.

 

[gow3isben]

Philip being a shill joining the flock here

 

[The Pleasure]

just look at this guy... you just know he is an evil asshat.

Those ears are fucking huge. Was he Alfalfa back in the day?

 

[Dream-Knife]

I'm guessing they are talking about this from earlier this year:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/16/tech/bill-gates-allegations/index.html

Bill Gates's 2020 resignation from Microsoft's board of directors came after the board hired a law firm to investigate a romantic relationship he had with a Microsoft employee, according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal.
Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Journal reported Sunday that a Microsoft engineer had "alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship over years with Mr. Gates."
"During the probe, some board members decided it was no longer suitable for Mr. Gates to sit as a director at the software company he started and led for decades," the Journal reported. "Mr. Gates resigned before the board's investigation was completed."

Oh, I was thinking it was when he stepped down as CEO in 2000 and cocaine enthusiast Ballmer took over.