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[Mr Reasonable]

If it was that serious, it wouldnt be solved with an out of court settlement because nothing would stop Bobby from still getting her killed.

I'm pretty sure my coworkers or bosses have been riled up in meetings and have said he/she is going to kick the crap out of my me if I didn't finish a task. It's tongue and cheek and not meant to be literal. If the person really thinks Bobby K serious about killing her by leaving a voice message, she's got to be the dumbest person around.

Just to show Bobby and Co's antics arent even that serious, you still got all these people working there for years. If it's such a bad company then quit and stop being oppressed by Activision's bad corporate culture.

Seems you know it all already!

 

[Azzurri]

He probably misgendered him and then made up cokamania story on how horrible Bobby is.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I feel like if Kotick was really CEO of Activision for over 30 years and this is the best story someone can come up with and there's literally only 1 story with nothing else, it's probably demonstrably completely made up and total bullshit.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I don't like dudes like this either but that whiny fucking social media call-out culture is lame as hell.

 

[WitchHunter]

But we don't support those greedy businessmen either, we better support talented studios like Vanillaware, Larian or those that do have good intentions with the players.

Sure, support a dbag company that spent years in early access and released a half done shit - that is bg3 - with an even shittier combat system. You believe in fairy tales my pedigree chum.

 

[justiceiro]

What a surprise. Guy who made all franchises under Activision blizzard into shit turned out to be shitty as well.

Hopefully, this changes games for better, but Ms executives don't have the best track record either.

Also, lol at the billionaire defense force.

 

[havoc00]

What a surprise. Guy who made all franchises under Activision blizzard into shit turned out to be shitty as well.

Hopefully, this changes games for better, but Ms executives don't have the best track record either.

Also, lol at the billionaire defense force.

Id take Bobby over some purple hair gender studies major who doesn't even know what he is.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

And still... People buy the games.

You know that nobody outside video game forums knows who the fuck he is right?

 

[Panajev2001a]

If it was that serious, it wouldnt be solved with an out of court settlement because nothing would stop Bobby from still getting her killed.

I'm pretty sure my coworkers or bosses have been riled up in meetings and have said he/she is going to kick the crap out of my me if I didn't finish a task. It's tongue and cheek and not meant to be literal. If the person really thinks Bobby K serious about killing her by leaving a voice message, she's got to be the dumbest person around.

Just to show Bobby and Co's antics arent even that serious, you still got all these people working there for years. If it's such a bad company then quit and stop being oppressed by Activision's bad corporate culture.

I am afraid… people cannot tell their fantasies away from reality…

 

[Team Andromeda]

He's got nothing on the management bastards working in the NHS

 

[draliko]

Oh the purple ones... The ones with the pronouns... Sure let's believe the most untrusted, biased, mentally ill, narcissistic group of people on the planet... God I wish thanos was real and we could have a chat

 

[Ogbert]

A bunch of blue haired pronoun bellends.

 

[Soodanim]

I really want details about Bobby threatening to kill someone. I need proper context, because that's a quite the accusation to throw out willy nilly.

I'm not going to join the Bobby defence force, but the claims put forth are spurious.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

I really want details about Bobby threatening to kill someone. I need proper context, because that's a quite the accusation to throw out willy nilly.

I'm not going to join the Bobby defence force, but the claims put forth are spurious.

If this even happened it was definitely some kind of joke that this loon deliberately misinterpreted.

 

[Dazraell]

 

[Ogbert]

I really want details about Bobby threatening to kill someone. I need proper context, because that's a quite the accusation to throw out willy nilly.

I'm not going to join the Bobby defence force, but the claims put forth are spurious.

Of course he didn’t.

It’s a mad Troon looking for attention.

 

[DAHGAMING]

"Shit roles down hill" , welcome to every workplace around the world.

 

[Red5]

Then go to Venezuela you clown.

I can also say come to my country where it's governed by a completely unregulated free market and divided up by Oligarchs who basically emptied all state assets and most people have to rely on local crime lords for electricity and water.

 

[Scotty W]

Someone please make a Kotick Gigachad

 

[Ogbert]

Please stop embarrassing yourself. This is capitalism. Everything you buy or support, is in some manner tarnished. You can’t have morals in a capitalist society.

It is capitalism. And every single one of those developers has a choice as to whether or not they want to work for Blizzard.

It’s like sticking your finger up your bum and then complaining it smells of shit.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I realise now that this is a transphobia thread, but it's not difficult to find other sources.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick threatened to have his former assistant killed, according to a bombshell new investigation

In 2006, Kotick threatened to have his assistant killed in a voicemail, the WSJ reported. The dispute is said to have been settled out of court.

www.businessinsider.com

More shocking Activision Blizzard revelations: Bobby Kotick once told an assistant he was going to have her killed

A new report in the Wall Street Journal paints an unflattering picture of Activision-Blizzard

www.pcgamer.com

Activision Blizzard CEO once threatened to have his assistant killed: report

In 2006, one of Activision CEO Bobby Kotick’s assistants complained that he had harassed her and even threatened in a voicemail to have her killed, the Wall Street Journal reported.

nypost.com

Oh, wow they found something from 16 years ago where Bobby even apologised later It is fascinating how people believe in stuff happened 16 years but whatever is happening today (with photo proofs) is fake.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Oh, wow they found something from 16 years ago where Bobby even apologised later It is fascinating how people believe in stuff happened 16 years but whatever is happening today (with photo proofs) is fake.

I don't know what you're talking about, but the guy threatened a subordinate and thought it was serious enough that rather than seeking to have the employees grievance dismissed by court, paid up to make it go away.

And that's the guy you're sticking up for

 

[diffusionx]

Guys sounds like an absolute treasure and prick. No matter what people think of him though, he got shit done. They are going to miss him and the next person in charge is going to struggle. Just look at most Xbox studious now and the lack of production.

Did Activsion not have a real HR department or something? You can't go around threatening to kill people, no matter your position.

Nerd alert. Reminds me of what happened to the Empire in Star Wars when the Emperor died. The empire fell apart without the strict guiding hand and single voice steering the ship. Activision will not be the same juggernaught.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Bobby did not threaten to kill anyone in that meeting and the person making this accusation is lying.

 

[MHubert]

Nvm

 

[justiceiro]

Id take Bobby over some purple hair gender studies major who doesn't even know what he is.

Lmao, yeah the billionaire was the last stand against them, he was not just in for the money.

 

[Nickolaidas]

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Bobby did not threaten to kill anyone in that meeting and the person making this accusation is lying.

Or, even more possible, he said it sarcastically. And the fucking retard is incapable of grasping sarcasm so it thought he was saying that seriously.

 

[John Wick]

You gotta hand it to Bobby. Made his money and pissed some people off. Bet they love the fact they all profited?

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Have said this in other threads but when Acti was recruiting Ybarra he told me Kotick used their helicopter to travel everywhere even just a few minutes to go to lunch as long as he could avoid sitting in traffic

 

[Drizzlehell]

Bobby Kotick is a dick. But please take everything anyone on twitter says with a grain of salt.

Especially from men who think they have PMS/periods.

This guy is COOKED.

From his tumblr:

it’s a strange thing to go from experiencing no PMS ever to all of a sudden being brutalized by it

it’s not that i didn’t believe people’s experiences of it - of course i did. but good lord experiencing it in first person is beyond anything i’d imagined

chhopsky

video game making person working on a AAA sci-fi adventure in Unreal Engine 5. also writing horny...

chhopsky.tumblr.com

People need to stop indulging/amplifying/encouraging mental instability.

Obviously you don't get how GAF works. If a criticism comes from the mouth of someone who's part of the alphabet people, then suddenly the person being criticised is a martyr saint, even if it's someone as horrible as Kotick.

There is no place for nuance. The message is just as unhinged and one-sided, only on the opposite end of the spectrum from the ultra-liberal wokies.

 

[BacklashWave534]

So Bobby has sailed off on his golden parachute with a grin from ear to ear and the left feels like they won some kind of victory? The dude is rich beyond our wildest dreams. These people need to step in to reality for a sec and just stop talking.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

He probably misgendered him and then made up cokamania story on how horrible Bobby is.

I would misgender him on purpose. On purpose!!

 

[phaedrus]

"they/he"?
How the f does that even work grammatically.
I really hate how these nutcases muddle up the English language.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Love bobby he's so based

 

[nush]

You gotta hand it to Bobby. Made his money and pissed some people off. Bet they love the fact they all profited?

I worked under Bobby for a few years, made bank, and he didn't try to kill me. No regrets, thanks Bobby.

 

[BlackTron]

Oh my god! He gave them jobs without ever even understanding their light!

 

[Faust]

Workers Share Bobby Kotick Horror Stories After He Finally Leaves Activision Blizzard

Current and former Activision Blizzard employees share their Bobby Kotick horror stories, including the time he threatened his assistant.

www.thegamer.com

So we have someone being threatened, a legit concern (if it happened) and a dude whining that his team may be exposed to mean words. JFC.

Seeing a lot of the words from Blizzard devs and... No wonder the company has gone to the shitter. So many mentally deranged/challenged individuals working for the company these days.

 

[Kiya's Guard]

And the article is down already?

 

[havoc00]

And the article is down already?

Appears so...

 

[ClanOfNone]

And the article is down already?

Kotick’s Commando Death Squad does not fuck around.

 

[nush]

And the article is down already?

I'm betting someone found something much worse about " Christina" that made Bobby look like a saint. Happens all the time.

 

[Insane Metal]

Damn who could have imagined that?

 

[Kurotri]

Damn, if you were to believe they/them you'd think that Bobby was an Avengers level threat.

 

[Nickolaidas]

Damn, if you were to believe they/them you'd think that Bobby was an Avengers level threat.

Which Avengers are we talking about, Kurotri?

 

[ByWatterson]

"millions you didn't earn"

Can't say this enough - he bought the name and built a titan out of nothing. Absolute industry visionary (even if you don't like his vision, and I probably don't).

Bobby Kotick is many things, but an undeserving millionaire he is not.

 

[SirKicksalot]

"millions you didn't earn"

Can't say this enough - he bought the name and built a titan out of nothing. Absolute industry visionary (even if you don't like his vision, and I probably don't).

Bobby Kotick is many things, but an undeserving millionaire he is not.

I wonder how they explain his 30 years as head of the company. That Warcraft guy would probably say "dude capitalism bad", as his salary is paid by subscribers.

 

[Negotiator101]

Id take Bobby over some purple hair gender studies major who doesn't even know what he is.

Thankfully they don't have to take either because Spencer is taking over.

 

[MayauMiao]

I wanted to believe what these people said about Bobby Kotick.

But then I saw their pronouns.

 

[Kurotri]

Which Avengers are we talking about, Kurotri?

Oh lawdy. Bobby would probably take them all out with one single act of misgendering.

 

[FalconPunch]

Thankfully they don't have to take either because Spencer is taking over.

The guy who spent the last part of a decade running Xbox into the shitter? Yea I wouldn’t be thankful for that if I were you.

 

[NanaMiku]

This thread reminded me of this guy