• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Umadbro?

    Shit like this is cringe. Kotick makes money and turned a failing company into a successful studio. You might not like it but he makes games for the majority and he wouldn’t have been successful otherwise.

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      1 year ago

      Wotlk WoW era Blizzard was a failing company? In what metric?

      Money makers like OW2/Diablo Immortal aren’t designed for the majority either, but for the 1% willing to spend exorbitant amounts of money. He made a successful studio develop into a souless money printing machine.

      Edit: If you want to credit him with everything Blizzard’s achieved since his tenure, why not also credit him with sinking Blizzard’s reputation into the ground for the current generation of youths, ensuring that whoever comes after will have nothing to work with?

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        1 year ago

        Not defending kotick but, isn’t that what a big corp CEO’s job is? Make money for the shareholders, at any cost? I hate what he’s done. But I don’t see a point in bashing him for doing exactly what your typical scum big corp CEO does.

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    1 year ago

    Microsoft will have made this guy a billionaire, and he doesn’t deserve a penny. Oh well, at least we get to keep specific games away from another game platform, I’m sure that makes it worth it.