CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”::Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”

  • Mudface@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That entirely depends on your expectations of a company CEO

    https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ATVI/activision-blizzard/stock-price-history

    I can’t think of a company that wouldn’t hire someone with this kind of stock performance over 30 years.

    The issue is really that consumers just keep spending money on things that they hate.

    If they didnt do that, Bobby would have been gone a long long time ago

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      9 months ago

      I think you’re right. I’m pointing moee to his leadership and how he has allowed sexism and other bad behavior to go on without any consequences. He even told an assistant that he would have her killed… https://www.pcgamer.com/more-shocking-activision-blizzard-revelations-bobby-kotick-once-told-an-assistant-he-was-going-to-have-her-killed/

      He might earn himself and the stockholders a lot of money… But in my eyes he’s a great example of why I don’t like capitalism, but that is another discussion tho!

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        9 months ago

        He’s obviously a terrible human being, I think you have to be to be a wildly successful CEO.

        But those are the people who are best at running companies. I wouldn’t be good at it, because I’m not a piece of shit

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          9 months ago

          That’s what sucks about capitalism. We’re allowing thhattype of trash to run it.

          Wow I’m very anti capitalist today!

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            9 months ago

            The thing that sucks even more about it is no one even has to ‘allow’ that type of trash to run it, it’s just what tends to happen if the profit motive is the main driver of people’s behavior.

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      9 months ago

      Most consumers just don’t care or don’t know at all who Bobby Kotick is. Call of Duty is so popular, but the people that follow the market or the game industry well enough to know the people behind games aren’t that many.