$200m Kotick bonus

[Taikoen]

Wow. >.>

https://kotaku.com/activision-blizza...hil-1846493910

I have a lack of understanding about someone like this.

[Lochton]

Wow. >.>

https://kotaku.com/activision-blizza...hil-1846493910

I have a lack of understanding about someone like this.

Alas, you're in the wrong section for this topic but I agree with you. Sadly, this is the system people have built up where the top guys reap more than the smaller guys, and being prioritized more than its people.

[Unholyground]

The only truly sobering fact is that he will be dead some day just like all the execs that in no way deserve obscene amounts of money like that. No it is not envy or anger, just disgust as it seems like almost no one who attains that kind of wealth truly does anything for humanity in the present.

[Taikoen]

Alas, you're in the wrong section for this topic but I agree with you. Sadly, this is the system people have built up where the top guys reap more than the smaller guys, and being prioritized more than its people.

Sorry - I don't post much - can an admin maybe move this to the correct spot, or should I try to delete/repost...?

[blackbird1205]

Thats why you dont give such clauses in the contract.

On the other side, I doubt those games would have become better if his bonus went into the developement/improvement/etc.

[Aleksej89]

they are leeches who do nothing and bring companies to ruin by siphoning every possible $ into their pockets instead of putting it back into product quality.

[arkanon]

The only truly sobering fact is that he will be dead some day just like all the execs that in no way deserve obscene amounts of money like that. No it is not envy or anger, just disgust as it seems like almost no one who attains that kind of wealth truly does anything for humanity in the present.

I mean......being pleased that someone will die, simply because of their level of success is pretty much Envy & Anger.

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they are leeches who do nothing and bring companies to ruin by siphoning every possible $ into their pockets instead of putting it back into product quality.

yeah, you are right, activision and blizzard are both on the verge of ruin.

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Sorry - I don't post much - can an admin maybe move this to the correct spot, or should I try to delete/repost...?

Dont worry, it will get swept under the rug into some obscure, dusty corner of this site and forgotten. Just leave it and let nature take its coarse.

[Unholyground]

I mean......being pleased that someone will die, simply because of their level of success is pretty much Envy & Anger.

Nah it is more schadenfraude than anything. You can be happy that someone dies without wishing it upon them, it is quite normal.

[Lochton]

Sorry - I don't post much - can an admin maybe move this to the correct spot, or should I try to delete/repost...?

Should be moved for you sooner or later.

[McNeil]

That sure makes for a fine gift card he would love to have. Why else would he possibly give it to his layed off employees..

[Blackmist]

Activision-Blizzard took in $8 BILLION last year.

Kotick may be reviled on here (including by me), but it's not his job to be liked. It's his job to take things that make money and squeeze them to make more. And once money stops coming out he throws them away and squeezes something else.

If anything, it's our fault he's getting a $200 million bonus... We're the ones buying his crap.

[Martymark]

Why is it every time he announces he's giving himself an obscene bonus, it's the same week they announce huge mass layoffs?

[Freedom]

Activision-Blizzard took in $8 BILLION last year.

Kotick may be reviled on here (including by me), but it's not his job to be liked. It's his job to take things that make money and squeeze them to make more. And once money stops coming out he throws them away and squeezes something else.

If anything, it's our fault he's getting a $200 million bonus... We're the ones buying his crap.

Shhh with your logic and reason, the toddlers just want to throw a fit in an echo chamber and have that feeling more precious than anything else: self-righteous indignation.

Don't like it, don't pay. I haven't since Legion massacred what I liked in WoW and replaced it with Legiondary RNG and bullshit M+ system that encourages playing too damn much.

[T-34]

Why is it every time he announces he's giving himself an obscene bonus, it's the same week they announce huge mass layoffs?

Because he saves Blizzard a enormous pile of money by reducing its labour costs. Isn't that obvious?
Blizzard solely exists to make a profit, just like any other company in a capitalistic system.

[tomten]

"While the pandemic has made Kotick even richer, it hasn’t put an end to layoffs at Activision Blizzard. The company laid off roughly 800 people in early 2019, followed by hundreds more in the subsequent months, the closing of its French office, and just yesterday it confirmed that somewhere between 50 and 190 more people would be let go, including in its esports division, which has struggled over the last year during the ban on in-person gaming events."

How can people even question why wow and their other games is in such horrible condition? This is why.
And lets hear "Hurrr durrr omg they were dont devs laid off"... Because 1000 fuckin people across a company as no effect on anything right? I would love to be as ignorant as the people actually believing that dumbass gullible story...

[Irian]

Shitbag doing his shitbag job. If you don't like it, don't buy Activision games.

But hey, they're doing their best to slowly consume and rot the entire industry, so that might be kind of tricky. Alternatively you can hope karma exists and a bolt of lightning hits him on the way to the store or something.

[willtron]

Shitbag doing his shitbag job. If you don't like it, don't buy Activision games.

irony of posting that on a WoW fan forum lmao

[Varitok]

Shhh with your logic and reason, the toddlers just want to throw a fit in an echo chamber and have that feeling more precious than anything else: self-righteous indignation.

Don't like it, don't pay. I haven't since Legion massacred what I liked in WoW and replaced it with Legiondary RNG and bullshit M+ system that encourages playing too damn much.

Country of origin checks out.

[Alatie]

Wow. >.>

https://kotaku.com/activision-blizza...hil-1846493910

I have a lack of understanding about someone like this.

Capitalism the rich get more and fuck the rest.

[Aleksej89]

Blizzard is already ruined.
Abandoned starcraft 2, ruined warcraft 3 refunded, abandoned diablo 3 years ago, heavily reduced support for heroes of the storm etc.
Ton of gambling mechanics and every other pathetic form of cheap shallow game monetization possible.

They are making billions on the corpse of the old famous and beloved blizzard.
Their product quality is trash compared to 10 years ago.