Bobby Kotick says Activision Blizzard harassment lawsuits were "fake" and simply a "plan" to drive up union membership : games

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago

Bobby Kotick acting like a giant piece of shit? I'm shocked.

[-] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

It's so mindbending to see people that nerdanwere yelling about on the Internet about drm and micro transactions literally protect rapists and abusers. Like, we tried warning everyone.

[-] LapGoat@pawb.social 55 points 1 month ago

didn't a woman literally kill herself over the sexual harassment? and the bill Cosby room??? that seems difficult to fake and surely would have been disproved if it was???

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago

Even if it was, is higher union membershop so bad? If you treat your employees right you should have nothing to fear from unions

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

But he doesn’t want to treat them right!

[-] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 month ago

Bobby should be introduced to Luigi

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 37 points 1 month ago

Just fuck off already, Bobby.

[-] Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

Another rich person asking for Luigi.

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

Just how far up his own ass is this guy?

[-] Beartotem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

All the way.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Ok. Well I say that I don't believe him.

How about that, Mr. Fung?

[-] shani66@ani.social 14 points 1 month ago

Genuinely evil creature

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Launch him into space.

[+] Viri4thus@feddit.org -7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Your gamepass subscription put ungodly amounts of money on Kotic's pocket. MS did nothing but layoff the employees to clean house after. It's on you, and the outlets that peddle gamepass and take advertising money from Acti/MS. You don't get to play innocent, especially eurogamer who shills egregiously for the highest bidder.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I mean, I agree that EuroGamer plays shill to the highest bidder, but to say that people paying for Xbox GamePass directly paid Kotick is pretty disingenuous. Yes, it went into the same money pool that Microsoft used to fulfill Koticks contractual agreement to get him to leave, so did all of their other revenue.

I could just as easily say that your grandmother's Office 365 subscription money, or the money I spent on a new PC that came preinstalled with an OEM Windows 7 key, all went into that payment. At the end of the day, blaming the consumer can only take you so far, but in this instance it is too many levels removed from direct consumer payment.

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