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Former and current Activision employees are speaking out online about what a leader Bobby Kotick was during his 32-year career with the company. Now that Microsoft has bought the publisher and the former CEO has left, they can make up their own minds with impunity.
It’s no surprise that many people had a poor relationship with their boss and, according to many, his activities did not have a good impact on morale. Among the damning stories we also find death threats, the cancellation of entire developments and his alleged relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
It was recently revealed that Kotick received a severance package worth up to $400 million upon his departure from the company, but many in the industry see this as a necessary sacrifice just to see him go. In a post, the former Call of Duty developer wrote that in the first month of his employment, he saw the former manager coming out and threatening to kill an employee. Afterwards, those present could neither spit nor swallow and Kotick fired the person in front of everyone.
The former insiders accordingly The release of Overwatch 2 on Steam caused the company’s stock price to fall, despite warning management that the game would most likely fall victim to review bombing, as if they were talking to the wall. Well, that’s how it happened.
Maybe it was the Chinese players are the loudest, when it was announced that Kotick would be leaving the company. As you know, many people have blamed them for the unavailability of Blizzard’s games in China. There are those who literally celebrated the firing of the CEO with fireworks.
Many developers spoke about Bobby Kotick’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein and shared an image of Epstein’s list with the name “Boby Kotic” (sic!) along with the activist’s email address. It is not difficult to imagine the fact that he was probably also part of the inner circle of the businessman accused of human trafficking and bribery of minors.
The stories don’t end there, Kotick reportedly regularly made disparaging comments about developers’ struggles within the company and paid virtually no attention to workers over the years.
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