Honestly the market for CEOs is fucking cursed with Riccitiello and Kotick available.
Thank god Sony usually promote in-house people, because woooooweeeeee
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Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will stay on as CEO of ABK until the end of 2023 to help with the transition period
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Thank god Sony usually promote in-house people, because woooooweeeeee
I imagine its orders of magnitude large with the successful sale. Fairly standard in corporate transactions.
Well Kotick does know I thing or two about keeping live service games going!
This is the usual language of someone that won't continue after that period.
this is the main reason why i was so excited for this deal. major culture and structural change from the top down there should make the studios under them more open to exploring new things.
Lmao 😂 rod and qwik go back to xbox and bobby returns to destiny. Would not be the best outcome for bungie.Bungie reaction
The amount of time he's agreeing to stay on is not only very short, it's shorter than his previous contract. He's out.
It's a bad look for everyone for MS to just be like "we're shitcanning him." But, staying on for all of two months to ensure a smooth transition makes it pretty clear that's what's happening. They're just letting him save a bit of face; he likely demanded some such transition.
Kotick is a scumbag but he is great for shareholders. Same can't be said for Riccitiello.
He'll get his golden parachute, but at the very least we get rid of Bobby Kotick.
For now at least.
For now at least.
And Unity.
That's how we ended up with fucking Jim Ryan. Go outside the company if you need to, Sony.
This man is trash and belongs in jail for doing nothing and at best enabling predatory behavior. I sincerely wish the best for corporate predators like him on days like this when it feels like they will never get repercussions for their actions
Yeah nah.
Jim Ryan is the reason why Playstation is absolutely enormous in Europe. Just because his CEO tenure was not great doesn't mean he was a random dude that somehow got into the CEO position. He had been 30 years at Playstation.
Andrew House, Shawn Layden, Kaz Hirai, all of them in-house people.
When was the last time someone was a PlayStation CEO that had not already been working there.
He should have been fired and he should be in prison. I'm sure Microsoft would've kept him in (as any other corporation) if it wasn't because Blizzard drove someone to suicide.
Yes, because I am sure that Blizzard will do their due diligence in their transition with the guy that hid all the misogyny and sexual harassment in the first place.
Never, in reality.
(well, SIE consolidated everything, but when SCE existed there were many CEOs in different regions, so there might be some that weren't from Sony before, I'm not sure)
