Blizzard Boss Defends Kotick
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He's the devil. Devil will adapt, he will sweet-talk those he needs and those he uses to do his bidding and he will destroy or corrupt everyone else.
I can somewhat relate to Morhaime, my old school teacher used to treat me nice while he treats everyone else like shit, and I see him in a different way my classmates do.
However, Kotick's business decisions can make people furious, Activision tries it's best to be EA but it failed, it don't have as many diverse IPs as EA, and maybe Activision will start to decay after the Call of Duty cloud passes by and gamers will find another game to buy, my fear is that Blizzard will go along with it.
However, Kotick's business decisions can make people furious, Activision tries it's best to be EA but it failed, it don't have as many diverse IPs as EA, and maybe Activision will start to decay after the Call of Duty cloud passes by and gamers will find another game to buy, my fear is that Blizzard will go along with it.
well business partners aren't going to come out publicly to bad mouth each other less there is something to gain from it.
Kotick with all his money needs to hire himself a better handler. The stuff that comes out his mouth, with or without context just make him out to be a villain in the eyes of the consumer.
Kotick with all his money needs to hire himself a better handler. The stuff that comes out his mouth, with or without context just make him out to be a villain in the eyes of the consumer.
Kotick is a CEO, he is focused on making money for the company. Which is good. The company needs money so it can continue to publish more games. The problem is that he is far and away focused on the short term goals. He is willing to take 5 dollars now to lose 50 over the next 10 years. He has directly stated he wants to take the fun out of game making. Guess what, happy workers, doing what they love and enjoy, are more productive than mindless drones with the life sucked out of them. Look at Google, they spend excessively to create a work environment that increases fun at work, and have made more money per employee than just about any company.
Next you can look at his next famous strategy. "No new IP" basically if its not a sequel to a well established game, he isn't interested. Again this is fine for short term, but eventually, every IP is going to wear thin, especially when they are being forced to churn out new copies every other year or so.
But really the problem is that this is coupled with seemingly every other player (except maybe the players?) in the gaming industry with similar motives, what is the way to make the most money with the least amount of time.
The industry as a whole as regressed. Secret levels, easter eggs, powerups, back story items, used to all be hidden in games asking for you to find. Now they are usually hidden in DLC, asking for you to buy.
QA testing in earlier console days (and PC before "teh internetz") required hammering out a very solid and stable product, now they are pushed out far before they are ready almost as a course of business. And the real question is, "Why?" the patches are still usually created within a short amount of time, so is the money needed so much RIGHT NOW that it is best to release a buggy game and later patch it, or wait a month and release a working game. Considering that reviews (pro and non) affect other peoples purchases this would seem to be something important. BTW. I think that this is actually a spot where media has let games get away with FAR too much. If there is a technical error with a game, it just isn't mentioned, or glossed over "This might be because of my early release review copy". The fact is technical issues can cause problems that suck fun from a game just as easily as bad level design or poor animations or whatever, and should be fully included in any review.
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Next you can look at his next famous strategy. "No new IP" basically if its not a sequel to a well established game, he isn't interested. Again this is fine for short term, but eventually, every IP is going to wear thin, especially when they are being forced to churn out new copies every other year or so.
But really the problem is that this is coupled with seemingly every other player (except maybe the players?) in the gaming industry with similar motives, what is the way to make the most money with the least amount of time.
The industry as a whole as regressed. Secret levels, easter eggs, powerups, back story items, used to all be hidden in games asking for you to find. Now they are usually hidden in DLC, asking for you to buy.
QA testing in earlier console days (and PC before "teh internetz") required hammering out a very solid and stable product, now they are pushed out far before they are ready almost as a course of business. And the real question is, "Why?" the patches are still usually created within a short amount of time, so is the money needed so much RIGHT NOW that it is best to release a buggy game and later patch it, or wait a month and release a working game. Considering that reviews (pro and non) affect other peoples purchases this would seem to be something important. BTW. I think that this is actually a spot where media has let games get away with FAR too much. If there is a technical error with a game, it just isn't mentioned, or glossed over "This might be because of my early release review copy". The fact is technical issues can cause problems that suck fun from a game just as easily as bad level design or poor animations or whatever, and should be fully included in any review.
/rant
Of course Kotick's nice to you Blizzard..you bring him the money for his cocaine and to satisfy his evilness.
1. In every picture, he just looks like a d-bag or smug d-bag.
2. Every single thing he has been doing to the "customers" has been a fricken annoying as hell. He doesn't care about the customers.
3. Of course Kotick treats Blizzard right. They make up, what, a majority of the revenue for Activision now? They fired Infinity Ward because they asked for what was contractually obligated to them.
4. Kotick repeatedly says the gaming industry just wants churned out sequels. I beg to differ: (see all of Zero Punctuation)
Yeah, this is a stupid move. This is like Kotick hiding behind his butt buddy Mike Morhaime and pointing "Tell them I'm a good man!"
It's not that we've latched onto a choice "sound bytes". It's just that every time that Kotick talks, I can feel that another PR person in the Activision-Blizzard is facepalming. Kotick is worse than George Bush when it comes to talking publicly, and I didn't think that was possible. XD
Failure.
2. Every single thing he has been doing to the "customers" has been a fricken annoying as hell. He doesn't care about the customers.
3. Of course Kotick treats Blizzard right. They make up, what, a majority of the revenue for Activision now? They fired Infinity Ward because they asked for what was contractually obligated to them.
4. Kotick repeatedly says the gaming industry just wants churned out sequels. I beg to differ: (see all of Zero Punctuation)
Yeah, this is a stupid move. This is like Kotick hiding behind his butt buddy Mike Morhaime and pointing "Tell them I'm a good man!"
It's not that we've latched onto a choice "sound bytes". It's just that every time that Kotick talks, I can feel that another PR person in the Activision-Blizzard is facepalming. Kotick is worse than George Bush when it comes to talking publicly, and I didn't think that was possible. XD
Failure.
This. I could talk about the mountains of evidence that proves that he is a money-grubbing vampire fully prepared to slit the gaming industries throat and drink its still-warm blood, but I shan't here.MaxerJ said:
I mean, look at that face. I am sorry, but there is no way he isn't evil!
For reasons I cannot explain, I burst out laughing at Kotick's face. Something about it is amusing to me.
I was going to put in my own comment but it would of come out as a complete copy of this, so I'll just quote it.SnootyEnglishman said:
Off Topic: Does anyone else think Bobby Kotick is related to this guy?