Who says businessmen can't be evil? In fact I'd assume it to be a requirement.psrdirector said:
If I was an interviewer I certainly wouldn't be accepting businessmen with morals. How on earth would we make a sizeable profit?
Is Robert Kotick...evil?
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If I was an interviewer I certainly wouldn't be accepting businessmen with morals. How on earth would we make a sizeable profit?
I think it's kind of funny how much hate he gets. I mean, even by business standards he's pretty tame. How many companies outsource most of their labor to other countries so they can pay their employees less? Or cut most corners in manufacturing products that there's eventually several deaths and a product recall? As far as I know Kotick has never done any of these things. Perhaps if he was a CEO of a different type of company he would, but then he also wouldn't get much hate anyways.
Yes.. He's the stereotypical nostril-fuck-the-hell-out-of-consumers-who-will-*****-and-moan-yet-still-put-down-money-for-their-products businessman.
Oh that explains the shitty dubs on all the good anime shows like One Piece. (Don't Judge me. I like One Piece, alright?!)Ldude893 said:
He once told a story where the sheriffs came to repossess his companies' stuff in the 80's, and an employee tricked the sheriffs into taking something much less expensive, which let the company survive. Even though this was a crime, Bobby never reported it until after the statute of limitations passed.Kahrooch said:
Another employee in Japan sold videogame rights to franchises even when they had no rights, such as Knight Rider. Again, Bobby knew of it and did nothing to stop it.
In conclusion, I think Bobby Kotick is evil, but it's partially not his fault. His entire damn company was full of criminals and assholes who lied, broke the law, and hurt innocent people to get ahead. He probably saw it so much he came to the conclusion that it was okay to do these things.
It was an entire company built on the belief that it's okay to do *anything* to get ahead. Even breaking the law.
EDIT: Many people on this thread are making the same mistake Bobby himself makes- you are assuming since many people in Corporate America do this, it's not evil. Just because many people are doing it does not make it "okay" or for that matter, "non-evil."
Greed is just another facet of evil, so yeah he is. Not absolute, pure evil like, say, Ed Gein, but still reprehensible enough to be a loathsome little shit.
No, it's just that he talks and thinks like a businessman. The thing is, what he says is often being said to investors or bankers or people who generally want to know that their money is safe. These things are then quoted by gamers and they believe he is evil. He is using business terms. BUSINESS TERMS!
