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

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months 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 51 points 5 months 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 48 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 18 points 5 months ago

But he doesn’t want to treat them right!

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bobby should be introduced to Luigi

[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 33 points 5 months ago

Just fuck off already, Bobby.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

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

How about that, Mr. Fung?

[–] shani66@ani.social 13 points 5 months ago

Genuinely evil creature

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Launch him into space.

[+] Viri4thus@feddit.org -7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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 5 months 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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