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On the one hand, Kotick. On the other hand, Gizmodo and Kotaku...
Ehhhhhh. Opinion-wise, may they all lose money. But also opinion-wise, chances are that they did, in fact, defame him, it's kind of their bread-and-butter operation to make very questionable articles of dubious truth for salacious clickbait.
Its reached the point now where I seriously doubt ol' Bobby is nearly 75% as bad as we've been led to believe. Like, I know how they are willing to fabricate and lie to besmirch people they don't like, so now I can't trust the years of treating him as this literal unfeeling devil man.
Especially as the entire Brutal Legend fiasco showed that he absolutely is in the right sometimes and his bad image might partly come from Egotiscal Devs refusing to have their "vision compromised" and shipping a product on time/in budget.
He might still just be that bad and this is a broken clock situation, but at this point enough doubt has been planted to make me side with him 100% against these losers.
Kotickowitz is the greasy child rapist who oversaw the transformation of Blizzard from the company that made the first two Diablos and the first three Warcrafts into what ActiBlizz is today. He's the "I want the Cowadoody experience" motherfucker. That doesn't mean various devs and journos aren't as bad as he is, but he's still a huge cancerous tumor on the entire videogame industry.
I've played WoW for 20 years and everything that has happened to them is just as easily assigned to the retarded that worked there as it is to Bobby. Metzen becoming a male feminist wasn't Bobby, Danuser's existence wasn't Bobby, and Ghostcrawler was gleeful to ruin the game for people all on his own for years and his legacy is still felt as the standard they nerf by and I doubt Bobby knows enough to even care about that. The cash shop stuff is obviously coming from Bobby's side, but Blizzard was well on its way to falling apart on its own.
Also the first two Diablos were made by Blizzard North, a company that was shut down a few years before Activision got involved with most of the big names not joining the main company in Cali afterwards.
Again, I can believe Bobby is just that awful. But I can also believe that all the memes and stories we know about him are constructed hit pieces by games journos which we know regularly do that to people we know are lies. I'm not willing to just believe things as fact anymore without more direct evidence beyond game journo articles, which is where most of the facts we know about him come from, old articles repeated until they were common knowledge.
Also, random fact. Bobby was hesitant about the merger, but was convinced when Mike Morhaime (president of Blizzard for a long time) showed him their plan to break into the Chinese market and the huge amount of money that would bring. They literally showed him they could be his good little paypigs to get him to own their company, which I think shows that transformation was inevitable from within.
Video game publishers have been pathologically greedy assholes for at least 20 years, yet they still managed to make a lot of great games in that span. The real problem in game dev is the proliferation of DEI hires siphoning off funding and leftist activists forcing unpopular ideologies. A lot of the sudden push to raise prices and insert MTX is probably a direct response to the loss of profits due to DEI and woke. Sorta like how the industry clearly trimmed a ton of DEI fat last year, but all the media coverage framed the layoffs as “muh capitalism”.
Video game publishers have been pathologically greedy assholes for at least 20 years yet they still managed to make a lot of great games in that span
Its always worth noting on the topic of Bobby that he bought a literal bankrupt company in Activision and decided that he was going to make it a juggernaut through sheer force of business acumen and will.
And they made dozens of people's favorite childhood games for nearly two decades before he became the most hated man in the industry.
Ironically, I think they and he became a victim of "suffering from success." CoD MW1 made way too much fucking money and happened at the time that online gaming and esports were a new untapped market bursting with money. So he saw the dollars signs and pushed everything to that direction to the detriment of everything else, and then found new ways to milk it even more. Which of course coincided heavily with the rise of DEI and more free money from all the various NGOs pushing it.
That doesn't absolve him of being a greedy little rat fucker, but from a pure business sense his actions don't seem "evil for the sake of evil" like portrayals like to say he is. Plenty of companies like Rockstar fell for the same trap and don't get half the named focus.
Their big Chinese push happened during late Wrath before they went hard on the Woke side, and they already were making new original models just for the Chinese version anyway. Early Cata had the famous "watch your mouth, bitch" line that Blizzard wouldn't be caught dead saying just a few years later.
I think you can see the switch flip around the time Metzen pointed out his daughter asking about characters "in bikinis" so he had to cover females up more. I can't remember when that was, but I think it was around MoP. And they've been on that since.
Wonder.. how that daughter is doing? Not sure when or what age now, but not surprised being the daughter of a ceo she probably is coal burning socialite or runs a philantropist only fans page or something.
She was like 6-10 at that time I believe. So by now she is a 20 something.
Though there is probably hope for her. Her dad is an old man who thinks tattoos, earrings and Leftist faggotry are super cool and radical. The common "rejecting what daddy likes" might have actually made someone less terrible.
But that's just a hope, its more likely she is an affluenza riddled whore whose dad is so proud of her charity for gay teens making turquoise bands.
Its just weird to have a vendetta against bikini or bikini armor.. the whole "gaming is for kids" fall apart when you can take your kids to the beach and you see women in much more revealing bikinis and many hundreds at a time. And half those women are taking selfies in sexually suggestive poses in public.
Plus they cant even compromise.. games made for kids and games made for young adults/puberty boys. They gotta make all games be for kids.
If Kotick manages to take those two down it will be the one useful and positive thing he's done for the gaming community in his entire misbegotten career, and he'll still have done it unwittingly and selfishly.
I hope everyone involved loses and dies.
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On the one hand, Kotick. On the other hand, Gizmodo and Kotaku...
Ehhhhhh. Opinion-wise, may they all lose money. But also opinion-wise, chances are that they did, in fact, defame him, it's kind of their bread-and-butter operation to make very questionable articles of dubious truth for salacious clickbait.
Didn't Hulkmania already run wild on Kotaku?
This is just going to sweep up any remaining funds.
I literally don't want either side to win, and for them to litigate themselves into insolvency. As unlikely as that is.
Kotick has way deeper pockets than Kotaku and Gizmodo combined. So we'll see what happens.
Hulk took down Gawker, not Kotaku.
Kotaku was part of the Gawker media group. It was sold off to pay that settlement. But if you keep the dame staff you keep the same problems.
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You beat me to it.
Its reached the point now where I seriously doubt ol' Bobby is nearly 75% as bad as we've been led to believe. Like, I know how they are willing to fabricate and lie to besmirch people they don't like, so now I can't trust the years of treating him as this literal unfeeling devil man.
Especially as the entire Brutal Legend fiasco showed that he absolutely is in the right sometimes and his bad image might partly come from Egotiscal Devs refusing to have their "vision compromised" and shipping a product on time/in budget.
He might still just be that bad and this is a broken clock situation, but at this point enough doubt has been planted to make me side with him 100% against these losers.
Kotickowitz is the greasy child rapist who oversaw the transformation of Blizzard from the company that made the first two Diablos and the first three Warcrafts into what ActiBlizz is today. He's the "I want the Cowadoody experience" motherfucker. That doesn't mean various devs and journos aren't as bad as he is, but he's still a huge cancerous tumor on the entire videogame industry.
I've played WoW for 20 years and everything that has happened to them is just as easily assigned to the retarded that worked there as it is to Bobby. Metzen becoming a male feminist wasn't Bobby, Danuser's existence wasn't Bobby, and Ghostcrawler was gleeful to ruin the game for people all on his own for years and his legacy is still felt as the standard they nerf by and I doubt Bobby knows enough to even care about that. The cash shop stuff is obviously coming from Bobby's side, but Blizzard was well on its way to falling apart on its own.
Also the first two Diablos were made by Blizzard North, a company that was shut down a few years before Activision got involved with most of the big names not joining the main company in Cali afterwards.
Again, I can believe Bobby is just that awful. But I can also believe that all the memes and stories we know about him are constructed hit pieces by games journos which we know regularly do that to people we know are lies. I'm not willing to just believe things as fact anymore without more direct evidence beyond game journo articles, which is where most of the facts we know about him come from, old articles repeated until they were common knowledge.
Also, random fact. Bobby was hesitant about the merger, but was convinced when Mike Morhaime (president of Blizzard for a long time) showed him their plan to break into the Chinese market and the huge amount of money that would bring. They literally showed him they could be his good little paypigs to get him to own their company, which I think shows that transformation was inevitable from within.
Video game publishers have been pathologically greedy assholes for at least 20 years, yet they still managed to make a lot of great games in that span. The real problem in game dev is the proliferation of DEI hires siphoning off funding and leftist activists forcing unpopular ideologies. A lot of the sudden push to raise prices and insert MTX is probably a direct response to the loss of profits due to DEI and woke. Sorta like how the industry clearly trimmed a ton of DEI fat last year, but all the media coverage framed the layoffs as “muh capitalism”.
Its always worth noting on the topic of Bobby that he bought a literal bankrupt company in Activision and decided that he was going to make it a juggernaut through sheer force of business acumen and will.
And they made dozens of people's favorite childhood games for nearly two decades before he became the most hated man in the industry.
Ironically, I think they and he became a victim of "suffering from success." CoD MW1 made way too much fucking money and happened at the time that online gaming and esports were a new untapped market bursting with money. So he saw the dollars signs and pushed everything to that direction to the detriment of everything else, and then found new ways to milk it even more. Which of course coincided heavily with the rise of DEI and more free money from all the various NGOs pushing it.
That doesn't absolve him of being a greedy little rat fucker, but from a pure business sense his actions don't seem "evil for the sake of evil" like portrayals like to say he is. Plenty of companies like Rockstar fell for the same trap and don't get half the named focus.
Chinese market... proceeds to fill games with blacks and gays/trannies.
Their big Chinese push happened during late Wrath before they went hard on the Woke side, and they already were making new original models just for the Chinese version anyway. Early Cata had the famous "watch your mouth, bitch" line that Blizzard wouldn't be caught dead saying just a few years later.
I think you can see the switch flip around the time Metzen pointed out his daughter asking about characters "in bikinis" so he had to cover females up more. I can't remember when that was, but I think it was around MoP. And they've been on that since.
Wonder.. how that daughter is doing? Not sure when or what age now, but not surprised being the daughter of a ceo she probably is coal burning socialite or runs a philantropist only fans page or something.
She was like 6-10 at that time I believe. So by now she is a 20 something.
Though there is probably hope for her. Her dad is an old man who thinks tattoos, earrings and Leftist faggotry are super cool and radical. The common "rejecting what daddy likes" might have actually made someone less terrible.
But that's just a hope, its more likely she is an affluenza riddled whore whose dad is so proud of her charity for gay teens making turquoise bands.
Its just weird to have a vendetta against bikini or bikini armor.. the whole "gaming is for kids" fall apart when you can take your kids to the beach and you see women in much more revealing bikinis and many hundreds at a time. And half those women are taking selfies in sexually suggestive poses in public.
Plus they cant even compromise.. games made for kids and games made for young adults/puberty boys. They gotta make all games be for kids.
Meanwhile, his daughter is probably accelerating towards OF, and he’ll have no choice but to be supportive of her choices.
If Kotick manages to take those two down it will be the one useful and positive thing he's done for the gaming community in his entire misbegotten career, and he'll still have done it unwittingly and selfishly.
Blizzard were twats before Kotick.Blizzard were twats during gamergate. Blizzard had Whil Wheaton host blizzcon during that.