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.
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.