Few gaming industry figures can elicit the kind of blood-curdling rage that Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick elicits from gamers. Many see Kotick as a purely money-driven, profit hungry, balls-to-the-wall businessperson who cares nothing for the artistic or creative potential of video games, but rather sees every game in strictly financial terms.
But whatever Kotick is doing it sure seems to be working! According to Gamasutra, Kotick made 15 million dollars last year. You could buy like eight hamburgers with that kind of money. Kotick earned $899,560 in salary, with the rest of his millions coming in options and incentives plus a $5 million bonus.
Does he deserve it?
I'll bet you want to say: "Hell, no!" but look at it this way, really, no one gets what he or she deserves, and Kotick presides over the company that is smart enough to own World of Warcraft, and half of the most successful franchises in gaming. Sure, Activision seems to suffer from sequel-disease, where the market is flooded with inferior copies of we've-played-it-before games, but this isn't nursery school; it's Capitalism. If Kotick wasn't selling games, Activision wouldn't be making money and wouldn't be giving its CEO millions of dollars to keep up the good work!
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InHumanMarine
Yeah, I thought about joing the WoW culture, but F&%k that. That's a new/used video game a month!
tentaro
Absolutely ridiculous. I can't believe the economy is doing this bad and this person is making millions. Of course, you can blame all the idiots who still play WoW paying them money to buy the game and the 30 expansions(lol) and then another monthly fee to play. You have to give it to Actiblizzard though, perfect business model to get money out of all the Warcraft fanboys. It's sad to see people like this though when other's are taking pay cuts to see that their employees aren't getting fired. Way to go Activision......so when is WoW2 coming out so you pay your man even more?
Completist
"You could buy like eight hamburgers with that kind of money."
Really? Hopefully he chokes on one.
guitarded77
He deserves to be sodomized with a chainsaw.
Fulgrim87
@neonchez
perhaps i was a bit over zealous with the statement, but the point is made and regardless a test of a characters is giving him power and both bobby and adolf failed
ponchosombrero
wow another douchebag CEO makes a pretty penny. same ol same ol.
Memu
If I were a shareholder I would not be happy. Why? Because I think you could pay the guy 1mil and get the exact same results out of the company. Fact is you don't need to pay CEOs (or bankers, or athletes, or actors) so much. They will work for a lot less.
Blue_Vortex
I could careless, and this doesn't affect what games I will buy.
Everyone seems to be pissed since he wants to raise the price on games but you all didn't seem to complain when games went from 50 dollars to 60
Oh well we all know that he couldn't get away with raising the standard price on a game unless every other company did the samething.
slimmer
"Kotick made 15 million dollars last year" I'll bet all those pirates feel really bad now knowing how down and out the gaming/entertainment industry is.
T_Rexx
I wont support this guy anymore....
ZyloWolfBane
As much as I hate this guy I cant help but want to play CoD games, so rather than not buying them I decided that I'll stick it to koklick a different way.
I'll buy MW2 used on PS3 that way they get ZERO off it, that way I'll be supporting the company I work for and screwing activision out of any additional money...its a win-win!
Erthazus
I will never buy Activision games... If only Blizzard could get away from them... I just can't live without Blizzard games.
they are a top on my list for a PC. No, they are the only one who are making the best PC titles.
As for the consoles I WILL NOT BUY ACTIVISION products unless they will kick of that bastard. Someone must do something. I hate him so much that i want to kick his white butt... Or even kill him. I just can't stand his greedy face, i can't stand how he talks. He seriously was bullied and wounded at school i believe. Now he is trying to bully the whole world.
Well Bobby, enjoy your BONUS salary, but something bad will happen to you soon, i m sure about it. I m just sure, something really is going to happen to you.
Scottydsntknow
hate the guy, won't be buying modern warfare 2 because of him
SiK
WoW, Modern Warfare 2, and the Guitar Series?!
Talbotus
huh, I didn't know Hitler was just a businessman. I thought he was a monster who killed millions of innocent people. I guess that's public school for ya.
Ok d-bags. Here is the low down. If you don't like him feel free to stop buying his games and playing wow, or starcraft 2 or diablo 3 or any other blizz/activition games. Now if you dont want to do that, your answer is simple. Stop complaining and saying he's 'evil' because then you are a f-ing hypocrite!
Do I like the guy and what he does to alot of games? No i don't. But i'm not stupid enough to say that makes him evil.
Redd75
Yes, I agree that corporations exist to make money, but the people who sit at the head also need to learn when to keep their mouth shut. In my opinion, this Kotick guy doesn't seem to know how.
neonchez
@Fulgrim87
just because this guy is a greedy businessman doesn't make him comparable to hitler. you are way off base.
greeknerd
I really hope Brutal Legend Sells.
Fulgrim87
you know hitler took Germany out of a nice slump and made it a world power and then took the world on, then killed 6 million people and was a horror of a human.
So we should just let Bobby here go because his company owns WoW and a decent amount of AAA games but is a horror of a human and a dick to boot.
ZyloWolfBane
And yet he would love nothing more than to raise the cost of the games you buy from him, yeah good call douchebag...I pray for you to be diagnosed with an eventual terminal disease or assassination.
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