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Former Call of Duty and Blizzard Devs Speak Out Against Bobby Kotick; States He Made Games Worse (mp1st.com)

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Former Call of Duty and Blizzard Devs Speak Out Against Bobby Kotick; States He Made Games Worse::With Bobby Kotick no longer at Activision, some developers who worked on Call of Duty and more have begun speaking out about his actions.

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[–] dallo@lemmy.kiois.net 73 points 2 years ago

Just capitalist scum doing capitalism things

[–] northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 70 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean preaching to the choir. We all knew he cared about money and not the experience in games.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

I am shocked to see capitalist behavior from a capitalist in a capitalist corporation.

Fuck capitalism.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago

Investors don't give a flying fuck, after all. Same with music and movies. It doesn't matter if it's shit, so long as it's profitable. Kotick is just one among a long line of fucking scumbags whose job is satisfying those vultures.

[–] griffin@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Good, now let's see if their games will improve.

[+] Kbobabob@lemmy.world -20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Wouldn't the time to speak out have been a long time ago? What good do these people think they are doing now? Fuck em, too scared to say anything when it mattered but want to give themselves a big pat on the back for saying what a lot of other people were already saying for a long time.

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Now that's a condescending shit talk. They may like their job, they could be working behind the scenes to try and contain the damage. They could be doing the best they could do with the little power they had. You try to speak against your boss alone and trash the industry you're in, see how well it goes for you.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Also they probably value having a job and it isn't always so easy to just get a new one. When you weigh all that against some people on the Internet not happy with their video game they don't need to play, it's a pretty ridiculous comment lol

[–] wagoner 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The first quoted person in the article says they said they spoke up at a company meeting in front of him to say he should be fired.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you want us to take you seriously, shit talk your boss for us by name, and tell us your real name.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't work for pieces of shit so i don't need to...

But if that were to happen again then i would certainly call it out. Some of my coworkers in the past tried to bully me because i have values and don't believe in deceiving someone just to get a sale.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I'm sure that everyone speaking out now probably said the exact same things back then...

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey man, you don't have to be a complete piece of shit just because you didn't like how they made your particular flavor of call of duty.

That's a real person, your games are fake.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Lol. Ok. I don't even think i play anything he was a part of. I'm not into that kind of stuff, but my kids are... So yeah, i have an opinion. Sorry it didn't align with yours and i guess that makes me a piece of shit.