Activision Blizzard Boss To Leave When Xbox Deal Is Done, Report Claims

Good bye, and good riddance.

No matter what side of whatever aisle you're on, we can all stand united that Bobby was an inherent toxic spike in the industry.

...with tens of millions of dollars in his pocket as compensation. :/

Hey at least there’s 1 thing that might make people not mind this deal being done. =D

We won Mr Stark

And nothing of value would be lost. While I have mixed feelings about the acquisition as a whole, if Microsoft kicks Kotick out and works hard on fixing Activision Blizzard's many issues, it'll be worth it for the sake of the employees stuck dealing in such a horrible environment.

@Erigen
No matter where you are in the world, being rich is the ultimate scapegoat.

The silver lining is that he will no longer have any influence over the gaming industry and abuse cases will hopefully start to fall once Phil Spencer takes over.

@Erigen Even if Kotick gets a big severance package, his reputation is in shambles. Few will want to partner with him now, he may be on his own, which could cost him a lot in the long run.

@Erigen Try over $300 million.

All good news, now just waiting for the announcement that WoW will be added to gamepass ultimate at no additional cost.

Surely viral marketers wouldn't be spreading this to quiet a powderkeg of discontent that would interfere in this acquisition, it’s not like Microsoft wrote the book on FUD or anything :^)

Yeap that's what he gets and hopefully everyone at Activision Blizzard could sigh a sort of relief after this.

@SalvorHardin ...no viral marketing team needed. All they did was offer the story to WSJ while the merger was the hot topic, internet forces will spread it from there without any outside interference.

If every human in the US subscribed to Game Pass for 1 year that still wouldn't generate $70B in revenue (not even profit).

See ya never! You wont be missed!

I hope he gets sued for every last cent of his severance pay by his former employees.

@Paraka As a white, somewhat conservative, heterosexual, "cis" Christian male who dislikes cancel culture, doesn't necessarily consider himself a feminist, and generally tries to give people the benefit of the doubt...

I can attest to this.

Bobby Kotick needs to go.

@Erigen
Yeah, this is so... Managers tend to say they earn so much because of their Responsibility.
But when Things are catastrophically as they are at Activision Blizzard, you see nothing of the Responsibility.

The headline should be, "Bye, Felicia!"

So the Bully is kicking out the bully

To quote Great Saiya-Man

"I won't miss you!"

The only good news from this merger

HA HA! I told you! People were attacking me yesterday it was not true.

Of course he needs to go! There is no way he would be able to continue after all the things he has done (or rather not done).

Good riddance and about time.

@IGN_Commenter
There is alot more than the gamepass income they will Get from this. Just look at the WoW store alone and all WoW/blizzard related products around the world. And now they can do whatever they want to increase the income and franchise through Microsoft corp.
Dont think they belive they will go profit after 1 year.. main focus will be to increase/boost what already is, and slowly earn into profits.

From what I understood, he still gets a huge paycheck after he leaves. Plus, he also earned a lot of money during his terror regime at Activision. So... that ***** ***** still won in the end. But... I'm not surprised, this is the real world and unlike in video games the good guys never win.

While I am not a fan of a huge company with so many popular franchises getting bought up and becoming an exclusive company, in this case I think it is for the best.

Activision-Blizzard's games were getting worse and worse, Blizzard was rotten to the core and Bobby Kotick trying to sweep everything under the rug without any accountability.

A new leadership and a new vision was needed and this might provide it. MS has done a really good job lately with their first party titles, so I am hoping they manage to get Activision-Blizzard to also turn for the better.

Bobby was taken out, but left with millions of dollars to last him the rest of his life with absolutely ZERO consequences. He got rewarded at the end for his actions.
I don't mean to be that guy, but sometimes, in very specific situations, violence is the answer

Oh yeah I’m sure he is feeling terrible about this as he walks away with a fat severance along with his already bloated account and retire on some island.

He definitely will think long and hard about the consequences that led to this and must be filled with such regret. Lol honestly he got the last laugh

Let’s be real the dude would do it all over again if given the choice because why not? One could argue he “won in life” at the end of the day.

Oh he is not part of the company anymore? Big deal. He has enough assets to pursue anything he wants. Financial mega success that got zero consequences for what he allowed. Can’t get much better then that from a perspective.

Probably with a truly obscene severance package.

Do let the door hit you on the way out.

They should film Bobby packing up and being escorted to the door. Then post it to social media.

Good I hope we never see him again dirty scum bag.

@PBandSmelly Anyone can file a tip to the IRS to audit his taxes….this will pressure him.

Things are looking up

Very Good news.

Any one person here with knowledge about an such an acquisition ( i am not familiar) stuff like this, i wanted to know:

Who has the final right to co-determination and decision-making after a company acquisition to the projects, IP’s, employees, etc..?

Toys for Bob will now become Toys for Phil 😆

I don't like Microsoft acquiring even more companies, but at least Kotick is gone.

For the videogame industry as a whole, Microsoft buying Activision is a bad thing, monopolies are bad for any industry, I don't want the videogame industry to be controlled by 5 companies like Hollywood is now.

But when you look at only Activision Blizzard, Microsoft will probably bring almost only improvements, not only they can clean much of the company, but also make sure that they won't be after only billion-dollar franchises and will give a chance to less profitable franchises.

Makes sense now that Bobby said he'd only look into fixing the harrassment issues if it could be "done quickly". ^^

It's interesting to see how much Microsoft pays for a ship that JUST hit an iceberg. Only a year ago, I'd assume the price to have been more in the area of 150 billion, if it was for sale at all.

Oh thank goodness. This piece of **** don't fit at all with Spencer and Nadella's brand of leadership.

Ripperoni in pepperoni 🍕☠️

@Arawn93 Next he'll establish his own company where he continues his harassment.

I think this quote from YongYea sums up the whole thing: "You'll be fine, unfortunately"

@Pod
Buy low, raise it high.

It makes total sense to buy it now, the price is low on an otherwise massive name in gaming. Microsoft also has an opportunity to make the public see Microsoft as the good guys, the saviors of Activision Blizzard, if they use it right.
They already started their PR right with this story.

@HammerGalladeBro Assuming anyone would even want to work with him

@IGN_Commenter

That’s an interesting stat!

With that said, I wonder how much profit CoD, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, etc. generate annually.

$69 billion is an insane amount of money, but presumably Microsoft has done their due diligence before pulling the trigger on this acquisition.

I'd barely qualify this as a slap on the wrist. Sure he'll be gone, but he already made boat-loads (quite literally) that his removal will pretty much be early retirement for him.