with all due respect:
- Allen Brack: communication errors to the Blitzchung case and to the management of the discontent of Diablo Immortal. Upon the arrival of the scandal: removed;
- Jesse McCree and company: investigated internally. As soon as the news of the “Bill Cosby Room” gets out (by the way: find out about his story from the testimony of Mrs. Iris:
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-women-interviews/): coincidentally comes the immediate announcement of the formalization of the censorship of the name Jesse McCree. After THAT info about “cosby room”; - Jen O Neil repeatedly tells the WSJ that she insisted on not having the same salary as Ybarra (her colleague from the same job position) and that it was only when she officially submitted the letter of resignation that they had the desperation to offer her the equal salary: needless to say what did O’ Neil decide to do, but she definitely couldn’t handle it;
Bobby Kotick has had countless praises over his entrepreneurial skills, but in 2019 he was constantly accused of artificially inflating shareholder values with the mass layoffs of employees who had now to receive a salary increase, with relative replacement of the same jobs in the 2020. He has a lot of testimonials hce portraying him as a perfectly conscientious person of having had “questionable” parties within the company (and also various CEOs of other companies). There have been many testimonies that burget’s cuts to video games (including W3 Reforged and HotS) started directly from Activision’s management who wanted at all costs to aim for multimillion-dollar contracts in the e-sports scenario (OWL). And what was the result of all these controversial points? that the board of directors defended him. That today Mr Kotick doesn’t even mention his “promise” that he wouldn’t get a salary until Activision Blizzard’s internal problems were resolved (oh, look: he even says it’s a splendid job every day).
I don’t care in the slightest if today or a year from now Mr Kotick will be directly confirmed as guilty of the company’s internal abuses, but it certainly bothers me that he had a lot of excessive protections compared to so many others who have had far more vulnerabilities about the fate of their career, regardless of whether they deserved it or not… especially for a person who has always been controversially described EXCEPT about the stock values numbers he has achieved.
Microsoft is not a saint, but if this is the time for a change, the first thing is the presence of certain individuals who have not had any significant consequences. and today he continue to earns on it!