Yesterday: Activision Blizzard video games laid off 190 people (over 1,000 have been laid off in the last two years)
Today: Its CEO got a $200 million bonus on top of his $30 million annual pay.
190 people at $200k (salary plus benefits plus per-employee overhead) = $38m per year.
Board: “Look he just reduced costs which increases shareholder revenue let’s give him a bonus!”
Then pays him a bonus exceeding FIVE YEARS of these supposed savings.
You are CERTAINLY informed on these hot issues. What a pro!
Maybe you should start your own gaming company and make all the right, moral choices. You could put evil Blizzard out of business entirely with your legendary business acumen!
That’s not exactly true. We know you would rather be here at the forums arguing about this nonsense than playing the actual game. Hold on, I’m gonna go look up 30 links to prove my point. No wait, I could farm some cloth instead.
But still… 200 million? A guy shoveling coal does more work in a day than he does in a month.
So who’s alt are you? It’s funny that you open with this, the ever loving want of forum likes for what validation? Do you really think how many likes people gets means anything when they can literally like their own posts on alts like you now?
Or like you make another thread fishing for an ego boost?
Most don’t support it but understand it, which I am darn sure you know since you view that heart metric much like Blizz views time played.
Yes. It’s spam and adds absolutely nothing of value to any discussion.
If you are unhappy with blizzards business practices, put on your big boy pants, put your money where your mouth is and unsubscribe.
Making childishly uninformed rage posts on the forums of a company you are supporting won’t accomplish anything.
Do you get this mad every time a company restructures? You must spend a, lot of time angry about things that you can’t change and have 0 impact on your life.
Absolutely fair that as stake holders in the game we have the right to question the direction of the company that seems to be breaking record profits but having horrible service at the same time
Server lag for 3 months, 2 days on GMs giving what feels like automated responses, seemingly no CMs in sight