Why the Firing of the CFO is a good sign

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Now as you may have heard Acivision/Blizzard has recently fired their CFO Newmann. I belive this is a good sign for the company and we may see a quality upturn for WoW and several other games. Now you might wonder how firing a CFO who has limited control of game design will create such great change.

What the company has done is actually an from of business publicity tactic. Let me explain in steps.

  • A company realizes that they need to change to keep their business afloat. HOWEVER doing so would mean admitting they made a mistake thus causing negative publicity.

  • The Company searches for a scapegoat someone they can put the blame on while that person will not be too negatively affected, in this case Newman was perfect because he was being moved to Netflix anyway.

  • The scapegoat is then fired.

  • The company then makes the changes needed to bring help boost the company. Seeing this the consumers, and more importantly the shareholders, blame the scapegoat the company’s decline thus absolving the company itself of any wrongdoing.

You see now that Newman is gone Activison/Blizzard can now use this as an opportunity to turn the company around.

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Or it just the runaway dumpster just keeps rolling through town burning everything to the ground with it.

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Just to let you know OP, this guy had nothing to do with Activision’s sneaky decision to install microtransactions AFTER the critics voted. I kid you not, Activision is currently charging $1 for a red dot right now over in CoD. One guy won’t make a single difference to how this company is run, since the words honesty and integrity are something this company knows nothing about. Deleting youtube comments, waiting until after Blizzcon and a money grab to inform players over on HotS?

Scumbags.

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While what you are describing does happen sometimes, I highly doubt a new CFO will help you to like a game more.

If the next person says let’s spend 2x as much on development, then maybe…

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The Shareholders think the CFO was behind the decline NOW they will not say anything when Blizzard makes drastic changes to improve the game.

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The CFO was in his position for approx. 1 year. They brought back the CFO that was there for the previous 5 years.

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Does a cat come with the red dot?

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LOL You’d think so right? But seriously no. It’s a tiny red dot with the middle part missing, for $1.

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the firing was reversed. he is on paid leave now.

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No, the securities filing said he was put on paid leave to provide him an opportunity to refute the company’s position that he should be fired for cause. Since then, Netflix issued an announcement that they have hired him as their CFO.

The whole situation is one of those “no, you can quit, because we are firing you first” sort of deals. He’s not a scapegoat since the most likely reason for his “firing” was a violation of him employment contract by letting himself get poached by Netflix.

/moo :cow:

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Does the company also scam their customers with “See You Later” bundle sales? Seriously Blizz, we used to do this a million years ago. If you’re having a problem selling an item, you list it on the AH for any price. Then you create a new character and announce in trade chat you’re looking for that item, but you’re willing to pay more than what it’s currently listed for. This is creating a false demand for the item, and is exactly what Activision has done here, using the playerbase as their suckers/fools.

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OP has literally zero idea what he’s talking about.

CFO Spencer Neumann tendered his resignation from Activision / Blizzard after accepting the CFO position with Netflix. Activision / Blizzard retroactively released a press statement to make it look like they fired Neumann to save face.

Having their CFO – a 20 year Disney veteran – leave after just 18 months, makes Activision / Blizzard look ridiculous. Especially considering that Netflix is in a great deal of debt, and Neumann has signed on to be their CFO.

So he jumped into a company where, as CFO, he is taking responsibility of tackling the company’s debt, a high pressure, high stakes position that could lead him to disaster. And he left Activision / Blizzard to take that job, so what does that tell you?

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The dollar signs were large indeed.

I know everyone wants this to fit some agenda, but sometimes the easiest explanation is the right one.

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Not likely to be so much larger to risk his professional reputation and draw a smear campaign from Activison / Blizzard.

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Most likely that Netflix offered him a really good deal?

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CFO is not like a fast food job where you leap from one to the next. This is a guy who spent 20 years at Disney.

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Ok that does not make sense Disney is a MULTI MILLION DOLLAR corporation. Why would ANYONE willingly leave that.

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No! There is no way it could of been about him being offered a better deal and being poached! He found out the deep and dark secrets about Activision being controlled by aliens and slowly turning Blizzard staff into pod people. Also that they sacrifice kittens to their dark space lord in the hopes of staving off his inter-galactic wrath.

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The only logical explanation is what fits what I already personally believed before this happened.

Anyone who disagrees, just has their head in the sand.

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It’s not pod people. Geez.

I got nothing on the kittens. Sorry.

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