Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."

Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, emailed employees after news of Microsoft’s successful $69 billion acquisition to say that he was “fully committed to helping with the transition” and that he would stay on as CEO through the end of 2023.

  • Gordon_Freeman
    6•9 months ago

    they pulled the whole ‘xbox and pc exclusive’ bullshit.

    Unlike Sony that keeps launching games on Xbox /s

    • thepixelfox
      1•9 months ago

      I was meaning more the fact that Bethesda released on playstation until Microsoft bought them. If Bethesda only ever released on Xbox I wouldn’t have an issue. But my issue is Microsoft are already pulling their bullshit with another company they acquired.

      • Gordon_Freeman
        4•9 months ago

        I was meaning more the fact that Bethesda released on playstation until Microsoft bought them.

        Sony has been playing this game for a longer time, as @CoderKat said, and nobody cared

        Do you know Psygnosis of WipEout fame? They developed multiplatform titles for Staturn, PC and N64, when Sony aquired them that stopped (Well, they launched WipEout on the N64 and that angered Sony but they stopped after that)

        Sucker Punch (Ghost of Tsushima) first game was for the N64

        Guerrilla Games (Horizon Forbidden West) started developing on the Game Boy Color, and also made games for the GBA and Xbox

        And a very long list of developers now owned by Sony, most of them developed for a bunch of different platforms before Sony’s acquisition

        But the thing is most people think those studios were created by Sony rather than purchased

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 months ago

      The frustrating thing is they’re both being shitty for consumers. It’s terrible that they’re acquiring these previously cross platform publishers and making them exclusives, but at the same time, this is what Sony has been doing for a while (at best, they very recently have started doing PC releases but with a multi year delay, which I don’t really count as truly cross platform).