Let me try.

By creating a culture that singularly valued money and production over all other concerns, including the well-being of staff, Kotick created and cultivated the conditions needed for abuse to set in.

And Kotick is the kind of sociopath that leads to this when other things are swept under the rug.

Maybe it wasn’t a line item on his payslip though.

Yeah, but Kotick was not really the real issue. He’s a straw man of sorts, a target dummy, designed to draw fire for unpopular decisions.

It is the board and shareholders who massively incentivized him into that behaviour. CEOs are brought in to act in the interests of shareholders, while also abstracting them away from blame and direct culpability.

The goal of blizzard (and any other publically listed company) is wealth creation for shareholders via share price growth, not making games per se.

The CEO and his management team created this, they did not take care of the workforce, and they cultivated the most recent reputational damage.

I believe the answer is “A lot of Americans”.

Doesn’t matter, company will just try it again later in some other way. The decision making process that went along with trying to change the monetary model under the feet of developers is still there. The greed.

Corporates gonna corporate I guess.

Congratulations, which sport?

If this game releases with good quality my friends and I are day 2 customers for sure. Seems fun as hell from the videos.

This guy was brought on the team as a distraction, and his axing is already planned for a moment where they want to steal the news cycle

And for them to both be eclipsing at the same time, crazy odds… or, dare I say it, astronomical

I might be the only person not playing it at this point 😂

Bright future! Stay on top of AI, it’s at minimum a tooling revolution but of course potentially way more.

Best of luck!

Exactly, if you choose to work for a company then that is in support and furtherance of that companies goals / operations.

We are not so helpless as we sometimes like to claim.

Yeah, that would really ruin the dating outcome we’re kinda shooting for I feel.

When I was thinking through the challenge of entering dating, little did I realize that we’d soon be exchanging murderer dodging tips.

Valuable knowledge no doubt but damn 😂

Yeah, I like them but I’m firmly in the camp of waiting for player reviews. We’ll see.

I’m not super into anime, no connoisseur by any measure, but I recently felt like there might be something great to watch in that area. I looked up highly rated anime and Frieren came up.

I’ve watched a few episodes and it seems, well there’s no question it’s well made and a great story, but it’s pretty heavy. Sad at times. Does it get happier and more fun, or is this the tone throughout?

If so I might have to try something else.

With his ethics there’s no way I’d let any company controlled by him attach itself to my brain.

I have a hard time imagining that for any profit driven corporation, but most especially him.

I wonder if there’s any value to considering the point he makes on its own merits.

And billionaires are also bad.

This space is less capitalistic than you might be used to. It’s more of a small town square, and we hang corporates for team building.

Only some people will get access I presume