91–100 of 1001 posts
The most important question I have is: will they replace Bobby Kotick? EDIT: "Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard. [...] he and his team will maintain their focus on driving efforts to further strengthen the company’s culture." Shame on you, Microsoft.
Quoted post unavailable.
Congratulations to Phil Spencer, who started out leading an upstart team at Microsoft for a new game console called "Xbox" and is now "CEO of Microsoft Gaming" - a Microsoft Senior Leadership position. Oh, and he now leads the third biggest gaming company on the planet: > When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. It will be interes…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Activision's value skyrocketed under Kotick, not sure why they would want to replace him.
On the other hand, since the news that he knew about years of sexual harassment at the company the stock has dropped 33%. If "maximising shareholder value" is the only metric for success it seems that making one of your employees kill themselves for failing to tackle a culture of abuse seems like a poor way to do that.
These acquisitions are ridiculous. How long till Disney buys Microsoft? Why even bother having more than one company in the US?
In the grand scheme of things I prefer seeing them absorbed by Microsoft than by Tencent.
Can you imagine Call of Duty becoming an Xbox exclusive? Big hit to Sony!
So now I'm boycotting Microsoft products? What a weird purchase to make. Did they not know this company is the current star of the gaming industry's long-standing workplace harassment issues?