Boc Kotick is leaving Activision in December 2023

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As part of the buyout, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick are resigning. Other high-ranking Activision Blizzard C-suite executives are leaving, too. Kotick will stay on through the end of 2023 and will report to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer to help with the transition. Kotizck is reported to be getting a $400 million pay package as part of his eventual exit.

As a result of the Merger and pursuant to the Merger Agreement, each of Reveta Bowers, Kerry Carr, Robert Corti, Brian Kelly, Robert Kotick, Barry Meyer, Robert Morgado, Peter Nolan and Dawn Ostroff resigned and ceased to be directors of the Company and members of any committee or subcommittee of the Company’s Board of Directors as of the Effective Time, and Keith R. Dolliver and Benjamin O. Orndorff, who constituted the directors of Merger Sub as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, became the directors of the Company.

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Zzero

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He'd probably have agreed to leave immediately if the Tide was doing better.
 

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I hope he's back with a new company in two to three years, milking former Blizz fans and employees alike.
 

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Probably will be people don't seem to care about what a cunt he is now he's part of Microsoft just don't let him be a part of Sony don't wanna boycott playstation
The problem is he's a great manager of studios, not a great developer or programmer in his own right. Thinking further (and more seriously) he might become a huge behind the scenes angel investor, picking potential winners but no longer being a semi-public face.
 

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Where it’s at.
The problem is he's a great manager of studios, not a great developer or programmer in his own right. Thinking further (and more seriously) he might become a huge behind the scenes angel investor, picking potential winners but no longer being a semi-public face.
He’s not really that brilliant. He managed to kill several golden geese by overexploiting profitable franchises into dust like Skylanders, Guitar Hero and Pro Skater.

The only thing saving his ass is that the COD mongs are too stunted to realize they’re buying the same shit game over and over.
 
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He’s not really that brilliant. He managed to kill several golden geese by overexploiting profitable franchises into dust like Skylanders, Guitar Hero and Pro Skater.

The only thing saving his ass is that the COD mongs are too stunted to realize they’re buying the same shit game over and over.
They were never golden geese, he exploited them to the hilt and then directed his attention onto the next big thing. Tony Hawk got him through to launch Guitar Hero, which got him through to launch CoD with disaffected MoH devs, which let them take a bet on creating a whole toy line and chunky periphreal for Skylanders (a big risk, ask THQ how making all those Udraw tablets worked out,) which helped give him the money to buy both Activision and Blizzard out from Vivendi. And while things appeared to plateau after that it was only because he was actively focusing attention and resources on King. And most people here, including myself, do not give a fuck about King but looking back its huge, its probably worth over half of A-B's market cap and helped big time with launching Warzone and CoD mobile, the current next big thing. In a way its really a shame that we won't get to see what he would have pivoted all of Warzone's profits into after running it into the ground.

EA, for what its worth, is the company that doesn't kill golden geese and Bobby took A-B from being smaller than it to being nearly twice as big over a period of about 15 years.