Schafer calls Bobby Kotick "a total prick"

[Ack]

Hey guys, remember when EA where the bad guys?

Ah, the good old days. Now EA looks like a bunch of reasonable fellows and Activision is the evil empire. My, how the tables have turned.

Capcom's still cool in my book though.

[weasels]

Capcom's still cool in my book though.

This speaks the truth!

[yomomma1]

http://kotaku.com/5587332/activision-re ... otal-prick

Lataif added, "As Schafer himself notes, he has never actually met Bobby Kotick"

[lisalover1]

http://kotaku.com/5587332/activision-re ... otal-prick

Lataif added, "As Schafer himself notes, he has never actually met Bobby Kotick"

So Activision responds with "Am not!". Market analysts already expect a swift rubuttal from Schafer in the form of "Are too!".

[J T]

I made this for the recent kotaku photoshop contest (although, I use MS Paint):

[Pulsar_t]

Schafer: "I need to keep my mouth shut"

[Dakinggamer87]

[Gamerforlife]

Mr Schafer, meet your new friends Itagaki, Cliffy B and David Jaffe. Yes, I know you're smarter and classier than they are, but at the moment you certainly don't seem to be

[ZeroAX]

still Bobby Kotick IS a total prick.

This is the person who wanted brutal legend to become a guitar hero spin-off with yearly updates.

Oh and now that guitar hero was brought up, there's a franchise his business plan drove to the ground.

Milking a franchise for all it's worth is an art perfected by Japan (with the best example being Nintendo). Western publishers just suck at it, and end up killing their franchises (see how much Need for Speed used to sell and how it's gone through 2 reboots in the past 3 years).



Also don't forget he refused to pay the people who made his company billions until they made him another sequel, for which of course he would again have refused payment until they made number 4 and the endless cycle of blackmailing his employs would have continued.


Yeah I know that's Activision in general, but the CEO is the public figure of a company, and since he had the most pull in the company, he is considered the mastermind behind every decision (good or bad)

[ZeroAX]

sexual harassment FTL